SESSION PRESENTERS
Alberto Pellai
Department of Public Health at Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Medical Doctor, specialized in Preventive Medicine and Health Education, PhD in Public Health, he is also a Child Psychologist. Authors of many scientific
articles and papers published nationally and internationally and of 20 books for teachers, parents, children and professionals. Child advocate and writer
on children and family issues, he hosts a national radio show targeting parents and teachers. He has extensively worked on the links between Health
Education and Media Education. On this theme has published a book for teen-agers and two books for teachers and public health professionals
Presents session:
• Key note speech I, Tuesday 09:00
Amanuel Teferi Mamo
Plan International Ethiopia, Ethiopia
Amanuel was born on February 17, 1976, in Mettu, Illubabor, Ethiopia from his lovely mother Yadete Wodajo and his dear father Teferi Mamo.
He holds a M.A. Degree in Journalism & Communication and B.A. Degree in Theology. Amanuel has taken several short term international and local trainings, such as, the UN-IPT Specialization Course on Child Protection & Participation in Stadtschlaining/Austria, Peacebuilding and Civic Education, Information Technology, Strategic Planning & Management, amongst others. Since 1999, he has coordinated, developed and managed children and youth related development programs in I/LNGOs. Currently, Amanuel is the Country Sponsorship and Communication Manager in Plan International Ethiopia.
Website:
Plan-international
Presents session:
• Seminar, Tuesday 16:00
Angela Bonomi Castelli
MED - Italian Association for Media Literacy, Italy
Angela Bonomi Castelli is graphic designer, art teacher and founding member of MED (Associazione Italiana per l`educazione ai media e alla comunicazione), of which she is the coordinator for Lombardia.
Website:
MED Media Education
Presents session:
• Workshop, Thursday 09:00/13:30
Aniina Lundvall
The Finnish Society on Media Education, Finland
Anniina Lundvall has worked as the coordinator for the Finnish Society on Media Education since 2007. At FSME she coordinates the web portal
mediaeducation.fi and tends to all matters regarding the Society.
Website:
Mediaeducation.fi
Presents session:
• Seminar, Friday 13:30
Ann-Britt Enochsson
Karlstad univeristy, Sweden
Ann-Britt Enochsson is a senior lecturer at Karlstad University. Her research interest is children and the Internet from various perspectives. She has
studied information seeking on the Internet and participation in virtual communities with the aim of finding ways to integrate children’s life on the
Internet in curricula. An important issue has been to implement ICT in teacher education. This work has been done on a local level as well as on a policy
level within the OECD-project New Millennium Learners.
Presents session:
• Seminar, Tuesday 10:45
Ann-Katrin Agebäck
Swedish Media Council, Sweden
Ann-Katrin Agebäck is the director of the governmental Swedish Media Council and in charge of the Swedish Safer Internet Centre. She is on one of the most
experienced experts in Sweden regarding children and media. As head of the Council since 1995 she has a long experience of raising media awareness and
media literacy and of disseminating information and research in the field of media use and media impact. She has previously worked as a film classifier at
the Swedish National Board of Film Classification. As a consultant in the field of media influence and media regulation she has also published several
reports on regulation and self regulation systems. Earlier she worked as a counsellor and teacher at the Department of Cinema Studies at the University
of Stockholm.
Website:
Swedish Media Council
Presents session:
• Seminar/workshop, Tuesday 10:45
• Seminar/workshop, Wednesday 16:00
• Seminar/workshop, Thursday 16:00
Anna Ragosta
Catholic University Milan, Italy
Anna Ragosta is a Media Educator, an educational designer and a free researcher. Her activities are supporting to didactic, cultural animation, media
events designing and public relations. She joins in sociological researches promoted by italian Ministry of Education, academia and other institutions and
foundations. She takes part in National and European projects about education and training. She collaborates with Catholic University of the Holy Heart
in Milan about post-graduate projects management, educational projects technology based and tutoring activities management.
Presents session:
• Seminar, Wednesday 09:00 and 13:30
Antonella di Nocera
Arci Movies, Italy
Antonella Di Nocera is a film producer and director of the no-profit organization ARCI MOVIE in Naples. After a long academic career in Theatre Studies in Italy, London Middlesex) and a FULBRIGHT Grant at Cuny University of New York, she started a strong engagement for social development and cultural promotion in Napoli, with a peculiar interest for visual arts and film education and promotion. Since then she produced projects of social documentaries in collaboration with strong partners like Indigo Film and Teatri Uniti, among these the film by Agostino Ferrente e Giovanni Piperno Intervista a mia madre. Since 2000 the experiment of Movielab and the project of a Light Cinema Movement shows the potential of film-making with kids and young people. In the field of education she runs a huge project involving the big and various outskirts of Naples. In these last years the productions engaged put together the need to let the territories speak through a true cinema able to enphasize the recent history of our nation and communities and the difficult side of the minimal life of people.
Website:
Arci Movie
Presents session:
• Seminar/workshop, Tuesday 16:00
• Seminar/workshop, Wednesday 16:45
Aralynn McMane
World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, France & Germany
Aralynn Abare McMane is director of young readership development for the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) based at the Paris
office. Her responsibility covers all kinds of newspaper activities involving young people around the world. At their core, these activities encourage
newspapers to support literacy projects and education through newspapers in education programmes in which thousands of teachers have use the newspaper to
help teach a wide array of subjects, from counting to critical thinking. In some countries, this resource has been only printed matter present. This work
also focuses on using all the platforms available to a newspaper to help young people learn to do the basics of journalism and to understand fragility and
importance of press freedom. At WAN-IFRA, Dr. McMane held an additional post until 2006, as director of WAN-IFRA projects to help the development of
newspaper managers and newspaper associations in emerging and transitional democracies. Before joining WAN-IFRA, she was a reporter and editor for
newspapers in France, New York and Florida and worked in journalism research and education in both Eastern and Western Europe, including an assignment in
Bulgaria as a Knight International Press Fellow. She is the co-author of several comparative studies of journalists. She is a native of the very northern
part of New York State in the United States, and has degrees from the State University of New York at Albany, Syracuse University and Indiana University.
She has lived in Europe more than 20 years.
Website:
WAN
Presents session:
• Future outlooks, Tuesday 12:45/13:30
Arvind Singhal
University of Texas, USA
Dr. Arvind Singhal is the Samuel Shirley and Edna Holt Marston Endowed Professor of Communication, and Director of Research and Outreach, Sam Donaldson Center for Communication Studies, University of Texas, El Paso. He teaches and conducts research in the areas of diffusion of innovations, communicating and organizing for social change, positive deviance, and the entertainment-education strategy. A believer in engaged scholarship, his applied research projects span a wide spectrum of social sectors including health, education, peace and human rights, poverty alleviation, sustainable development, civic participation, democracy and governance, and corporate citizenship.
Website:
Vita and Publications
Panel Member:
• Research Forum, Wednesday 16:00
Avinoam Damari
IETV-Israeli Educational Television
Avinoam is Head Of Programming Children & Youth Department,Israeli Educational Television. He is a highly qualified Executive Manager offering more than
35 years of TV production experience, currently managing up to 60 professional TV personnel. In addition, manager of a production and distribution TV
company taking part for 20 years in Mip and MipCom festivals.
*Management of TV and Films crews and productions
*Directing TV programs/series/films/commercials
*Managing and Dividing TV productions funds.
*Planning and Executing productions and post-productions
*Distributing Films & TV Programs worldwide
*Editing
Website:
23 TV
Presents session:
• Seminar, Thursday 16:45
Azigza Nuru
Fanzingo, Sweden
Azigza Nuru born in Ethiopia but is currently living in Alby - Botkyrka. Azigza was one of the first young people that came work with Fanzingo. Today he
studies film and media production at the Dramatic Institute and work together with Fanzingo engaging other young people at the local youth centers in
telling their story in films.
Website:
Fanzingo
Presents session:
• Seminar, Friday 13:30
Barbro Hardersen
Norwegian Media Authority, Norway
Barbro Hardersens role in the Norwegian Media Authority is advising in the field of children and media. The portfolio consists of providing research,
information, classification and advisory to protect children, and raise consciousness around children’s use of media. This is wallpapered by the UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child, where media-content protection and the right for information colours different perspectives. Hardersens background
spreads from pre-school teaching in kindergartens, to a Master in Media and Communication. This combination of experiences leads to a ever - searching
glance for perspectives including the youngest members of the new digital age.
