{"id":209045,"date":"2024-02-29T18:26:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T18:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/29\/whom-to-trust-eurozine\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:21:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:21:26","slug":"whom-to-trust-eurozine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/29\/whom-to-trust-eurozine\/","title":{"rendered":"Whom to trust | Eurozine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"main-text\">\n<p><iframe title=\"Whom to trust: Standard Time talk show - S1E3\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WxbQ8nGL22I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Political fragmentation is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pantarhei.com\/en\/blog\/the-end-of-political-stability-in-europe\/\">constantly rising<\/a>. We experience less and less of a shared reality across society. Some people are afraid of migrants \u2013 others of losing their homes. Some people don\u2019t believe COVID exists \u2013 some religiously believe in science and objectivism. Yet others attribute anything they don\u2019t understand to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=USHWhxlJLj8&amp;list=PLXtMIzD-Y-bM_5Bw-AYVh_0DZKhMuk87d\">ancient aliens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Our societies are more saturated with media than ever before. The proliferation of content for the sake of content makes it that much harder for the viewers to identify relevance. This upheaval, this destabilization of meaning is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/post-truth-panic-the-news-that-never-was\/\">what happens every time a major technological shift pushes society <\/a>out of its established habits.<\/p>\n<p>A few decades ago, digital progressives used to promise a new age, where the internet and its amenities would bring about freedom, and democracy, making our lives easier and more enjoyable. Today, most media diets are dominated by garbage adverts, political propaganda and a constant, pounding noise from <a href=\"https:\/\/researchguides.austincc.edu\/contentfarms\">content farms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Who can we blame for all this?\u00a0Today\u2019s guests have some insight to offer.<\/p>\n<p>Mercy Abang is an award-winning journalist from Nigeria. She\u2019s a media entrepreneur, co-managing director and CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/hostwriter.org\/\">Hostwriter<\/a>, based in Berlin, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Lina Chawaf is a Syrian journalist, and founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rozana.fm\/en\">Radio Rozana <\/a>broadcasting in Arabic to a Syrian audience both in Syria and in the diaspora. She\u2019s working from Gaziantep, Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>P\u00e9ter Krek\u00f3 is a political scientist and social psychologist at ELTE University. He is the director of Political Capital Institute a Budapest-based independent think tank. He\u2019s also a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/authors\/peter-kreko\/\">long-time recurring author<\/a> and friend of Eurozine.<\/p>\n<p>We meet with them at the spectacular <a href=\"https:\/\/konyvtar.btk.elte.hu\/angol-konyvtar\">library of the School of English and American Studies <\/a>at the E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University, in the heart of Budapest, Hungary.<\/p>\n<h3>Creative team<\/h3>\n<p>R\u00e9ka Kinga Papp, editor-in-chief<br \/>Merve Akyel, art director<br \/>Szilvia Pint\u00e9r, producer<br \/>Zs\u00f3fia Gabriella Papp, executive producer<br \/>Margarita Lechner, writer-editor<br \/>Priyanka Hutschenreiter, project assistant<\/p>\n<h3>Management<\/h3>\n<p>Hermann Riessner\u00a0 managing director<br \/>Judit Csik\u00f3s\u00a0 project manager<br \/>Csilla Nagyn\u00e9 Kardos, office administration<\/p>\n<h3>Video Crew Budapest<\/h3>\n<p>N\u00f3ra Ruszkai, sound engineering<br \/>Gergely \u00c1ron P\u00e1pai, photography<br \/>L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Hal\u00e1sz, photography<\/p>\n<h3>Postproduction<\/h3>\n<p>N\u00f3ra Ruszkai, lead video editor<br \/>Kateryna Kuzmenko dialogue editor<\/p>\n<h3>Art<\/h3>\n<p>Victor Maria Lima, animation<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tXDcB6ExCcA\">Cornelia Frischauf, theme music<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the Library of English and American Studies at the Faculty of Humanities at ELTE University in Budapest<\/p>\n<p>Further sources<\/p>\n<h3>Images used<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lentina_x\/3595837441\">Plato <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/un_photo\/37501287482\">Malala Yousafzai<\/a> from Filckr.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nga.gov\/collection\/art-object-page.46303.html\">Young girl reading<\/a> here, more girls reading <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/hkujzr68\">here<\/a>, a suffragist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawpixel.com\/image\/9975800\/image-face-person-vintage\">there <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dukeyearlook\/4460729996\">determined women<\/a> everywhere. Really, <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Mi%C4%99dzynarodowy_Strajk_Kobiet.jpg\">everywhere<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Captions and subtitles<\/h3>\n<p>Julia Sobota, Daniela Univazo, Mars Zaslavsky, Marta Ferdebar, Olena Yermakova<\/p>\n<h3>Disclosure<\/h3>\n<p>This talk show is a Display Europe production: a content-sharing platform soon to premiere.<\/p>\n<p>This programme is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and the European Cultural Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, the views and opinions expressed here are those of the authors and speakers only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the EACEA can be held responsible for them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30258\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/eu_Ecf_logos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/eu_Ecf_logos.jpg 437w, https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/eu_Ecf_logos-300x74.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/whom-to-trust\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=whom-to-trust\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Political fragmentation is constantly rising. We experience less and less of a shared reality across society. 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