Media Freedom Festival is a series of events hosted by Media Monitoring Africa, that serve as an opportunity for us to ponder, probe and interrogate some of the key media-related issues of the moment. It is hosted every year to honour Black Wednesday (19 October).
For the last six years, we have hosted a Media Freedom Festival which is a series of events around Black Wednesday (the 19th of October) in order to both celebrate media freedom but also highlight its different elements and excite the general public and stakeholders about its importance.
This year we are hosting the festival from the 19th of October - 21 October 2022 we will be having various media freedom themed events looking at specific issues and unpacking them.
Programm
DAY 1 - 19 October 2022
10:00 am
Disinformation through a children’s lens
The purpose of this event is to unpack evolving understandings of disinformation and its impact with a particular focus on the unique effects of disinformation on children. This session will be led by Web Ranger Ambassadors, Web Rangers SA is a digital literacy programme designed to allow young people to gain critical digital literacy skills and knowledge around online safety.
18:00 pm
The State of Media Freedom in SA
While the media in South Africa enjoys more freedom than many of their counterparts on the continent and other parts of the world, they still find themselves facing a barrage of attacks on a daily basis, physically and online. Trust in the media has also waned over the past few years, especially because of misinformation and disinformation. This discussion seeks to unpack the current context of media freedom in South Africa and the future steps that need to be taken.
DAY 2 - 20 October 2022
10:00 am
Artificial Intelligence 101 Workshop
The objective of the workshop is to help the public to have a better understanding of Artificial Intelligence whereby we deep dive into the various elements of Artificial Intelligence. This session will unpack algorithms, machine learning, big data analytics, deep learning and much more!
18:00 pm
Unpacking AI: Freedom of Expression, Media, Access to information and privacy
Society is still grappling with an appropriate response to AI and in this sense, we too are still machine learning. We hope this event will contribute to the growing debate around AI to inform a response which is grounded in human rights. We will also look at the implication that AI has on the media industry, and conclude by providing some key recommendations.
DAY 3 - 21 October 2022
18:00 pm
The Ethical Tightrope (Which editor will make it to the other side?)
This will be a media ethics focused exercise. Drawing on the report that should be in the public from the Satchwell Ethics Inquiry, and thanks to the success of the last Tightrope event we ran we will again seek to play the ethical tightrope game. A series of ethical dilemmas will be presented, and answers sought from expert journalists.
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