The 2nd International Conference on Futures of Media 2019

The 2nd International Conference on Futures of Media 2019 is dedicated to the theme, "SHIFTING SPHERES – The Social Impact of Digital Media.".

Topics

• 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?