The firstborn of the NYUS Faculty of Communication and Media Studies conferences was held March 8-10, 2007.
We enthusiastically took on the task to get together academics and media practitioners in order to discuss what was formally titled as ‘(G) Local Media in Transition – the Case of South-Eastern Europe 1990-2007’. And discuss it (them) we did, for three days.
With speakers and audience members from Macedonia and beyond (the USA, France, Germany, Serbia, Turkey, etc.) we discussed matters like the broadcasting environment in the region, the freedom of access to information, journalists and their function as political actors, media ethics, the media ownership structure in the region, independent media, the Internet as a form of social media, etc… to put it briefly, we had something to offer to everyone, from all walks of media life. The discussions after each session showed us we were right to start this initiative and envision it as a traditional forum for exchange of knowledge and opinions.
For all of you who didn’t have the chance to spend at least one day out of the three during the March 2007 conference, or were there but would like to have the spoken word on paper, please note that the publication with the 2007 Glocal conference papers will come out very soon (the information will be posted here).
