Nassira El Moaddem is a journalist and one of the few female editors-in-chief of a French media outlet. She is a co-founder and director of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project. Her writing appears regularly in international media and she frequently speaks on topics related to feminism, free speech, sexualized violence and media portrayals of gender. Soraya Chemaly is an award-winning writer, media critic and activist. Adler teaches at Sciences Po Paris about women and feminism and published most recently Francois Mitterrand: Le roman de sa vie. She has served as cultural adviser to the French President François Mitterrand. Laure Adler is a journalist, author of more than 25 written works, publisher, and radio/TV producer. It will also discuss such subtle threats as media control by media moguls how the media shapes our understandings through the representations of society-of women in particular and issues such as “false equivalency ” cyber-bullying or “trolling” that suppress ideas and groups. We will discuss how to make an individual, group, fact, idea, or chosen identity visible in today’s media landscape. The panel will address such crises as increasing censorship of both traditional and online news sources lack of fact-checking advertising as censorship physical assaults on and jailing of journalists-and the fact that much of this behavior is encouraged by some political leaders. Many factors have contributed to this situation. It’s also true that women are underrepresented in the media and that the distance between facts and Fake News, between the world privileged with media and one deprived of electricity, or even literacy, has never been greater. We live in what is called the “Information Age.” And it's true that more people are exposed to more media than ever before. As feminists say, “you need to see it to be it.”
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