The Centre for Liberal Strategies, Open Society Institute – Sofia and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present:

Media and the Presidential Pre-election Race

A debate in three parts:

Part I: “The President as a Washing Powder”, or how the political looks like a set of advertising strategies. We will comment on how the presidential candidates were 'invented' by their PR offices and how the citizens used visual replicas and anonymous graffiti in order to give a final touch to their images. In short, we will analyse how media was convincing us to 'buy' a president and will come closer to the answer why we decided to buy 'a simple washing powder”

With the participation of: Todor Hristov (Sofia University) and Borislav Kandov (Capital Weekly)
Moderator: Milla Mineva

Part II: “Blogs as a Political Instrument”, in which we will discuss a unique feature of the last presidential election campaign, namely the emergence of the Bulgarian political blogs. About Internet as a political media and about the specificities of communication and propahanda in Internet.
With the participation of: Julian Popov (education expert and a renowned political blogger) and Antonia Vlaykova (Indymedia) and Komitata & Stoycho (www.komitata.blogspot.com)
Moderator: Orlin Spassov

Part III: “Media in the Mirror of the Elections”, in which we will talk about how objective or biased were the main electronic media during the last presidential elections. What conception of 'public interest' did they represent, and how did they take part in the elections.
With the participation of: Georgi Lozanov (media expert) and Petya Vladimirova (journalist, Dnevnik Daily)
Moderator: Boyan Znepolski

In Bulgarian.



VIDEO RECORDING OF THE DEBATE



Part of Infowarroom debate series.





This project is supported by the Culture 2000 programme of the European Union and the Netherlands Culture Fund.




Media partners:
Indymedia
Dnevnik Daily
Capital Weekly
Radio France International

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