The 2nd International Conference on Futures of Media 2019 is dedicated to the theme, "SHIFTING SPHERES – The Social Impact of Digital Media.".
The 2nd International Conference on Futures of Media 2019 covers topics such as:
- Is the idea of privacy being redefined or is it being discarded altogether?
- What is the new public, what is the new private?
- What is the relationship between Twitter, Facebook etc. and the legacy media?
- Do digital technologies help with the eradication of racism and sexism or have they become complicit in them?
- How has device mobility changed media reception modes?
- Which old mechanisms of influence have survived and why? Which new ones have emerged?
- Do recent successful attempts at censorship bode ill for sustainable global accessibility in the future?
- What role does the global availability of media play
- How can and should media influence future developments?
- How can a new media concept/theory be devised in the light of these rapid social changes?
- What are the limits of democracy?
- How has globalization, the global South and the Asian Century redefined approaches to social media spheres?
- Can what is currently happening also be described as continuity with merely gradual changes?
- Is it possible that there is no change at all taking place?
- Are ‘filter bubbles’ not quite as new as we assume?