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The Faculty of Journalism is an organizer of many nation-wide and international conferences. It is also a proud host of several international conferences organized in cooperation with leading academic establishments:šEuropean Media Management Association (EMMA)šin 2011, andšInternational Media Management Academic Association (IMMAA)šcoming in September 2015.

Since 2009, the Faculty of Journalism has been organizing the annual International Media Readings in Moscow “Mass Media and Communications”, also known as the Moscow Readings conference. The event takes place in October or November each year. At the moment, the Moscow Readings conference is the biggest international academic conference organized and hosted solely by the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University. The event is organized with support of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation.

Each year the conference brings media scholars, researchers, lecturers and PhD students from diverse Russian and international institutions to Moscow. In 2014, we had pleasure to welcome over 50 participants from 15 different countries as attendees of the Moscow Readings event. The general aim of the Moscow Readings conference is to consolidate contacts between researchers from different countries of the world, and to foster integration of representatives of the Russian school of journalism into the global academic space.šš

The event normally includes a pre-conference public talk (2013 – a public talk by Prof. Daniel C. Hallin and Prof. Paolo Mancini; 2014 ? a public talk by Prof. Terry Flew), two or three plenary sessions, thematic sessions, round table discussions, PhD sessions and a poster session. The conference runs for two days. The main working language is English.

When choosing the overarching theme of the conference, we always think of the most acute and important issues in media and communication studies. In 2014 the conference theme was ?Creative Industries in the Reindustrializing World: Media Practices of the West and the East?. During the conference scholars addressed different issues of creative industries, focusing on the way reindustrialization processes change the economic strategies for the transition of various countries to societies of information and knowledge; discussing the present-day balance of the consumption of creative industries’ products by corporate and individual clients; examining the role and place of the ?creative class? in the modern media industry, and much more.

More information about the Moscow Readings conference is available atšthe official conference website.šYou are also welcome to explore the official pages of the Moscow Readings conferencešon FacebookšandšTwitteršto stay tuned for the conference-related news.š