Website:
Medietilsynet
Presents session:
• Seminar, Tuesday 16:45
Bitte Eskilsson
Swedish Film Institute, Sweden
Born in Halmstad, Sweden. After Primary, secondary and high school moved to Stockholm and
1963-64 Nyckelviksskolan, Lidingö (Art school)
1964-69 Art School in Stockholm - graduated as drawing teacher
1969-70 educated as film editor at the Swedish Television
1969- 1974 worked as an film editor at the Swedish Television
1974-93 worked at the Childrens´s department at the Swedish Television as producer and project manager
1993-97 Consultant commissioner at The Swedish Film Institute
1997-2006 Head of Film & Audience at the Swedish Film Institute
2006 – Head of Children & Youth at the Swedish Film Institute
Website:
Swedish Film Institute
Presents session:
• Seminar, Tuesday 16:00
Bo Bergström
Bo Bergström brings together the worlds of theory and practice. As an educational base he has a BA in History of Arts, and degrees in Communication and
Pedagogic. Followed by many years as Creative Director within news supply, advertising and visual profiling. He is lecturing at universities and colleges
and responsible for courses at design schools. Bergström is conducting workshops for photographers and journalists. He leads seminars for industry and
works as a consultant in visual communication. Bergström has written seven books, one of them Essentials of Visual Communication is published in English,
Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Hungarian and Latvian.
Presents session:
• Seminar, Thursday 16:00
Christina Olin-Scheller
Karlstad university
Christina Olin-Scheller is a researcher and teacher at Karlstad University. Her main interest is young people’s reading and writing in a new media
landscape in general and has a special interest in how this landscape challenges traditional ways of regarding literacy. Her thesis, Mellan Dante och
Big Brother. En studie om gymnasielevers textvärldar (2006), has been followed by other books and articles which turn to researchers, as well as teacher
educators and teachers. Also, she is often engaged as lecturer for various groups of audiences.
Website:
Karlstad University
Presents session:
• Seminar, Thursday 16:45
Clifford Cohen
NOOVIEW & MashCast, USA
Clifford Cohen founded AnimAction over 20 years ago. AnimAction is a program which works with youth media globally giving young people the opportunity
to experience the joys of collaboration and creativity through animation production. It has trained thousands of youth and teachers throughout the States,
Canada, the UK, Europe, Africa and Asia. As part of UNICEF's International Animation Consortium for Child's Rights, AnimAction’s youth-producers work is
distributed worldwide. Every year audiences get larger. Moving into the 21st century, Clifford is Co-founder of NOOVIEW, a dynamic online collaborative
communications learning platform where youth meet online to collaborate, produce and broadcast media content.
Presents session:
• Seminar, Thursday 16:45
Cristina Ponte
New University of Lisbon/CIMJ
Cristina Ponte, PhD in Communication lectures at FCSH-New University of Lisbon, Portugal. She has researched on children and media, including news media representation, TV programs for children and children as new media users. She led an interdisciplinary national Project, Children and Young People in the news (2005-2007), which included children and young people’s perspectives about the media and news. Vice chair of the Audience and Reception Studies Section, ECREA, she is currently coordinating the Project Digital Inclusion and Participation, with UT-Austin, and has been responsible for Dissemination in the European network EU Kids Online, lead by Sonia Livingstone (LSE, UK)
Presents session:
• Seminar, Tuesday 15:15
Dafna Lemish
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Dafna Lemish is Professor of Communication at Tel Aviv University, Israel; and Editor of the Journal of Children and Media. She has published extensively in the area, including Screening gender on children’s TV: The views of producers around the world (2010); Children and Television: A Global Perspective (2007); Children and Media at times of Conflict and War (co-edited with Götz, 2007); Media and the Make-Believe Worlds of Children: When Harry Potter Meets Pokémon in Disneyland (with Götz, Aidman, & Moon, 2005). Currently, she is a Visiting Professor with the Center on Media and Child Health (CMCH) of Children’s Hospital Boston.
Website:
Center on Media and Child Health
Moderator:
• Research Forum, Wednesday 16:00
Dan Nilsson
Karlstad-Hammarö Gymnasieförvaltning, Sweden
Dan Nilsson is a teacher with a long and broad experience whitin Fotography and documentary film production.
Presents session:
• Seminar, Wednesday 16:45
• Seminar, Thursday 16:45
• Seminar, Friday 13:30
David Buckingham
Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media - Institute of Education, University of London, UK
David Buckingham directs the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media at the Institute of Education, London University. His research focuses
on children and young people's interactions with electronic media, and on media education. He recently led an independent assessment for the UK government
on ‘the impact of the commercial world on children’s wellbeing’, and a major pan-European project on the internet and young people’s civic participation.
Among his most recent books are 'Beyond Technology: Children's Learning in the Age of Digital Culture’ (Polity), ‘Youth, Identity and Digital Media’
(MIT Press) and ‘Childhood and Consumer Culture’ (Palgrave).
Website:
Children, Youth and Media
Presents session:
• Key note speech IV, Wednesday 09:00
Divina Frau-Meigs
University of Sorbonne, France
Divina Frau-Meigs, a Fulbright scholar, is professor of media sociology at the Université Sorbonne nouvelle, France. With degrees from the Sorbonne University, Stanford University and the Annenberg School for Communications (University of Pennsylvania), she is a specialist of media and information technologies in English-speaking countries, in a comparative perspective. She is also a research associate with CNRS. At the Sorbonne nouvelle, she has created and directs the master’s programme AIGEME, with two specialties in “e-learning engineering” and “media education engineering”, with online courses for students in francophone countries as well as other regions of the world.
She has published extensively in the areas of media content (Les Ecrans de la Violence, Economica, 1997; Jeunes, Médias, Violences, Economica, 2003), information and journalism (Qui a détourné le 11 septembre? Journalisme, information et démocratie, DeBoeck, 2006) the technologies and sub-cultures of the screen (Médias et Technologie: l’exemple des Etats-Unis, Ellipses, 2001) and the relationship between media and technologies (Le crime organisé à la ville et à l’écran, 1929-1951, Armand Colin, 2001; Médiamorphoses américaines, Economica, 2001). Many of her published articles deal with on-line extensions of such issues as media content, information and (self)regulation. In 2007, for UNESCO, she edited a multimedia kit on Media education, with 5 guidebooks (for teachers, students, parents and media professionals) available on-line at unesco.org/ci. In 2009, for the Alliance of Civilisations, she has published with Jordi Torrent, Mapping Media Education Policies in the World: Visions, Programmes and Challenges, in order to help decision-makers develop media education stratégies, available online at unaoc.org. Her last three books, Media Matters in the cultural contradictions of the information society. Towards a human rights-based governance (Presses du Conseil de l’Europe, 2010) La socialisation des jeunes à l’épreuve des écrans (Eres, 2010) and Penser les écrans (Presses de la Sorbonne) deal with new models of communication and new publics in the information society.
She is currently working on issues of media governance, cultural diversity, media education and e-learning in a global perspective. She has held the UNESCO chair for information-communication at the Universidad Autonoma in Barcelona, giving a doctoral course on globalization and cultural diversity (Autumn 2006). Her other research interests deal with issues of media regulation and self-regulation, for which she is an expert with UNESCO, the European Union, the Council of Europe and a variety of governmental agencies. She promotes medias in relation to human rights and ethics and has contributed to the framing of various recommendations on media education, empowerment of young people, gate-keeping and dynamic digital identity.
As an activist in the field, she has been vice-president of the International Association for Media and Communications Research (IAMCR, 2002-2008). She is currently a member of the board of ECREA (the European Communications Research and Education Association, 2008--). She has served as vice-president for international affairs on the boards of Société Française des Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication (SFSIC, 1993-96). She is also member of the scientific board of CIEM (Collectif Interassociatif Enfance-Médias, 2003--).
In the World Summit on Information Society (Geneva2003-Tunis2005), she led the coalition on “education, academia and research” and as such was a member of the civil society bureau. In 2006 she was awarded the “E-Toile d’Or” of the Internet for her work on the research and promotion of new information technologies. She is currently representing civil society interests in the Internet Governance Forum and in other fora like CSTD at the UNO and IFAP at UNESCO.
