As usual, the Annual Aleksanteri Conference hosts wide and diverse media studies’ stream. The 19th Annual Aleksanteri Conference “Technology, Culture, and Society in the Eurasian space” represents many interdisciplinary research at the intersection of media and communication studies and other disciplines. Further details on media research stream and RML Network’s events can be found below. …
Author Archives: Olga Dovbysh
How Russian internet consumption heats Finnish city or Critical approach to data economy and digitalization – Interview with Julia Velkova
Julia Velkova is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Consumer Society Research at the University of Helsinki. Her interests are in digital culture and media. She is currently involved in several projects on the politics and histories of emergent data infrastructures, with specific focus on data centres in the Nordic countries, and the labour, …
New issue for EuropeNow journal on Digitization of Memory and Politics in Eastern Europe
In memoriam our dear colleague and friend Eszter Gantner, who made this special issue possible. Russian Media Lab Network announces the publication of a special issue for EuropeNow (https://www.europenowjournal.org). This special feature includes research papers, presented at recent workshop “Politics of e-Heritage: Production and regulation of digital memory in Eastern Europe and Russia”, organized by …
Media control matters: workshop on media control as source of political power in Central and Eastern Europe
This week Aleksanteri Institute hosted a workshop “Media control as source of political power in Central and Eastern Europe”, co-organized by Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen and Russian Media Lab Network. The workshop brought together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to present their research and to discuss about media …