Ithaca College

Arhlene Flowers, assistant professor of strategic communication, and Katalin (Kati) Lustyik, assistant profesor of television and radio, presented a paper, titled "Battling Junk Food Advertising in Cyberspace: Positions in the UK and Hungary," at the conference "Beyond East and West: Two Decades of Media Transformation after the Fall of Communism," which took place at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, June 25-27.

Lustyik presented a second paper, titled "Promoting Regional Content but Raising a Global Consumer: Minimax, a New Regional Children's Television Network in Eastern Europe."

The conference is an official regional conference of the International Communications Association and marks the closure of the European Union's COST A30 Action, "East of West: Setting a New Central and Eastern European Media Research Agenda."
 
Lustyik also presented a paper, titled "Transnational Children's Channels in Post-Socialist Europe," at the international conference, "The Ends of Television: Logics, Perspectives, Entanglements," which took place at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, June 29-July 1.