Website:
Medias Matrices
Presents session:
• Moderator International panel, Wednesday 10:45 and 15:15
• Seminar, Wednesday 12:45
• Panellist Research Forum, Thursday 16:00
DK
MediaSnackers/country
Hey there, I’m DK, the founder of MediaSnackers—nice to e-meet you. MediaSnackers was a term I coined back in early 2006 whilst describing what young people were doing with media—the site was launched a few months later in June. I have an educational background in communications and media, plus a professional background in local government (I was the UK’s first and only Corporate Youth Officer… oooh!). MediaSnackers basically keeps me off the streets. (The DK comes from the initials of my old name. One of the first young people I started working with called me DK and it just stuck—I never liked my old name so I adopted it fully.)
Website:
MediaSnackers
Presents session:
• Workshop, Tuesday 09:00/13:30
Eduardo Noriega De La Hoz
Control Ciudadano TV, Colombia
Expert in education and communication public policies, this Colombian attorney is the Executive Director of "Control Ciudadano TV", NGO which promotes
citizen control to government television policies. He has worked as Secretary General of the Ministry of Education and as a member of the National
Commission for Television. He promoted educational programs for critical consumption of television by children, and the ban of alcohol advertisement and
violent attitudes in television during family schedules.
Presents session:
• Panellist, Thursday 15:15
Elisabeth Aalmo
Norwegian Film Institute, Norway
Elisabeth Aalmo has a degree in Cultural studies and has worked with screenings, workshops and different projects related to film education for children and youth at Norwegian Film Institute since 2002. From 2006 she has been the project manager of Move My Image.
Website:
Norwegian Film Institute
Presents session:
• Seminar, Wednesday 10:45
Elza Dunkels
Umeå universitet
Elza Dunkels is a senior lecturer in the Department of Interactive Media and Learning at Umeå University, Sweden. Her PhD thesis, ‘Bridging the distance: children’s strategies on the internet’ was published in 2007 at Umeå University. Her research interests include young people’s internet use in general, and their strategies against threats in particular.
Presents session:
• Seminar, Tuesday 10:45
Esther Hamburger
University of Sao Paolo, Brazil
Esther Hamburger is Professor of Theory and History of Film and Television at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, US. She has published in journals such as Framework and Television and the new media. She has acted as a correspondent for prestigious daily newspaper Folha de S.Paulo. Her book O Brasil antenado a sociedade da novela focuses on Brazilian telenovelas. She has a PhD from the University of Chicago, USA (1999).
Panel member:
• Research Forum, Tuesday 16:00
Eva-Lis Sirén
Education International, Sweden
Eva-Lis Sirén is a primary education teacher with the emphasis on children with special needs and since 2001 elected President of Lärarförbundet
(Swedish Teachers’ Union). Lärarförbundet is the largest professional trade union for teachers and head teachers in Sweden from early childhood to higher
education. With 225 000 members Lärarförbundet provides a strong voice for quality development of education and the teaching profession. Since 2004,
Eva-Lis Sirén is an Executive Board Member of Education International (EI), the world organisation for 30 million teachers and education personnel in 172
countries. As the world’s largest Global Trade Union Federation, Education International unites all teachers and education workers no matter where they
are.
Website:
Education International
Opening ceremony speaker:
• Opening ceremony, Monday 16:00
Firdoze Bulbulia
Moments Entertainment, CIFEJ, South Africa
Firdoze is a director, producer, writer and educator. The initial part of her career saw her actively involved as an activist in women and children’s movements, using theatre and art as mediums of expression and for conflict resolution. She worked in many developmental programmes and facilitated many workshops in the ‘child rights’ arena. She was involved in the establishment of the South African Charter on Children’s Rights and also participated as well as prepared the South African child that represented AFRICA at the International Human Rights Conference in Vienna in June 1993. These projects were all under the auspices of the National Children’s Rights Committee and UNICEF.
Website:
CIFEJ
Presents session:
• Future Outlooks, Friday 08:30/12:15
Fredrik Holmberg
Filmpedagogik.nu, Sweden
Fredrik Holmberg started the film- and media education operation at Filmpedagogerna in 1992 before moving on to be part of the resource centre Film i
Skåne that started in 1995. There he was involved with the Children and young people’s Film festival, BUFF. In 2003 he initialized the organization of
Filmpedagogik.nu.
Website:
Filmpedagogik.nu
Presents session:
• Seminar, Wednesday 16:00
Florencia Enghel
University of Sao Paolo, Brazil
Florencia Enghel is a communicator, with experience as a practitioner, postgraduate teacher and consultant in the field of communication for development
and social change. She holds a degree in Pedagogical Sciences (University of Belgrano, Argentina) and a Master in Communication for Development
(Malmö, Sweden). Since 2005 she is the editor of Glocal Times, a web magazine on communication for development published by Malmö University’s Master in
Communication for Development. An experienced film and documentary producer, between 1999 and 2005 she developed several documentaries based on
participatory communication strategies as well as feature films coproduced for theatrical release worldwide. Between 1996 and 2006 she was Lead Editor at
the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO. At present she is a PhD candidate at Karlstad University’s Department of Media and Communication,
in Sweden. She has recently co-edited the anthology Youth Engaging With the World. Media, Communication and Social Change with Danish professor
Thomas Tufte, published by NORDICOM in 2009
Moderator:
• Research Forum, Friday 12:15
Futhi Ngubane
SABC: Education, South Africa
Current Acting Head: Tweens and Youth Developments (SABC Education). Passionate about using media platforms in producing life challenging and life changing programmes, on RADIO, TV, OUTREACH and NEW MEDIA, that are aimed at developing young minds in RSA. Managed internationally acclaimed youth projects like GAZ’LAM’, YIZO YIZO, GET REAL, WALALA WASALA, BEAT IT etc.
Website:
SABC
Presents session:
• Seminar, Thursday 16:45
Gianna Cappello
MED-Italian Association for Media Literacy, Italy
Gianna Cappello teaches Media Sociology at the University of Palermo. She is co-founder and current president of MED, the Italian Association for Media
Education. Her research interests include media and cultural studies, and the relationship between children and the media. She is also interested in
studying the pedagogical and sociological aspects of Media Education. She has been visiting professor in China and Venezuela and attended several national
and international conferences about her research topics. Among her latest publications, a co-edited book on communication and multiculturalism as well as
a book on children, media and media education in the Italian school system. She is Europe’s Coordinator for Media Education of SIGNIS
(World Catholic Association for Communication).
Website:
MED Media Education
Presents session:
• Seminar Tuesday 12:45
• Seminar Friday 10:15
Hans Rosling
Gapminder, Sweden
Hans Rosling is professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet, the medical university in Stockholm, Sweden. When working as a young doctor
in Mozambique he discovered a formerly unrecognized paralytic disease that his research team named konzo. His 20 years of research on global health
concerned the character of the links between economy and health in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
He has been adviser to WHO and UNICEF, co-founded Médecines sans Frontiers in Sweden and started new courses and published a textbook on Global Health.
He is member of the International Group of the Swedish Academy of Science and of the Global Agenda Network of the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
He co-founded Gapminder Foundation (www.gapminder.org) with son and daughter-in-law. Gapminder promotes a fact based world view by converting the
international statistics into moving, interactive, understandable and enjoyable graphics. This was first done by developing the Trendalyzer software that
Google acquired in 2007. Using animations of global trends Hans Rosling lectures about past and contemporary economic, social and environmental changes in
the world and he produces thematic videos using the same technique. His award-winning lectures on global trends have been labeled “humorous, yet deadly
serious” and many in the audience find their own world view to be some decades too old.
Website:
Gapminder
Opening ceremony speaker:
• Opening ceremony, Monday 16:00
Ibrahim Saleh
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Ibrahim Saleh,PhD, Convenor of Political Communication in the Center For Film & Media Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Saleh is a Fulbright scholar & a senior
media expert in the "Media Sustainability Index (MSI), the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
Saleh was awarded 'many international and national prizes; including the best research paper of the year 2007, by the World Association of Public Opinion
Research (WAPOR) titled: "Sitting in the Shadows of Subsidization in Egypt: Revisiting the Notion of Street Politics," and the best research papers from
the Arab-US Association For Media Educators (AUSACE) in Arabic (2005), and in English (2006).
Saleh chairs the Journalism Research & Education Section in the International Association for Media & Communication Research (IAMCR). Saleh also serves as
a Global 'Partner Organization' of the UN Alliance of Civilizations Media Literacy Education Clearinghouse, & a 'Liaison Officer' of the Academic Council
on the United Nations System (ACUNS) in the Middle East & North Africa. Saleh is also a member of the International Council of World Journalism Education
Council Organizations.
