On 25 October 2018 the Faculty of Journalism, MSU held the 10th International Moscow Readings conference ‘Mass Media and Communications – 2018’. The overarching theme of the conference this year was ‘Digital Transformations of Mass Media: Regional, National and Global Aspects’. The conference was attended by 200 scholars from 30 countries around the world, who presented a fascinating variety of contemporary media studies. As in the previous years, the conference was organized with support from the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation. During opening ceremony, Dean of the Faculty of Journalism Professor Elena Vartanova mentioned that the conference has proved to be an efficient platform for establishing not only academic, but also friendly relations between media researchers from all over the world. She also presented an Award of Excellence to Professor Paolo Mancini (University of Perugia, Italy) as a sign of respect for his great academic achievements and as a sign of gratitude for more than 10 years of fruitful cooperation between the Faculty of Journalism, MSU and University of Perugia. The framework of the conference was outlined by the keynote speakers during two plenary sessions. A constellation of respected scholars included Professor Elena Vartanova (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia), Professor Paolo Mancini (University of Perugia, Italy), Professor Hannu Nieminen (University of Helsinki, Finland), Professor Philip Seib (University of Southern California, U.S.A.), Professor Andreas Hepp (University of Bremen, Germany), Professor Pal Tamas (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) and Dr Massimo Ragnedda (Northumbria University, Great Britain). In their keynote addresses, speakers covered crucial issues of modern media studies like digital divide, informational rights, ‘echo chambers’ and informational ‘bubbles’ in the Internet, mediatization and robotization of social processes, etc. Professor Andreas Hepp focused in his speech on the phenomenon of deep mediatization as a social meta-process, which means that it is structured by humans and should be analyzed as such. Professor Hannu Nieminen mentioned that media today are central to democracy; but at the same time, they are part of the process of normalization of inequality. In the media, the growing gap between the haves and the have-nots is thus becoming a ‘new normal’. Professor Paolo Mancini argued in his presentation that the recent emergence of the so called ‘echo chamber’ phenomenon represents something new for the U.S.A., while many European democracies have witnessed for many years a sort of news media ‘affiliation consumption’ (selective exposure), very similar to the ‘echo-chamber’

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莫斯科第十届国际媒体阅读：“大众媒体与传播——2018”

2018 年 10 月 25 日，密歇根州立大学新闻学院举办了第 10 届莫斯科国际阅读会议“大众媒体与传播 – 2018”。今年会议的首要主题是“大众媒体的数字化转型：区域、国家和全球方面”。来自全球 30 个国家的 200 名学者参加了此次会议，他们展示了各种引人入胜的当代媒体研究。与往年一样，这次会议是在俄罗斯联邦新闻和大众传播局的支持下组织的。在开幕式上，新闻学院院长Elena Vartanova教授表示，会议已被证明是建立学术界和世界各地媒体研究人员友好关系的有效平台。她还向 Paolo Mancini 教授（意大利佩鲁贾大学）颁发了卓越奖，以表示对他巨大学术成就的尊重，以及对新闻学院、密歇根州立大学和密歇根州立大学十多年来富有成效的合作表示感谢。佩鲁贾大学。主旨发言人在两次全体会议上概述了会议的框架。一群受人尊敬的学者包括 Elena Vartanova 教授（俄罗斯罗蒙诺索夫莫斯科国立大学）、Paolo Mancini 教授（意大利佩鲁贾大学）、Hannu Nieminen 教授（芬兰赫尔辛基大学）、Philip Seib 教授（美国南加州大学） )、Andreas Hepp 教授（德国不来梅大学）、Pal Tamas 教授（匈牙利科学院，匈牙利）和 Massimo Ragnedda 博士（英国诺森比亚大学）。在主题演讲中，演讲者涵盖了现代媒体研究的关键问题，如数字鸿沟、信息权利、互联网中的“回声室”和信息“泡沫”、社会过程的媒体化和机器人化等。 Andreas Hepp 教授在演讲中重点关注作为一种社会元过程的深度媒介化现象，这意味着它是由人类构建的，应该这样分析。Hannu Nieminen 教授提到，今天的媒体是民主的核心；但同时，它们也是不平等正常化进程的一部分。在媒体中，贫富差距越来越大，正成为一种“新常态”。