2012 Forum of European and Asian Media kicked off in Minsk
10.12.2012,
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The Forum of European and Asian Media (FEAM) 2012 on integration and new media in the post-soviet area started in Minsk Monday.
YEREVAN, December 10. /ARKA/.The Forum of European and Asian Media (FEAM) 2012 on integration and new media in the post-soviet area started in Minsk Monday.
More than 200 managers of leading mass media outlets from CIS, Georgia and Baltic countries participate in the forum.
The media representatives will debate on the European integration, future of integration projects, media-society interaction and features and structure of the new media in the post-soviet area, RIA Novosti reported.
The first deputy editor-in-chief of RIA Novosti Maksim Filimonov, secretary of state of Russia-Belarus union state Grigory Rapota, Belarusian minister of information Oleg Proleskovskiy and Russian vice-minister of communication Aleksey Volin are expected to take the floor on the first day of the forum.
The leader of the host country used to participate in the forum as well.
The forum meetings will be held in conference halls of Crown Plaza Minsk this year.
The discussion topics on the agenda are the role of mass media in integration, globalization and media space in unsustainable world, new life of traditional media, cultural and historic codes and modern media formats, socialization problems of social networking website users.
An acute debate on “Wall against wall” will be held on “The internet: unlimited information and the limits of freedom”. The debate participants will split up into two camps – supporters and opponents of immersion into the Internet – and will defend their views. Media expert Anton Khrekov is to be the referee of the dispute. –0--