Saleh has already published three books; the first one was published in 2003: "Unveiling the Truth About Middle Eastern Media. Privatization in Egypt:
Hope or Dope?" Saleh's second and third books were on conflict resolution, peace building and crisis communication management: the Arabic Edition in (2005),
and the updated English Edition in 2006), while the third one was published in (2006) with the titled: "Prior To the Eruption of the Grapes of Wrath in the
Middle East: The Necessity of Communicating Instead of Clashing."
Saleh is also a reviewer in the most prestigious & top listed publications with highest impact factors such as Harvard's International Journal of
Press/Politics, Media , Journal of War and Conflict & Journal of New Media & Society. And most of Saleh's research papers are indexed publications in the
(SSCI), EBSCOhost® Databasesand All Academic inc, (JSTOR) & Oxford journals, (CMMC), (IBSS), (CSA), (IPSA) and Lancaster index, as well as Washington and
Lee University school of Law ranking of Law journals and (DOAJ).
Website:
JRE site
JRE blog
Personal website
Research forum participant:
• Research Forum Plenar Session, Tuesday 10:45
• Research Forum Children, Media, Consumption and Health, Wednesday 16:00
Janice Richardson
Insafe Network, European Schoolnet
Born in Australia, Janice Richardson has worked as a teacher, university lecturer, educational researcher and consultant in Australia, France, Luxembourg
and Belgium. She is author of two books and many articles on the pedagogical use of ICT and the development of e-literacy. Since 2002 she has led editorial
teams for the Council of Europe to create and revise its online Internet Literacy Handbook (2003, 2005, 2008),
available at http://www.coe.int/T/E/Integrated_Projects/democracy/hbk_en.html. Since 2004 Janice has worked in Brussels at European Schoolnet, an umbrella
organisation that works with teachers and pupils to improve learning strategies through the integration of online technology. As Senior Adviser, she
defines strategy in the area of eSafety and coordinates the Insafe network, set up and mandated by the European Commission in 2004 to raise internet safety
awareness across Europe.
Website:
Council of Europe
Presents session:
• Seminar, Tuesday 16:00
Jan Vincens Steen and Paal Stensaas
SteenMedia.no and Markhi AS
Jan Vincens Steen, Steenmedia.no; Former Director of Newspapers in Education (NIE) in Norway, and a co-founder of the World Young Reader YR) Committee.
Steen has written books and contributed with articles on YR for decades. he has helped establishing YR programmes in several countries, e.g. Laos,
Indonesia, Thailand and Serbia. In 2009 he works on a UNICEF Norway project in connection with 20 years anniversary of the UN Convention of Children.
Pål Stensaas; communication consultant, Markhi AS with 35 years of experience as business staff reporter in Aftenposten, editor in chief for local
newspapers, managing editor for Aftenposten's evening edition, spokesman Norwegian oil company and communication director for a global company. Resource
for World Association of Newspaper's World Young Reader Committe.
Website:
SteenMedia.no
Markhi AS
Presents session:
• Seminar, Tuesday 09:00
Javad Mottaghi
Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD)
Mr. Javad Mottaghi is the Director of AIBD. He holds a Bs. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tehran Sharif University of Technology, Masters Degree in
Management and is a PhD. Candidate in Management from the University of Teesside, England. He is also a member of the Board for the World Radio &
Television Council (WRTVC) since 2001. Mr. Mottaghi is currently Associate member of The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in New York
and a member of The International Academy of Television and Radio in Russia since December 2002. With his vast experience in broadcasting over the past 30
years, Dr. Javad Mottaghi has been specifically tasked by the Governing Council to implement the Institute's new Strategic Plan, formulated by a special
task force, to propel the AIBD into the next millennium. Mr. Mottaghi was awarded with the Elizabeth R Award for Exceptional Contribution to Public Service Broadcasting in 2009 by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association;
Dr. Mottaghi has 30 years of national and international experience in media/communication in the following areas: International Affairs,
Media/Communication Development and Broadcasting, AV productions and co-production, ICTs, capacity building, networking, research, publications,
negotiations, fund raising, news and programming for radio and television, social and cultural television programs and sports coverage. AIBD has been granted the Quality Management
Certificates, ISO 9001 and ISAS BC 9001, in July 2009 as the first international Broadcasting Organization in the world.
Website:
AIBD
Chair/Moderator session:
• Panel, Thursday 15:15
• Panel, Friday 13:30
Jean Kilbourne
Wellesley Centers for Women, USA
Jean Kilbourne was the first person to suggest that advertising contributes to some serious public health problems, such as violence against women,
eating disorders, and addiction, and to promote media literacy as a tool for prevention. Her award-winning films include Killing Us Softly, Slim Hopes,
and Spin the Bottle. She is the author of Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel and So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized
Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids. She holds an honorary position as Senior Scholar at the Wellesley Centers for Women.
Website:
Jean Kilbourne
Presents session:
• Key note speech II, Tuesday 09:00
Jeffrey Chester
The Center for Digital Democracy, Washington, DC
Jeff Chester is the executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy. CDD is a leading U.S.-based NGO analyzing the impact of digital marketing
communications on citizens and consumers. Chester’s research and advocacy has played a key role in encouraging the U.S. FTC, the Congress, and the EU
address the impact of behavioral advertising, and other interactive marketing techniques, on privacy, public health, and the economy. In the 1990’s, he
and Kathryn Montgomery co-founded the Center for Media Education, spearheading a three-year effort that led to congressional passage of the 1998
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). He and Montgomery also led the successful campaign to require U.S. commercial broadcasters to air
educational children's programming as a condition of their license. Under his leadership, CDD has pressed the Federal Trade Commission and other
regulators to investigate and address how new digital marketing practices threaten consumer privacy and welfare, including for youth.
His book, Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy (New Press, 2007), examines contemporary issues in U.S. electronic media policy,
including online advertising. Chester has written for academic and consumer publications, including The Harvard International Journal of
Press/Politics and the Journal of Health. His next book focuses on global interactive marketing and its impact on society. Chester received his MSW
in Community Mental Health from UC Berkeley in 1978.
Presents session:
• Key note speech VI, Thursday 09:00
Joana Ivarsson Vitório
Save the Children, Sweden
Joana Ivarsson Vitório is fascinated by what happens when children and youth give their voice to issues that are important to them. She has a background in
Political Sciences, Human Rights and Documentary Film and has worked with human rights issues and media in Sweden, Spain, Brazil and Nicaragua. Since 2008
Joana is working as project leader for Save the Children Sweden and has developed the work with participatory video within the organization. "To take part
in a process when children learn to produce media is amazing as it means it is themselves giving voice to their own reality. It further opens up for
children and youth to be the main actors in a process of change", says Joana.
Website:
Save the Children
Presents session:
• Seminar, Thursday 09:00 and 13:30
Josef Huber
Council of Europe, Belgium
Josef Huber works in the Education Directorate of the Council of Europe, where he is currently responsible for activities in the field of intercultural
education and for the "Pestalozzi Programme", the Council of Europe programme for the training of education professionals.
Up until July 2006 he was involved in the Council’s Higher Education and Research Division and was responsible for the organisation of two Higher
Education fora on higher education governance (2005) and on the responsibility of higher education for a democratic culture (2006) and co-editor of the
ensuing publications. From 1998 to 2004, as Head of Programmes and Deputy Executive Director of the European Centre for Modern Languages he was
responsible for the Centre’s programme of activities and research and development projects and its publications series on language learning and teaching,
intercultural communication and language education policy. He was involved in language education policy development by the Austrian Ministry of Education
between 1992 and 1998 and a language teacher in schools and at universities in Austria and abroad before that.
Website:
Council of Europe
Panel member:
• International panel, Tuesday 10:45 and 15:15
Julie Gale
Kids Free 2B Kids, Australia
Julie Gale is the founder of Kids Free 2B Kids. She is also a comedy writer and performer and has performed her one woman shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Julie has been raising public, corporate and political awareness about the sexualisation of children since February 2007.
She has generated great media interest about the issue and has appeared on television, radio and in newspaper articles throughout Australia and internationally. Julies work has instigated changes to the Australian childrens advertising codes and she also helped to instigate last years senate inquiry into the sexualisation of children in the contemporary media environment. Recently Julie recieved a national leadership achievement award from the Centre for Leadership for Women.
