Conference program

Friday, October 13

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9.00 - 9:15	Introduction - Mojca Pajnik
	In Memoriam Andrej Pinter - Andrej Škerlep
9.15 - 9:30	Coffee/Tea Break
Chris Atton	Bringing Alternative Media Practice to Theory: Social Movements, Communities and their 'Journalisms'

(Re)Thinking the notion "Alternative" (Chair: Hanno Hardt)

10:15 - 11:45
Natalie Fenton	Mediating Hope: New Media, Politics and Resistance
Pantelis Vatikiotis	Democratic Public-Mediated-Space and Alternative Media
Linus Andersson	Alternative Media/Alternative Public Spheres
11:45 - 12:15	Coffee/Tea Break

12:15 - 13:00
John Downing	Social Movement Media: Achievements and Issues
13:00 - 15:00	Lunch (Gostilna Figovec)

New Media and New Publics (Chair: Nicholas W. Jankowski)

15:00 - 16:30
Hanno Hardt	Talk. New media and the decline of conversation
Tobias Olsson	Alternative vs. Mainstream: A Comparative Study of Young Activists' Use of Traditional and New Media
Andrej Škerlep, Tanja Oblak	Contribution of New Media to Dialectics between Publics and Counterpublics
16:30 - 16:45	Coffee/Tea Break

Political Activism and Alternative Media (Chair: Mojca Pajnik)

16:45 - 18:15
Anthony Quinn	Indymedia Ireland and the CIA Extraordinary Rendition Programme
Ruth Heritage	Video Activist Citizenship and the 'Undercurrents' Project in late 1990's Britain
Jasna Babič, Julija Magajna	Media Activa: Forms of Media Activism in Slovenia
18:15	AKC Metelkova City Tour
19:30	Dinner (Nekropolis)
21:00	AKC Metelkova, Club Gromka: Video projections

Saturday, October 14

9:30 - 10:15
Nicholas W. Jankowski	Conceptual and Technological Transformations of Community Media and Their Utilization by Social Movements: Reflections Across Time
10:15 - 10:45	Coffee/Tea Break

Alternative and Mainstream Media (Chair: Natalie Fenton)

10:45 - 12:15
Nicolas Harvey	Alternative Mass Media and Worldwide Mobilization: The difficult Crusade of Le Monde Diplomatique against Neoliberalism
Larisa Ranković	The Prospects for the Development of Alternative Media in Serbia
Yuliya Filippovska	The Role of Mass Media in the New Transformation of Ukranian Society
12:30 - 14:30	Lunch (Gostilna Figovec)

Community Radio/Community Media Practices (Chair: Vaclav Štětka)

14:30 - 16:30
Gergely Gosztonyi	Community Radio in Hungary as a Way for Community Development
Mashilo Boloka	Monitoring and Evaluating Community Participation in Development Media Projects: Some Reflections on Community Radio in South Africa
Jarkko Bamberg	Experimenting New Participation Practices – Case of Nurmi-Sorila
Pauliina Lehtonen	Learning Communities – Experiences of Civic Innovations and the Internet
19:00	Visit of the occupied Factory ROG & Dinner