10. Times journalists, politicians, civil society to come to the GMF to Bonn. The Forum discussed about post-factual politics, and populism, to forgive, the Freedom of Speech Award – and invites you to Laugh.
It is a small anniversary: for the tenth Time, gather at the 19. In June, representatives of media, civil society and policy at the Global Media Forum in Bonn. For DW Director General Peter Limbourg is a commitment: “We look forward to the future! In this Global Media Forum, the innovations of the digital world will be a big issue.”
Expect exciting encounters: DW Director General Limbourg
Patrick Leusch confirmed. “We are going to discuss questions of the digital future of our working life”, says the managing Director of the Global Media forum (GMF). “How are we going to work as a media-maker in the future? Journalism is in a huge bubble, in which each of the transmitter and the receiver. The big question is: How do we remain here, to be trustworthy?”, Leusch explains. The kick-off panel will deal with the issue of credibility: “The dissemination of lies – the media in the post-factual age”. Also in the other conference over the course of this theme appears again and again. For example, if the break-up of filter bubbles is treated, or the growth of populism.
A Wide Variety Of Formats
A total of about 2000 visitors from 130 countries expected at the Global Media Forum, a range of around 40 individual events. This ranges from the “small Workshop on very intimate formats, exclusively on invitation to major chamber events,” says Patrick Leusch the spectrum. Among the participants of the GMF carrier, Secretary General of the European Parliament, Klaus Welle, the Deputy Director-General of UNESCO Frank La Rue, entrepreneur and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Amnesty international-International Secretary General, Salil Shetty, or even one of the founders of the American Initiative “Women’s March”, Carmen Perez.
Womens March Organizer Carmen Perez
A focus of this tenth edition of the GMF: Individual actors and their view of things in exciting formats. Leusch a falls for the first time, Michal Kosinski. The psychologist from the US Stanford University is considered the spiritual father of Cambridge Analytica. This company should have created in the U.S. presidential election campaign on the basis of publicly available data, detailed Profiles of millions of voters. These were then edited using psychologically tailored messages from the campaign team of Donald Trumps. It is not surprising that the Kosinskis lecture under the title “The end of privacy”.
Signal for the freedom of the press in the United States
One of the highlights of the Global Media forum, the awarding of the Freedom of Speech Awards. Awarded by the Deutsche Welle, this year for the third Time and goes to the White House Correspondents’ Association. DW Director General Peter Limbourg would not have expected a few years ago that the DW would distinguish a journalists ‘ organization in the United States. “But we believe that it is an attack on the freedom of the press, when Donald Trump condemned the media aggressively, you insulted foul-mouthed,” says Limbourg. “We want to put a sign that democracy must in the world be always protected, because it is the key for a functioning democracy, and to that of respecting human rights.”
Support from Bonn in times of Trump Freedom of Speech Award for the WHCA
The tenth edition of the Global Media forum also with some innovations. The biggest: The third day of the conference is dedicated to practical journalistic work. With the Media Innovation Lab, GMF managing Director Leusch, get Offered to the GMF in the last years of the participants shown a desire for “Hands-on”. Experts will be talking in a relatively short sequence to the digital future. In addition, there will be an Explorer in the market. Leusch explains: “You can put in at least two projects with Virtual Reality apart. There is a drone project. We have a 360-degree-journalism-project. And we introduce a number of innovations on the software base for journalists.” Tune in to this Explorer market you can Sjoblad with a presentation by Bio-Hacker Hannes. Which among other things is known to implant people with RFID Chips for near field communication under the skin. Even otherwise, the Swede Sjoblad explores the possibilities of merging technology and the human organism. Technological progress, predicts that the Cyborg-activist, will increase the diversity of human life is still important – and our understanding of identity completely changed.
Sets musical accents: Joy Denalane
Satire as a weapon
Art, culture and a sense of Humor this time get more room at the Global Media Forum. The Norwegian artist Maia Urstad developed specifically for the Global Media Forum is a sound art project – in the light of the topic of diversity, relies on Audio archive material from the 30 back to the language editors of the Deutsche Welle. Also, the photographer Kevin McElvaney will be represented with the GMF newly designed variant of the emotional “Mirror Projects touch”.
For musical accents, the German singer Joy Denalane and the Vietnamese woman Mai Khoi. Above all, however, In this Global Media Forum laughter: Satire is not treated only in the abstract in a Panel entitled “Satire as a weapon”. Satire gets its own space at the conference. The Team from Zambezi News from Zimbabwe is the world – and conference events, take in a funny way.
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“We believe that conferences work in the future solely on the cognitive level. The need to be inspiring on all levels,” said GMF Executive Director Patrick Leusch. “That’s why we have made an effort to bring even humorous aspects.”
For all who can not come to Bonn, there is still one consolation: Live Streaming. On the GMF website, you can click in individual rooms and events – and via Chat and remotely at the Conference to participate.