Website:
Kids Free 2B Kids
Presents session:
• Key note speech II, Tuesday 09:00/13:30
Kara Chan
Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Dr. Kara Chan is Professor at the Department of Communication Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University. She worked in the advertising and public relations
profession and as a statistician for the Hong Kong Government before she joined the University. Her research areas are about Hong Kong and China’s mass communication, advertising and consumer psychology. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Bradley University, Illinois for 1999 to 2000 and a visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School in the summer 2006 and 2007. She is co-author (with James McNeal) of “Advertising to Children in China” (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press) and editor of “Advertising and Hong Kong Society” (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press).
Panel Member:
• Research Forum, Wednesday 16:00
Karen Cirillo
UNICEF, USA
Karen Cirillo is the Executive Producer of Children’s Broadcasting
Initiatives at UNICEF in New York. She coordinates the International
Children’s Day of Broadcasting (ICDB) and the annual ICDB Awards and
Conference. She also co-coordinates the global oneminutesjr. initiative
and conducts video workshops with young people in countries around the
world. In her (not so) spare time, she serves as a documentary film
programmer for festivals and screenings.
Panel member:
• International panel, Tuesday 10:45 and 15:15
• International panel, Wednesday 10:45 and 15:15
Presents session:
• Keynote speech V, Thursday 13:30
Kathryn Montgomery
School of Communication at American University, USA
Kathryn Montgomery has been a Professor in the School of Communication at American University since 2003. Prior to her return to academe, she was President
of the DC-based Center for Media Education (CME), which she co-founded with Jeff Chester in 1991. During her 12-year tenure at CME, Montgomery's research,
publications, and testimony helped frame the national public policy debate on a range of critical media issues. She led a coalition of child advocacy,
health, and education groups in a series of successful advocacy campaigns, leaving behind a legacy of policies on behalf of children and families. They
include: a Federal Communications Commission rule requiring a minimum of three hours per week of educational/informational television programming for
children; a content-based ratings system for TV programs; and the first federal legislation to protect children's privacy on the Internet—the Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
Before moving to Washington in 1990, Montgomery was a media studies professor at California State University,
Los Angeles, and at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she developed new curricula in television history and criticism, and conducted research
on the intersection of politics, regulatory policy, and content in the media. Her book, Target: Prime Time - Advocacy Groups and the Struggle over
Entertainment Television (Oxford University Press, 1989), was the first study to document the efforts of a variety of issue groups to influence television
programming. The book was named "Outstanding Academic book of 1989-1990" by Choice Magazine. Montgomery conducts ongoing research on the uses of technology
by young people, and assesses the major technology, economic, and policy trends affecting the future of digital media. With support from the Ford and
Surdna Foundations, she produced a groundbreaking report in 2004, "Youth as E-Citizens," which documented the variety of ways that youth are using the
Internet for politics and civic engagement. Montgomery is a contributing scholar to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation initiative on Digital
Media and Learning. She is author of Generation Digital: Politics, Commerce, and Childhood in the Age of the Internet (MIT Press, 2007). As a grantee of
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Healthy Eating Research Initiative, she is working with a team of interdisciplinary scholars to develop a conceptual
framework and research agenda on interactive food marketing and its relationship to childhood obesity. She earned a Ph.D. in Film and Television Studies in 1979 from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Panel Member:
• Research Forum, Wednesday 16:00
• International panel, Thursday 10:45
Presents session:
• Keynote Speech VI, Thursday 09:00
Lars-Erik Hall
Newspaper in Education, Sweden
Lars-Erik is a NiE-consultant in the western part of the region called Småland, which is situated in the southern parts of Sweden.
He has worked as teacher in the comprehensive school for 20 years. The last 15 years Lars-Erik has worked for NiE. Since 2009 he is also the
educational advisor of the Swedish Newspaper Association.
Website:
Tidningen i Skolan (Swedish)
Presents session:
• Seminar, Thursday 09:00 and 13:30
Lawrence John Sinniah
SIGNIS - The world Catholic organization for communications, Malaysia
Lawrence John Sinniah @eljay is the president of SIGNIS Asia and coordinator of the SIGNIS Global Media Education Project. He is the
fulltime director of the Social Communications Centre of the Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur. Lawrence is a media educator with more than 20 years experience in
media and communications, and has trained youths in media education and media production. Lawrence is a creative consultant to Public Media Agency, based
in Kuala Lumpur. PMA is a social enterprise impelling communication for sustainable cultural change.( www.publicmediaagency.net)
Website:
SIGNIS website
Presents session:
• Seminar, Tuesday 16:45
• Panellist international panel, Wednesday 10:45 and 15:15
Lena Victorin
Newspaper in school, Sweden
Lena Victorin, Manager of Mediekompass (Newspaper in Education in Sweden) at the Swedish Newspaper Association. Lena Victorin is a award winning youth
author and has a background as program host and reporter at Swedish Public Radio.
Website:
Tidningen i Skolan (Swedish)
Presents session:
• Seminar, Tuesday 16:45
Linda Raftree
Plan International
Linda Raftree is the Social Media and ICT Advisor for Plan International’s West Africa Region. She supports capacity building for strategic integration
of new tools and technology such as mobile phones, GPS, mapping, internet, into Plan’s community development work. In addition, Linda coordinates the
Youth Empowerment through Arts and Media project funded by Nokia in 8 African countries, and she contributes to Plan globally in the areas of Youth
Engagement and Development Education. Linda is the former Director for Youth Engagement at Plan USA. Prior to that she worked on child rights and child
media programs with Plan El Salvador.
Website:
Plan International
Presents session:
• Workshop, Tuesday 13:30
• Workshop, Wednesday 13:30
• Workshop, Wednesday 16:45
• Workshop, Thursday13:30
• Seminar, Thursday 16:45
• Seminar, Friday 13:30
Line Arlien-Søborg
Danish Film Institute, Denmark
Line Arlien-Søborg, Development Consultant at The Danish Film Institute, is focusing on film education and media literacy for pre-school children. The
vision of DFI is to strengthen the relationship between the art of film and the very young audience. For five years DFI has given high priority to
distribution of films to pre-school children and qualifying pre-school teachers. Pre-school cinema screenings, Børnebiffen, are presented throughout the
country all year round.FILMHITS FOR BØRN is a serial collection of short films and documentaries distributed on dvd to the libraries. Filmpilot is a newly
developed training course for pre-school teachers, focusing on how to teach film and play with film in kinder garden. The film consultants are focusing on
motivating the professional film industry to produce more quality-films for the pre-school audience.
Website:
Danish Film Institute
Presents session:
• Seminar, wednesday 16:00
Lúcia Araújo
Globo Organizations, Brazil
Lucia Araújo is a Brazilian journalist and currently runs Canal Futura, an educational TV channel and a communication project created by Roberto Marinho
Foundation, integrated to GLOBO´s Organizations System and designed to support social change and education improvement. She started her career as a writer
and managing editor at TV Bandeirantes and later on worked as a director of journalistic programs at TV Cultura. During two years she lived in Washington
DC where she worked as a free lancer reporter for Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo, covering cultural, behavior and business areas. Back to Brazil,
Lucia joined independent production companies in the development and coordination of documentary and educational series for different free and payTV
channels. Until 1999, when she took over the position of general director at Canal Futura, she worked for CNBC (Cable NBC) in Brazil and again for TV
Bandeirantes as head of news and journalistic programs.
Website:
Globo Organizations
Presents session:
• Key note speech V, Thursday 09:00
Lynn Hughes
Pidge Productions/Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership, USA
Lynn Hughes is an award winning producer/writer/director who has established a formidable track record for leading educational and informational video projects. Her work has aired in classrooms and on networks across the globe, including History Channel, Discovery, BBC, Channel 4, and others. Lynn understands that communications and media are key in modern life. Given the limitation of our senses, having a grasp of the world beyond our personal and immediate experience requires that media inform us. Understanding war, diplomacy, environmental conditions, science, and cultures requires individuals and whole societies have ready access to technologies that connect and integrate over vast distances.
