Political fragmentation is continually rising. We expertise much less and fewer of a shared actuality in society. Some persons are afraid of migrants, others of dropping their properties. Some folks do not imagine COVID exists – some religiously imagine in science and objectivism. Nonetheless others attribute every part they do not perceive to historical aliens.
Our societies are extra saturated with media than ever earlier than. The proliferation of content material for content material’s sake makes it a lot more durable for viewers to determine relevance. This upheaval, this destabilization of which means, is what occurs at any time when a significant technological shift pushes society out of its established methods.
A couple of many years in the past, digital progressives promised a brand new period, wherein the Web and its facilities would deliver freedom and democracy, making our lives simpler and extra enjoyable. At this time, most media diets are dominated by bullshit adverts, political propaganda, and a relentless, pounding sound of content material farms.
Who can we blame for all this? At this time’s company have some perception to supply.
Mercy Abang is an award-winning journalist from Nigeria. She is a media entrepreneur, co-managing director and CEO of Hostwriter, based mostly in Berlin, Germany.
Lina Chawaf is a Syrian journalist and founding father of Radio Rozana which broadcasts in Arabic for a Syrian viewers each in Syria and within the diaspora. She works from Gaziantep, Turkey.
Péter Krekó is a political scientist and social psychologist at ELTE College. He’s director of the Political Capital Institute, an unbiased suppose tank based mostly in Budapest. He has additionally been a recurring writer and pal of Eurozine for a few years.
We meet them within the spectacular library of the College of English and American Research at Eötvös Loránd College, within the coronary heart of Budapest, Hungary.
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Merve Akyel, artwork director
Szilvia Pinter, producer
Zsófia Gabriella Papp, govt producer
Margarita Lechner, writer-editor
Priyanka Hutschenreiter, mission assistant
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Hermann Riessner, director
Mission supervisor Judit Csikós
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Nóra Ruszkai, sound engineering
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László Halász, pictures
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Nóra Ruszkai, chief video editor
Dialogue editor Kateryna Kuzmenko
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Victor Maria Lima, animation
Cornelia Frischauf, theme music
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Plato and Malala Yousafzai from Filckr. A younger lady studying right here, extra ladies studying right here, a suffragist there and decided girls all over the place. Actually, all over the place.
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Julia Sobota, Daniela Univazo, Mars Zaslavsky, Marta Ferdebar, Olena Jermakova
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