The Transformation of News in the Digital Age : an interactive, live conversation between scholars and practitioner
Journalism, New Technologies and Media Development : The Transformation
of News in the Digital Age : an interactive, live conversation between
scholars and practitioners
Join us, Tuesday July 14 (at 4 pm Budapest time, 3 pm GMT, 10 am EST) as
we debate the issues at the digital crossroads of the transnational
media environment.
Recent events across the globe underscore the dramatic changes in ways
people communicate with each other. Traditional boundaries and cultural
mores are tested as new media augment the information landscape and
challenge prevailing orthodoxies. Old institutions are threatened as
broadcast entities and newspapers lose some primacy. Questions abound
about a Twitter generation, a Facebook society and a world in which
mobile telephony becomes a more and more significant platform for the
diffusion of news. Are these concerns overblown ? What are some of the
implications for existing entities, for governments, for civil society,
for media development agencies and funders ? This event will serve as a
pilot project for an international series of online seminars focusing on
emerging issues of mobile technologies.
The interactive session will feature live in conversation James Deane,
director of policy for the BBC World Service Trust ; Persephone Miel,
Senior Advisor, Internews, and a fellow with the Berkman Center for
Internet and Society at Harvard University ; and practitioners,
researchers, and journalists in media development from Bangladesh,
Palestine, South Africa, El Salvador and across Central and Eastern
Europe.
Tech requirements, URL and logistics
Online Logistics & URL : to be distributed soon. Details will also be
posted on the websites for CMCS/CEU and
CGCS/Annenberg
The online seminar streamed live from Budapest at the headquarters of
Magyar Telekom with an ongoing, interactive live chat supplementing the
live session. Organizers will set up a Twitter feed and we encourage
participants joining us online to make use of Twitter and other
platforms to engage with the panelists, send in their comments and
questions.
RSVP and for more information
To join in this online interactive seminar, please rsvp to Moustafa
Ayad, coordinator or direct questions to Dr. Kate
Coyer, Center for Media and Communication Studies, CEU coyerc@ceu.hu or
Susan Abbott, Annenberg, susanabbott@gmail.com.
Webinar coordinators
The webinar is being organized by the Center for Media and Communication
Studies at Central European University and the Center for Global
Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication,
University of Pennsylvania.
The webinar has been made possible by the generosity of Magyar Telekom.