Agenda – eSociety.mk

Day 1 (07.02.2014)

Day 17 February 2014
10:00—11:00	Registration Lobby (Frosina)
11:00—12:30	Opening of the conference. Elena Ignatova, Metamorphosis and Monika Bozinoska, Youth Educational Forum Presentation of research on the perception among the youth, the media and the civil sector about the level, the quantity and the content of the media coverage on youth topics + Public debate Frosina
Session: Youth, Privacy and Reputation Young people today are sophisticated users of various media, using most of them with ease and enthusiasm. The session will cultivate impact that these technologies can have on youth privacy, and reputation and provide them with tools and information they need to make smart decisions.
12:30 – 13:00	Paulina Lanchi Haduong, Berkman Center for Internet and Society Intersections of youth, reputation, and privacy online, focusing on youth attitudes and practices Frosina	[Workshop] Pocket Cinema Georgi Apostolov, Safer Internet Centre, Bulgaria Anonymous reporting of illegal Internet contents, like child abuse images and hate speech on the Internet
13:00 – 13:30	‎Srećko Šekeljić, SHARE Defense Fight for digital rights within the fields of privacy, free speech, government transparency and efficiency, surveillance and human rights Frosina
13:30 – 14:30	Lunch Break Lobby (Frosina)
Session: Youth led Media This session will look at youth-led media as a powerful voice for young people with potential to reach a greater audience, and the following questions will be covered: how young people are appropriating the media to empower themselves and their community; Imaginative and innovative ways of using new media to broaden the conversation and incite insightful treatment of relevant issues; Ways of using storytelling to build power, unpack key policy issues, and lift up community voices.
14:30 – 15:00	Goran Igić, Milena Stosic, European Youth Press Enabling young people to give voice to their opinions and providing critical view of media and politics through journalistic education as well as learning by doing. Frosina	[Panel] Pocket Cinema Youth Led Media Bojan Anđelković, Radio Student – SLO Kristina Baticeli, Televizija Student – CRO Stefan Aleksik, Radio MOF – MKD Blagica Petrova, Izlez – MKD
15:00 – 15:30	Antoaneta Ivanova, Mladi Info Empower youth-led network through a Youth-led Media Frosina
15:30 – 16:00	Haris Dedovic, Youth Press Association in BiH Youth as a creators and participants in the media sphere Frosina
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee Break Lobby (Frosina)
Session: Media Literacy and Information Quality This session looks at news literacy, how youth can assess the quality and veracity of news reports. The following question will be addressed: Are general media literacy principles enough to teach youth how to dissect news sources or does the analysis of news need a more specialized, nuanced knowledge base given journalism’s distinct, deadline-driven information gathering practices; do youth have the necessary competences to recognize and act against various human rights violations on the media (hate speech, discrimination, etc).
16:30 – 17:00	Kristina Stoycheva, European Association for Viewers Interests Enable citizens to read, write, and participate to public life through the media. Frosina	[Workshop] Pocket Cinema [16:30 – 17:15] Media and Information Literacy in Schools Birgitta Olsson, Film i Halland, Miomir Rajcevic, Media Education Centre, Petrit Saracini, Macedonian Institute for Media [17:15 – 18:00] Media Fact Checking Vladimir Petreski, Metamorphosis
17:00 – 17:30	Lucy Chambers, Open Knowledge Foundation School of data: Create compelling stories using data Frosina
17:30 – 18:00	Ruxandra Pandea, No Hate Speech Movement – Council of Europe Tools for young people and, particularly, youth activists for hate speech Frosina
Films/Projections
18:00 – 20:00	Riot From Wrong, Teddy Nygh A documentary being made by the youth steering group of not for profit organisation Fully Focused Community. In search of the deeper truth and listening to the voices that feel they are not being heard. Pocket Cinema
20:00 – 22:00	Sav Taj Folk / All That Folk “All that folk” is a political documentary series produced by the B92 TV station, analyzing the phenomenon of turbo-folk creation in Serbia and across the region of former Yugoslavia, trying to reveal the reasons for the creation of this artistically worthless musical genre, disputed by many. Pocket Cinema

Day 2 (08.02.2014)

Day 28 February 2014
11:30 – 12:00	Registration Lobby (Frosina)
Session: Digital Media Activism Sometimes media makes viewers feel silenced within the progressive movement or see electoral politics stifle the real heart and soul of an issue. This session will cover the following questions: how young people are appropriating the affordances of digital media to empower themselves and their community; Imaginative and innovative ways of using new media to broaden the conversation and incite insightful treatment of relevant issues and taboos. It will also explore ways of using storytelling to build power, unpack key policy issues, and lift up community voices.
12:00 – 12:30	Erkan Saka, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi How the youth has used the new media in the recent Gezi parki protests in Turkey Frosina	[Workshop] Pocket Cinema [12:00 – 12:45] A space of expression, debate and representation for young adults StreetPress, Johan Weisz-Myara [12:45 – 13:30] Digital Activism Zasto ne, Darko Brkan
12:30 – 13:00	Danica Radisic, Global Voices Online Voices that are not ordinarily heard in international mainstream media Frosina
13:00 – 13:30	Pavel Čejka, Vice Immersion Journalism Frosina
13:30 – 14:00	Riste Zmejkoski, BIRN Investigative journalism and cooperation between media and civil society Frosina	[Panel] Pocket Cinema Youth policy in Media Youth&Media Project [Metamorphosis/YEF] European Youth Forum Radio Free Europe
14:00 – 14:30	Iris Lapinski, Apps for Good Empowering students to create solutions to the problems they care about, using technology Frosina
14:30 – 15:30	Lunch Break Lobby (Frosina)
Session: Music, Visual, Movement Creative presentation of information can be used to enhance critical thinking, with excessive success with the youth population. This sessions looks at how to use multimedia content to incite activism, and will cover the following topics: visualization of data, digital culture, self-expression, activism
15:30 – 16:00	Zuzana Knezlová, Jana Slezáková, International Animation Festival Fest Anča Data visualizations and animation Frosina	[Workshop] Pocket Cinema Hacktivism, critical approaches to digital culture, information freedoms, Arianit Dobroshi, FLOSSK
16:00 – 16:30	Monika Satková, Pohoda Festival Community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance Frosina
16:30 – 17:00	John Weitzmann, Creative Commons Digital commons Frosina	[Workshop] Pocket Cinema Video Activism, Anica Stojanović, CK13 Youth Center
17:00 – 17:30	Ines Efremova Community art Frosina
17:30 – 18:00	Alexander Kowalski, Damage Music Music as media, crowd engagement at electronic music events, what can we expect from the techno music in the future. Frosina
Films/Projections
18:00 – 20:00	103 – A Love Letter To The Alternative Culture Seen through the eyes of the narrator, who is part of the radio story for more than two decades, this film deals with the incredible events that instigated the creation of Kanal 103, and especially the genesis of its transformation into an independent and progressive medium, a medium which from that point on has firmly defied the establishment and the corrupt media reality in Macedonia. Pocket Cinema
20:00 – 22:00	The Majority Starts Here Six young people from ex-Yugoslavia make a journey through the region, examining how the conflicts of the past, which they were too young to understand fully at the time, have influenced both their present and their prospects for the future. Pocket Cinema
23:00 – 04:00