Join us on Tuesday July 14 (4 pm Budapest time, 3 pm GMT, 10 am EST) as
we debate the issues at the digital crossroads of the transnational
media environment. The web seminar
"Journalism, New Technologies and Media Development: The Transformation
of News in the Digital Age"
will be an interactive, live conversation between scholars and
practitioners. It will be streamed from Budapest at the headquarters of
Magyar Telekom with an ongoing, interactive live chat supplementing the
session. It will feature interational experts including James Deane,
director of policy for the BBC World Service Trust; Persephone Miel,
Senior Advisor, Internews, and a fellow with the Berkman Center for
Internet and Society at Harvard University; András Benedict, developer
of iwiw, the largest and oldest Hungarian social networking site and a
former blogger; and practitioners, researchers, and journalists in media
development from Bangladesh, Palestine, South Africa, El Salvador and
across Central and Eastern Europe.
Details will be posted on the websites of CMCS/CEU
<http://www.cmcs.ceu.hu/> and CGCS/Annenberg <www.global.asc.upenn.edu>.
The URL for the webcast will be:
http://www.telekom.hu/mobilemediawebinar
To join in this online interactive seminar, please rsvp to Moustafa
Ayad, coordinator <ayad1[at]illinois.edu> or direct questions to Dr.
Kate Coyer, Center for Media and Communication Studies, CEU
<coyerc[at]ceu.hu> or Susan Abbott, Annenberg,
<sabbott[at]asc.upenn.edu>.
The webinar is being organized by the Center for Media and Communication
Studies at Central European University and the Center for Global
Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication,
University of Pennsylvania, in collaboration with Magyar Telekom.
Regards,
the CMCS team
