This Friday, September 27, TaRC members Svetlana Pasti and Iiris Ruoho participate in an international conference “Media Component of Digital Economy” in Moscow, Russia.
The one-day conference focuses on several types of media transformations in the digital environment in Russia and other countries. The key questions of the conference are as follows:
- What is the role of media in determining the direction of cultural, linguistic, axiological and professional priorities of a society in the context of digital economy development?
- How is the work of journalists being transformed by the digital economy?
- What is the influence of robotic technologies, virtual reality and what are the consequences of these innovations?
Dr Pasti is one of the keynote speakers in a roundtable session titled “The Change of the Media Market Structure as a Result of Digitalization”. In her presentation, Dr Pasti addresses the theme by focusing on self-media and the WeChat and Telegram applications.
In the other sessions of the conference, participants present the first results of Russian digital TV transition, and discuss the transformation of the mediasphere and professions in the field in the context of digital economy development.
Speakers include renowned experts, such as Professor Elena Vartanova from Moscow State Lomonosov University, and Director of Audiences for the BBC, Nick North.
The conference is organized by the Academy of Media Industry with the support of the Federal Agency for the Press and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation.
You can see the full programme of the conference in Russian here.