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Wednesday 14 October 2009

10:00 – 12:00 Registration and refreshments
12:00 – 13:30, Panel Session 1, Online Community Radios and New Ways of Interaction
Chair: Prof. Guy Starkey

• The on-line community radios, an alternative model (analyze of characteristics, new formats and contents), Ricaud Pascal, Lecturer, UMR CITERES - François Rabelais University (Tours), France
• The community of radio listeners in the era of the Internet in Africa: new forms and new radio content. The Fan Club Zephyr Lomé (Togo) as a basis for analysis, Etienne L. Damome, PhD, Université Bordeaux, France
• Online radios in Greece: The cases of “Radiobubble” and “105,5 Sto Kokkino”, Matthew Tsimitakis, Journalist - New Media Director, “Syriza” (Coalition Of The Radical Left), Greece
• The radio interactivity at the Internet time. The French case, Blandine Schmidt, University of Bordeaux, France

Light Meal

15:00 – 16:30, Panel Session 2, Mapping the Radio Content in the Digital Age
Chair: Prof. Rosemary Day

• Mapping of CyBC Radio Programs, Themis Themistocleous, Director General, Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation, Nicolina Louca Eleftheriou Radio Programmes Officer, Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation
• The Canadian Radioscape: portrait of a net-amorphosis, Pierre C. Bélanger, Professeur titulaire, University of Ottawa, Canada
• The role of Radio in the “new” marketing mix, Elizabeth Antoniadou, Marketing & Advertising Manager, Dias Group, Cyprus
• “Web radios in Greece. A quantitative and qualitative analysis on Greek web radios”, Eirini Giannara, Journalist - ERT S.A., Media Developer, University of Athens,Iro Laskari, PhD, University of Athens, Dimitris Koutsompolis, Journalist, University of Athens, Greece

Refreshments

17:00 – 19:00 Welcome Session

• Prof. Nicolas Demertzis, Dean, School of Applied Arts and Communication, Cyprus University of Technology
• Prof. Elpida Keravnou Papailiou, Rector, Cyprus University of Technology
• Prof. Andreas Demetriou, Minister of Education and Culture
• Prof. Guy Starkey, Chair, Radio Research Section, ECREA
• Mr Makis Symeou, Chairman of the Board of Governors, Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation

19:00 -20:00 Keynote speech

• Radio Content on the Web, Raina Konstantinova, Director of the Radio Department at the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Switzerland

Dinner

Thursday, 15 October 2009

9:00-10:30, Panel Session 3, Radio content and new communication technology environment
Chair: Prof. Jean – Jacques Cheval

• Beyond the local: a case-study on the stages of development for a genre-specific webradio, Dr. Andreas P. Giannakoulopoulos, PhD, University of Athens, Eirini Giannara, Journalist - ERT S.A., Media Developer, University of Athens, Greece
• Cultural traditions in web sites of radio broadcasters: from program companions to social  network building frameworks, Pergia Gkouskou-Giannakou Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France
• Music radio in the digital convergence age, Josep Maria Martí, Xavier Ribes, Maria Gutiérrez, Luisa Martínez and Belén Monclús, Observatori de la Ràdio a Catalunya, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
• Web Radio: development strategy – content – audiences, Prof. Stanislaw Jedrzejewski, Kozminski University, Poland

Refreshments

11:00 – 12:30, Panel Session 4, Radio content in Europe and in other countries
Chair: Prof. Stanislaw Jedrzejewski

• “On with the ‘quiet revolution’: digital migration of radio broadcasting in the United Kingdom”, Prof. Guy Starkey, University of Sunderland, United Kingdom
• News Content of Spanish Talk Radio on the Web, Elsa Moreno, María del Pilar Martínez-Costa, Avelino Amoedo, University of Navarra, Spain
• Blurring fiction with reality: the strange case of Amnesia, an italian radio mockumentary, Tiziano Bonini, PhD, IULM University, Italy
• Ten years of University Radio in Italy (1999-2009), Salvatore Scifo, European Union Institute, Marmara University, Turkey
• Portuguese Internet-Radio from 2006 to 2009: Technical promptness and openness to interaction, Pedro Portela,  University of Minho, Portugal

12:30 – 13:30 Keynote Speech

Further searches in a remembered soundscape: a family listens to the wireless, 1938-1952, Peter Lewis, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom

