Fresh Media Olympics

Posted on February 22, 2010

Speaking today at the Fresh Media Olympics Conference in Vancouver. Starting at 1pm at W2 Media + Culture House.

SCHEDULE
Monday, Feb 22
W2 Culture + Media House • 112 W Hastings

12:00pm – Registration and hot soup lunch
1:00pm – Keynote by Andy Miah followed by plenary dialogue
3:00pm – Salt Spring Coffee Co and desserts
3:15pm – Break-out workshops:
Workshop 1: Harnessing the Media to Activate Citizens
Workshop 2: Bejing to London
5:00pm – Wine & hors d’ouevres reception

Join Fresh Media and W2 at the W2 Culture + Media House on Monday for
this afternoon of intellectual dialogue on the impact social media has
had on the stories surrounding the Olympic games. The Winter Olympics
and Paralympics are expected to draw 3 billion television and 70
million website viewers worldwide and will generate more wireless and
social media-based content than any previous Olympics.

With this explosion of citizen-generated media tools in the hands of
Olympic fans and foes, as well as pervasive reporting by new media
journalists and bloggers, will social media have its journalistic
coming-out party this February?

The conference features a keynote from Andy Miah, author of
‘Genetically Modified Athletes’ (2004) and ‘A Digital Olympics:
Digital Games, Ethics & Cultures’ (The MIT Press, 2010), and panels
with senior journalists and industry watchers from the USA, UK,
Canada, and elsewhere. An afternoon unconference program provides open
space for participant led-workshops with an added emphasis on practice
and a summary of the first Olympic week. The conference also brings
people face-to-face for networking and sharing tips on theory,
practice, legal and operations. W2 will webstream to reach viewers
outside Vancouver. The day wraps with a Cinq à Sept reception and open
for everyone!

This event is produced by W2 with assistance from the Fresh Media Crew
- more at: http://freshmedia.me