AC Forum 2008 Featured Debate! Citizen Journalism: Future or Folly?
Throughout the month of April, I'll be profiling all of the workshops held this year at the Alternative Channel Forum on Social Networking and Responsible Media. Each workshop features leading experts discussing some of the most interesting and controversial issues related to the new media's responsibility to social awareness and humanitarian causes. Have a question you'd like to ask our panelists? Leave a comment, and we'll try to get it answered at the Forum.
Two men, one destiny: THE ALTERNATIVE CHANNEL FORUM on Social Networking and Responsible Media, Barcelona, 30 April 2008!
At 10.00 Vicente Verdú and Thierry Maillet will be the first to melt the ice as they kick off the day’s first panel on the theme The Participative Society: Limits and Opportunities of Citizen Journalism. Each will give their thoughts on the present state of the discourse and their visions for the future of this new popular mobilization.
The emergence of new mediums of communication which is marking our century, and the preference for increasing internet use over engagement of more “classic” forms of media, are remodeling our modern society and redefining its channels of information.
Vicente Verdú, editor and columnist, is recognized for his lucid analyses of social trends and phenomena. He holds a doctorate in Social Sciences from the Sorbonne and is a member of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. His columns are published in the prominent Spanish daily El País.
Thierry Maillet is the author of La Génération Participation in which he investigates the relationship between consumption and participative citizenship. He writes in his blog that his past has forged in him a strong interest in the interaction between the citizen and the corporation. He shares his time between consulting and research activities and instruction at the Universidad Carlos III, Madrid.
In a Barcelona state of mind? Register to attend now!
If you prefer to take in the heat from afar, please join us for a LIVE BLOG, beginning with this opening panel and continuing all day. The intellectual face-to-face is not to be missed.
Have an opinion about the opportunities and limits of citizen journalism? Would you like to ask our panelists a question? Leave a comment and we'll seek answers in Barcelona on 30 April.
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