World Summit on Media for Children and Youth, Karlstad Sweden 2010

WORLD SUMMIT KARLSTAD JUNE 14-18 2010

World Summit on Media for Children and Youth Karlstad Sweden 2010 will be a summit for 2000 delegates from 100 countries preparing with children and youth for a new media world in the 21st century. It will offer you great opportunities to network, to be part of debates, to be interactive and to be part of workshops to share your perspective, experience and expertise. World Summit in Karlstad will be the most important meeting place in 2010.

What the World Summit Karlstad wants to contribute towards

Supporting teachers and recreation instructors so they can progress from an outsider position to involvement in the media and information society.

Providing a scientific basis for media training.

Giving the decision-makers access to findings from the world of research as a basis for their decisions.

Giving the media industry increased knowledge of modern research to be used in developing production and distribution.

Giving decision-makers insight into the role of the media industry and the prerequisites for producing and distributing high-quality content for children and young people.

Improving the status and availability of media education.

Increasing children’s and young people’s involvement in and influence on media content.

Helping children and young people make demands that will lead to better teaching about and involving the media.

Create and develop an increased dialogue between the media production and content creation, media education and educators, media research and policy-making and children and youth participation in the media.

Examples from the programme topics

So sexy so soon – sexualisation of children and young people in today’s media.

Growing up with interactive media technology – computer and TV games, the Social Web, the blogosphere, mobile phones.

How children and young people are represented in the news – and how they wish to be represented in the media.

How children and young people express their digital media skills – and create an image of themselves and each other on the internet.

From spectator to participant – when teachers and recreation instructors take their place in the media and information society.

The new international curriculum for the media and information society, and how to improve relationships between children, young people and the mass media.

New tools to give children and young people a stronger position in the media society.

Who should be there?

Media Educators and educators, Researchers, the Media Industry, Policy Makers, Children and Youth in active participation and all who are interested in children and young people's well-being.

Central theme and strands

The central theme for World Summit Karlstad 2010 is Challenges in young people’s world of communication. This great area is divided into five strands with the following perspectives:

Communication for change
- How, from your perspective, can communication in different media support needed social change?

Children and young people’s education and development
- How can media literacy and educational media make a difference?

Children and young people’s digital content creation
- How can today’s and tomorrow’s media world gain quality from young people’s digital own media content creation?
- How can young children and youth of the world help improve global understanding when creating media content?
- From the core perspectives of equity, equality, inclusion and intercultural dialogue, what happens when young people are able to digitally create media content?

Economics, policies and law
- From a child and youth perspective, what measures and steps must be taken to meet the challenges of today’s media world?

Ethics and social responsibilities
- In a non-regulated global media world how, in your perspective, can quality in media for children and young people improve?

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Indian Children newspaper The Yamuna interviews Director Per Lundgren (pdf)

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THE INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL ABUNDANCE

June 15-17 2010 the International Dance Festival ABUNDANCE will be held in Karlstad, Sweden by Dans i Värmland. It will be the third festival and it coincides with World Summit Karlstad. The theme for ABUNDANCE is media and dance, as to follow the World Summit theme.

The festival will offer a common ground for exchange and meetings of experiences between professional artists, amateurs and the public. These people will be presented with the opportunity to practice, experience, feel and discuss dance.

The second ABUNDANCE, 6-8 september 2007, was visited by no less than 5000 people whom took part of workshops, seminars, dance shows and movie screenings, which were presented by 120 artists from 13 different countries.

Read more at Dans i Värmland

STAR ALLIANCE™ OFFICIAL AIRLINE NETWORK

Get up to 20% discount with the Star Alliance network
The Star Alliance™ member airlines are pleased to be appointed as the Official Airline Network for the World Summit on Media for Children and Youth Karlstad Sweden 2010. Simply call the reservation office of any participating Star Alliance member airline and quote the event code SK03S10.

Registered participants plus one accompanying person travelling to the event are automatically granted a discount of up to 20%, depending on the class of travel. Participating airlines for this event are: ANA, Adria Airways, Air Canada, Air China, Asiana Airlines, Austrian Airlines, Croatia Airlines, Lufthansa, SWISS International Air Lines, Scandinavian Airlines, South African Airways, Spanair, TAP Portugal, THAI, Turkish Airlines, US Airways, United, bmi, Blue1 .

Booking office information can be found at: www.staralliance.com

Discounts are offered on published business and economy class fares, excluding website/internet fares, senior and youth fares, group fares and Round the World fares. Please note: For travel from Japan and New Zealand, special fares or discounts are offered by the participating airlines on their own network.