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\n It is a widespread perception today that reality and media images are merging, the media becoming our reality. Shakespeare\u2019s words \u201cAll the world\u2019s a stage\u201d would today be expressed: \u201cAll the world\u2019s a studio\u201d. We are bombarded with images and information from a global media network, which is spreading an increasingly fine-meshed net over our everyday world and our self-perception. Narcissus sees his reflection today not in a pond, but a screen. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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What mind creates this symbiosis between media and mentality? Power over opinion has always been an important dimension in politics, but today the dramaturgy of the media probably has more influence than ever before. How does it affect politicians and the thrust of politics?<\/p>\n

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If the media really have such power over politics and the mind, there is reason to ask who has power over the media and what governs the actions of these players. How do editors and journalists perceive the world? What do they base their stance on? Do media owners have set agendas, or do they simply try to adapt to whatever they think will sell? How do media moguls deal with other centres of power \u2013 political, economic and military? What power do advertisers have over the editorial content of the media? What role do the media play in forming the new world order, today seemingly dominated by the USA?<\/p>\n

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On the one hand, ownership in the media world is being concentrated; on the other hand, control over information has been much more difficult to acquire. During the war on Iraq, a network of individuals in the USA created their own alternative news agency, Commandpost.com. From Baghdad, via a blog, the Iraqi \u201cSalam Pax\u201d gave his views on the war \u2013 critical both of Saddam and the USA. No discussion on media power today can ignore the small players. They are developing new behavioural patterns, both as producers and as consumers. The question is if in the final analysis it is the consumers, through their preferences, who have the last word, rather than the commercial media. Criticism of the media for \u201cdumbing down\u201d could then be rephrased: where have all the thinking consumers gone?<\/p>\n

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Or is it conceivably so that mass media and mass communi- cation require archetypal themes to dramatise the message in order to capture their readers\/spectators? Are mass media consumers furthermore in fact stirred by low gossip and great stories whether true or false in substance? If this is the formula that media are, consciously or unconsciously, determined by \u2013 where are we to end up in the future?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\n John Lloyd: Power and Responsibility \u2013 A Comparative Perspective on European Media <\/p>\n

\n Editor-in-Chief, Financial Times Magazine, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Thomas Steinfeld: Making up Which Mind? Print Journalism and Intellectual Culture in the West <\/p>\n

\n Editor, S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung, Germany <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Jonathan Fenby: Ten Years On \u2013 How the Internet Has Changed Information and Media Power and How It Has Not <\/p>\n

\n Author and Editorial Director, EarlyWarning.com, UK, <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Niklas Ekdal: Editorial Journalism \u2013 A Thriving Dinosaur <\/p>\n

\n Political Editor-in-Chief, Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm, Sweden <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n David Frum: A Free Market in Ideas: How Market Competition is Making the Media More Fair and More Useful <\/p>\n

\n Author and Journalist, American Enterprise Institute, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Adam Michnik: Imperfect Society \u2013 Reflections upon the Power of the Press in Poland <\/p>\n

\n Editor-in-Chief, Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Laurent Joffrin: French Press and Its Political Influences <\/p>\n

\n Editor-in-Chief, Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris, France <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n William H. Roedy: Rocking the Vote \u2013 A Global Perspective: How Young People can Change the World <\/p>\n

\n President, MTV Networks International, New York, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n David Goodhart: Media and Hyper-\u00adDemocracy <\/p>\n

\n Editor-in-Chief, Prospect magazine, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Sidney Blumenthal: Media Power and the Crises of Democracy <\/p>\n

\n Author and Journalist, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Thomas Hylland Eriksen: Informing Ourselves to Death <\/p>\n

\n Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Nathan Shachar: The Middle Eastern Soap Opera \u2013 How One Conflict Monopolises News <\/p>\n

\n Author and Journalist, Dagens Nyheter, Sweden <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Isabel Hilton: The Foreign Correspondent <\/p>\n

\n Author and Journalist, The New Yorker, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Edward Lucas: The Public\u2019s Right to In\u00adcorrect Information <\/p>\n

\n Journalist, The Economist, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Roy Greenslade: News: The Free Market\u2019s Most Precious Commodity <\/p>\n

\n Professor of Journalism, City University, London, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Tarun Tejpal: Independent Media in India \u2013 Past, Present and Future <\/p>\n

\n Editor-in-Chief, Tehelka, New Delhi, India <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Anna Politkovskaya: The Freedom of Press in Russia <\/p>\n

\n Journalist, Novaya Gazeta, Moscow, Russia <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Kavi Chongkittavorn: Tighter Knots: The Future of Southeast Asian Media <\/p>\n

\n Editor-in-Chief, The Nation, Bangkok, Thailand <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Shuli Hu: China and Media Reform <\/p>\n

\n Editor-in-Chief, Caijing, Beijing, China <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Shashi Tharoor: UN Perspectives on the Future of Media <\/p>\n

\n Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, United Nations <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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