Website:
Discovery Channel Global Education
Presents session:
• Seminar, Thursday 16:00
Marcus Tavares
Marcus Tavares is a journalist and a professor of Communication, with more than 10 year of experience in Media Education. He has a Master´s Degree and is
presently a PhD , Graduate Student in Education at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro PUC-Rio. He has researched on children and media. He
also worked as the editor of the International Reference Centre on Media for Children and Adolescents (RIOMEDIA), Brazil, hosted by MULTIRIO,
The Municipal Multimedia Company of Rio de Janeiro, which organized the 4th World Summit on Media for Children and Adolescents in 2004.
Marlene Francis Le Roux
Artscape Theatre, South Africa
Bio will be updated
Website:
Artscape
Presents session:
• Seminar, Friday 13:30
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Danish Film Institute, Denmark
Martin Brandt-Pedersen works at the Danish Film Institute/Children & Youth – a department established to consolidate the strong position of Danish
films for children and youth. He works as a consultant in the field of film education and he is project manager for Filmstriben – a streaming video
service for schools and libraries in Denmark. His main focus is to explore and evolve the use of film in learning processes of all kind in Danish schools
from primary to high school.
Website:
Danish Film Institute
Presents session:
• Seminar, Thursday 12:45
Martin Rydehn
Amnesty International, Sweden
Martin Rydehn is the founder and project manager of Angeläget that is run by Amnesty International and KulturUngdom. Angeläget started as a regional project but is now a significant participant in Sweden when it comes to education about human rights. Martin has great experience from working in marketing communication and has been teaching several years in high school.
Website:
Angeläget.nu
Amnesty International
Presents session:
• Seminar, Wednesday 15:15
Mary Ann Dudko
Mad Duck Consulting, LLC, USA
Mary Ann Dudko, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized expert in developing age appropriate content for children’s media. She provided consultation, support, and research services for all properties produced by HIT Entertainment, including Barney & Friends, Bob the Builder, Thomas & Friends, and Angelina Ballerina, for over 16 years. She was responsible for assuring that projects were age appropriate for the intended audience. Dr. Dudko is a frequent presenter at national and international organizations for educators and media professionals. She resides in the Dallas, Texas area, where she owns Mad Duck Consulting, LLC, developing age-appropriate content for children’s media.
Website:
Mad Duck Consulting
Presents session:
• Seminar, Thursday 15:15
Massimiliano Andreoletti
Catholic University Milan, Italy
Massimiliano Andreoletti is a Media Educator, an educational designer and a teacher in Faculty of Education in Catholic University of the Holy Heart in Milan. He has a graduation
in Pedagogy and a Ph. D. in Communication and New Technology, his interests are connected with educational technology and, in particular, with Virtual
Reality, videogames, personal learning environments. He wrote some texts and articles about video game and education. He worked with teacher and educator
about use of video games in formal and informal learning and with children, "tweens" and adolescent about video games' use, appropriation and consumption.
Presents session:
• Seminar, Wednesday 09:00 and 13:30
Mats Hemberg
Newspaper in Education, Sweden
Mats Hemberg is a consultant for Newspaper in Education (NiE) on the west coast of Sweden.
Mats have worked as a teacher in the comprehensive school for 18 years and in a teacher training college for 4 years.
The last 20 years Mats has worked for NiE and one of Sweden’s largest Newspaper Göteborgs-Posten.
Website:
Tidningen i Skolan (In Swedish)
Presents session:
• Seminar, Wednesday 16:45
• Seminar, Friday 10:15
Maya Götz
PRIX JEUNESSE, Germany
Maya Goetz, Ph.D., is Head of the International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television (IZI) at the Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Broadcasting Corp.), Munich, Germany, and of the PRIX JEUNESSE Foundation. Her main field of work is research in the area of "children/youth and television" and gender-specific reception research. She conducts empirical studies such as, “Gender representation in children’s TV and its meaning for girls and boys” or "What’s funny in TV?" and over 50 formative studies to foster quality in current TV programmes. She published several books as well as more than 65 articles in the field of children, young people and television.
Website:
Prixjeunesse
Presents session:
• Seminar, Friday 08:30/12:15
Menno van Doorn
VINT Research, The Netherlands
Menno van Doorn is an engaging storyteller and director of the Research Institute VINT of Sogeti in the Netherlands (Vision – Inspiration – Navigation – Trends). He mixes personal life experiences with the findings of the 15 years of research done at the VINT Research Institute. Menno has co-authored three books on the impact of new technology on business and society. The most recent one is called “Me the Media”. Menno received the Computable Award for the research done in the field of open innovation and business transformation in October 2007.
Website:
Me the Media
Presents session:
• Future Outlooks, Tuesday 12:45/13:30
Miomir Rajcevic
Media Education Centre - International Youth Media Summit, Serbia
Miomir Rajcevic has, like director and cinematographer, more than 30 years experience in filming and producing films for TV in several hundred projects covering documentaries, educational, theatrical ...
President of the Media Education Centre, President of the Media-TION, Head of Media Laboratory; Vice-President of the CIFEJ; Director, Cinematographer and Scriptwriter working as an author/co-author on serials: At The Edge of Permitted ; The Color of my Life ; My Beautiful Country ; One Step, Two Steps; Friends, Author of TV serial for youth PORTRAITS, Author of TV serial TRIPTYCH about young people with special needs; Balkan PLUS! KFK Festival, General Manager; Executive Director of the International Youth Media Summit.
Website:
Media Education Centre
Presents session:
• Seminar, Wednesday 10:45
Mira Feuerstein
Oranim Academic Educational College
I’m the head of the Media Studies department at Oranim Academic Educational College in Israel, and also serve as a lecturer in the Media & Education departments. My fields of specialization are media literacy education and critical thinking, which were the subjects of my doctorate, granted by the University of Liverpool, England about eight years ago. Since then I have conducted a number of research studies in the context of media literacy and critical thinking education. I have engaged in media studies, research, material development and teaching, and I have already published six textbooks on teaching media education and articles in Israel and abroad.
Presents session:
• Seminar, Tuesday 15:15
Monika Vikström-Jokela
YLE - the Finnish Bradcasting Company
Born 1960. Writer, TV producer. Studies: MA in Literature at the Helsinki University, postgradual studies “Barn och Bild” at Åbo Akademi
work: Has worked for 30 years as the producer/writer/director/co-producer of TV programmes for children, everything from drama to live morning shows.; also as the head of the department for Children, Youth and Educational programmes in the Swedish section of the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE.
Lectures about themes related to children and media; the role of traditions and ethics in working with children; writing for children
Publications: 8 children’s books (Ellen Annorlunda 2001, Stjärnroller och magplask 2002, Ellens annorlunda sommar 2003, Ellens annorlunda chat 2004, Ellens annorlunda sommar 2005, Ellens annorlunda tävling 2006, Morris och Leia 2008, Morris, Leia och papporna 2009) ; a Manual for those who want to integrate religious traditions and celebrations in their work with children Helgdagsboken); a book for children about sorrow and loss (När någon fattas, 2009)
Website:
Buu Yle
Presents session:
• Seminar, Wednesday 10:45
Naiya Roussou
University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Dr. Nayia Roussou is a Professor and Chair of the Communications Department, University of Nicosia, Cyprus, since 1995. She holds a BA and an MA in Communication (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA) and a PhD (Coventry University, UK). She has worked in different capacities with the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation, retiring as Head of Public and International Relations. She has researched, scripted and directed over 25 television documentaries about cultural life in Cyprus and has represented Cyprus in many media and literature conferences. She has 15 book publications (literature and media) and many journal publications in English and Greek on topics like television and youth, culture, language and identity, gender representation on television and television and violence, as well as internet issues. She has been honoured in Cyprus and Greece for her contribution to literature, the media and culture. She was an active member of European action COST-A 20 on “The Impact of the Internet on the Media” for six years – 2000-2006.
Presents session:
• Seminar, Tuesday 16:45
Niklas Eklöf
Swedish Consumer Agency, Sweden
Niklas Eklöf is a public relations officer at the Swedish consumer agency, specialized in issues concerning child and youth purchasing habits.
Eklöf has a background within journalism and teaching, and has in recent years led projects on hidden marketing and financial education.
Website:
Swedish Consumer Agency
Presents session:
• Tuesday 12:45
Ole Chavannes
Free Voice's Kids News Network
Ole Thomas Chavannes (1975) is a Dutch journalist, program manager of the Kids News Network, a program from media development organization Free Voice.
Chavannes has worked for radio, newspaper, magazine, television and internet(video) and has traveled a lot for journalistic productions. Since 4 years he has dedicated himself to help journalists in developing countries to start up their own youth news program for TV and internet. From funding, to broadcasting, Chavannes shares learnt lessons from previous projects and organizes workshops and summits with the world best experts on how to make quality news for children for television and online.
