Conference program

SEPTEMBER 17: WORKSHOPS
12:00-14:00	Workshop 1: Sergei Koltcov Room 309, 3rd floor	Mining and Analizing (Russian) Social Media
14:00-15:00	LUNCH
15:00-19:00	Workshop 2: Robert Ackland Room 309, 3rd floor	Hyperlink network analysis with VOSON
SEPTEMBER 18
09:00-10:00	Registration Hall, first floor
10:00-10:15	Conference Opening Room 410, 4th floor	Olessia Koltsova, Laboratory for Internet Studies Nikita Basov, Centre for German and European Studies
10:15-11:15	KEYNOTE 1: Robert Ackland	Online Activist Fields on Web 1.0 and Twitter
11:15-12:15	KEYNOTE 2: Andrey Bystritsky	The End of Dreams About Media Revolution: From Bastille Storming to Color Revolutions
12:15-12:45	Coffee - break Room 412, 4th floor
12:45-14:15	PANEL SESSION 1. Chair: Nikita Basov Room 410, 4th floor
	Benjamin Lind	Contrasting Protest and Mundanity: Centralization and Cohesion in Opposition Communication Networks
	Olga Logunova and Pavel Lebedev	The observers of Moscow election: online discourse in social media
	Olessia Koltsova, Galina Selivanova and Daria Yudenkova	Do the online and the offline realms of social movements meet each other: the case of St.Petersburg observers
	Hussni Nasr	Social Media and Social movements in The Arab World A case study of The 25th January Revolution in Egypt
14:15-15:30	LUNCH
15:30-17:00	PANEL SESSION 2. Chair: Maria Petrova Room 410, 4th floor
	Daniel Alexandrov, Vadim Voskresenskiy and Kirill Sukharev	Online communication and offline coordination in large housing complexes
	Måns Jakob Svensson	Social media, power and positionings in a Swedish middle-class activist demand
	Nora Kirkizh	Impact of the Internet on Citizen Protest Activity: Cross-Country Analysis
	Fedor Marchenko, Sergey Kosaretski (skype)	School children and informal online education
17:00-17:30	Coffee – break Room 412, 4th floor
17:30-18:40	PANEL SESSION 3. Chair: Benjamin Lind Room 410, 4th floor
	Cecilie Einarson Pérez	Tweeting the Frame Fields and Frames in the Age of the Networked Individual
	Fardin Alikhah-Sammaneh Kohestani	Virtual social networks and environmental activism
	Galina Gradoselskaya	Grouping politically active communities on Facebook by method of grain clustering
19:00	RECEPTION Room 408, 4th floor
SEPTEMBER 19
10:00-11:00	KEYNOTE 3: Maria Petrova	Social Media and Protest Participation
11:00-11:30	Coffee - break Room 412, 4th floor
11:30-13:00	PANEL SESSION 4. Chair: Robert Ackland Room 410, 4th floor
	Thomas Ralph Davidson	The Paradox of (Anti)Social Media: An Analysis of the Conflicting Framing of a Far-Right Social Movement and its Participants on Facebook
	Yuri Rykov	AIDS Dissident Virtual Community in "VK" SNS: Perspectives for Quantitative Study of Social Structure
	Ilya Kiriya	Sochi 2014 Online Discourse: Between National Pride and Intolerance
	Alexei Gorgadze and Daniel Daniel Alexandrov	Virtual Transnational Movements in the Caucasus
13:00-14:00	LUNCH
14:00-15:30	PANEL SESSION 5. Chair: Ilya Kiriya Room 410, 4th floor
	Martin Portos Garcia and Brais Álvarez Pereira	The infrastructure of revolts: Internet, game theory and complex networks in the Arab Spring
	Maria Rosén	A fly on the wall or a fly in the face? Methodological concerns in online participant-observations
	Elena Bogdanova	Public video applications of citizens and development of digital democracy in contemporary Russia: a case of Alexei Dymovskii
	Elena Bogomyagkova	Role of Social Movements in the Construction of Social Problems
15:30-16:00	Coffee - break Room 412, 4th floor
16:00-17:30	PANEL SESSION 6. Chair: Svetlana Bodrunova Room 410, 4th floor
	Galina Selivanova and Dmitriy Goncharov	Movement for Fair Elections in Saint Petersburg: From Connective to Collective Action
	Cecilia Strand and Jakob Svensson	Can the concept “political opportunity structure” inform M4D research?
	Nikita Savin	Social media and political discourse in Russia
	Peter Meylakhs	An AIDS-Denialist Online Community in a Russian Social Networking Service: Patterns of Interactions with the Newcomers and Rhetorical Strategies of Persuasion
17:30-17:45	Olessia Koltsova	Closing remarks

Previous conference programme is available here: New media: changing media landscapes 2012