Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
Russian Institute for Cultural Research
in partnership with
A.P. Chekhov Taganrog State Pedagogical Institute
Russian Association for Film and Media Education
Academic Society for Cultural Research
announce
International Conference
Current Situation in Media Education in Russia
in the Context of World Tendencies
to be held within the framework of the academic events programme
dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Russian Institute for Cultural Research
(Taganrog, Russia, 7–8 September 2012)
In the 20th century, media education took shape in the world’s leading countries as the specific pedagogical trend; it was aimed at helping the various age audiences to better adapt to the world of media culture, to master the mass media language, to analyse and create media texts, etc. Now, teaching media is integrated in the mother tongue lessons in schools of Canada, Australia, Great Britain, and other countries. The intensive development of media education in many countries was stimulated by the expansion of the American mass media: many media pedagogues have tried and are trying to develop the so-called “critical thinking” of their students in order to help them to resist the influence of the overseas mass culture.
In the modern world, the mass media education is regarded as a tool of personal development with the help and on the basis of the mass communication media in order to develop the culture of communication with media, creative and communicative abilities, critical thinking, skills in the proper perception, interpretation, analysis, assessment, and creation of media texts, to teach various forms of self-expression through media techniques. The media literacy/media competence acquired in the process of media education helps to actively use the potential of the information/communication field of the television, radio, video, cinema, printed press, and the Internet, helps to better understand and use the language of media culture. Media education becomes particularly important in the context of globalisation.
Within the framework of the Conference, it is planned to hold a Plenary Meeting on the opening day of the conference, five Sessions, and the final Round Table.
The Conference working programme will cover the following themes and key issues:
Session 1. History of the Media Education Development
Topics for discussion:
– Which tendencies in the media education development in the past years (in Russia and abroad) are still relevant? Which ones have lost their importance?
– May we say that the main media education world trends have been for the most part studied by the researches?
– To what extent is it necessary for modern pedagogues to study the history of media education?
– Media education: benefit of and need for philosophical reflection and methodology?
Session 2. Modern Tendencies in the Development of Professional Media Education
Topics for discussion:
– What are the achievements and difficulties of modern professional education in the sphere of printed press, cinema, television and advertising?
– Which of the studies conducted in the sphere of professional media education seem the most important for you? Why?
– To what extent does the quality of modern professional education in Russia meet the employers’ requirements?
– What are the ways of perfecting the development of professional media education, including in the field of the technology of teaching?
Session 3. Modern Tendencies of the Development of Mass Media Education
Topics for discussion:
– What are the achievements and difficulties of massive media education in schools and higher educational institutions, institutions of extended education and cultural institutions?
– Which of the studies conducted in the sphere of media education seem the most important for you? Why?
– In what way the development of mass media education in Russia correlates with the development of mass media education in foreign countries?
– What are the ways of perfecting the development of mass media education, including the fields of teaching technologies and training media pedagogues?
Session 4. Sociology of Media Education
Topics for discussion:
– Which sociological investigations in the sphere of media education are of interest at this time?
– Which of the sociological investigations conducted in the sphere of media education seem the most important for you? Why?
– To what extent is it possible to use the experience of foreign sociological investigations of media education in Russia?
Session 5. Theory and Philosophy of Media
Topics for discussion:
– Theory of media, media studies, media philosophy – common features and differences
– Which of the studies in media theory and media philosophy are the most successful in practice?
– What is the state of media studies in Russia and wider in the post-Soviet academic space? Are the original theories of our own worked out? What is the relationship between the current media analytics and media practice? Is the media philosophy sought for?
Final Round Table: Philosophy of media culture
Topics for discussion:
– What is media and is culture possible outside media? What is the specificity of media culture?
– Media culture, point of origin – photography, radio, television or the Internet?
– Yellow press, talk-shows, and academic magazine – where does media culture live?
– In what way is the media culture philosophy possible? What are the relevance, subject matter, aims, purposes, and methodology of the media culture philosophy in the situation of the philosophy crisis within the domestic educational and scientific spaces?
– What investigation strategies exist in studying media culture? What are the sources of the media culture philosophical discourse? Is the Russian study experience sought for in the world?
– What is the impact of the notion of media (media culture) on the theory of culture?
– What is the interdisciplinary resource of the media culture studies?
– Regions of media culture. Unique and multiple, media culture or media cultures?
Conference working languages are Russian and English
Please send your applications for the Conference and the texts of your paper (see Appendices) at the electronic address of the conferencemediaconf2012@gmail.com till 30 June 2012. All fields of the application are mandatory and are to be filled in. Please send the full text of your paper together with your application.
The Organising Committee of the Conference will send an official invitation or a substantiated refusal before 15 July.
The Organising Committee reserves the right to decline applications not corresponding to the subject matter of the conference.
The Conference follow-up provides for the electronic publication of the full texts of the reports.
Please note:
The participation in the conference presupposes the payment of the organization fee to the amount of 1,000 roubles. The travelling and accommodation costs shall be covered separately by the sending party. Only face-to-face participation in the conference is possible.
Organisation fees will be payable on the spot during the registration of the Conference participants and documented appropriately.
INFORMATION:
6 September 2012 Conference participants’ arrival
7-8 September 2012 Conference work
9 September 2012 participants’ departure
Organising Committee of the Conference
Current Situation in Media Education in Russia
in the Context of World Tendencies
Organising Committee of the International Conference
Prof. Dr. Kirill Razlogov, Director of the Russian Institute for Cultural Research (http://www.ricur.ru),
Chairman of the Conference Organization Committee
Prof. Dr. Alexander Fedorov, Pro-rector of the Anton Chekhov Taganrog State Pedagogical Institute (http://www.tgpi.ru), president of the Russian Association for Film and Media Education (http://edu.of.ru/mediaeducation),
Co-Chairman of the Conference Organization Committee
Dr. Nina Kochelyaeva, Scientific Secretary of the Russian Institute for Cultural Research (http://www.ricur.ru),
Executive Secretary of the Conference Organization Committee
Svetlana Khripkova, Scientific Research Assistant of the Russian Institute for Cultural Research,
Conference coordinator
Prof. Dr. Stefan Aufenanger, Dean of Mainz University (Germany), leading specialist in media education.
Cary Bazalgette, former head of the media education section of the British Film Institute, leading specialist in media education.
Fedor Bondarchuk, film director, scriptwriter, actor, member of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia, Chairman of the public council of the “Cinema club”: culture, education, communications” (project of United Russia party).
Dr. Elena Bondarenko, Chief of Laboratory of Technology in Education and of Media Education of the Russian Academy of Education, member of the Russian Association for Film and Media Education.
Dr. Irina Chelysheva, Head of the Chair of social and cultural development of personality, Anton Chekhov Taganrog State Pedagogical Institute, member of the Russian Association for Film and Media Education.
Prof. Dr. Irina Golubeva, Rector of the Anton Chekhov Taganrog State Pedagogical Institute.
Prof. Dr. Serguey Goncharov, First Pro-Rector of Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University, President of the Scientific and Educational Cultural Research Society.
Prof. Dr. Natalia Kirillova, Director of the Ural Center of media culture and media education, member of the Russian Association for Film and Media Education.
Prof. Dr. Alexander Korochensky, Dean of the faculty of journalism of Belgorod State University, member of the Russian Association for Film and Media Education.
Dr. Serguey Lazaruk, Honoured Culture Worker of the Russian Federation, Head of the Chair for film studies of S.Guerasimov All-Russian State University of Cinematography (VGIK).
Prof. Dr. Marek Sokolowski, Head of the Chair of Sociology of the University of Warmia and Mazury.
Karen Shakhnazarov, film director, Honored Artist of Russia, laureate of the Vasiliev Brothers State Prize, of the Russian State Prize, Honoured Art Worker of the Russian Federation, General Director, Board Chairman of the Mosfilm Cinema Concern.
Appendix 1
APPLICATION
for participation in the International scientific conference
“Current situation in media education in Russia
in the context of world tendencies”
(Taganrog, 7-8 September 2012)
Surname
Name
Patronymic
Scientific degree, title
Place of work
Job position
Sphere of scientific interests
List of publications on the conference subject matter (up to 10 most significant ones)
Intended section or round table
Intended speech topic
Work address
Contact telephone number
Form of participation: face-to-face
Only face-to-face participation in the conference is possible. Virtual participation in the conference (including virtual publications) is not envisaged.
Appendix 2
Rules for submitting articles to the conference
1. Will be accepted for the publication articles on the following subjects: history, theory and practice of media education/media pedagogy, cinema education, media literacy/media competence, media perception, sociology of media education and of media culture, theory, philosophy of media, media culture.
2. All the articles shall be submitted by e-mail at: mediaconf2012@gmail.com
The main text of the article (not more than 10 lines) shall be in Word format, Times New Roman, 14, line spacing – 1, all the margins = 2 cm
The text of abstracts, key-words and references shall be in Word format, Times New Roman, 12, line spacing – 1, all the margins = 2 cm
3. Each article shall be accompanied with an abstract in Russian and English (including the translation of its title into English)
4. Each article shall be accompanied with the key-words in Russian and English (up to 10 words)
5. Each article shall be accompanied with the author’s scientific degree, title, job position, institution, city or town in Russian and in English.
6. Footnotes are not allowed.
7. References in the text shall be marked in the following way: [Brest, 2011, p.256-257], i.e. in square brackets with the name of the quoted author.
8. The list of references shall be made in the alphabetical order (without numbering) in two languages (first in Russian, then in its English translation) and placed at the end of the article. Articles without a list of references cannot be accepted for publication.
9. Articles on informatics and the use of technology in education (including the history of the development of informatics and technology in education) will NOT be accepted for publication.
10. Only face-to-face participation in the conference is possible. Virtual participation in the conference (including virtual publications) is not envisaged.
Appendix 3
Sample article
Media education process
Dr. Mel Brest,
Professor of … University
(London, UK)
e-mail: ___________
Key words. media education, media culture, media competence, teachers, media educators, creative works, students.
The main text of the article (not more than 10 pages) shall be in Word format, Times New Roman, 14, line spacing – 1, all the margins = 2 cm.
References
Brest, M. (2012). Analysis of Media Stereotypes. Innovation. 2012, N 6, p.24-38.
Arnold, A. (2007). Media Study. Classroom. 2007, N 3, p.13-19.
Appendix 4
Information on “Taganrog” Congress Hotel
for individual hotel booking
“Taganrog” Congress Hotel http://www.hoteltaganrog.ru/
“Taganrog” Congress Hotel ideally combines the atmosphere of a high-status art-hotel with genuine Russian hospitality. The hotel offers you a complete range of services (Internet, transfer, laundry, etc.), ideal conditions for holding a business meeting as well as an opportunity to order a weekend tour. Hotel guests are offered a buffet breakfast, the number of breakfasts corresponds to the number of the paid nights. An advance payment to the amount of 1,000 rubles is requested for using a mini-bar, the hotel laundry, for making domestic and international long distance calls, as well as for using other services. Check-out is 12 noon. Non-guaranteed early check-in and late check-out are only possible if there are vacant rooms available. In case of early check-in 0.5 of the tariff is charged from 00:00 till 12:00. In case of late check-out – 0.5 of the tariff from 12:00 till 24:00.
Address: 161 Dzerzhinskogo street, Taganrog, Russia
www.hoteltaganrog.ru booking@hoteltaganrog.ru +7(8634)683003, (8634)683000
Appendix 5
Road map: how to get to Taganrog, “Taganrog” Congress Hotel and the conference venue
1. Conference participants shall buy and pay themselves their tickets to Taganrog and back
2. Conference participants shall book and pay themselves their hotel rooms (www.hoteltaganrog.ru booking@hoteltaganrog.ru +7(8634)683003, (8634)683000).
3. Conference participants shall get themselves to their place of accommodation:
– from Taganrog-1 railway station: by bus or fixed-route taxi to “Taganrog” Congress Hotel. Travel time – 5 min.
– from the railway station in Rostov-on-Don: by bus, fixed-route taxi (fixed-route taxi ticket price is 100 rubles) or suburban train (ticket price is 100 rubles) as far as Taganrog-1 railway station, then to “Taganrog” Congress Hotel. Overall travel time from the railway station in Rostov-on-Don to Taganrog – about 1.5 – 2 hours
– from the airport in Rostov-on-Don: by bus or fixed-route taxi as far as Rostov suburban railway station, then by suburban train (ticket price is 100 rubles) or by fixed-route taxi (fixed-route taxi ticket price is 100 rubles) as far as Taganrog-1 railway station and “Taganrog” Congress Hotel. It is possible to take a taxi from the airport directly to Taganrog (the price varies from 1,500 to 2,000 rubles). Overall travel time from the airport in Rostov-on-Don to Taganrog-1 railway station – about 2 hours.
Address of A.P. Chekhov Taganrog State Pedagogical Institute (www.tgpi.ru):
48, Initsiativnaya street, Taganrog
(10 minute walk from the hotel, 3 minutes by bus. The building is situated in close proximity to Taganrog-1 railway station)
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