The event was organized by the School of Peacemaking and Media Technology of the Network of Social Mediators with the financial support of the Freedom of Information Program of Soros Foundation – Kyrgyzstan as part of the Encouraging Diversity through Media project.
TheThrough Diversity to Sustainable
Development conference to be held on November 27, 2014 in Bishkek is going
to expand the discussion on this topic.
Intensive workshop was held on July 7-11, 2014 at Bishkek under the supervision of the media trainers from Spain, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, who have extensive experience in ethnic and inclusive journalism, production of multimedia product.
The media training will be held from 7th to 11th of July 2014 at Bishkek. During the training, participants will increase their theoretical and practical knowledge of creation of content focused on ethnic issue and sharpen the skills of applying multimedia technologies.
The participants agreed the idea of diversity and multilinguism
should be supported and widely promoted to make representatives of all ethnic
groups living in Kyrgyzstan feel themselves comfortable and equal. However, media
attempts are not sufficient. A package of measures is required at the level of
state policy.
The event has been organized by the School of Peacemaking and Media Technology of the "Network of Social Mediators” Public Foundation funded by the Freedom of Information Program of Soros Foundation – Kyrgyzstan as part of the Encouraging Diversity through Media project.
Local journalists from TV, radio and on-line media outlets can apply to attend 5-day workshop offered by the Media and Diversity Project implemented with the support of the Freedom of Information Program of Soros Foundation – Kyrgyzstan.
According to the recent media monitoring report "Cyberhate as a trend of modern media wars”,
were demonstrated at the Almaty Forum (Kazakhstan) on April 29-30.
According to the School’s analytical group assessment, the number of hostile attacks has increased on the network almost by one fourth. The research of Kyrgyzstan online media has shown that 56% of articles and posts monitored contain hostile comments and provocative calls.
"Until now, media monitoring for hate speech on the web have been perceived in terms of ethnic stereotypes, xenophobia and racism,” Inga Sikorskaya, Director of School of Peacemaking and Media Technologies, said during the presentation. "Now cyber attacks are the major part of hate speech content against various groups expressed in diverse forms.”
The analytical report shows that the number of hostile attacks in the network has increased by one fourth. Monitoring of Kyrgyz online content has shown that 56% of all articles and posts in social networks contain hostile comments and provocative calls.
___Kibervrazhda-trend-sovremennyh-media-voyn.pdf The research data have been demonstrated at the presentation delivered at the 5th annual forum "Development of Web Sphere in Central Asia InternetCA-2014”.
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