Doing Without News
The News about Networks Presentation
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Presentatie van de resultaten van een vijfdaagse internationale media workshop in De Balie.
News may be thought of as a media space that devours - a ghetto-land of personalities and story templates that require constant attention to the smiles, styles and cycles of its production.
The evening is devoted to a series of questions about whether we can do without news. Is it still necessary to be appear in the news? Is newsworthiness and news attention still a sign of value? Do we need news to be known? More to the point, do Internet-based networks challenge our perceived need for press attention?
20 media activists and advocates have spent one week testing the conditions of news marginalisation. They also have looked into tactics that may lessen the importance of press appearance. They present their findings as well as their strategies for being known without appearing in the news.
The evening is the culmination of the week-long workshop, The News about Networks, co-produced by de Balie and the Govcom.org Foundation, Amsterdam, with a grant from the Ford Foundation, New York.