The event takes place in the midst of the climate of uncertainty caused by wars, criticism of Western media for the colonizing gaze that prioritizes victims and refugees according to their origin, and the role of digital media corporations that favor the use of their platforms for disinformation and the dissemination of false news that end up influencing the politics of several countries. Together with them, racism, intolerance and sexism spread.
The field of the so-called free media needed to delve into the strategies of resistance to the erasure of media diversity that is being exchanged for a diversity of voices subject to the same technological control imposed by corporations.
This resistance implies analyzing, understanding and disseminating the communicative struggles at the political and social level, at the same time that it is necessary to create, stimulate, protect and strengthen free media and without subordination to economic, governmental or partisan power. Free media encompasses the publications and productions of civil society, its organizations and movements, as well as the creators of resources, programs, art and content that circulate outside the mainstream media. It also encompasses researchers, technicians and movements that seek to change the media landscape, with fewer monopolies and more plurality.
The WFFM debate in recent years has shared knowledge and issues related to communication systems and hegemonic discourses, the advancement of technology and the exclusion of large contingents from the right to communicate. Born in Belém in 2009, he dealt with threats to the planet, economic crises propagated by the rich West, revolts in the Arab world, coups and resistance in Latin America. He addressed the consequences of the pandemic, seeking to contribute to their fight and also to survive its harsh restrictions.
In this edition, the WFFM opens its panels discussing peace and democracy from the point of view of the free media that seek to defend them in the midst of adverse media narratives. It continues with a panel on the construction of autonomous networks by indigenous and peasant communities, outside the standards determined by the Internet or even where it does not reach. It also promotes a third panel on disinformation and the efforts of civil society to regulate the platforms, to turn them into a place of emancipation from the hyperconnected society, and not of the formation of humanity.
Along with these panels, the WFFM brings together a series of workshops, dialogue tables and workshops – including a historical tour of the communication struggles in Mexico, in addition to publicizing other communication activities registered in the WSF.
The final messages will be taken to other collective processes of the WSF 2022, such as the Free Palestine World Forum, the Women’s Convergence Assembly and the Final Assembly, in which the main recommendations resulting from the activities of the WSF will be collected.
Check the program of the 7th World Forum of Free Media. Part will be face-to-face, part hybrid and part online, but everything will be broadcast through WSF 2022 channels.
PANELS y SALA DE PRENSA:
Central Axis Lázaro Cárdenas 6, first floor,
Historical center of the city. from Mexico, 06000
Mexico City
https://goo.gl/maps/51hpMd8tyrurEkLXA
FREE MEDIA, PEACE AND DEMOCRACY
(Tuesday, May 3, 2022 – 14:00 UTC –
https://join.wsforum.net/activities/10445
FREE MEDIA AND INTERNET – AUTONOMOUS NETWORKS
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 – 16:00 UTC
https://join.wsforum.net/activities/10449
DISINFORMATION AND REGULATION OF PLATFORMS
Tuesday, May 4, 2022 – 18:00 UTC
https://join.wsforum.net/activities/10449
FROM COMMUNICATION TO ACTION
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 – 20:00 UTC
https://join.wsforum.net/activities/9957
WORKSHOPS / WORKSHOPS / WORKSHOPS
A TIMELINE FROM MOVEMENT TECHNOLOGIES TO LIBERATION
Monday, May 2, 2022 – 16:00 UTC –
https://join.wsforum.net/activities/10606
LATIN AMERICAN WEEKLY SPECIAL AT THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: MIGRATION AND THE RIGHT TO COME AND COME
Monday, May 2, 2022 – 19:00 UTC
https://join.wsforum.net/activities/10433
PLURALISME DES MEDIAS DANS LA RÉGION MAGHREB, LA PLACE DES MEDIAS ASSOCIATIFS ET COMMUNAUTAIRES
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 – 17:00 UTC
https://join.wsforum.net/activities/10151
PRESENTATION ON THE ECONOMIC MODEL OF THE PRESS COMPANY IN MOROCCO
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 – 18:00 UTC
https://join.wsforum.net/activities/11123
A COMMUNICATION FOR WELL-BEING
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 – 21:00 UTC –
https://join.wsforum.net/activities/9458
ASSOCIATIVE RADIOS IN THE MAGHREB: USE FOR THE PLURALITY OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 – 11:00 UTC
https://join.wsforum.net/activities/10593 (Responsible for the speakers – Mohamed)
INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC COMMUNICATION AND THE DEFENSE OF EBC IN BRAZIL
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 – 12:00 UTC
https://join.wsforum.net/activities/10857
ASSAULTS IN JERUSALEM – THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 – 13:00 UTC
https://join.wsforum.net/activities/11114
POLITICAL COMMUNICATION, BETWEEN HORIZONTALITY AND HORIZONS
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 – 15:00 UTC
https://join.wsforum.net/activities/10437
SITUATION OF COMMUNITY RADIOS IN BRAZIL
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 – 16:45 UTC
https://join.wsforum.net/activities/9982
WORKSHOP ON FEDIVERSE
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 – 20:00 UTC
https://join.wsforum.net/activities/10702
ADVANCE TOWARDS SOVEREIGNTY AND DIGITAL AUTONOMY
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 – 20:00 UTC
https://join.wsforum.net/activities/10153
COMMUNICATION AND POLITICAL ACTIVITY
Thursday, May 5, 2022 – 22:00 UTC
https://join.wsforum.net/activities/10343
PRESENTATION OF THE STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION GUIDE FOR THE DEFENSE OF TERRITORIES “BUILDING THE WORLD WE DREAM OF”
Thursday, May 5, 2022 – 20:00 UTC
https://join.wsforum.net/activities/10416
RIGHT OF EXPRESSION AND OPINION
Friday, May 6, 2022 – 17:00 UTC
https://join.wsforum.net/activities/10691
WFFM PARTICIPATION IN ASSEMBLIES
WOMEN’S CONVERGENCE ASSEMBLY
Thursday, May 4, 2022 – SEE WSF PROGRAM
CLOSING ASSEMBLY
Friday, May 6, 2022 – SEE WSF PROGRAM