Awareness at the Social Forum of Youth in Brazil

( Awareness is a term referring to the ability to perceive, to feel, or to be conscious of events...)

A COLLECTIVE EFFORT OF SOCIAL FORUM OF YOUTH (FSJ) and LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN COMMUNICATION
Culture, Education and Environment (FSJ) & Communication processes and a culture of social awareness
July 12 to 17, 2009
Porto Alegre/RS

SOCIAL FORUM OF YOUTH (FSJ) OVERVIEW
Culture, Education and Environment (FSJ)
Objective
Provide dialogue spaces about Culture, Education and Environment . Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions will examine ways to promote education for all, cultural diversity and the International Year of Planet Earth.
Checkout the schedule: http://www.forumsocialdajuventude.com.br

Mutirao da Comunicacao
LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN COMMUNICATION Overview
Latin America and the Caribbean are experiencing a time of deep change. Political and economic transformation generates both opportunities and challenges; however, they don’t seem enough to reduce social differences in our region or to include those who feel as though they are not part of a society.
The means and processes of communication play a fundamental role in speeding up the changes in this scenario and in the spread of knowledge.
What communication do we want? Which challenges do current and future communicators face? What role does mass media play in the construction of a more humane, just and socially aware society?
Come along…Let us debate these and other questions together. This is the theme of the Collective Effort of Latin American and Caribbean Communication.

Objective
Provide dialogue spaces about processes of communication in light of a socially aware culture, for the construction of a society committed to justice, freedom and peace

Central Themes
1. New political and social scenarios and communication processes
Speaker: Pedro Ribeiro de Oliveira (Brazil)
§ New regional political scene and communication policies.
Panelist: Rosa Alayza (Peru)
§ New communication processes by different social players.
Panelist: Rosa María Alfaro (Peru)
§ Public means and right to communication.
Panelist: Guillermo Mastrini (Argentina)
§ Communication ethics in the perspective of rights.
Panelist: Gabriel Jaime Pérez (Colombia)
§ Communication before the God of hope.
Panelist: Agenor Brighenti (Brazil)

2. Economy and communication in the digital era
Speaker: Armand Mattelart (Belgium)
§ Concentration of property in communications and relations of power.
Panelist: Martín Becerra (Argentina)
§ Information society, digitalization processes, technology convergence.
Panelist: Carlos Cortés (Colombia)
§ New Latin American economic reality and its consequences for communication.
Panelist: Inácio Neutzling (Brazil)
§ Socially aware economy and communication processes.
Panelist: Paul Singer (Brazil)
§ God as “goods” in the digital era.
Panelist: Leomar Brustolin (Brazil)

3. Communication in the dialogue of cultures
Speaker: Rossana Reguillo (Mexico)
Communication in differences and in conflict.
Panelist: Tanius Karam (Mexico)
§ Communication in ecumenist and inter-religious dialogue.
Panelist: Dennis Smith (Guatemala)
§ New languages in Evangelic inculturation processes.
Panelist: Paulo Suess (Brazil)
§ Communication of those silenced and processes of resistance.
Panelist: María Cristina Mata (Argentina)
§ Theology and communication in the society of knowledge.
Panelist: Urbano Zilles (Brazil)

Chech out the schedule : http://www.muticom.org/english/