Between Home Sickness and the Home Front
07/06/2002
Mini-conference about New Media and Diaspora
De Balie
Saturday June 15/14.00-17.00 hrs./Grote Zaal
Special guest: internet journalist Adam Hanieh from Ramallah
Internet enables cheap and fast communication across vast distances. It is no coincidence the migrants and refugees make extensive use of new media to keep in touch with their home land. In times of crisis these contacts are even more crucial and they intensify. Web sites become message boards and sources of up-to-date information, platforms to establish contacts and develop new initiatives, to spread calls for action, for intervention and projects, and to distribute self-made radio programs and videos.
Access to the required high-end technology often remains largely out of reach for the population in the home land, which is why combinations with older media are investigated: telephone, fax, print and radio. Thus local post offices, call centres and call booths, and radio stations can emerge that build a bridge between the international new media infrastructures and the local population.
Within The Netherlands a number of different projects are currently developed where internet and radio are used to establish contacts between the Diaspora and the home land. How does it work and what is possible? What contribution can these projects make to reconciliation and to the (re-) construction of the home land? How can a sense of a shared destiny be reinforced?
With Bruce Girard, author of "A passion for radio" and "Mixed Media" (http://www.comunica.org) about the practical applications of old and new media by migrants and exiles.
In this mini-conference we will present projects that are aimed at:
Afghanistan: Radio Rietfluit presented by Jo van der Spek
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jo
The Moluccas: SOS Maluku presented by Arjen Tupan
http://www.sos-maluku.org
Our special guest from the Palestinian territories is Adam Hanieh from Ramallah. In Ramallah he was one of pioneers of internet radio and web campaigning. He will report on the use of tactical media during the time when his city was besieged.
Adam Hanieh is the research co-ordinator for Defence for Children International/Palestine Section.
http://www.dci-pal.org
The conference is chaired by Naima Challioui
Languages: English and Dutch
Organised in co-operation with Radio Rietfluit en NVJ-project office Migrants and Media
Internet live stream via: http://www.balie.nl/live
Tickets and reservation:
Admission: E 7,50 (with reduction: E 5,00)
Reservations: during working days from 13.00-18.00 hrs or till the start of the program.
In the weekend 1,5 hrs before programs start.
Reservation number: +31 (0)20 - 55 35 100 during opening hours till 45 minutes before the start of the program.
