Programme
Young People and Information: It’s Complicated
Day 1
TIME | SESSION | LOCATION |
| 08:15 – 09:00 | Coffee | Foyer |
| 09:00 – 09:20 | INTRODUCTION TO THE CONFERENCE | |
| 09:00 – 09:15 | Alex Grech 3CL Foundation Welcome | Floriani |
| 09:15 – 09:20 | Janette Ballard Media Consultant A Manifesto in the Making | Floriani |
| 09.20 – 11.00 | THEME #1: ADDRESSING MEDIA FREEDOMSWhat can journalism do for you, me and all of us? Chair: Herman Grech | Floriani |
| 09:20 – 09.40 | Evarist Bartolo Former Minister for Education & Employment and Foreign Affairs, Malta Geopolitics and the Media: it’s complicated | Floriani |
| 09:40 – 10:00 | Ricardo Gutierrez European Federation of Journalists TBD | Floriani |
| 10.00 – 10.20 | Sean Stephens Vice Ukraine: How Putin’s War Finally Forced Newsrooms To Take Their Younger Audiences Seriously | Floriani |
| 10.20 – 10.40 | Clare Kiely On Our Radar Community Reporting as a Public Good: Amplifying diverse voices and experiences | Floriani |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Discussion and Q&A | |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Coffee Break #1 | Foyer |
| 11.20 – 11:30 | MANIFESTO #1The ‘making’ starts here | Andrea Belli |
| 11.30 – 13.00 | THEME #2: COMBATING DISINFORMATIONTrust & Technology: Years to build, seconds to break Chair: Janette Ballard | Floriani |
| 11:30 – 11.50 | Athina Karatzogianni University of Leicester COVID19 Disinformation and Response in India, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand | Floriani |
| 11:50 – 12:10 | Karen Elliott University of Birmingham Assuring Citizen Agency in a World with Complex Online Harms | Floriani |
| 12:10 – 12:30 | Rachel O’Connell Trust Elevate How Technology may combat disinformation | Floriani |
| 12:30 – 12:50 | Noah Giansiracusa Bentley University How Algorithms create and prevent Fake News | Floriani |
| 12:50 – 13:00 | Discussion and Q&A | Floriani |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch | Foyer |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | MANIFESTO #2Eat, think and help build the manifesto | Andrea Belli |
| 14:30 – 16:00 | THEME #2: COMBATING DISINFORMATIONBuild, Educate or Regulate? Chair: Athina Karatzogianni | Floriani |
| 14:30 – 14:50 | Patricia Shaw Beyond Reach Participatory Governance for a Trustworthy Information Age | Floriani |
| 14:50 – 15:10 | Elizabeth Canellakis US Embassy Social Media and Foreign Policy | Floriani |
| 15:10 – 15:30 | Janey Starling Level Up Yes we can – effecting change | Floriani |
| 15:30 – 15:50 | Alex Grech 3CL Foundation Respondent | Floriani |
| 15:50 – 16:00 | Discussion and Q&A | Floriani |
| 14:30 – 16:00 | THEME #2: COMBATING DISINFORMATIONThe many forms of Digital Literacies | Andrea Belli |
| 14.30 – 14:50 | Sorcha Hughes Guardian Foundation NewsWise: Young people and the news | Andrea Belli |
| 14:50 – 15:10 | Olle Nyman (first) RISE The state perspective: Combating disinformation on behalf of the citizen | Andrea Belli |
| 15:10 – 15:30 | Caitlin Webb The Student View Empowering future content creators | Andrea Belli |
| 15:30 – 15:50 | Lourdes Pullicino (second) MEDAC Declining trust in news media – causes and consequences. | Andrea Belli |
| 15:50 – 16:00 | Discussion and Q&A | Andrea Belli |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | THEME #3: UNDERSTANDING ONLINE BEHAVIOURIn Conversation Talking Loud and Clear (Push-backs) | Floriani |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Job 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 #3From scaffolding to building blocks – have your say as a First Draft emerges | Andrea Belli |
Day 2
| TIME | SESSION | LOCATION |
| 08.15 – 09:00 | Coffee | Foyer |
| 09:00 – 09:20 | INTRODUCTION TO DAY TWO | |
| 09:00 – 09:10 | Natasha Meli Daudey Ambassador of Malta to Austria | Floriani |
| 09.10 – 09.20 | MANIFESTO #4Feedback, stepback, move forward | Floriani |
| 09.20 – 11.00 | THEME #2: COMBATING DISINFORMATIONBuild, Educate or Regulate? Chair: Alex Grech | Floriani |
| 09:20 – 09:40 | Noah Giansiracusa Bentley University You are just a number in someone else’s equation | Floriani |
| 09:40 – 10:00 | Karen Elliott University of Birmingham Title: Finclusion, Agency and online harms | Floriani |
| 10.00 – 10.20 | Joshua Ellul University of Malta Blockchain as the Truth Machine | Floriani |
| 10.20 – 10.40 | Björn Flintberg RISE Respondent | Floriani |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Discussion and Q&A | Floriani |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Coffee Break #1 | Foyer |
| 11.20 – 11:30 | MANIFESTO #5It’s never to late to have your say… | Andrea Belli |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | THEME #2: COMBATING DISINFORMATIONThe Education we need Chair: John Portelli | Andrea Belli |
| 11:30 – 11.50 | Gary Pluim Lakehead University A new curriculum fit for purpose | Andrea Belli |
| 11:50 – 12:10 | Natalino Fenech MCAST What skills do tomorrow’s journalists need? (Provisional) | Andrea Belli |
| 12:10 – 12:30 | Patrick Camilleri University of Malta Gen-Z Gen-Me | Andrea Belli |
| 12:30 – 12:50 | Aleks Farrugia Director Lifelong Learning Respondent Sorcha Hughes | Andrea Belli |
| 12:50 – 13:00 | Discussion and Q&A | Andrea Belli |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | THEME #3: UNDERSTANDING ONLINE BEHAVIOURYou, me, who we are and what we do | Floriani |
| 11:30 – 11:50 | Maria Pisani University of Malta The elephant in the room | Floriani |
| 11:50 – 12:10 | Megha Mohan BBC Gender and Identity Correspondent Real people and their stories | Floriani |
| 12:10 – 12:30 | Janey Starling Level Up Dignity for dead women: changing how the press reports fatal domestic abuse | Floriani |
| 12:30 – 12:50 | Toni Sant University of Salford, Manchester The Open Web as Utopia: memories and remnants of the information superhighway | Floriani |
| 12:50 – 13:00 | Discussion and Q&A | Floriani |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch | Foyer |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Round Table & Manifesto in the making Chair: Janette Ballard | Floriani |
| 14:30-15:30 | Minister 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 – 15:45 | CLOSE Alex Grech | Floriani |
| 16:00 onwards | UNCONFERENCE | Floriani |
