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Vice Rector Sergey Roshchin on taking proctored exams

On March 19, Professor Alexander Kupriyanov, Academic Supervisor of the Bachelor’s Programme in Media Communications, held his first online seminar. HSE News Service participated in the streaming and spoke with the professor about what offline education might look like after the pandemic is over.

On November 19-23, the OPIA Documentary Club will host the Berlin-Gärten Divided City Festival. The first event — a public talk about the events in Berlin in November 1989 — took place on November 7 at the ZIL Cultural Center. Club volunteer Karina Mansurova chose and transcribed the best moments of the conversation.

International participants of the IV International Scientific-practical Conference “Media Education, Media Ecology, Media Literacy: Digital Media for the Future” that was held in HSE on 7-10 February gave lectures to the students of “Mediacommunications” program. They told them about influence of copyright law on the work of platforms, fight against misinformation and media ecology.

Lectures were dedicated to the questions of regulating propaganda in media and novellas of European copyright law on digital media content.

Media department of the Faculty of Communications, Media and Design in cooperation with the Center for Digital Cultures and Media Literacy of the NRU HSE organize the International Scientific-practical Conference “Media Education, Media Ecology, Media Literacy: Digital Media for the Future”.

Originally from Greece, Pános Kompatsiáris was attracted to join the Higher School of Economics because of the university’s reputation for exceptional working conditions and fostering career development. Having spent the last ten years in a variety of cities, including Edinburgh and Berlin, Professor Kompatsiáris brings his background in economics, cultural studies and art theory to his current position as Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Communications, Media, and Design at HSE.

On May 15, Dr. Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State University in Ohio and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, delivered at open lecture at HSE Moscow entitled ‘Fake News and Propaganda’. An expert in international media, war and propaganda, and media political economy, Dr. Boyd-Barrett is the author of a number of books, including ‘Western Mainstream Media and the Ukraine Crisis: A Study in Conflict Propaganda’ (2016) and ‘Media Imperialism’ (2014). Following his lecture, he spoke with the HSE News Service about the topic of fake news more broadly and about how people can protect themselves from it.

The Higher School of Economics has climbed to 32nd place in the Times Higher Education Emerging Economies Rankings, improving its previous position by 16 places.