Day 4 is about the word on every marketer’s mouth. Everyone’s focusing on it, but it’s not a focused word. What does it mean exactly? Why does it matter? And how do we do it right? Attend small group workshops about mobile ads, mobile responsive site and mobile app development. Learn about the rapid rise of mobile browsing (and what that means to us) in our interactive globe installation. And hear from Ruth McCarthy, Founder of Mobili Media, about how to get caught up -- and then get ahead.
The purpose of this event is to unpack evolving understandings of disinformation and its impact with a particular focus on the unique effects of disinformation on children. This session will be led by Web Ranger Ambassadors, Web Rangers SA is a digital literacy programme designed to allow young people to gain critical digital literacy skills and knowledge around online safety.
While the media in South Africa enjoys more freedom than many of their counterparts on the continent and other parts of the world, they still find themselves facing a barrage of attacks on a daily basis, physically and online. Trust in the media has also waned over the past few years, especially because of misinformation and disinformation. This discussion seeks to unpack the current context of media freedom in South Africa and the future steps that need to be taken.
Society is still grappling with an appropriate response to AI and in this sense, we too are still machine learning. We hope this event will contribute to the growing debate around AI to inform a response which is grounded in human rights. We will also look at the implication that AI has on the media industry, and conclude by providing some key recommendations.
This will be a media ethics focused exercise. Drawing on the report that should be in the public from the Satchwell Ethics Inquiry, and thanks to the success of the last Tightrope event we ran we will again seek to play the ethical tightrope game. A series of ethical dilemmas will be presented, and answers sought from expert journalists.
Media freedom matters not just because it is protected in our constitution, it matters because it is at the heart of democracy. It enables dissension, agreement, diversity of ideas, for ideas to be tested and challenged, for the powerful to be held accountable and for us to give expression to our democracy. Media freedom week seeks to unpack some of these dimensions and to see how it positively impacts our lives."
