Wednesday, May 27th MEDIA AND POLITICS: DISCOURSES, CULTURES, AND PRACTICES. University of Milan (Italy), 27th-28th May 2015. Programme May 14th 9.00-9.30 Registration 9.30-10.00 Conference Opening, Room T9, ground floor Plenary session, Room T9, ground floor 10.00-12.00 Covering Foreign Cultures. New Media as a Resource? Roundtable. Marco DEL CORONA, FU Jing, Elisa PIERANDREI, Anna POZZI, Anna ZAFESOVA. Chair Edoardo VIGNA 12.00-13.00 Geert JACOBS Tu n as pas de place pour une petite Somalie? Language, Proximity and Impact in the Globalized Political Mediascape 13.00-14.00 Lunch, Meeting Room, 1st floor Plenary session, Room T9, ground floor 14.00-15.00 WU Jing From Modernization to Neoliberalism? How IT Opinion Leaders Imagine the Information Society Room T7, ground floor Editorials as a Genre Room T8, ground floor - SNS Room T9, ground floor - Cities Room P3, 1st floor Institutions and Minorities 15.00-15.30 Giuliana GARZONE Chiara DEGANO Ideology in Editorials: a CDA Perspective 15.30-16.00 Federico Giulio SICURELLA Intellectuals as Nation-makers : a Critical Discourse Study of the Post- Yugoslav Context 16.00-16.30 Emma LUPANO Wo shi Zhali ma? The Representation of the Charlie Hebdo Case in Chinese Press Commentaries and Editorials TANG Hai 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 Stefano IACUS SNS and Public Opinion: Who is Setting the Agenda? A Sentiment Analysis Approach 1 Kenan DEMIRCI Bad People Living in Beautiful Cities: Media Discourse in Turkey as a Negative City Branding Tool Maria Cristina PAGANONI Discursive Pitfalls of the Smart City Concept Roberta GARRUCCIO - Paola CATENACCIO The Commodification of Loss: Advertising and the Rhetorical Exploitation of Post-industrial Narratives as Myth-reinforcing Symbols in Crisisridden America Donatella DOLCINI (Italian) The Historical and Political Messages in National Anthems. The Case of Indian Union and of Bangladesh Abhilash THADATHIL Media and Adivasi Rights in India: A Post 1990 Analysis Indira GANAPATHY - Deepti GANAPATHY Role of Twitter in the 2014 Indian Elections: A Content Analysis of Tweets by Indian Politicians
16.30-17.00 Coffee Break, Meeting Room, 1st floor Room T7, ground floor Election Campaigns 17.00-17.30 Viorica PĂUȘ Adriana ȘTEFĂNEL Aggregating Passive Audiences into Active Publics during the Electoral Campaign 17.30-18.00 Dijana SUBOTIČKI MILETIĆ Discourse Analysis: Female Politicians in the Print Media in Serbia in Election Campaign 2014 18.00-18.30 Giorgia RIBONI Constructing Syriza: The Greek Elections in Online Newspapers and Blogs Room T8, ground floor Visual and Cartoon Martina CASCHERA Controversial Political Discourses in Chinese Modern Cartoon: Visual Exempla from Modern Sketch Mariia GULEVA People as Objects: Dehumanized Chinese Images in Soviet Krokodil (1947 1950) Room T9, ground floor Official Discourse 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 Room P3, 1 st floor - Journalism Practice 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 of Professional Identify. Influence On Society And Policy 2
