The seminar discussions concentrate on the existing as well as new emerging fields and forums for freedom of expression from new generation online platforms to hybridized cultural and media institutions to semi-legal or sub-cultural media practices such as hacking. What kind of media agency and authority is promoted though these fields and forums and how they are regulated? The programme includes a roundtable ”Media Literacy and Media Education in Russia Today”, which brings together media professionals and academics. The official seminar language is English, but questions can also be raised in Russian.
Venue: The Finnish Institute in St. Petersburg (Ul. Bolshaya Konyushennaya 8)
Thursday 19 January 2017
13:00 Start of the seminar: welcome words
13:30-15:00 Panel I
Anna Litvinenko (Freie Universitet, Berlin): User Comment Sections on Leading News Websites in Russia: Results from a Comparative Study of 15 Post-Soviet Countries
Markku Kangaspuro (University of Helsinki): My History Exhibition and Russian Identity
15:30-17:00 Panel II
Marina Galkina (Moscow State University): Media Foresight in Russia: Changes and Challenges
Valery Nechai (Ekho Moskvy, St. Petersburg) and Dmitry Goncharov (HSE): Censorship in Russia: How Russian Twitter Sees It
Svetlana Bodrunova (St.Petersburg State University): Discussions About Migrants on Twitter: Russia in Comparative Perspective
17:00-18:00 Discussion with Margarita Kuleva (HSE, St. Petersburg): St. Petersburg creative field and new spaces of expression (via Skype)
Friday 20 January 2017
9:30-11:00 Panel III
Vlad Strukov (University of Leeds): Transgressive media: Towards a re-consideration of Russian media
Jussi Lassila (University of Helsinki): Sputnik i Pogrom: Oppositional Nationalism and Alternative Media in Russia
Saara Ratilainen (University of Helsinki): City Magazines and the Politics of the Platform
11:15-12:45 Panel IV
Liudmila Sivetc (Univeristy of Turku): Three Stories about the Roskomnadzor
Katja Lehtisaari (University of Helsinki): Media Policy and Social Media in Russia
Kamilla Nigmatullina (St.Petersburg State University): Local media in Russian Cities as a Tool for Creating Local Communities
14:00-16:00 Roundtable: Media Education and Media Literacy in Russia Today
Diana Kachalova (Novaya Gazeta, St. Petersburg)
Valery Nechai (Ekho Moskvy, St. Petersburg)
Nikolai Donskov (Saint-Petersburg Humanitarian University)
Mikhail Tyurkin (Rosbalt, St. Petersburg)
16:00-16:30 Closing Discussion