Seamus Simpson,

CML Conference Chair,

School of Arts and Media| University of Salford| MediacityUK| Salford

Manchester| M502HE.

Monday 17 November

 

9.00 onwards: Registration

 

9.50-10.00:  Conference Opening and Welcome.

 

10.00-11.00:  Opening Keynote: Milton Mueller (Syracuse University, USA)

 

“What is really at stake in global Internet governance?”

Chair: Cristina Archetti

11.00-11.15      Coffee Break

 

11.15-12.45      Paper Session 1

 

Exploring Privacy

 

‘Expectations and Choices in Legal and Regulatory Models of Privacy’ (Tom Gibbons, University of Manchester, UK)

 

‘Pirate Policies for Privacy’, Johanna Jaasari and Jockum Hildén (University of Helsinki)

 

‘The Google Spain case: A step forward or a step too far for data protection online? Irini Katsirea (Middlesex University Law School)

 

‘Incompatible interests? The right to privacy and big data: Stakeholder proposals for a new European legal framework on data protection’ Jockum Hildén ( University of Helsinki)

 

Protecting Sources: From Shield Laws to Wikileaks

Melanie Dupéré (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III, France)

 

Chair: Ben Halligan

 

12.45-13.30 Lunch

 

 

 

 

13.30-14.30 Afternoon Keynote: Katharine Sarikakis (University of Vienna, Austria)

Chair: Carole O’Reilly

 

 

14.30-14.45   Break

 

14.45-16.15 Paper Session 2

 

Freedom of Speech and Surveillance in the Online World

 

‘What Kind of Freedom for the Digital Age: Corporate Libertarianism or Media Democracy?

Victor Pickard (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

 

‘Media Theory After Snowden: Reflections on the end of the Internet Era’ (Michael Goddard, University of Salford, UK)

 

‘The structure of the censorship and the field between regulated and unregulated of conducting online journalism in the context of China’  (Tianbo XU and Jiewei Zhang, University of Sheffield, UK)

 

‘WhatsApp? Even private chatter now exploited by billionaires’ David Kreps (University of Salford, UK)

 

Chair: Sharon Coen

 

16.15-16.30   Coffee Break

 

16.30 – 18.00 Paper Session 3

 

Media Law and Policy and the State in International Perspective

 

‘Information Aggression and International Law Perspectives: Ukraine v. Russia Case’ Andrii Paziuk and Olga Kyryliuk (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

‘Terrorist Speech Restrictions in Ireland and UK and Media Regulation’ Jennifer Kavanagh (Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland)

 

Escape from Freedom in the post-Communist media space: media law reforms in Hungary and Turkmenistan (Marek Bekerman, University of Salford)

 

 

‘Steering non-state actors within international internet fora: the power of the state’ Alison Harcourt ( University of Exeter)

 

‘Media freedom and democratization in Nigeria: from Political to cultural censorship?’

(Suleiman A. Suleiman, University of East Anglia and Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Nigeria)

 

Chair: Michael Goddard

 

18.00-18.15 Break

 

18.15 – 19.30  Paper Session 4

 

Public Service and Public Value in Media

 

 

 ‘What is Television? : Refining the Medium’ Marc C-Scott, (Victoria University, Australia)

 

‘Co-Producing public values of public broadcast services (PBS) in an age of open data’, Yuwei Lin (University for the Creative Arts, UK)

 

‘Rethinking Comprehensive Service – Public Value and Minority Interest Provision as New Strategic Objectives for Public Service Media Institutions’ Mikko Sihvonen (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)

 

‘Latino-Oriented Media: New Challenges to and Opportunities for Media Freedom & Democracy’ Federico Subervi (Kent State University, USA)

 

Chair: Seamus Simpson

19.45-21.00 Conference Reception

 

Tuesday 18 November

 

9.00-10.30     Paper Session 5

 

Innovation and Creativity in Media Practices

 

 

‘Articulations of, and Barriers to, Creativity, Freedom and Choice in Media Practices’

Helen Shaw, (Athena Media, UK and Ireland)

 

‘1^st October 2014 – the move to tapeless delivery and the implications for multi-disciplinary and converged media practices’ Fraser Durie (University of Salford, UK)

 

‘Towards Crowd-sourced Journalistic Documentary Films’

 Ding Wang and Andy Darby (University of Lancaster, UK)

 

‘Bringing to market a new creative tool for journalism’ (Lars Nyre, University of Bergen, Norway, Neil Maiden, City University London, UK, Joao Ribeiro, MobileTech, Bergen, Norway and Bjørnar Tessem, University of Bergen, Norway)

 

Chair: Erik Knudsen

 

10.30-10.45          Coffee Break

 

10.45-12.15   Paper Session 6

 

Perspectives on Enabling Journalism

 

‘Mapping the community influence of local news providers in the “Social Era”’

Anita Greenhill (University of Manchester, UK) and Gary Graham (University of Leeds, UK)

 

‘The changing landscape of local news: an empirical approach to developing a shared research agenda’  Julie Firmstone (University of Leeds, UK)

 

 ‘The Emerging “Alternative” Journalism Paradigm:  Arab Journalists and Online News’ Aziz Douai (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada) and Mohamed Ben Moussa (Canadian University of Dubai).  

 

 ‘Citizen journalism, User Generated Content and the Process of Journalism’ Caroline Cheetham (University of Salford, UK)

Chair: Andy Miah

 

12.15-12.30     Break

 

12.30-13.45 Paper Session 7

 

New Media, Individual Empowerment and Public Value

 

‘We are all artists now: Outline for a psychology of aesthetics and social media’ (Regina M Tuma (Fielding Graduate University, USA)

 

‘Social media users’ evaluation of traditional and new media in public debates:

The Twitter debate about the Scottish Independence Referendum’ (Giuliana Tiripelli,

University of Glasgow, UK)

 

 ‘Social Media literacy: The key to real empowerment’  (Verónica Donoso and Valerie Verdoodt, KU Leuven, Belgium)

  

 ‘GMKIN: P2P information exchange, the growth of Patient Generated Content (PGC)’  Cristina Vasilica and Paula  Ormandy (University of Salford, UK)

 

Chair: Kirsty Fairclough

 

 

13.45               Conference close