Limassol to host journalism conference

Government Spokesman Nicos Christodoulides will be among the key-note speakers at an international conference “Journalism, Society and Politics in the Digital Media Era” in Limassol at the beginning of September.

The interdisciplinary conference – which is to take place between September 1 and 3 at the University of Technology (Tepak) in Limassol – aims to bring academics and professional journalists to discuss and compare the impact of technology on the relationship between journalism, politics and economics in societies and communities.

The conference will also discuss advances in digital journalism and its implications for news production, journalism practices, news sources, journalism content and consumption.

Other key-note speakers will  be professor of media and communication studies at Uppsala University, Sweden, Nico Carpentier, and assistant professor in the school of communication at Emerson College in Boston, US, Paul Mihailidis.

During the conference, journalists and academicians from 45 counties will discuss in 21 panels issues concerning journalism, political life and everyday discussions through the fields of communication, sociology, political science, economics, cultural studies, psychology and anthropology.

The conference is organised jointly by the Advanced Media Institute, the Open University (Cyprus), the Centre for the Study of Journalism, Culture and Community at Bournemouth University (UK), and the Laboratory of Research in New Economy and Development at University Hassan II Casablanca (Morocco), with the support of Tepak.

For more information: http://amiretreat2017.com

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