Thursday, May 28th MEDIA AND POLITICS: DISCOURSES, CULTURES, AND PRACTICES. University of Milan (Italy), 27th-28th May 2015. Programme May 14th 9.00-10.00 FU Jing Knowing China Better Requires New Context and Constructive Narratives: Chinese Media s Efforts Outcomes and Lessons Room T7, ground floor Leaders Room T8, ground floor Institutional Communication Room T9, ground floor Cultural and Multilingual Representations 10.00-10.30 Ana PANO ALAMÁN (Spanish) New Media and Politics. Blogs, Microblogs and the Informalisation of Spanish and Italian Leaders Discourse 10.30-11.00 Tanina ZAPPONE (Italian) The Figure of Government Spokesperson in China s Political Communication 11.00-11.30 Valeria VARRIANO (Italian) From Xi Jinping to the Television Emperor Yongzheng 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 11.30-12.00 Nolwenn SALMON (French) Giving More Power to Environmental Institutions and Maintaining State Resilience Thanks to Organized Journalistic Investigation 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 Faramarz SHADLOO A Critical Discourse Analysis on Written English Version and Persian Version of BBC News Room P3, 1 st floor Conflicts Aysun KIRAN Blood and Sympathy: Re-framing The Battle and The Betrayer Ruslan ZHAKUPOV The Role of Mass Media, Internet Resources in a Sphere of Preservation of Interethnic Stability Aleksandra KRSTIĆ The Balkans Butcher and Dignified Hero : the Serbian Media Coverage of Slobodan Milosevic s Arrest and Extradition to The Hague Tribunal Rami QAWARIQ A Critical Discourse Analysis of Two Israeli Newspapers during the 2014 Gaza War 3
12.00-13.00 Eric SANGAR (French) Studying Memory through Media Discourses on Wars and Interventions: a Corpus-Analytic Approach 13.00-14.00 Lunch, Meeting Room, 1 st floor 14.00-15.00 JIANG Fei How BIG DATA Deepens the Knowledge Gap Room T7, ground floor Representing Events Room T8, ground floor - Values in Political Communication Room T9, ground floor - Popular Media 15.00-15.30 Antonella CECCAGNO Opposing Narratives: Global and Local Media on the Chinese-run Italian Low-end Fast Fashion 15.30-16.00 Victoria KAZMINA Anastasiia VYSKUBINA Discourses on the Execution of the Romanov Family in Post-Soviet Newspapers: Trauma and Memory Lidia DE MICHELIS David Cameron s Discourse of Austerity and Its Impact on Media Representations of the 2011 UK Riots Paolo MAGAGNIN Putting into Practice Core Confucian Values : Intertextuality and Ideology in Xi Jinping s May 4th 2014 Speech Elisa PIERANDREI (Italian) Alternative Media: Cairo s Graffiti and Street Art in the January 25 Revolution Cristina DOZIO (Italian) Satire and Dialect in the Egyptian Press in the 2000s: Bilāl Faḍl Room P3, 1st floor - Memory and History Paola PADERNI Building a Collective Memory on Individual Lives. Obituary as a New Journalistic Genre in 21 st Century China Alice GIUSTO-XU Jing Discourse Analysis on Political Communication in the Great Leap Forward Movement in 1958 in China 16.00-16.30 Tiziana CARPI The Language in Post-Fukushima Institutional Communication and Its Effectiveness on Public Opinion in the Age of Social Networks LUO Austin Jun - ZHOU Jiali From Chineseness to Worldliness: Peng Liyuan s Confucian Narratives in Media as China s First Lady Marinella BELLUATI (Italian) Local Discourses and Global Identities. Immigration in Local Information ZUO Can Politicized or Depoliticized: the Ambiguity of Representing the Chinese Cultural Revolution 4
16.30-17.00 Coffee Break, Meeting Room, 1 st floor Room T7, ground floor Representing the Others 17.00-17.30 Heycan ERHÜRMAN Representing Europe? Discourses on European Union Membership in Selected Newspaper of Northern Cyprus 17.30-18.00 ZHANG Zhan A Critical Analysis of European Media Arguments about China in the Post Financial Crisis Age (2008-2014) 18.00-18.30 LIU Chang Through the Lens of American Media: Understanding China's Struggle with Environmental Racism Room T8, ground floor Public Sphere and Identities Munira CHEEMA The Rise of the Mediated Public Sphere in Pakistan Ezekiel Major ADEYI The Role of Mass Media in Africa s Identity Politics - the Nigeria s Experience 5