DIT | Taking Back the Web

Leading figures in media and academia will gather in Dublin for Taking Back the Web, a major conference focusing on how critical media literacy can address the widespread loss of trust in the media.

Hosted by the Centre for Critical Media Literacy (CCML) of Dublin Institute of Technology, the event will feature a keynote address by veteran journalist and broadcaster Vincent Browne with a responding panel including artist and activist Grace Dyas, author Dr Gavan Titley of Maynooth University and Nikki Murphy, DIT journalism student and 2018 Press Council of Ireland Bursary Award winner.

Taking Back the Web: Participation, panic, power – public and private, is the CCML‘s second annual conference. The centre was established last year to facilitate a range of media research, production, learning and community engagement projects. This event will examine how critical media literacy can help to analyse and transform the relationship between personal and civic data and corporate profit in societies experiencing a widespread loss of trust in ‘surveillance capitalism'.

The rich programme of events will feature more than 40 national and international thinkers speaking about various topics in journalism, social media and communication technology. Highlights include Vincent Browne‘s keynote address, Relentless Bias and Trivialisation in Media, and panel discussions about children's digital rights and the radical potentials that may still exist in online media.

Alongside the conference, on Saturday October 20^th, the CCML is running Making the Web, a series of talks and ‘maker' workshops aimed at participants of diverse abilities. Free tickets for this event are available here.