The Broken Internet Symposium
21 January 2021 - 21 January 2021
Online, Belgium
We shall discuss:
1) The issue of professional journalism & news dependency on advertising and the monopoly of the internet gatekeepers.
2) Biased and fake-news as an implication of promotion of only extreme contents by Social Media ranking engines and Google rank - only strong sentiment sells.
3) The growing polarization of news and online discourse (right/left, republican/democrat etc.) as an implication of both advertising, lobbying and algorithmic dissemination - social bubbles on social media and paid political content dissemination.
4) The major risks for modern democracies being affected by compromised media and profit-driven news & information dissemination.
We shall discuss the issues concentrating on 3 pillars:
- Media Convergence Impact
- Digital Infrastructure
- Policy Catch 22
Agenda and information with Zoom link will be sent to the registered participants.
The event will be also streamed on Compact project Facebook page.
More information about Compact project: https://compact-media.eu/
CONTACT: oles.kulchytskyy@aei.org.ua and lukasz.porwol@insight-centre.org
1) The issue of professional journalism & news dependency on advertising and the monopoly of the internet gatekeepers.
2) Biased and fake-news as an implication of promotion of only extreme contents by Social Media ranking engines and Google rank - only strong sentiment sells.
3) The growing polarization of news and online discourse (right/left, republican/democrat etc.) as an implication of both advertising, lobbying and algorithmic dissemination - social bubbles on social media and paid political content dissemination.
4) The major risks for modern democracies being affected by compromised media and profit-driven news & information dissemination.
We shall discuss the issues concentrating on 3 pillars:
- Media Convergence Impact
- Digital Infrastructure
- Policy Catch 22
Agenda and information with Zoom link will be sent to the registered participants.
The event will be also streamed on Compact project Facebook page.
More information about Compact project: https://compact-media.eu/
CONTACT: oles.kulchytskyy@aei.org.ua and lukasz.porwol@insight-centre.org
Keywords
social media, convergence, internet, fake news, journalism