[ICTs-and-Society] Conference "Freedom of Information Under Pressure": Feb 28/March 1

[Christian Fuchs]

International Conference
Freedom of Information Under Pressure
Control – Crisis - Culture
28th of February and 1st of March 2014, Vienna, Austria

The University of Vienna, the transform!at Association and the Critical 
Librarians Association (KRIBIBI) are pleased to invite you to the 
International Conference on "Freedom of Information under Pressure. 
Control - Crisis - Culture", which will take place in Vienna on the 28th 
of February and 1st of March 2014 at the Kuppelsaal of the Vienna 
Univesity of Technology, which is situated at the centre of Vienna at 
Karlsplatz 13, 1040.

This conference will gather more than 30 international speakers 
(academics, media practitioners, librarians, experts of open culture and 
public space, activists and policy makers) from Austria, Bulgaria, 
Germany, Greece, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom and will call for an 
open discussion on the challenges of freedom of information in the light 
of the recent surveillance revelations and the increase in censorship 
and prosecutions of media, journalists and whistle-blowers in Europe and 
beyond.

The event has been endorsed and supported by the Mayor and Governor of 
the city of Vienna, as well as by a number of organisations and 
institutions, such as the Association of European Journalists, the 
Centre for Freedom of the Media of the University of Sheffield, the 
International Press Institute and the University of Westminster.

Keynote and plenary speakers include:
Gill Phillips (Director of Editorial Legal Service, The Guardian, United 
Kingdom)Augoustine Zenakos (Investigative Journalist, UNFOLLOW magazine, 
Greece)
Mariniki Alevizopoulou (Investigative Journalist, UNFOLLOW magazine, Greece)
Christian Fuchs (Professor of Social Media, University of Westminster, 
United Kingdom)
Joachim Losehand (Scholar, VIBE!at, Austria)
George Katrougalos (Professor, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece)
Wolfgang Hofkirchner (Professor, Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Erich Möchel (Journalist, ORF, Austria

The event is public, open to everyone and free, but registration is 
essential. If you would like to attend, you can register here:
http://freedom-of-information.info/en/28-registration/18-registration-form
Light lunch, coffee and refreshments will be provided. The official 
language of the conference will be English with simultaneous 
interpretation to German. The conference will be also streamed online by 
The Press Project.
Main sponsors: transform European Network,  Karl Renner Institute, The 
Press Project, City of Vienna, Grüne Bildungswerkstatt, ORF (Austrian 
PSB), Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM)

Supporters and collaborators: University of Westminster, Vienna 
University of Technology, University of Sheffield, Association of 
European Journalists, International Press Institute, International 
Society for Information Studies, ICTs-and-Society Network, Netzwerk 
Soziale Verantwortung, Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen 
und Bibliothekare, Evangelische Akademie Wien, Katholische 
Sozialakademie Österreichs, Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte and 
Technisches Museum Wien

For more information, please visit the conference website: 
http://freedom-of-information.info/