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Welcome to Media Trends 2015: Power and Media: Ownership, Sponsorship, Censorship
A conference hosted by Webster Vienna Private University 10-12 September, 2015

We have lined up a diverse group of academics, media professionals, IGO and NGO representatives and students to critically analyze:

  • All aspects of overt and covert control of communication
  • Concentration of ownership
  • Advertiser, commercial, financial and political influences
  • Agenda-setting, framing, technological and organizational constraints
  • Media empowerment

Click here for conference panels, full abstracts and biographies
Click here for the extended call for papers

We look forward to seeing you in Vienna!

The Media Trends 2015 Organizing Committee

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Dina Farouk Abou Zeid

Ain Shams University
Associate Professor
Egypt

Dr. Dina Farouk Abou Zeid is an Egyptian Associate Professor in Mass Communication Department, Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University in Egypt. She received her BA (96) and MA (2001) both from Mass Communication Department at the American University in Cairo. She received her PhD (2007) with honors from Mass Communication Department, Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University. She is the author of "Television Presenter's Skills". She lectures in many public and private universities in Egypt in Arabic and English languages. She conducts research on a variety of topics including television production, radio production, communication skills, writing news, new media, digital media, media ethics and translation. She is a supervisor of many MA and PhD theses. She participated in various national and international conferences. She worked as a television presenter in the Egyptian Television and as a reporter in the News Sector in the Egyptian Radio and Television Union (1996-2007).