The Russian Media Lab is well-represented at this year’s Aleksanteri Conference. The project is hosting two panels and one round table, featuring presentations by our researchers, network partners and invited guests. Further details on our panels can be found below. Please consult the Conference website for the latest version of the programme. We look forward to seeing you there!
Russian MediaLab 1: Media Law and Regulation in Russia
Andrei Richter (Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media): Post-Soviet Perspective on Evaluating Censorship and Freedom of the Media
Marina Galkina (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia): The Forecast of Changes in State Regulation of Russian Media from the Point of View of National Media Companies
Liudmila Sivetc (University of Turku, Finland): Indirect and Direct Control in Russian Internet Governance
Katja Lehtisaari (Aleksanteri Institute and Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Finland): “Yarovaya Law” and Discussion on Information Safety
Discussant: Hannu Nieminen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
25 October, 17:15–18:45
Russian MediaLab 2: New Media, Creative Resistance and Spaces of Relative Freedom of Speech in Russia
Chair: Cai Weaver (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Saara Ratilainen (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland): The Networked Architecture of Freedom of Speech: Collaboration between New Generation Urban Journals and Cultural Industries in Russia
Mariëlle Wijermars (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland): Aleksei Naval’ny’s “On vam ne Dimon”-Campaign and Data Activism in Russia
Dilyara Suleymanova (University of Zurich, Switzerland): Tatar Creative Industries and Articulations of Ethnic Identity in Tatarstan, Russia
Discussant: Galina Miazhevich (University of Leicester, UK)
26 October, 15:00–16:30
Roundtable: Russian MediaLab 3: What Does the Future Hold for the Internet in Russia? Between the Promise of Democratization and the Reality of State Surveillance
Chair: Katja Lehtisaari (Aleksanteri Institute and Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Finland)
Mariëlle Wijermars (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)
Andrei Richter (Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media)
Liudmila Sivetc (University of Turku, Finland)
Carolina Vendil Pallin (Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden)
Freek van der Vet (Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki)