Wednesday, May 27th 9.00-9.30 9.30-10.00 10.00-12.00 12.00-13.00 13.00-14.00 14.00-15.00 15.00-15.30 15.30-16.00 Registration Conference Opening, Paola CATENACCIO - Giovanni TURCHETTA Covering Foreign Cultures. New Media as a Resource? Roundtable. Marco DEL CORONA, FU Jing, Elisa PIERANDREI, Anna POZZI, Anna ZAFESOVA. Chair: E. Vigna Geert JACOBS Tu n as pas de place pour une petite Somalie? Language, Proximity and Impact in the Globalized Political Mediascape Chair: G. Garzone Lunch, Meeting Room, 1st floor WU Jing From Modernization to Neoliberalism? How IT Opinion Leaders Imagine the Information Society Editorials as a Genre SNS Cities Institutions and Minorities Chair: G. Mazzoleni Chair: G. Turchetta Chair: L. Osti Giuliana GARZONE Chiara DEGANO Ideology in Editorials: a CDA Perspective Federico Giulio SICURELLA Intellectuals as Nation- makers : A Critical Discourse Study of the Post- Yugoslav Context TANG Hai The Politics of Blogging in China: Continuities and Discontinuities of the Habermasian Public Sphere Federico MONTANARI Kobane: the Online Siege. Digital and Social Media Conflict Representation, and a Tentative Semiotic and Discursive Exploration 1 Roberta GARRUCCIO - Paola CATENACCIO The Commodification of Loss: Advertising and the Rhetorical Exploitation of Post- industrial Narratives as Myth- reinforcing Symbols in Crisis- ridden America Maria Cristina PAGANONI Discursive Pitfalls of the Smart City Concept Donatella DOLCINI (Italian) The Historical and Political Messages in National Anthems. The Case of the Indian Union and of Bangladesh Abhilash THADATHIL Media and Adivasi Rights in India: A Post- 1990 Analysis
16.00-16.30 16.30-17.00 17.00-17.30 17.30-18.00 18.00-18.30 Emma LUPANO Wo shi Zhali ma? The Representation of the Charlie Hebdo Case in Chinese Press Commentaries and Editorials Coffee Break, Meeting Room, 1st floor Election Campaigns Chair: D. Heaney Viorica PĂUȘ Adriana ȘTEFĂNEL Aggregating Passive Audiences into Active Publics during the Electoral Campaign Dijana SUBOTIČKI MILETIĆ Discourse Analysis: Female Politicians in the Print Media in Serbia in the 2014 Election Campaign Giorgia RIBONI Constructing Syriza: The Greek Elections in Online Newspapers and Blogs Stefano IACUS SNS and Public Opinion: Who is Setting the Agenda? A Sentiment Analysis Approach Visual and Cartoon Chair: C. Bulfoni Martina CASCHERA Controversial Political Discourses in the Modern Chinese Cartoon: Visual Exempla from Modern Sketch Mariia GULEVA People as Objects: Dehumanized Chinese Images in Soviet Krokodil (1947 1950) Kenan DEMIRCI Bad People Living in Beautiful Cities: Media Discourse in Turkey as a Negative City Branding Tool Official Discourse Chair: P. Paderni Cristina ARIZZI American Presidential Inaugural Addresses. Exploration of a Genre Simone DOSSI Representing China s Global Role. The Chinese Media and the 2014 APEC Summit Natalia RIVA Mediating Soft Power Discourse in the Chinese Context Indira GANAPATHY - Deepti GANAPATHY The Role of Twitter in the 2014 Indian Elections: A Content Analysis of Tweets by Indian Politicians Journalism Practice Chair: M- C. Paganoni Grace MCDERMOTT Rethinking the Burden of Representation: Cultural Bridging as Professional Journalism Practice Monika VERBALYTĖ Media Practices of Emotion Elicitation and Legitimation Veronika YARNYKH Media Communications As Tools of Social Marketing and Providing Professional Identity. Their Influence On Society And Politics Peer Committee: Paola Catenaccio, Giuliana Garzone, Alessandra Lavagnino, Chiara Molinari, Bettina Mottura, Eric Sangar, Jing Wu. Organising Committee: Emma Lupano, Bettina Mottura, Letizia Osti, Giorgia Riboni, Natalia Riva. 2
Thursday, May 28th 9.00-10.00 10.00-10.30 10.30-11.00 11.00-11.30 FU Jing Knowing China Better Requires New Context and Constructive Narratives: Chinese Media s Efforts Outcomes and Lessons Chair: E. Lupano Leaders Institutional Communication Cultural and Multilingual Representations Chair: D. Gavinelli Chair: C. Molinari Chair: G. Garzone Ana PANO ALAMÁN (Spanish) New Media and Politics. Blogs, Microblogs and the Informalisation of Spanish and Italian Leaders Discourse Tanina ZAPPONE (Italian) The Figure of the Government Spokesperson in China s Political Communication Mirko BENEDETTI (Italian) Politically (In)correct Numbers: the Abuse of Official Statistics in the Political Communication Manolo FARCI - Mario OREFICE (Italian) Politicians Self(ie)- branding. Content Analysis of the Ten Most Popular Twitter Politicians Selfies Naiara POSENATO (Italian) The Freedom of Expression in the Inter- American Human Rights System and the Protection of Journalists and Social Communicators Tom BRUYER Another Voice in the Region? I24 News: Multilingual Mediascapes and Representations of the Middle East Francesca SANTULLI The Discourse of Disability Policies: Focus on UN- Enable News Section Bettina MOTTURA Xinhua News Agency and the Multilingual Representation of Chinese Politics Conflicts Chair: P. Catenaccio Aysun KIRAN Blood and Sympathy: Re- framing the Battle and the Betrayer Ruslan ZHAKUPOV The Role of the Mass Media and Internet Resources in the Sphere of Preservation of Interethnic Stability Aleksandra KRSTIĆ The Balkans Butcher and the Dignified Hero : the Serbian Media Coverage of Slobodan Milosevic s Arrest and Extradition to The Hague Tribunal 3
11.30-12.00 12.00-13.00 13.00-14.00 14.00-15.00 15.00-15.30 Nolwenn SALMON (French) Giving More Power to Environmental Institutions and Maintaining State Resilience Thanks to Organized Journalistic Investigation Eric SANGAR (French) Studying Memory through Media Discourses on Wars and Interventions: a Corpus- Analytic Approach Chair: M- C. Jullion Lunch, Meeting Room, 1st floor JIANG Fei How BIG DATA Deepens the Knowledge Gap Representing Events Chair: C. Bulfoni Antonella CECCAGNO Opposing Narratives: Global and Local Media on the Chinese- run Italian Low- end Fast Fashion Values in Political Communication Lidia DE MICHELIS David Cameron s Discourse of Austerity and Its Impact on Media Representations of the 2011 UK Riots Faramarz SHADLOO A Critical Discourse Analysis of Written English and Persian Versions of BBC News Stories Popular Media Chair: M- C. Jullion Elisa PIERANDREI (Italian) Alternative Media: Cairo s Graffiti and Street Art in the January 25 Revolution Rami QAWARIQ A Critical Discourse Analysis of Two Israeli Newspapers during the 2014 Gaza War Memory and History Chair: E. Lupano Paola PADERNI Building a Collective Memory on Individual Lives. Obituary as a New Journalistic Genre in 21 st Century China 4
15.30-16.00 16.00-16.30 16.30-17.00 17.00-17.30 17.30-18.00 Victoria KAZMINA Anastasiia VYSKUBINA Discourses on the Execution of the Romanov Family in Post- Soviet Newspapers: Trauma and Memory Tiziana CARPI The Language in Post- Fukushima Institutional Communication and Its Effectiveness on Public Opinion in the Age of Social Networks Coffee Break, Meeting Room, 1st floor Representing the Others Chair: N. Riva Paolo MAGAGNIN Putting into Practice Core Confucian Values : Intertextuality and Ideology in Xi Jinping s May 4th 2014 Speech LUO Austin Jun - ZHOU Jiali From Chineseness to Worldliness : Peng Liyuan s Confucian Narratives in Media as China s First Lady ZHANG Zhan A Critical Analysis of European Media Arguments about China in the Post- financial Crisis Age (2008-2014) LIU Chang Through the Lens of the American Media: Understanding China's Struggle with Environmental Racism Cristina DOZIO (Italian) Satire and Dialect in the Egyptian Press in the 2000s: Bilāl Faḍl Marinella BELLUATI (Italian) Local Discourses and Global Identities. Immigration in Local Information XU Jing - Alice GIUSTO Discourse Analysis on Political Communication in the Great Leap Forward Movement in 1958 in China Public Sphere and Identities Chair: L. De Michelis Heycan ERHÜRMAN Representing Europe? Discourses on European Union Membership in Selected Newspaper of Northern Cyprus Ezekiel Major ADEYI The Role of Mass Media in Africa s Identity Politics - Nigeria s Experience Peer Committee: Paola Catenaccio, Giuliana Garzone, Alessandra Lavagnino, Chiara Molinari, Bettina Mottura, Eric Sangar, Jing Wu. Organising Committee: Emma Lupano, Bettina Mottura, Letizia Osti, Giorgia Riboni, Natalia Riva. 5