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Media Trends 2015

Welcome to Media Trends 2015: Power and Media: Ownership, Sponsorship, Censorship
A conference hosted by Webster Vienna Private University 10-12 September, 2015

We have lined up a diverse group of academics, media professionals, IGO and NGO representatives and students to critically analyze:

All aspects of overt and covert control of communication

Concentration of ownership
Advertiser, commercial, financial and political influences
Agenda-setting, framing, technological and organizational constraints
Media empowerment

Click here for conference panels, full abstracts and biographies
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We look forward to seeing you in Vienna!

The Media Trends 2015 Organizing Committee

3:00pm CEST

Registration Atrium

5:30pm CEST

Welcome AtriumRegina Kecht • Anthony Löwstedt • Bradley Wiggins

6:00pm CEST

Oxford-Style Debate AtriumBradley Wiggins • Brooke Gladstone • Andreas Rudas • Katharine Sarikakis • Alexander Wrabetz

7:30pm CEST

Reception Atrium

8:30am CEST

Registration Atrium

9:00am CEST

Public Media: Convergence, Confrontation and Crisis 2.14Krisztina Rozgonyi • Katharine Sarikakis • Corinna Wenzel Hidden Ownership / Hidden Pressures 3.16Ki-Sung Kwak • Gilles LABARTHE • Nigar Degirmenci & Ismet Parlak

10:30am CEST

Sponsorship and Influence 3.16Gregor Jarisch & Daniel Breuss • Fatma Elzahra Elshhati • Stefan Piasecki Media, Oppression and Emancipation 2.14Ezgi Kaya • Anthony Löwstedt • Natascha Zeitel-Bank

12:00pm CEST

Keynote Address: Brooke Gladstone 4.06/07Brooke Gladstone

1:00pm CEST

2:00pm CEST

State and Corporate Control 3.16Sevtap Demir • Lata Rajagopalan Kumar • Juan (Joan) Barata Mir • Rick Rockwell

3:30pm CEST

Powers of Storytelling 3.16Thomas Benesch • Edmund Birch • Kristian Skeie

5:00pm CEST

Power of the Documentary - Discussion and Screening of SECRET: The Josephine Baker Files 4.06/07Edith Bachkönig • Kathy Corley

7:00pm CEST

Media Trends 2015 DinnerLIMITED Gasthaus Hansy

9:00am CEST

Morning Coffee and Networking 0.16

9:30am CEST

Media Landscapes in the Arab World 3.16Vicken Cheterian • Mourad Teyeb • Barbara Trionfi • Dina Farouk Abou Zeid Users and Consumers 2.14Arpan Ganguli • Kirsten Gollatz • Rebekah Jorgensen • Julie Smith

11:00am CEST

Communication Theory, Ethics and Law 2.14Matt J. Duffy • Ivone Ferreira • Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat Corporate Pressure, Declining Quality? 3.16Monika Kovarova-Simecek • Makoto Sakai • Wendy Sterba

12:30pm CEST

Wrap up and Award Ceremony AtriumMichael Freund • Eric Rothenbuhler

1:30pm CEST

Lunch and Goodbye Atrium

2:30pm CEST

Walking Tour of Vienna (opt) TBA