The Big Debate - Digital Revolution: More Power or More Powerless?
Mon 9th June – International Convention Centre
Digital Revolution: More Power or More Powerless? Will be the question posed at The Big Debate, at the ICC, in which a panel of media experts, leading social commentators and a live audience will respond to key issues raised by the festival’s theme.
Chaired by Rory Cellan-Jones, Technology Correspondent for BBC News, the distinguished panel will explore the explosions in the online economy and social networking, in virtual worlds, gaming and the surveillance industry which are fast becoming all pervasive. They will review the cultural shift and identify if the changes within this media are provoking a wider range of content or a shift in focus.
The theme is highly topical nationally but also reflects on a regional digital focus against the backdrop of the impending launch of the Digital Film Festival and Birmingham City’s new digital status.
Free Admission.
Chair
Rory Cellan-Jones
Rory Cellan-Jones has been a reporter for the BBC for more than two decades, covering business and technology stories for much of that time. His on-screen career began as reporter for Wales Today in Cardiff, from where he moved to London as a reporter on Breakfast Time. He quickly transferred t...
Panel Member
Anthony Rose
Anthony Rose joined the BBC in September 2007 as Head of Digital Media Technology within the Corporation’s Future Media & Technology Department. Anthony heads up the BBC’s iPlayer project, and is responsible for delivering the next generation of the BBC iPlayer, as well as realis...
Chris Cooke
Chris is Managing Director of UnLimited Media, a London based media and marketing company, and Editor of its two main media platforms, CMU and ThreeWeeks.
Doug Williams
Dr Doug Williams is project director, leading large collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects for BT that address the development of new communication and media applications that can be delivered over broadband.
Joanna Geary
Joanna Geary is a young digital journalist using social media to build communities around regional newspapers. She started her career at The Birmingham Post as a business journalist and, since then, has gone on to design build and maintain the newspaper's new blogging platform bringing together m...
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