On April 24 at 13:00, we invite you to participate in the online research seminar "Digital activism in the future past: How Dutch Extinction Rebellion activists connect past, present and future in their memory work on Instagram", hosted by Dr. Rik Smit, Senior Lecturer at the University of Groningen. Duration: 1.5 hours.
Starting on the 1st of September 2025, the Faculty of Communication at Vilnius University in collaboration with Business School at Vilnius University is launching a new undergraduate study programme "Innovative Communication and Entrepreneurship". The new programme is designed to address the rapidly evolving needs of the international job market, where professionals with expertise in digital communication, traditional and digital marketing, entrepreneurship, and technological innovation are in demand.
On April 7 at 16:00, we invite you to participate in the online research seminar "Historical hallucinations: How generative artificial intelligence applications (mis)represent the history of the Holocaust in Ukraine", hosted by Dr. Mykola Makhortykh, a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Communication and Media Science at the University of Bern. Duration: 1,5 hours.
On 24-26th of March, Jean-Charles Lamirel, a researcher at the LORIA Research Institute and Professor at the University of Strasbourg, will deliver four open lectures at the Faculty of Communication on the application of artificial intelligence in communication and business and the principles of large language models.
Viktor Denisenko, Kiryl Kascian
Vilniaus universiteto Komunikacijos fakulteto
Komunikacinių įtakų ir propagandos tyrimų centras
Monitoring period: January-February 2025
The monitoring covers the following media outlets: CNBC (USA); CNN (USA); BBC (UK); FAZ (Germany); FOX News (USA); The Guardian (UK); Huff Post (UK); Independent (UK); Kronen Zeitung (Austria); Lidové noviny (Czech Republic); Rzeczpospolita (Poland); Sky News (UK); Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany); Gazeta.pl (Poland).
Watch the recording of the online seminar "Internet Memes as Multimodal Analogies: Analogical Thinking and Participatory History in the subreddit r/HistoryMemes".
On March 13 at 13:00, we invite you to participate in the online research seminar "Internet Memes as Multimodal Analogies: Analogical Thinking and Participatory History in the subreddit r/HistoryMemes", hosted by Robbert-Jan Adriaansen, endowed professor at Ghent University and associate professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Duration: 1.5 hours.
