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Communication management at IAMCR Conference - 25.07.2010 - (Daria Bazarkina)

The annual IAMCR conference took place at the University of Minho on July 18-22 2010

The annual IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research) conference «Communication and Citizenship» took place at the University of Minho on 18 – 22 July 2010. More than 1200 researches from 75 countries participated in the conference.

The whole working group was represented by communication management specialists. The working group business meeting was held on 21 July 2010 within the framework of the International Communication Section chaired by Sujatha Sosale (the University of Iowa, USA) and was named “Communication management in information warfare: New opportunities and new threats for the defense of public interest in times of crisis”.

The meeting was headed by the director of ICSPSC, the head of CMC at RGGSM at ANE under the RF Government Prof. DSc. E. Pashetsev and the senior researcher of the National Center for Crisis Management Research and Training (Crismart), a part of the Swedish National Defence College, Dr. Greg Simons. The spesialists from Russia, the USA and Sweden contributed their papers to the work of the group:

• Valentina Panferova and Yulia Zvereva (Sholokhov Moscow State Humanitarian University) «Mass Media as a Tool of Communication Management in Time of Civilization Crisis»;
• Vladimir Suchan (University of Maine, Fort Kent, USA) «The Anima and Strategic Communication: La Femme Éternelle et Fatale»;
• Olga Polunina (Lomonosov Moscow State University) «Communication Functions of the Supranational in the Foreign Policy of the EU»;
• Darya Bazarkina (CMC at RGGSM at ANE under the RF government) «The Governmental Communications and Mass Discontent under Conditions of a World Economic and Social Crisis: The Case Study of Germany and Sweden»;
• Svetlana Zudochkina (Lomonosov Moscow State University) «How BBC Covers Economic Crisis in Russia and East Europe»;
• Greg Simons (National Center for Crisis Management Research and Training (Crismart), a part of the Swedish National Defence College) «Attempts at Controlling the News Flows: The Good News Wars» Besides.

Two more papers at the conference were introduced by

• Evgeny Pashentsev (“Information Warfare under the Crisis Conditions: The Experience of Russia”, The Emerging Theme “Crisis Communication”, heads – Sigurd Allern & Ester Pollack);
• Darya Bazarkina («Communication Aspect of the Activities of the Antiterrorist Structures of Germany under the Conditions of the Economic and Social Crisis and the Interests of a Civil Society», section “Political Communication Research”, chair – Philippe J. Maarek).