Dear all: The conference program below on the impact of the internet on the mass media, is to be held in Tromso, Norway, 21-22 June 2002. Anyone interested in attending should contact Borghild Gramstad (borghild.gramstad@media.uib.no) for further particulars. Nick Jankowski THE IMPACT OF THE INTERNET ON THE MASS MEDIA A conference organised by the COST A20 network June 21 - 22 2002 conference Programme humanistiske fakultet Institutt for dokumentasjonsvitenskap Universitetet I Tromsø Breivika N-9037 Tromsø Norway Welcome to the first conference of the COST Action A20 - The Impact of the Internet on the Mass Media. There are nearly fifty papers on the conference agenda. Together, they cover the main issues in television and film, print media, music and radio, as well as issues that affect all of them together. The aim of this programme is to give you a brief guide to finding your way around Tromsø, to help you select which papers you want to hear, and to inform you about social events at the conference. Arrival in Tromsø Most conference delegates will arrive by air. The arrival hall of Tromsø airport has a tourist information office and an exchange bureau. The Norwegian Kroner currently exchanges at around 7.5 to the ?uro. There is a bus to the centre of the city from immediately outside the arrival hall. There are bus stops within easy walking distance of all of the main hotels. The fare is NKr 40 and you pay the driver before boarding. Alternatively, there are taxis available from the airport. They charge about 120NKr to the centre of the city. The journey should take a maximum of about 20 minutes. If you are lucky enough to come by boat, you will land in the centre of the city anyway. All of the hotels are in the centre of the city, and they are all within about five minutes walking distance of each other and of the social events on the programme. There are banks and cash machines in the city centre. Getting to the Conference The conference is in the E-wing of the building of the Social Sciences Faculty and School of Humanities (Hum Fak) at the University, which is in the suburb of Breivika, a short bus ride away from the city centre. There are three buses from the centre to the University, #20, #32 and #34. Only the #20 runs to and from the University on both Friday and Saturday. It takes about 10 minutes each way. Other buses can take substantially longer. Your hotel reception will tell you where the nearest bus stop is, and give you the departure times that will get you to the conference punctually. Alternatively, you can order a taxi from your hotel to the University, which will cost around NKr100. You can get a taxi back to the centre from the University hospital, which is very near the conference venue. If you are travelling on the bus, get off at the Planetarium. If you are travelling by taxi, ask for the main entrance to the Social Sciences Faculty and School of Humanities. The street address of the building is on the cover of this programme. We hope to be able to have some "guides" at strategic points on the Friday morning to help you, but in any case the way to the conference rooms will be clearly signposted. Conference timings The conference will open at 09.30 on Friday in the lecture theatre on the basement level of E Wing, Room E0.101. The individual papers will be presented in the seminar Rooms E0.103, E0.104 and E0.105. There is a computer lab, where you can access your email, in Room E0.102. Coffee and lunch will served in the building on both days. The price of these meals and refreshments is included in the registration fee that you have already paid. Your paper has been allocated to one of four strands: Film and Television, Print Media, Music and Radio, and Cross Media Issues. We have made every effort to produce a coherent programme, but of course we have not managed a perfect grouping of papers. You can find out when and where your paper is scheduled in the section titled "The working groups in detail." Three strands will be running most of the time. There is no obligation to follow the strand in which your paper has been placed. You can expect 30 minutes for consideration of your paper. Prior experience suggests to us that it will be best if you plan to introduce your work for 20 minutes and then take ten minutes of discussion. The programme is very crowded. Chairs will have instructions to enforce time limits strictly. That is the only way for everyone to get a fair and equal opportunity to present and discuss their ideas. The organisers regret that it will not be possible to provide mass photocopying facilities at the conference itself. You are strongly advised to bring copies of your paper with you, since other participants are bound to want to see copies. We will provide a table in the conference area where you can leave copies so that others can see them. The social programme We have organised three social events in the evenings, one on each day. On Thursday evening, there is a reception, hosted by the University of Tromsø. It will be held at the Tromsø Student House Søndre Tollbodgate 3b in the centre of the city, starting at 19.00. It is at most a ten-minute walk from any of the hotels. The reception is open to everyone attending the conference. On the Friday evening there is a boat trip down the fjord. There will be an opportunity for those who wish to do some fishing. A fish supper will be served on the boat. Unfortunately, participation is limited by the size of the boat to 35 people. Places have been allocated on a "first come, first served" basis, and we are sorry that some people may not be able to participate. The fishing boat will leave at 20.00 from the quay opposite the Comfort Hotel With, which is in the centre of the city. There are plenty of bars and restaurants for those who don't go fishing. On the Saturday evening, we have reserved space in the Tromsø Student House between 19.00 and 23.00. The House serves drinks and food, and there will be space and time for informal social interaction at the close of the conference. COST sessions Those people who are members of the COST Action have Working Group meetings at 16.00 on the Thursday evening. The Groups will meet in Rooms E0.103 (Television and Film), E0.104 (Print Media) and E0.105 (Music and Radio). The conference will finish its formal programme on Saturday afternoon. There will be a meeting of the COST Action Management Committee in the Lecture Theatre, E0.101, after the close of business. People who are not members of these bodies are very welcome to attend the sessions as observers. To find out more about the Action, visit our web site: http://cost-a20.iscte.pt A practical note The tourist brochures stress that Tromsø is in the land of the midnight sun. This is true, but you might like to remember two things when packing. Tromsø faces the Atlantic Ocean and is exposed to westerly winds carrying a lot of moisture. It sometimes rains. Tromsø is also well north of the Arctic Circle. Even when it is sunny for 24 hours, it is likely still to be quite cool. CONFERENCE OUTLINE Thursday 20 June 16.00 17.30 Meeting of the three Working Groups at the University 19.00 23.00 Reception hosted by the University of Tromsø Tromsø Student House Søndre Tollbodgate 3b Friday 21 June 09.30 Welcoming addresses Lecture Theatre E0.101 Professor Jarle Aarbakke (Rektor of Tromsø University) Professor Niels Windfeld Lund (Head of the Department of Documentation Studies) 10.30 Coffee 11.00 Cross Media Issue One Print Media One Television and Film One 12.30 Lunch 13.30 Presentation by the Department of Documentation Studies University of Tromsø Lecture Theatre E0.101 14.00 Cross Media Issues Two Print Media Two Television and Film Two 15.30 Coffee 16.00 Music and Radio Print Media Three Television and Film Three 18.00 Close of Business 20.00 23.00 Fishing Boat Trip Saturday 22 June 09.30 Cross Media Issue Three Print Media Four Television and Film Four 11.00 Coffee 11.30 Cross Media Issues Four Print Media Five Television and Film Five 13.00 Lunch 14.00 Cross Media Issues Five Print Media Six 15.00 Round Table: The Future of Online Media Lecture Theatre E0.101 Farrel Corcoran, Lucy Küng, Robert Picard, Ruth Towse 16.00 Coffee 16.30 COST A20 Management Committee 18.00 Close of Business 19.00 23.00 Informal Social Gathering Tromsø Student House Søndre Tollbodgate 3b THE WORKING GROUPS IN DETAIL Working Group One Television and Film Room E0.103 Friday 11.00 Television and Film One Chair: Charo Sádaba Peter Goodwin (University of Westminster) Digital television, interactivity and the Internet: lessons from the UK Farrel Corcoran (Dublin City University) The Irish information society and the non-arrival of digital television Lucy Küng (University of St Gallen) Redefining the public service broadcasting model for the Internet Age 14.00 Television and Film Two Chair: Mihaly Galik Charo Sádaba (University of Navarre) Digital television in Spain: stimulating the advertisers' interest (and money!) Hagi Shein (Concordia International University Tallinn) Estonian digital television 16.00 Television and Film Three Chair: Farrel Corcoran Trine Syvertsen (University of Oslo) The changing relationship between television and its publics Lars Holmgaard Christensen (Aalborg University) Letting a viewer loose on the television screen real estate is not painless Eugenia Siapera (University of Amsterdam) From couch potatoes to cybernauts? The expanding notion of the "audience" in television channels web sites Espen Ytreberg (University of Oslo) Continuity in environments: television scheduling as a pre-history of new media design Saturday 09.30 Television and Film Four Chair: Trine Syvertsen Mihaly Galik & Ildiko Kovats (Budapest University of Economics) Online video services: a report on a VOD pilot project in Hungary Piermarco Aroldi & Fausto Colombo (Catholic University of Milan) TV audiences and web users: a report of research on four generations of Italians 11.30 Television and Film Five Chair: Fausto Colombo Anders Henten & Reza Tadayoni (Technical University of Denmark) Internet TV: the articulation of markets Joss Hands (Anglia Polytechnic University) Identity