Website:
Free Voice's Kids News Network
Presents session:
• Seminar, Tuesday 09:00
Patrik Wikström
Jönköping University, Sweden
Patrik Wikström is research fellow and research manager at the Media Management and Transformation Centre at Jönköping International Business School. His primary research area is the innovative and adaptive behaviour of entertainment and media firms. He has done research on business models in the music industry; magazine publishers' use of social media; the competitive behaviour of independent TV producers; and on young women's collaborative production of online fiction. Wikström has published his findings in several book chapters and journal articles and he has also recently completed the book "The Music Industry - Music in the Cloud" (Polity). Wikström has a PhD in Media and Communication Studies from Karlstad University and a MSc in Technology Management and Economics at Chalmers University of Technology.
Website:
Jönköping International Business School
Presents session:
• Seminar, Thursday 16:45
Per-Olof Olsson
Mediegruppen, Sweden
Per-Olof Olsson, 53, is a journalist and editor with more than 30 years of experience in the media field. For many years he worked as a sports editor for
the national swedish news agency TT and covered seven olympic games, world cup soccer, four Wimbledon tournaments and many other events. He was also the
sports editor of daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet in the late 1990:s. After moving from Stockholm to Karlstad 1998 Per-Olof Olsson became the manager
of the regional public service radio station in Karlstad for five years. After that he was the editor in chief of daily newspaper Värmlands Folkblad for
five years. Per-Olof Olsson now works as a consultant for the communciation bureau Mediegruppen, with seminars and practical training around media
relations and how to act in front of a tv-camera.
Website:
Mediegruppen
Presents session:
• Tuesday 16:45
• Wednesday 16:00
Pierpaolo de Luca
MED - Italian Association for Media Education, Promedia2000, Italy
Senior partner and founding member of Promedia2000, a Multimedia company that produces video, documentaries, web services, media tools for specific company
needs (mainly training courses and promotion). Promedia2000 organizes E-Learning post-graduate courses on Multimedia, IT and Media education, for
Universities in Italy and abroad. As independent filmmaker, De Luca has realised many documentaries for Italian TV Broadcasters. Councillor Treasurer of
MED Italian Association for Media Education. Lecturer for the Faculty of Communication Sciences, “La Sapienza” University of Rome.
Website:
Medmediaeducation
Promedia2000
Presents session:
• Seminar, Tuesday 12:45
Renee Hobbs
Temple University Media Education Lab, USA
Renee Hobbs is one of the leading scholars on media literacy education in the United States. She is a professor at Temple University’s School of
Communications and Theater, where she founded the Media Education Lab. She has created numerous award-winning multimedia education programs to help
teachers integrate media literacy education into the K-12 curriculum and conducts research exploring how media literacy contributes to academic
achievement and literacy development. With her team at the Media Education Lab, she created My Pop Studio (www.mypopstudio.com), an online multimedia game
that introduces girls ages 9 – 14 to media literacy concepts. Hobbs has also developed curriculum materials and staff development programs for K-12
educators showing how media literacy can be a tool to increase cultural understanding between the so-called Western world and the so-called Muslim world.
She is now working on a project entitled Powerful Voices for Kids, that offers elementary schools a comprehensive approach to staff development,
technology integration and media literacy. Her forthcoming book, Conquering Copyright Confusion (Corwin Press/Sage, 2010), will help educators understand
their legal rights to use copyrighted materials under the U.S. doctrine of fair use.
Website:
Media Education Lab
Presents session:
• Opening Ceremony/Panel, Monday/Tuesday
Ricardo Yanez
SIGNIS, World Catholic Association for Communication, Belgium
Born in Los Angeles, he has expertise as an audiovisual media trainer (1991-2003), he was the Executive Secretary of OCIC-Argentina from 1998 to 2002
and Vice-President of SIGNIS-Argentina (2002-2003). From 1994-2003 Ricardo worked as the Assistant to the Executive Secretary of the Social Communication
Commission (CECS) of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Argentina. He was a member of the Ecumenical Juries at the Berlin (2000) and Montreal (2002) film
festivals and member of the SIGNIS Juries at Film Festivals in Mar del Plata (2002 and 2006) and in San Sebastian (2006 and 2008). Has coordinated cine-
forums of "Young people and values" with teenagers at high schools and "Faith and Social Awareness" with adults in parishes. Since July 2003 he is the
Assistant Secretary General of SIGNIS, World Catholic Association for Communication, based in Brussels, Belgium.
Website:
SIGNIS
Presents session:
• Seminar, Tuesday 12:45
• Seminar, Wednesday 12:45
Robert Kallström
Karlstad-Hammarö Gymnasieförvaltning, Sweden
Robert Kallström is a teacher with a long and broad experience whitin Film/Television and sound production.
Presents session:
• Seminar, Wednesday 16:45
• Seminar, Thursday 16:45
• Seminar, Friday 13:30
Robin Hamman
Headshift, UK
Robin Hamman has over ten years experience devising, implementing and managing social media projects, particularly within the broadcasting and media sector. Prior to joining Headshift in 2008, Robin was the head of blogging at the BBC and, before that, executive community producer for Granada (now ITV). Robin, who is also a visiting fellow at both City University London, where he occasionally teaches on various Post-Graduate Journalism courses, holds a BA in Education, MA in Sociology, MPhil in Communication Studies and a Pg Dip in Law.
Website:
Headshift
Presents session:
• Seminar, Tuesday 16:00
Rose Pacatte
SIGNIS, USA
Rose Pacatte is a member of the Daughters of St. Paul, an international Catholic community of sisters who work in communications and media. She has an
Masters of Arts in Education in Media Studies from the Institute of Education, University of London, UK and a Certificate in Pastoral Communications from
the University of Dayton, USA. Sister Rose is the founding director of the Pauline Center for Media Studies in Los Angeles and has been a media literacy
education specialist for almost twenty years; Rose also serves on the international SIGNIS committee for media literacy. She is an award-winning co-author
of several books on film and religion. Her most recent books are about media literacy in faith communities: MEDIA MINDFULNESS: Educating Teens about Faith
and Media (2007; St. Mary’s Press) and OUR MEDIA WORLD: Teaching Kids K-8 about Faith and Media. Rose lives and works in Hollywood, she has served on
SIGNIS juries at international film festivals in Venice, Berlin, and Locarno. She has developed media and communications for curricula for the University
of Dayton’s online program, Virtual Learning Community, and has taught at the University of Dayton and Loyola Marymount University. Rose is on the
editorial board for the Journal for Media Literacy and is the film/TV columnist for St. Anthony Messenger magazine and contributes to the National
Catholic Reporter and other print and online outlets. This is Sr. Rose’s second World Summit having participated in the Johannesburg event in 2007.
Website:
SIGNIS
Presents session:
• Seminar, Wednesday 10:45
Samuel Sjöblom
Fanzingo, Sweden
Samuel Sjöblom has a degree in creative project management from the Kaospilots in Aarhus Denmark. He has been working with communications strategies on social issues towards youth for a local NGO in Buenos Aires, Argentina and as head of youth communication at the communication department at the Red Cross Sweden. Samuels strengths is to design and guide educational and developing processes with larger groups. He has also made a 30 long documentary in Argentina and seek to engage new groups of people in creative work with film, radio and writing.
Website:
Fanzingo
Presents session:
• Seminar, Friday 13:30
Samy Tayie
Cairo University and Mentor International Media Education Association
Samy Tayie is a professor at the Faculty of Mass Communication of Cairo University, Egypt. He is also the President of Mentor International Media
Education Association. His main areas of interest include media education, social marketing, new communication technology and mass communication research
methods. He has published a few books on mass communication research methods, media education, advertising and public relations. He has also published a
few articles on different areas of mass communication. He supervised more than 30 MA and PhD theses. He organized and participated in many international
meetings in the Middle East, Europe and the United States. He also worked for some regional and international organizations including the United Nations.
Website:
Mediamentor
Presents session:
• Seminar, Tuesday 16:00
Savyasaachi Jain
Thomson Foundation
Savyasaachi Jain is a media trainer and independent documentary maker based in India. A graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), he is a
recipient of the Commonwealth Vision Award and the Don Rowland Prize for Excellence. As a film maker, he specialises in themes of conflict. His
documentaries have been shown widely and he has supervised numerous international radio and television documentary co-productions. As the Asia Projects
Coordinator for the British media development organisation Thomson Foundation, he has initiated and led several large media development projects. He
delivers training in several countries every year.
