Programme

The workshop will take place in Christopher Ingold Lecture Theatre
Christopher Ingold Building, 20 Gordon St, London WC1H 0AJ

9:30-10.00 Registration and coffee/tea

10:00-10:40 Keynote Address: Yelena Jetpyspayeva (Gazeta.kz, neweurasia, Global Voices, BarCamps), ‘Promoting New Media and Citizen Journalism in Central Asia and Kazakhstan’

10:40-12:30 Session One: On- and Off-Line Identities in New Eurasia

Orlin Spassov, ‘Searching for Identity: Latin vs. Cyrillic Script on the Bulgarian Internet’

Jeremy Morris, ‘Narratives of Internet Use in the Post-Socialist Margins: the Strange Bedfellows of Knitting, Diesel Engines and One-Armed Bandits’

Martin Calvert, ‘Identity, Strategic Essentialism and Informal Networks among Social Activist Livejournal Bloggers in Nizhny Novgorod; Implications for Information Transfer and the Individual’

Natalia Rulyova, ‘The Construction of Immigrant Identity: What Are the Chinese Made of on the Runet?’

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:45 Session Two: New Media and/versus Old Media: Regional Insights

Claire Wilkinson, ‘neweurasia: Learning to Blog in Central Asia’

Boris Gladarev and Markku Lonkila, ‘The Role of the Internet in Organizing Environmental Protests in Russia and Finland’

Stephen Hutchings, ‘Media Convergence and Russian Television: Remote Control, Or The Mouse and the Elephant’

14:45-15:00 Coffee

15:00-16:45 Session Three: New Media in New Eurasia: Spectacle and Entertainment

Natalia Sokolova, ‘Online Fan Communities in a Context of Transmedia: Cyber-Entertainment or “Free Labour”? (The Case of Runet)’

Galina Miazhevich, ‘New Media and Pop-Cul0074ure: Eurovision in Post-Communist Europe’

Lara Ryazanova-Clarke, ‘Minimal and Incomprehensible: Political Satire on the Internet (The Case of Rulitiki)’

Faith Wigzell, ‘Re-jigging Traditional Fortune-Telling for Internet Users in Russia Today’

16:45-17.00 Closing Remarks