Međunarodni interdisciplinarni simpozij Filozofija medija “MEDIJI I JAVNOST”
(Filozofijski, komunikološki, kulturološki, artistički,tehnički i politički aspekti medijskog oblikovanja javnosti)
The International Interdisciplinary Symposium of the Philosophy Media ”MEDIA AND PUBLIC”
(Philosophical, communicational, cultural, artistic, technical, and political aspects of modeling/shaping the public through the media)
The role of the mediator in shaping and modeling of the public opinion has always been of great and paramount importance.
The Messengers/media have rarely given artistically shaped messages.
If the mass media has an increasingly strong influence on modeling the lives of people, which is obvious, then the meaning of the concepts regarding general opinion, values or judgments is also changing fast.
The increasingly strong impact of the mass media has raised the question of media instrumentalization in shaping the public according to the needs of the media or the corporation owner who decide whether they will survive or not (through adds or no adds in this media). Increasing the influence of the media leads to the polarization of the public and private interests, to interference of commercial interest into the sphere of general values; it destroys (traditional) values and the regulation of independent research journalism, excludes the aspect of media ethics, diminishes the presence of art and culture in the media and all this brings forth problems that we may not have been aware of yet.
The symposium, originally dedicated to philosophical contemplation about media images of the world, has the intention to confront theoreticians and practitioners experts of various profiles and to compare their ways of contemplating the question of creating (modeling, shaping) of the public (community). Especially interesting topics of contemplation appear, along with the following related problems:
-Old and new channels of art communication
-Designing of the public
-Public in the age of multimedia seduction
-Old journalism as artistic practice, corporate journalism as a form of camouflaging the business and politics interests, and non-profitable ways of journalist practice
-To what extend could communicational scientific contemplation grasp the problem of contemporary mass media mediation?
-What are the direct influences of technological changes in the sphere of media communication in shaping the public?
-To what extent and what prevents the artistic influence in communicating specific artistic views and values to the public?
-How to “break” the addiction of politics to interfere into the management of public services?
-Which legal forms are used to establish a more equitable basis for equality in creating/shaping the public?
-Can the proper level of defining the problem of contemporary mass media influence on shaping/forming/creating the public be reached, without any philosophical contemplation?
Hotel Petka, Dubrovnik,Hrvatska/Croatia,
15 – 17. 11. 2013.