in the Matrix: the Internet on film and the intensification of the bourgeois subject Peter Flood (Dublin Institute of Technology) Internet TV/Webcasting Working Group Two Print Media Room E0.104 Friday 11.00 Print Media One Chair: Leopoldina Fortunati Eric Maigret (University of Paris 3) When everything changes, nothing changes: Internet and the newspaper industry in the French context Tim Rathman (University of Amsterdam) Determinants of online newspaper use: the relationship between reading a local print newspaper and its online equivalent Constanze Hess & Edmund Lauf (University of Amsterdam) Virtual success? How publishers' Internet activities affect newspaper circulation 14.00 Print Media Two Chair: Eric Maigret Marc Lits (Catholic University of Louvain) Journalism on the web and polyphonic enunciation Gary Quinn (Dublin City University) Evidence of an emerging model in online news delivery Donald Matheson (University of Wales Cardiff) News weblogs: an invitation to abandon the craft? 16.00 Print Media Three Chair: Marc Lits John O'Sullivan (Dublin City University) Delivering Ireland: online newspapers search for a role Dimitra Dimitrakopolou (Aristotle University Thessaloniki) The factor of time on the Internet and its impact on journalistic practice Gerd Kopper (University of Dortmund) Effects of the Internet on the work of foreign correspondents and the use of rationalisation options in the media industry Steve Paulussen (University of Ghent) Online journalism and new media in Flanders: examining interactivity, hypertext and multimedia in online news production Saturday 09.30 Print Media Four Chair: Richard van der Wurff Leopoldina Fortunati (University of Trieste) The adventures of newspapers online: the Italian case Ramon Salaverría (University of Navarre) An immature medium: strengths and weaknesses of the online newspapers on 11 September 2001 Maria Bella Palomo Torres (University of Malaga) The impact of the Internet on Spanish newsrooms Working Group Two Print Media Room E0.104 Continued 11.30 Print Media Five Chair: John O'Sullivan Carol MacKeogh and Barbara O'Connor (Dublin City University) Online/offline -- women's magazines finding their niche Richard van der Wurff (University of Amsterdam) The impact of the Internet on trade journal markets Edgardo Garcia (University of Westminster) Online newspapers in Argentina: a study of Clarín and La Nación 14.00 Print Media Six Chair: Ramon Salaverría Tanja Oblak (University of Ljubljana) Slovenian newspapers and the online public sphere Colin Sparks (University of Westminster) What works online? British news sites and the public sphere Working Group Three Music and Radio Room E0.105 Friday 16.00 Music and Radio One Chair: Colin Sparks Piet Bakker (University of Amsterdam) Online music distribution - treat or challenge? Gunn Enli (University of Oslo) From radio station to digital media house? An analysis of the Norwegian commercial radio broadcaster P4 Radio Hele Norge and its strategies for technological convergence Des Freedman (Goldsmiths College University of London) A "world wide web of theft and indifference"? The "problem" of music and the Internet Ruth Towse (Erasmus University Rotterdam) Rewarding creators through copyright Special Working Group Cross Media Issues Room E0.105 Friday 11.00 Cross Media Issues One Chair: Anders Fagerjord Robert Picard and Mikko Grönlund (Turku School of Economics) The impact of the Internet on media advertising expenditure in the EU Kieran Kelly (University of the West of England) What if the Internet does not have any recognisable impact on new media? Elvira Garcia de Torres (Cardinal Herrera University Valencia) Spanish multimedia groups go to cyberspace 14.00 Cross Media Issues Two Chair: Robert Picard Anders Fagerjord (University of Oslo) A model for describing web media Niels Windfeld Lund (University of Tromsø) The notion of the "document" as an analytical tool in mass media studies Harald Pfannhauser (London School of Economics) From Gutenberg to Marconi: why electronic media are still a secondary source of information Saturday 09.30 Cross Media Issues Three Chair: Ruth Towse Lilia Raycheva (St Kliment Ohridsky University Sofia) Overcoming the digital divide in the process of social transformation Aukse Balcytiene (Vytautus Magnus University) Shaping the Internet: a perspective from Lithuania Dominic Busch (Viadrina University) Initiations of intercultural mediation discourse in the mass media via the Internet: reflections from a teaching project in South Eastern Europe 11.30 Cross Media Issues Four Chair: Des Freedman Pilar Guerrero (London School of Economics) The Internet usages of students in everyday life Laura Wolf (London School of Economics) Beyond access: an alternative understanding of social exclusion and new media 14.00 Cross Media Issues Five Chair: Lilia Raycheva Jeff Taylor (University of Lapland) Potentials and hazards for authentic cultural representation through new media for indigenous and other minority cultures Ivan Zassursky (Moscow State University) Portals as interactive media