Beyond the Outrage Machine: Creating a Media we can Trust
Host: Impress
Trust in news and tech is collapsing. Opaque algorithms restrict diverse voices and create echo chambers where disinformation spreads unchecked: pushing vulnerable people toward extreme views, and fuelling the rise of the manosphere, authoritarian movements, and online + IRL violence. Individuals often feel powerless in the face of the extreme wealth and power of big tech and media conglomerates and feel stuck between the rock of negative impact to themselves and society, and the hard place of forgoing altogether the benefits of news, entertainment and connectedness with the world.
Through provocation and several facilitated exercises, participants will share lived experience, discuss where power lies today, imagine a more equitable future and together outline pathways to achieve it. Those who wish to participate can contribute their insights to live ongoing research and policy-making.
Speakers are:
Adele Zeynap Walton author of Logging Off & founder of the Logging Off Club
Amy Hall co-editor of the New Internationalist
Matteo Bergamini MBE founder & CEO of Shout Out UK
The session is facilitated by Gia Thom from Impress.
Beyond an increased understanding of the media ecosystem and forces of power behind it, we hope participants will gain renewed hope for the potential for holding this power to account, paths to redress when they need it and the ability to go forth and participate in their media world in a safer, more equitable way.
About the organisation: Impress is a champion for news that can be trusted. We are the UK’s only independent press regulator, the only one recognised under Royal Charter, and the home of the UK’s largest network of independent, mostly local, news publishers.
This venue has a capacity of 50.