We cordially invite you to the First Student Mini-Conference "The Internet and New Media in the Middle East" which will be held on Friday, May 11, 2 pm at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Room S4.
On the mini-conference, students of the Erasmus program and the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague will present their research papers written for the course AISE00019 "The Internet and New Media in the Middle East".
Come to support your colleagues, students, and friends and provide them with valuable feedback!
Charles University in Prague
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Malostranske nam. 25, 118 00 Praha 1
http://www.mff.cuni.cz/toUTF8.en/fakulta/budovy/kampus/mala_strana.htm
Conference Program
14:00 Introduction
14:10 Comparative of the Western news sources used by Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya
Clara Bernal, Jorge Pan and Brais Suárez
14:30 The Ushahidi platform and its deployment in Egypt and Libya during the Arab Spring
Jan Böhm, Jana Hrzinová, Silvie Růžičková
14:50 Syrian Speakers: blogs and bloggers during the revolution
Isaías Blázquez Rosales, Raquel Rubio García, Antonio Suárez-Bustamante Anaya
15:10 Break
15:20 Comparison of two soap operas - Middle Eastern and South American
Beránková Simona, Spišáková Veronika
15:40 A Comparative Study of Western and Middle Eastern Media during the Egyptian Revolution
Cleménce Apetogbor, Ilari Matias Huhtinen, Kuba Iglewski and Ciara Higgins
16:00 How Islamist Terrorists Use the Internet
Ján Hrubovský, Marek Čejka
16:20 Concluding session
