Video & Video call with USA

• Tasos Papapostolou, Journalist, Founder of the site Greek Hollywood Reporter:
  “Get connected or get forgotten!”

Discussion with the audience in the conference room and on the Internet

Chair:: Anna Panagiotarea, Journalist, Associate Professor, Department of Journalism & Mass Communication, AUTH

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee break

• For the live internet program: interviews & commentaries from a group of final-year students of the Department of Journalism & Mass Communication, AUTH, members of the Executive Committee of the Meeting

SECOND SESSION
THE ISSUE OF DIGITAL IDENTITY

11:30 – 13:00

Presentation of research study

• Evaggelos Chorafas, Publisher of the magazine Μonthly Review”: “The political culture of blogs”

Debate

• Mathaios Tsimitakis,Journalist, Newspaper “Kathimerini”:
  "Digital identity and the issue of anonymity"
  
• Vassilis Sotiropoulos, Lawyer, Blogger:
  "In the quest of the rules of citizen journalism: are there information ‘offshores’?”
  
• Asteris Masouras, Representative of the initiative digitalrights.gr for the digital rights of the citizens, Blogger:
  “Political and social activism in the social media”
  
• Kostas Stratilatis, PhD in Law:
  “The myth of the Internet: autonomy, ideology and weak power”

Discussion with the audience in the conference room and on the Internet

Chair: Elsa Deligianni, Associate Professor, Department of Journalism & Mass Communication, AUTH

13:00 – 15:00

Lunch

• Documentary of Manolis Andriotakis and Menti Mega under the title: “Blog, a new public space”
• For the live internet program: interviews & commentaries from a group of final-year students of the Department of Journalism & Mass Communication, AUTH, members of the Executive Committee of the Meeting

THIRD SESSION
UNIVERSITIES & NEW MEDIA

15:00 – 16:00

Presentation

• Sofia Iordanidou, Pavlos Nerantzis with Final-year students, Department of Journalism & Mass Communication (Michalis Goudis, Anastasia Euthimiou, Vassiliki Zioga, Mairi Kouinoglou, Dimitris Lazopoulos, Ilias Papadopoulos, Mpampis Petridis, Elissavet Sergiadou, Vaggelis Stolakis, Anna Chlioura):
  «Research Study: 'Journalism & Mass Communication, AUTH', 'Communication, Media and Culture of Panteion University' και 'Communication and 'Mass Media of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens' Departments’ relationship with New Media.»
  
  

Intervention

• Anastasia Lappa, Graduate student, Department of Journalism & Mass Communication, AUTH , Postgraduate student, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, AUTH
• Andreas Veglis, Associate Professor:
  «Training of under-graduate students of the Department of Journalism & Mass Communication in New Media»

Discussion with the audience in the conference room and in the Internet

Chairs: Andreas Veglis, Associate Professor, Department of Journalism & Mass Communication, AUTH, Director of Computer Applications in the Media and Georgios Kalliris, Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism & Mass Communication, AUTH, Director of the Workshop of Electronic Media

16:00 – 16:30

Coffee break

• For the live internet program: interviews & commentaries from a group of final-year students of the Department of Journalism & Mass Communication, AUTH, members of the Executive Committee of the Meeting

FOURTH SESSION
CITIZENS AND NEW MEDIA

16:30 – 18:00

Paper

• Dan Gillmor, Journalist, Professor of New Media in Kauffman School, Director of the ‘Knight Centre for Digital Media Entrepreneurship’ of the Public University of Arizona, Director of the “Mass Media Center of the Citizens” at Harvard University

Discussants

• Professor Stavros Panas, Vice-Rector, President of the Research Committee, AUTH
  
• Sophia Kaitatzi-Whitlock, Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism & Mass Communication, AUTH
  
• Katerina Mystakidou, Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism & Mass Communication, AUTH

Discussion with the audience in the conference room and in the Internet

Chair: Sofia Iordanidou, Journalist

Tuesday, October 21th
Drakopoulou Conference Room, National Kapodistrian University of Athens

12:00 – 15:00

1. Dan Gillmor, Journalist, Professor of New Media in Kauffman School, Director of the ‘Knight Centre for Digital Media Entrepreneurship’ of the Public University of Arizona, Director of the “Mass Media Center of the Citizens” at Harvard University:
"We the Media: New Journalism for a Digital Age"

2. Michalis Meimaris, Professor, Department of Communication and Mass Media, University of Athens:
“Blogs: the samizdad*  of the digital era”

3. Georgios Pleios, Associate Professor, Department of Communication and Mass Media, University of Athens and researcher in the Lab of Social Research in the Media, University of Athens:
“Publicity and private life in the Greek blog-sphere”

4. Manolis Andriotakis, Writer, Journalist, Film director:
“Criticism and perspectives of web 2.0”

Chair: Sofia Iordanidou, Journalist


samizdat* in Russian means literally “self-publication” (sam-izdat). It means the clandestine copying and distribution of government-suppressed literature or other media in Soviet-bloc countries.