The Power of Culture

Theme: media

Mass media are flooding the world with messages. Media contribute to development in a variety of ways. Thanks to today's media, people are better informed – an important prerequisite for democracy. Internet stimulates a free flow of information and enables direct connections for intellectual cooperation. Films and television programmes can strengthen solidarity throughout the world and spur people into action.
But there is also a flip side. The world's poor do not even have electricity, let alone radio, television or Internet. And it is the executives in charge of the television stations and newspapers who determine what we see and read. In a globalising world, Hollywood and Bollywood are threats to cultural diversity.

Media

Arabian-Jewish journalistic project narrows gap between the different communities

November 2004 -

A team of Arabian and Jewish journalists have produced a bilingual newspaper supplement whose main topic is 'co-existence'. At the end of October, this project won a British Diversity Award.

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Brazilian law designed to promote its national film and TV industry

October 2004 -

In Brazil, the talk is of a new legislative proposal designed to promote the national audio-visual industry.

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Video workshop in Morocco gives people a look at themselves

May 2004 -

How do the new media influence contemporary Moroccan art? And how can this art play a part in social change in this society? These questions were the starting point for the Media Art Workshop, held from 12 to 24 April 2004 in the Institut Français in Agadir, Morocco.

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Worldsite

Migrantsoul

may 2004 -

Migrantsoul displays photographs of migrants from Bangladesh, throughout Asia and Europe.

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European Manifesto for minority media

March 2004 -

Thousands of media organisations for and by immigrants are active in the European Union. However, their existence is frequently threatened

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Mozambique journalists advocate more art in the media

February 2004 -

Newspapers in Mozambique scarcely print news about art. Culture is also sporadic on the radio. A group of journalists therefore decided to promote art in the media.

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Partners

Sithengi in Cape Town: meeting place for film and television professionals

February 2004 -

Sithengi is an international film and television market in Cape Town, South Africa. It strives to offer an international platform in an African context for the trade in film and television productions.

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New on the Power of Culture website

November 2003 -

Starting this month the Power of Culture web site has a new design, a new layout and a number of new features.

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The information society: large and small initiatives

October 2003 -

The UN World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) focused interest on ICT as a means to increase people’s independence and assertiveness.

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Cultural dynamic in pan-African Big Brother

July 2003 -

An extraordinary version of the TV show Big Brother has started in South Africa. Each of the twelve participants comes from another African country.

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