One-day workshop
POST-SOVIET MEDIA RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Interdisciplinary discussion of approaches to the study of post-Soviet and
Soviet media with the purpose of facilitating original, cutting-edge
research and scholar-practitioner exchange in the field
28th of March
1-4 pm
University of Birmingham.
Conference room G51, ground floor, ERI building
Participants:
Professor Julian Cooper
(University of Birmingham, UK)
Researching the Russian Internet
Olessia Koltsova
(Higher School of Economics, St.Petersburg, Russia)
Methods of Media Text Analysis
Dr Stephen Lovell
(King’s College London, UK)
Researching the history of Soviet radio in the 1920s-50s
Professor Ellen Mickiewicz
(Duke University, USA) TBC
Russian Television Research methodologies
Dr Sarah Oates
(University of Glasgow, UK)
Researching the Russian Internet in the Putin Era
Questions to be addressed include:
1. What are the specific issues involved in studying the Soviet and
post-Soviet media?
2. How has the arrival of new technology affected research in the field?
3. How can the different disciplines within post-Soviet Studies complement
one another?
The outcomes will be disseminated via a new CEELBAS Media Project featuring
a website co-hosted by CEELBAS and the Universities of Manchester and Birmingham
If you are interested in attending please contact:
Ian Appleby: [log in to unmask]
and
Dr Oxana Poberejnaia: [log in to unmask]
Supported by a grant from CEELBAS
(Centre for East European Language Based Area Studies)
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