Part of Media Industry International panel:
• Panel, Thursday 15:15
Sherri Hope Culver
NAMLE, USA
Sherri Hope Culver serves as President of the National Association for Media Literacy Education, a professional
association committed to advancing media literacy in all education environments. She is an Assistant Professor in media management at Temple University,
where she also serves as Director of the Media Education Lab. Sherri has over 20 years of executive media management experience and regularly consults
with media companies on issues concerning strategic leadership, children & media, public broadcasting and media management. She is author of The
Television and Video Survival Guide and co-author of the recently published, Media Career Guide.
Website:
NAMLE
Presents session:
• Seminar, Wednesday 16:45
Sonia Livingstone
London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Sonia Livingstone is Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is author or
editor of fourteen books and many academic articles and chapters on media audiences, children and the internet, domestic contexts of media use and media
literacy. Recent books include Audiences and Publics (2005), The Handbook of New Media (edited, with Leah Lievrouw, Sage, 2006), Media Consumption and
Public Engagement (with Nick Couldry and Tim Markham, Palgrave, 2007), The International Handbook of Children, Media and Culture (edited, with Kirsten
Drotner, Sage, 2008) and Children and the Internet (Polity, 2009). She was President of the International Communication Association 2007-8 and currently
directs the EU Kids Online network for the EC Safer Internet Programme.
Website:
EU Kids Online
Panel member:
• Research Forum Plenar Session, Tuesday 10:45
• Research Forum, Thursday 16:00
Stina Balkfors
Fanzingo, Sweden
Stina Balkfors has a master in media and creative project management at the university of Norrköping? She has been a producer and project management of
various cultural and social project such as Stockholms City Theatre, promotion for reading, and Cirkus Cirkör. Stina is also a part of the humor group
Cirkus Kiev and has a weekly show at Swedish Radio P3. Stina has been developing and working as the CEO at Fanzingo during the last four years.
Website:
Fanzingo
Presents session:
• Seminar, Friday 13:30
Stina Honkamaa
Country Manager Google Sweden
Bio will be updated
Website:
Google
Presents session:
• Future Outlooks, Tuesday 12:45/13:30
Susana Giner
Institute for Global Ethics UK Trust, UK
Susana is passionate about giving a voice to young people! She works at the Institute for Global Ethics UK Trust (IGE UK) as a Project Development
Director and has a degree in Social Anthropology and a Masters in Youth & Community Work. IGE UK is currently working on a national project with young
people in the UK and the media. Susana has over 12 years' project management experience working with young people. Previous roles include promoting
citizenship and creative education with young people in Camden Youth Service; coordinating a social enterprise model of commissioning performance
artists with Cardboard Citizens and developing a training and employment programme with young homeless people in London. Susana is a PTTLS qualified
trainer and is an enthusiastic singer-song writer in her spare time!
Website:
Global Ethics
Presents session:
• Youth Moving Youth Policies forward, Tuesday 13:30
• Youth Moving Youth Policies forward, Wednesday 13:30
• Youth Moving Youth Policies forward, Thursday13:30
• Youth Moving Youth Policies forward, Friday 13:30
Dr. Tao Papaioannaou
University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Dr. Tao Papaioannou is assistant professor and Associate Head of the Department of Communications at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus.
Prior to moving to Cyprus, she worked at the National Geographic Society of America and then taught in the Department of Communication at the University
of Arizona, Arizona, USA. Her current research interests include the use and impact of computer-mediated communication, particularly among young people.
She has written several papers on topics in these areas and since 2000, individually and/or in collaboration with other researchers, she has received
three research grants from the EU and Cyprus Institute for the Promotion of Research.
Presents session:
• Seminar, Tuesday 15:15
Thomas Jonsland
BRIS (Children's rights in the society), Sweden
Thomas is 41 years old and has worked with children and young people in many different ways almost since he was a child himself. In addition to BRIS
Thomas have worked at a day nursery, in school, as a social worker and with a radio programme for children. In BRIS he started as a volunteer in the
Children's Helpline in 1995. Today is Thomas the National Coordinator of BRIS web-based support services for children, this including the project
leadership for The BRIS-chat, through last year's launch and current development. And he is BRIS' expert on the Young Internet. Education wise he’s a
journalist and have a Master in Social work.
Website:
BRIS.se
Presents session:
• Seminar, Thursday 12:45
• Seminar, Thursday 16:00
Dipl.-Soz. Thomas Röhlinger,
Radiojojo World Children's Radio Network
Founder and Editor in Chief of Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
* 2005 Nomination as "Social Entrepreneur of the Year" (Schwab Foundation/Boston Consulting Group)
* 2003 Founder of Radijojo Germany; co-inventor: his son Jonathan, than 6 years old
* 2002 Master of Business Administration in Media Management (Berlin, Milano, New York)
* 1998 Master in Sociology, studies in psychology and journalism
Röhlinger has developed most of the formats and strategies of Radijojo. He has been holding countless workshops with schools and youth centres in many
countries. He trains unemployed youth and migrants in Berlin. He is consultant for international NGOs.
Website:
World Childrens Radio
Presents session:
• Workshop, Tuesday 10:45
• Workshop, Wednesday 09:00/13:30
• Workshop, Thursday 16:45
• Workshop, Friday 13:30
Varpu Ojala
The Finnish Society on Media Education, Finland
Varpu Ojala is working as an early education specialist in the city of Espoo, Finland.
In 2006-2008 she worked as a coordinator in the national Media Muffin project for children under 8 years old.
Website:
Mediaeducation.fi
Presents session:
• Seminar, Wednesday 16:00
Vinod Ganatra
CAVEF, India
Vinod Ganatra has been active in the films & television from 1983. He has edited and
directed about 400 documentaries and news reels. He has produced 250 TV
programmes for children and youth. He has made three children films in last five years.
He has several international awards to his credit.
Widely travelled, he has also served as jury of several national and international film
festivals world over. His debut film HEDA - HODA (BLIND CAMEL) has traveled about 58 film festivals
world over with many awards. His next film was ‘ HIDE – N - SEEK (LUKKA CHHUPPI )’ which is honoured and listed
in Limca Book of World Records as ‘The first children’s feature film fully shot at
the highest altitude’ at Ladakh in Himalayas. Hide-n-seek also has been screened in
about 21 International film festivals. ‘HARUN – ARUN ‘ is his new family film in Gujarati based on Indo- Pak border. It is
the first Gujarati children film with Dolby Sound. His experience of working with children for more than 2 decades has resulted in the
formation of non-governmental organisation ‘CAVEF ‘ ( Children’s Audio-Visual
Educational foundation) . Main activities of CAVEF is organising workshops and
screenings of films for children and young ones.
Presents session:
• Seminar, Thursday 12:45
• Seminar, Thursday 16:00
Vladimir Gaï
UNESCO, France
Born in April 1950 in Moscow. M.A. in international relations and international communication from Moscow State University MGIMO (1972) and Ph.D. in
international relations and in political sciences from the Diplomatic Academy (1982). Closely involved in UNESCO’s activities since 1973 as representative
of my country in the in the statutory bodies of UNESCO, the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) and served as senior
member of the Permanent Delegation, Deputy Secretary General of the National Commission.
At present Chief, Media and civic participation Section. I’ve dealt with a wide range of issues in the field of media and communication development:
capacity-building, public service broadcasting, media literacy and education, civic participation in media, content and UGC, community media etc.
I was also involved in media legislation, adaptation of broadcasting systems to democratic patterns, support to independent media in zones of conflict.
Panel member:
• Research Forum, Tuesday 16:00
Worakate Thangsurbkul
Peace Revolution, Thailand
Ping Ping Worakate was born in the heart of Bangkok and raised in the Chinese-Thai culture. Working at the International Buddhist Society for almost nine
years gave her immense experience in the fields of public relations, communications, and media production. She was invited to present one of the most
popular national peace education projects in Thailand at the international youth conference in Geneva and in New York. For this project, she had to
produce all publications and motion pictures, including scriptwriting and directing the film. Presently, she is the Executive Director of the Peace
Revolution Project and also one of the committee organizing the “2010 Peace Revolution Conference: Global Peace on the Move”.
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