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DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institute’s Central Asia and the Caucasus Initiati
 ve presents a panel discussion with Ibrat Safo and Karlygash Jamankulova.T
 his panel talk discusses the role of traditional media and new media in th
 e lives of people living in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. The event attendant
 s will be able to raise their knowledge and understanding about the situat
 ion of media and its place in two Central Asian countries’ social\, politi
 cal and cultural domains. Specifically\, the discussants will shed light o
 n the situated meaning of free media in Central Asia\, visible and invisib
 le influences of regulated and unregulated mass media outlets\, challenges
  and opportunities posed by the new media on the lives of Central Asians\,
  external and internal informational threats to Central Asia’s security an
 d stability\, and narrative construction procedures in Central Asian media
  platforms.Ibrat Safo has been reporting on Uzbekistan for the BBC in Uzbe
 k\, Russian and English languages for the past twenty years. He covers a w
 ide range of topics such as corruption\, torture and deaths in detention\,
  environmental degradation\, migration and many more. Ibrat Safo also film
 s and produces documentaries involving the social\, political and economic
  lives of people connected to Central Asia both\, at present and formerly.
 Karlygash Jamankulova is a political communications and human rights exper
 t.&nbsp\;Prior to becoming the president of the “Adil Soz\,” she worked si
 x years as the Central Asian media advisor at the U.S. Mission Kazakhstan\
 , and seven years at the European Union Delegation to Kazakhstan as the pr
 ess officer. She has been closely involved in observing and promoting free
  and fair elections in Kazakhstan and other countries such as Egypt\, Leba
 non\, Jordan and Afghanistan to conduct election process activities and lo
 ng-term observations for the National Democratic Institute. She holds a Ph
 .D. in political communication and international journalism from Al-Farabi
  Kazakh National University.&nbsp\;She was a visiting scholar at Columbia 
 University's School of International and Public Affairs.
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SUMMARY:Citizenship in Perspective: 'Free' Media in Central Asians' Lives
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<div>The Moynihan Institute’s Central Asia and
  the Caucasus Initiative presents a panel discussion with Ibrat Safo and K
 arlygash Jamankulova.</div><div><br></div><div><p>This panel talk discusse
 s the role of traditional media and new media in the lives of people livin
 g in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. The event attendants will be able to raise
  their knowledge and understanding about the situation of media and its pl
 ace in two Central Asian countries’ social\, political and cultural domain
 s. </p><p>Specifically\, the discussants will shed light on the situated m
 eaning of free media in Central Asia\, visible and invisible influences of
  regulated and unregulated mass media outlets\, challenges and opportuniti
 es posed by the new media on the lives of Central Asians\, external and in
 ternal informational threats to Central Asia’s security and stability\, an
 d narrative construction procedures in Central Asian media platforms.</p><
 p><span style="background-color: initial\; font-family: inherit\; font-siz
 e: inherit\; text-align: inherit\; text-transform: inherit\; word-spacing:
  normal\; caret-color: auto\; white-space: inherit">Ibrat Safo has been re
 porting on Uzbekistan for the BBC in Uzbek\, Russian and English languages
  for the past twenty years. He covers a wide range of topics such as corru
 ption\, torture and deaths in detention\, environmental degradation\, migr
 ation and many more. Ibrat Safo also films and produces documentaries invo
 lving the social\, political and economic lives of people connected to Cen
 tral Asia both\, at present and formerly.</span></p></div><p>Karlygash Jam
 ankulova is a political communications and human rights expert.&nbsp\;Prio
 r to becoming the president of the “Adil Soz\,” she worked six years as th
 e Central Asian media advisor at the U.S. Mission Kazakhstan\, and seven y
 ears at the European Union Delegation to Kazakhstan as the press officer. 
 She has been closely involved in observing and promoting free and fair ele
 ctions in Kazakhstan and other countries such as Egypt\, Lebanon\, Jordan 
 and Afghanistan to conduct election process activities and long-term obser
 vations for the National Democratic Institute. She holds a Ph.D. in politi
 cal communication and international journalism from Al-Farabi Kazakh Natio
 nal University.&nbsp\;She was a visiting scholar at Columbia University's 
 School of International and Public Affairs.</p>
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