INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION RESEARCH (IAMCR). LAW SECTION.

50^th Anniversary Conference, Paris, July 23-25, 2007

Theme: ‘Media, Information, and Communication: Celebrating 50 years of Theories and Practice’

23 June 2007. 14:00 - 15:30

SESSION 1. 50 YEARS OF IAMCR — 50 YEARS OF THE LAW SECTION (ROUNDTABLE)

Moderator: Andrei Richter

Panelists: Cees Hamelink & Wolfgang Kleinwächter

23 June 2007. 16:00 — 17:30

SESSION 2. INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS IN PROMOTING MEDIA FREEDOMS AND PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS WORLDWIDE

1)  Les limites des droits du citoyen «à l’information» et «à la communication», dans le cadre d’une conception «individualiste», de la liberté de communication

Elsa Deliyanni

Docteur en Droit-Paris 2, Avocat

Professeur Associée

Département de Journalisme et de Communication, Université Aristote de Thessalonique, Grèce

2) The Limits: Unexpected Dangers from the Free Flow of Information in the Digital Era

Sandra Braman

Professor

Department of Communication

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

USA

3) Advocating less government secrecy: some balance about balance

David Goldberg

Consultant

Glasgow, Scotland

4) The Council of Europe’s approach to minorities and the media: how the tortoise is catching up with the hare

Tarlach McGonagle,

LL.M.

Researcher

Institute for Information Law (IViR)

University of Amsterdam

Netherlands

5) Defining and Implementing Professional Standards for Journalism in Transition Countries: Thresholds and Outcomes

Lucie Hribal

Ph.D.

University of Zurich

IPMZ Institute of Mass Communication Science and Media Research

Zurich, Switzerland

6) Role of European Organizations in Promoting Media Freedoms in the Former Soviet Union

Andrei Richter

Associate Professor

Faculty of Journalism

Moscow State University, 9 Mokhovaya

Moscow,  Russia

24 June 2007. 9:00 — 10:30

SESSION 3. PROMOTING MEDIA FREEDOMS WORLDWIDE: CASE STUDIES

1) Broadcasting freedom in post-1997 Hong Kong

Yan, Mei Ning

Dr., Assistant Professor

Department of Journalism

Hong Kong Baptist University

2) The challenge of introducing reform in media legislation and practice in Lebanon

Dima Dabbous-Sensenig

Ph.D.

Director

Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World

Lebanese American University

Beirut, Lebanon

3) Democratic development, communication policy, and regulation of public broadcasting: The case for Pluralism in Political Programming in Nigeria

Abubakar D. Alhassan,

Assistant Lecture

Deaprtment of Mass Communications

Bayero University

Kano, Nigeria

4) The political economy of democratization of mass media: an empirical and econometric analysis of the regulation of HDTV in Brazil

Brisa Lopes de Mello Ferrão

Research Fellow

Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV-EDESP) and International Trade Law and Development Institute (IDCID)/Ford Foundation

Masters’ Degree Candidate of University of Sao Paulo Law School

5) Sacrificing Privacy for the Sake of Fame: How Television is helping to Erode Privacy in Israel

Yuval Karniel

Dr., The Media School, College of management

Tel Aviv, Israel

Amit Lavie-Dinur

Dr., Interdisciplinary Center

Herzliya, Israel

24 June 2007. 11:00 — 12:30

SESSION 4. INTERNET GOVERNANCE AND WSIS: CASE STUDIES

1^ST SLOT

1) Ideas, institutions, and e-volution :

the Internet governance ecosystem

Nanette S. Levinson

Associate Professor

International Communication Program

School of International Service

American University

Washington

2) Freedom of Expression, Private Controllers, and Internet Governance
Anne S.Y. Cheung

Dr., Associate Professor

Department of Law, University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Professor Rolf H. Weber

Faculty of Law

University of Zurich

Zurich, Switzerland

3) Hate speech on the internet. Case-study of Belgium, The Netherlands and France

Ann Braeckman

Ghent University

Department of Communication Sciences

Ghent, Belgium

25 June 2007. 9:00 — 10:30

2^ND SLOT (SESSION 5)

1) A Study on Websites of Terrorist Organizations within the Context of Cyber Terrorism

Tezcan Özkan

Research assistant

Anadolu University

Faculty of Communication Sciences

Eskisehir, Turkey

2) The New Media Landscape in China

Peter K. Yu

Associate Professor of Law & Director, Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program

Core Faculty, Asian Studies Center
Adjunct Professor of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media

Michigan State University College of Law

East Lansing, USA

Law Section Heads: Andrei Richter (Russia) and Wolfgang Kleinwachter (Germany)

Deputy: Mohammad Sahid Ullah (Bangladesh)