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Hannu Nieminen

Title of the presentation:
European information society policies: critical review

Short abstract of the presentation:
European Union adopted in 2005 a policy paper "i2010 – A European Information Society for growth and employment". A major review of its implementation will take place late 2008. According to the Commission, the key themes that will be debated during the review include the emerging trends in networks and internet, developing a user perspective, and promoting an internal market for online services. In my presentation I will present a critical overview of EU's information society policies, especially from the users' and citizens' point of view.

Short biography:
Hannu Nieminen (hannu.nieminen@helsinki.fi) is professor of media policy and director of the Communication Research Centre CRC at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He received his Ph.D. in 1996 in the University of Westminster, London. His research interests include media and democracy, theories of public sphere, and European communication policy and regulation, on which themes he has published several books and articles. His publications include Democracy and Communication: Habermas, Williams, and the British Case (1997), Hegemony and the Public Sphere (2000), and People Stood Apart: the Constitution of theNational Public Sphere in Finland 1809–1917 (2006, in Finnish). Website address: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/hanniemi/