The 4th International Media Readings in Moscow
Mass Media and Communications – 2012
MASS MEDIA AFTER POSTSOCIALISM:
TRENDS OF 2000s
Dates: November 15-16, 2012
Conference place: Moscow (Russia)
Conference organizers: Faculty of Journalism, Moscow State University
Working language: English, Russian
In 1990s major processes and phenomena in postsocialist countries’ (Commonwealth of Independent States, Baltic and Eastern Europe Regions) media systems were described and analyzed by both Western and local researches in context of the great social transformation. The core issue was the transition from vertically controlled propaganda system to a renovated state of national media built around press freedom and market competition. Mass media were going through rapid transition alongside politics, economies and societies of their states.
In new millennium postsocialist countries more and more often position themselves as already fully formed powers of modern Western type with working democracy, market economy and even civil society. National media systems and journalism are presumed also to leave evident and radical transformations behind, and today exist under transparent structural, economical, normative and institutional realities. But more detailed approach to postsocialist media analysis would make us wonder: is the transformation phase really over, and if yes, is it possible to enunciate universal trends of posttransitional, postsocialist period?
General topics and questions for discussions:
- models of mass media systems and organizations that emerged in postsocialist universe
- impact of traditions of vertical propaganda systems on modern media
- main novelties of postsocialist transformation for national media
- journalism transformations under market economy and multiparty political system
- influence of European Union on national media systems and journalism
- major national factors affecting journalism and media
- the role of new and social media in universalization of national journalism
- market and non-market factors in media systems development
Registration deadline: September 01, 2012.
Registration form
1. Last First
2. Given names.
3. Workplace.
4. Position, degree.
5. Telephone / fax, e-mail.
6. Topic of Your paper.
7. Abstracts (up to 1000 words).
The registration form
should be sent to the following e-mail address: moscow.readings@smi.msu.ru
or You can fill it in on our website: www.moscowreadings.com
Abstracts Collection for the 3rd Moscow Readings (download)
Photo report of the conference in 2011
