[ecrea] International conference “New media: critical revaluation” 7-10 April 2015 Moscow NRU “Higher School of Economics”

International conference “New media: critical revaluation”

Within the framework of XVI Annual International Conference 
“Modernization economy and society”



7-10 April 2015

Moscow

National Research University “Higher School of Economics”



During last 30 years the phenomenon of «new media» was drastically 
changed the topical profile of worldwide research in field of 
communication. The tradition of techno-determinists supposed that 
development of societies is determined by development of means of 
communications, was continued.  Scholars from different fields of social 
sciences started to study such changes caused by new media as really new 
way of communicate. Such ideas like “digital democracy”, “collective 
mind”, “users inclusiveness” started to grow. Organizational changes in 
the societies has been also linked with new technologies and new 
techno-centered model of society – network society or informational 
society. Scholars also pointed out changes in the language of new media 
affecting the whole language.

Changes of political regimes in Arab countries at the end of first 
decade of 2000 caused the new wave of research in field of social media 
and its role in protest movements in such countries.

In parallel with scientific realm politics and policy makers actively 
used the concept of new media to enhance the infrastructure of new 
technologies, develop commercial markets of telecommunication, 
liberalize the regulation of cultural field and telecommunication. 
Governmental structures elaborate national programs developing the 
access of population to ICTs and another “benefits” of “digital 
society”. In that sense the idea of new media and its “high power” 
became really advantageous for produce the political discourse about new 
type of economy (creative economy) where the informational labor plays 
the crucial role.

This conference propose to question techno-determinist approach to the 
«new media» and its role in social changes. Conference covers such 
topics as:

·      Concentration in new media business and critics of new media from 
political economy of communication

·      Power relations and new forms of power in social media

·      Critics of technological neutrality

·      Critics of such concepts as the information society or the 
creative economy

·      Marxist approaches to critics of new media

·      Construction of discourses and ideologies in new media

·      Discourses and ideologies of “old media” against “new media”

·      “New media” and its role in reproduction of social relations and 
political regimes

·      Feed-back mechanisms in new media: evaluation of effectiveness 
and limits of possibilities

·      New media as platform for contemporary integrated communications: 
the experience of big companies (round-table session)

·      Socialization of individual through new media (“facebook man” 
against “media man”)

·      Historical continuity of forms of integrated communications

All interested in participating should register on the website 
http://conf.hse.ru/en/2015/registration by November 11, 2014 and attach 
abstracts of their papers on the Russian or English. We are kindly 
asking you during the registration process to select the topic of you 
papers as “media communication”. All abstracts will bypass reviewing 
process. Authors will be informed about the decision of the program 
committee before January 20, 2015.

A detailed abstract of the proposed paper should be attached to the 
application, in Word or PDF format, in 1 - 3 pages with 1, 5 line 
spacing (up to 7000 symbols). Otherwise the full paper version could be 
attached. The summary should outline the issue, show the level of the 
research, include characteristics of the research (theoretical or 
empirical methods, its informational base), as well as its main results. 
Abstracts which are less than 1 page in length will not be accepted. One 
author may submit a personal paper to the conference and no more than 
two papers co-authored.

Authors of the papers included in the Conference program are requested 
to send full-text versions of the text (in Word, RTF) by March 5, 2015 
for publication on the Conference website. At the end of the conference 
Higher School of Economics will prepare and issue conference 
proceedings, containing all papers, which were presented at the 
conference. Final versions of the papers should be sent by May 20, 2015 
(20 000 symbols with spaces in Word, RTF). The decision about their 
publication in will be made by the editorial board. The papers not 
presented at the Conference will not be considered for publication.

Participants from the CIS and Eastern Europe countries whose papers are 
included in the program may apply for a grant from the Moscow Office of 
the World Bank until February 10, 2015 to (interconf /at/ hse.ru)






Ilya Kiriya
Ph.D. in communication, professor
Department of media
Faculty of communication, media and design
Vice-dean responsible for science, international relations and academic 
development
National Research University Higher School of Economics
+7 916 519 80 47



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