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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + t r a n s m e d i a l e . 0 2 + + + PRESS RELEASE + + + 01-02-02 + + + t r a n s m e d i a l e . 0 2 + + + international media art festival + + + Feb. 5-10th, 2002 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- transmediale.02 conference Global Public The New World Order of Broadcasting Thursday, 7.2., 20.30 hrs Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin in cooperation with Bundeszentrale f�r politische Bildung Next Thursday, Ibrahim M. Helal, Chief Editor of the Arabic broadcaster Al Jazeera from Qatar, will be participating in a conference about the 'New World Order of Broadcasting' at Berlin's House of World Cultures. Together with G�nter Knabe, Head of the Asia Department of Deutsche Welle, and Han Soete, Speaker of Indymedia Belgium, Helal will be discussing globalisation and digitaisation in the media. The conference - a cooperation of transmediale and Bundeszentrale f�r politische Bildung - will be moderated by Claudia Henne of SFB Radio and will deal with the emergence of a 'Global Public' and the cultural effects of accelerated, satellite- and internet-supported reporting. Globalisation is not merely an economic and political phenomenon. It is also taking place to a substantial degree in the media which increasingly enable a connected audience worldwide to take part live in global events. Estimates say that on September 11, 2001, more than 1 Billion spectators watched the live-broadcast images of the attack against the World Trade Center in New York. The conditions for global media reportage have changed fundamentally over the past years. The co-existence of satellite, internet, and terrestrial broadcasting channels has led to the disappearance of the boundaries between global concerns such as CNN or the BBC, regional stations such as the Arabic network Al Jazeera, or the media activist network Indymedia. Al Jazeera is characterized by a, by Arabian standards, unusually straightforward coverage and creates a new cohesion within the international Arabic diaspora, among exiles as well as working migrants. News broadcasting and reporting reach their limits when their contents can no longer be communicated with a clear and singular meaning - which connotation does a video-tape of Osama Bin Laden have in Kabul, in Gaza, in Washington, in Berlin? How to procure globally significant contents when images accelerated faster than their comprehension? Should we expect a global homogenisation of the media, or a multiplication of channels, each with a specific cultural background which can only be understood by the respective audiences? Representatives of different media discuss the 'new world order' of broadcasting. Participants - Global Public The New World Order of Broadcasting Ibrahim M. Helal, Chief Editor, Al Jazeera/Qatar G�nter Knabe, Deutsche Welle, Asia Department/Germany Han Soete, Indymedia.org/Belgium Moderation Claudia Henne, SFB Radio Kultur/Germany with simultaneous translation Tickets EUR 10 / 7 (Reservation 0049-30-3978 7175) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- transmediale.02 +++ newsletter 08 +++ annette schaefer +++ press office +++ [email protected] +++ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ for the information list of transmediale http://mailman.transmediale.in-berlin.de/mailman/listinfo/newsletter international media art festival berlin transmediale: http://www.transmediale.de _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold