In June, 2011 Vilnius University Faculty of Communication organized an international scientific conference “Communication and Information Sciences network society: experiences and insights.” The event was dedicated to the 20th year anniversary of Vilnius University’s school of Communication and information sciences.
At the conference both Lithuanian and foreign speakers – communication and information scientists, experts from Sweden, Germany, Holland, Latvia, Poland, America, Croatia, Italy, France, Slovenia and other countries, shared their experience, knowledge and insights.
Discussions were held in six sections:
- Book and Documentation Sciences and Studies: Genesis and the Present;
- Expressions of Information and Communication Theory and Practice;
- Library and Information Science: Tradition and Modernity;
- Mass Communication: Contexts of Essential Changes and Challenges of the Social Networking
- Museum Science: Practice, Science and Worldview Method;
- Research of Civil and Political Communication.
Photos from International conference year 2011:
The relevance of discussed topics, new questions, fast development of communication and information encouraged the organizers to hold the sequel conference “Communication and information sciences in network society: experiences and insights: II” in 2014 and third part “Communication and information sciences in network society: experiences and insights: III” in 2016.
Main topics in 2014:
- Baltic Media Studies.
- Changing media in conditions of convergence.
- Change, impact and application of information and communication technologies.
- Communication: theory and practice.
- Evolution of memory institutions and activities in digital culture.
- Information about and communication of culture in the cultural industries.
- Information and knowledge management.
- Information services within the public sector.
- Interaction of Media, Policy and Economics.
- International networking and visual media.
- Management of documents and archives.
- Museology in the context of new public cultural communication forms.
- The role and functions of social media in modern society.
Photos from International conference year 2014:
Photos from International conference year 2016:
Prof. Dr. Zenona Atkočiūnienė (VU) and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Olga Miroshnychenko (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
Dr. Tomas Petreikis and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Andrius Šuminas (VU)
Prof. Dr. Andrius Vaišnys, Dean of Faculty of Communication, Vilnius university
Prof. Dr. Valdemaras Razumas, President of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
Prof. Dr. Rimantas Jankauskas, Pro-Rector for Research of Vilnius University
Prof. Dr. Grzegorz Łęcicki, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw (Poland) and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Andrzej Adamski, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Institute of Media Education and Journalism (Poland)
Lect. Rusnė Kregždaitė and lect. Renata Stonytė
Prof. Dr. Zenona Atkočiūnienė and Prof. Dr. Aino Kianto, Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland)
Prof. Dr. Aino Kianto, Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland)
Prof. Dr. Rimvydas Laužikas (VU)
Prof. Dr. Aino Kianto, Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Greg Simons, Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defence College in Stockholm (Sweden), Assoc. Prof. dr. Renata Matkevičienė (VU) and Prof. Dr. Rimvydas Laužikas (VU)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Robert Riter, University of Alabama (USA)
Prof. Habil. Dr. Domas Kaunas and Prof. Dr. Aušra Navickienė (VU)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Greg Simons, Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defence College in Stockholm (Sweden)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Greg Simons, Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defence College in Stockholm (Sweden) and Prof. Dr. Rimvydas Laužikas (VU)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Greg Simons, Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defence College in Stockholm (Sweden)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Greg Simons, Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defence College in Stockholm (Sweden)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Andrzej Adamski, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw (Poland), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Deimantas Jastramskis (VU) and Dr. Tomasz Gackowski, Warsaw University, Institute of Journalism (Poland)
Prof. Dr. Aino Kianto, Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mantas Martišius and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Deimantas Jastramskis (VU)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Arūnas Vyšniauskas (VU)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Olga Mirošničenko and Prof. Dr. Zenona Atkočiūnienė
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Olga Mirošničenko and Prof. Dr. Zenona Atkočiūnienė
Drs. Ilkhom Khalimzoda, Turiba University (Latvia)
Dr. Daiva Lukšaitė (VU)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nijolė Bliūdžiuvienė (VU)