Light Meal

15:00 – 16:30, Panel Session 5, “Post Radio” and Social Changes
Chair: Prof. Frederic Antoine

• Subversive technologies: web radio and cultural change, Alexandros Baltzis, Lecturer, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• The incorporation that Spanish talk radio stations’ websites are doing of the participative resources provided by the web 1.0 and 2.0, Susana Herrera Damas, José Luis Requejo Alemán, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
• Does «technological revolution» blow on African radio stations? Sylvie Capitant, PhD, Sorbonne University- Paris I, France
• Sound Salad: ‘Lamp Post’ Radio and the soundscapes of a Brazilian Favela, Andrea Medrado, University of Westminster, United Kingdom
• Radio and web 2.0: direct feedback. Audience participation, citizen journalism and virtual worlds, Prof. Carmen Penafel, Universidad del País Vasco/EHU, Bilbao, Spain

Refreshments

17:00 – 18:30 Panel Session 6: Alternative Radio and Ways of Social Participation
Chair: Dimitra Milioni, Lecturer

• Podcasting for the Future: dialogue and citizen’s engagement in the Cyprus context, Mike Hajimichael, Assistant Professor, The University of Nicosia, Cyprus
• The trip of alternative radio in the digital age, Sophia Thedosiadou, PhD, Tei of Western Macedonia, Greece
• Broadcasting a future self - Participation in community radio in a biographical context, Petra Pfisterer and Judith Purkarthofer, Austrian Radio Research Group, University of Vienna, Austria
• Radio in everyday life: listening habits in adults and adolescents, Sílvio Correia Santos e Isabel Ferin Cunha, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Friday, 16 October 2009

9:00-10:30 Panel Session 7: Convergence, Digitalization, Intermediality and New Medium
Chair: Ricaud Pascal, Lecturer

• Talk media formats : from radio to television and back, Ioanna Vovou, Lecturer, Panteion University, Athens, Greece
• Radio as the voice of community, locality, interactivity and experimentation, M. Papadomanolaki, G. Joseph-Hunter Co-editors of free103point9 Transmission Arts Archive publication, United States of America
• Innovation in the radio sector as an element for adapting to the new media environment, Prof. Rosa Franquet, Universdad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain
• Tracing quality features of audio stories in digital environments: a case study in adult education, Ioannis Christidis, Cyprus University of Technology
• DAB was a dud-so what? Sound radio Convergence perspectives in Finland, Pentti Kemppainen, Finnish Academy, Finland
• Podcasting – Is it the future of Radio?, Gloria Khamkar, University of Sunderland, United Kingdom

Refreshments

11:00-12:30 Panel Session 8: Radio Content in the Digital Age
Chair: Alexandros Baltzis, Lecturer

• Whatever you say, say nothing!, Frank Byrne, Dublin City University Dublin 9, Ireland
• Can narratives broadcasted on radio find a rebirth in the digital age, Prof. Frederic Antoine, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
• Lost Contents? Digitalized Music Radio and Cultural Practices , Prof. Vesa Kurkela and PhD Heikki Uimonen, Sibelius Academy, Finland
• A good voice, for a good radio, Prof. Emma Rodero, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain

12:30 – 14:00

• Radio Research ECREA coordination meeting for young researchers, Petra Pfisterer and Judith Purkarthofer

Light Meal

15:00 – 16:30 Panel Session 9: Community and Local Radios in the Digital Environments
Chair: Prof. Carmen Penafiel 

• Community Radio’s Digital Dilemma, Lawrie Hallett, University of Westminster, United Kingdom
• “Digital technologies and the facilitation of participation in community radio stations”, Prof. Rosemary Day, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland
• The Future of Local Radio in the Digital Era: Opportunity or Threat? The Case of Small-Scale Local Radio Stations in the Flemish Community, Hilde Van den Bulck and Bert Hermans, University of Antwerp, Belgium
• Slovenia and its origins of Community radio, Mojca Plansak, Assistant Lecturer, University of Maribor, Slovenia
• Community radio content in Bosnia and Herzegovina: what does it look like and what future might it have in a digital environment?,Kate Coyer, Research Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

Closing Meeting

• Angeliki Gazi, PhD, Conference Chair, Cyprus University of Technology
  
• Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Deputy Coordinator, Department Communication and Internet Studies, Cyprus University of Technology
• Prof. Stanislaw Jedrzejewski, Vice Chair, Radio Research, ECREA, Kozminski University, Poland