Talk:Media in the digital age – PL 01 2015

23. April 2015

Four centres or pillars for discussion at least: Firstly, we have to deal with the challenges of the new media environment in general and more precisely with the principles of creativity, innovation and participation in the digital age in and through the media, secondly, we have to dwell on hybrid TV and its challenges, thirdly, we have to focus on public service media and regional public service media and the transformations they are undergoing nowadays, fourthly, we have to explore the new types of journalism including data and blogs and the consequences they entail regarding human rights and particularly freedom of expression.

Starting from the preliminary ideas about PSM and Hybrid TV a number of more general questions with respect to the concrete organization and format of the sessions can be posed:

• Which are the most relevant issues within the themes already registered that deserve being been discussed during Pl1 at Eurodig 2015?

If we take the themes as frameworks we could look for specific and important aspects that represent a must to be debated.

• How shall we separate the issues for the plenary session from the issues for the break-out session or whether such separation is needed at all?

We can discuss all topics during the plenary and continue exchanging more in depth all of them during the break-out session but we can pick a couple of accents, the sexiest ones and put on the table for the second session and involve more thoroughly the audience and especially young people?

• What will be the particular format of our plenary - a classical panel discussion consisting of 5 – 7 min interventions and then Q&A with the audience or a round table discussion or a pro and contra talk involving the audience?

These topics relate to the methodology of carrying out sessions. My proposal is to start Pl1 discussing creativity, innovation and participation together with the new types of media and journalism. Here aspects of PSM delivery and content will also be taken into consideration. This will be the first panel.

We have to think about good moderators because the success of such complex sessions as the session on the media in the digital environment depend to a large extent on thought provoking moderation.

From what I have read I really fail to see how Hybrid TV fits the other keywords. This is just a type of non-portable device marketed by technology companies that can in no other way be distinguished from the functionalities of modern :phones, tablets, laptops other than its non-portability.

From where I stand talking about technology is boring and such a focus always produces debates that miss the main, underlying points. Internet governance is not about regulating technology (we have standards agencies for that). It is :about looking at the overlap of social change and technology. It is about technological advances that lead to social changes and economic disruptions.

In that line of thought, the major challenges for "media in the digital age" are:

• Increased competition and end of de-facto monopolies (setting up a media is easy and cheap)
• Recentralisation of technology and media (setting up hundreds of 'counter-medias' is also cheap and there are efforts to control the infrastructure)
• Calls for redecentralisation of the infrastructure

The main issue nowadays is who controls/owns pays the media (revenue stream) and who controls the infrastructure (I do count legislation/regulation as part of the infrastructure. There are four main groups:

1. public service
2. private media
3. citizen media
4. crowd-funded media

The debate must be centred around them. Focusing on technology would make our debate obsolete before it is even over.

Furthermore, there is clear trend in European, Balkan and Bulgarian governments/interest groups to try and control both the infrastructure and a majority of the media. This against the backdrop of changing revenue streams is the exciting :topic this panel should touch upon. Sparing out the fact that Bulgaria is the lowest ranked country in the media freedom index of RWB, although our internet infrastructure is excellent, would be missing out on the chance to have an :actual in-depth conversation. Dimi (talk) 14:16, 27 April 2015 (CEST)

Raw comments of org team members

For transparency find the comments of the org team members:

E.: what is curent position of PSB? What is value of PSM in digital age, and specially for youth? Is there future of PSM? Who will provide culture diversity in domestic/international level if not PSM?...

Ev.: Hbbtv is already well adopted in some European countries, such as Germany, other countries have just adopted equivalent platforms or are about to do so. This satisfactory outcome has come although hbbtv has only recently been described and released to the public, the manufacturers, the content providers etc. Hbbtv can be a game-changer in user experience regarding TV-content delivery. As hbbtv is a platform that combines both broadcast and broadband delivery and it has implications in the domains of net neutrality and data protection I believe it fits perfectly in the plenary Media in Digital Age and it can be introductory to plenaries that follow.

A.: Something from me to you like a food for thought – I addressed them in the WS1 Participation in a digital society but most are suitable here also with some regionalaspect as well:

1.Vatican: Internet - the potential for good and /or evil

2.Today more than 99% of things in the phisical world are still not connected to the internet. What is Internet of everything?

3.Measuring participation- DESI –the new EC tool .How to measure SEE information society- ITU report 2014. Is there any SEE IS statistics? Cullen?

4.Mapping IG.CSTD report.

5.The technology- Moguls of the Internet

6.IG and Internet Management.Critical resources.Who runs the Internet?

7.EC conception digital by default

8.e-democracy,e-participation,e-government, e-governance

9.spectrum management ( Giacomo) – I would add what are we doing with the digital dividend?

Status on the 10th of April 2015

Participants exchanged email messages to formulate relevant proposals. This plenary session will aim at exploring the changes in the media landscape in the new digital environment with a particular focus on the parameters of media freedom and the new phenomena such as the new public service, hybrid TV and its consequences and novel types of journalism. Creativity, participation and innovation are the principles underpinning the media transformations in the digital age. Following the online exchange between the members of the org team, the title, the session teaser and key words have been agreed. The team will continue working on the elaboration of the session format and key participants including key-speakers and moderators.