Young People and Information Conference

Programme

Young People and Information: It’s Complicated

Day 1

TIME
SESSION
LOCATION
08:15 – 09:00CoffeeFoyer
09:00 – 09:20

INTRODUCTION TO THE CONFERENCE

09:00 – 09:15Alex Grech
3CL Foundation
Welcome
Floriani
09:15 – 09:20Janette Ballard
Media Consultant
A Manifesto in the Making
Floriani
09.20 – 11.00

THEME #1: ADDRESSING MEDIA FREEDOMS

What can journalism do for you, me and all of us?

Chair: Herman Grech
Times of Malta

Floriani
09:20 – 09.40Evarist Bartolo
Former Minister for Education & Employment and Foreign Affairs, Malta
Geopolitics and the Media: it’s complicated
Floriani
09:40 – 10:00Ricardo Gutierrez
European Federation of Journalists
TBD
Floriani
10.00 – 10.20Sean Stephens
Vice
Ukraine: How Putin’s War Finally Forced Newsrooms To Take Their Younger Audiences Seriously
Floriani
10.20 – 10.40Clare Kiely
On Our Radar
Community Reporting as a Public Good: Amplifying diverse voices and experiences
Floriani
10:40 – 11:00Discussion and Q&A
11:00 – 11:20Coffee Break #1Foyer
11.20 – 11:30

MANIFESTO #1

The ‘making’ starts here
Janette Ballard

Andrea Belli
11.30 – 13.00

THEME #2: COMBATING DISINFORMATION

Trust & Technology: Years to build, seconds to break

Chair: Janette Ballard

Floriani
11:30 – 11.50Athina Karatzogianni
University of Leicester
COVID19 Disinformation and Response in India, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand
Floriani
11:50 – 12:10Karen Elliott
University of Birmingham
Assuring Citizen Agency in a World with Complex Online Harms
Floriani
12:10 – 12:30Rachel O’Connell
Trust Elevate
How Technology may combat disinformation
Floriani
12:30 – 12:50Noah Giansiracusa
Bentley University
How Algorithms create and prevent Fake News
Floriani
12:50 – 13:00Discussion and Q&AFloriani
13:00 – 14:30LunchFoyer
13:30 – 14:30

MANIFESTO #2

Eat, think and help build the manifesto
Janette Ballard & Team

Andrea Belli
14:30 – 16:00

THEME #2: COMBATING DISINFORMATION

Build, Educate or Regulate?

Chair: Athina Karatzogianni

Floriani
14:30 – 14:50Patricia Shaw
Beyond Reach
Participatory Governance for a Trustworthy Information Age
Floriani
14:50 – 15:10Elizabeth Canellakis
US Embassy
Social Media and Foreign Policy
Floriani
15:10 – 15:30Janey Starling
Level Up
Yes we can – effecting change
Floriani
15:30 – 15:50Alex Grech
3CL Foundation
Respondent
Floriani
15:50 – 16:00Discussion and Q&AFloriani
14:30 – 16:00

THEME #2: COMBATING DISINFORMATION

The many forms of Digital Literacies
Chair: Gary Pluim

Andrea Belli
14.30 – 14:50Sorcha Hughes
Guardian Foundation
NewsWise: Young people and the news
Andrea Belli
14:50 – 15:10Olle Nyman (first)
RISE
The state perspective: Combating disinformation on behalf of the citizen
Andrea Belli
15:10 – 15:30Caitlin Webb
The Student View
Empowering future content creators
Andrea Belli
15:30 – 15:50Lourdes Pullicino (second)
MEDAC
Declining trust in news media – causes and consequences.
Andrea Belli
15:50 – 16:00Discussion and Q&AAndrea Belli
16:00 – 16:30

THEME #3: UNDERSTANDING ONLINE BEHAVIOUR

In Conversation Talking Loud and Clear (Push-backs)
Interviewer: Mario Cacciottolo

Floriani
16:00 – 16:30Job Duijnkerke and Dayenne van Peperstraten
Content Creators and Digital Nomads
Point and Shoot: Building our dreamlife after University

MCAST and University Students

Floriani
16:00 onwards

MANIFESTO #3

From scaffolding to building blocks – have your say as a First Draft emerges
Janette Ballard and Team

Andrea Belli

Day 2

TIMESESSIONLOCATION
08.15 – 09:00CoffeeFoyer
09:00 – 09:20

INTRODUCTION TO DAY TWO

09:00 – 09:10Natasha Meli Daudey
Ambassador of Malta to Austria
Floriani
09.10 – 09.20

MANIFESTO #4

Feedback, stepback, move forward
Janette Ballard

Floriani
09.20 – 11.00

THEME #2: COMBATING DISINFORMATION

Build, Educate or Regulate?

Chair: Alex Grech

Floriani
09:20 – 09:40Noah Giansiracusa
Bentley University
You are just a number in someone else’s equation
Floriani
09:40 – 10:00Karen Elliott
University of Birmingham
Title: Finclusion, Agency and online harms
Floriani
10.00 – 10.20Joshua Ellul
University of Malta
Blockchain as the Truth Machine
Floriani
10.20 – 10.40Björn Flintberg
RISE
Respondent
Floriani
10:40 – 11:00Discussion and Q&AFloriani
11:00 – 11:20Coffee Break #1Foyer
11.20 – 11:30

MANIFESTO #5

It’s never to late to have your say…
Janette Ballard

Andrea Belli
11:30 – 13:00

THEME #2: COMBATING DISINFORMATION

The Education we need

Chair: John Portelli

Andrea Belli
11:30 – 11.50Gary Pluim
Lakehead University
A new curriculum fit for purpose
Andrea Belli
11:50 – 12:10Natalino Fenech
MCAST
What skills do tomorrow’s journalists need? (Provisional)
Andrea Belli
12:10 – 12:30Patrick Camilleri
University of Malta
Gen-Z Gen-Me
Andrea Belli
12:30 – 12:50Aleks Farrugia
Director Lifelong Learning
Respondent

Sorcha Hughes
Guardian Foundation
Respondent

Andrea Belli
12:50 – 13:00Discussion and Q&AAndrea Belli
11:30 – 13:00

THEME #3: UNDERSTANDING ONLINE BEHAVIOUR

You, me, who we are and what we do
Chair: Godfrey Baldacchino

Floriani
11:30 – 11:50Maria Pisani
University of Malta
The elephant in the room
Floriani
11:50 – 12:10Megha Mohan
BBC Gender and Identity Correspondent
Real people and their stories
Floriani
12:10 – 12:30Janey Starling
Level Up
Dignity for dead women: changing how the press reports fatal domestic abuse
Floriani
12:30 – 12:50Toni Sant
University of Salford, Manchester
The Open Web as Utopia: memories and remnants of the information superhighway
Floriani
12:50 – 13:00Discussion and Q&AFloriani
13:00 – 14:30LunchFoyer
14:30 – 15:30Round Table & Manifesto in the making
Chair: Janette Ballard
Floriani
14:30-15:30Minister Ian Borg, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Malta
Teresa Ribeiro, Fifth Representative on Media Freedoms, OSCE
Natasha Meli Daudey, Malta’s Ambassador to Austria
Patrick Penninckx, Head of Information Society Department, Council of Europe
Floriani
15:30 – 15:45CLOSE
Alex Grech
Floriani
16:00 onwardsUNCONFERENCEFloriani