On 23 April 2013, the Future Media Lab. brought together 125 media experts, EU policy makers and key stakeholders at its third conference, “Understanding Disruption”. The goal of the day: to create a vision of the future media landscape in 2050 and discuss the possible political response to this outlook.
During the conference’s workshop sessions we asked the following questions:
- What will Europe’s media landscape look like in 2050?
- How will democracy sustain values that media has ensured until now?
The post-conference report attempts to gather all the ideas, discussions and debates present that day and structure them into two different parts: 1) the Future of Media in 2050, and 2) Politics related to the Future Media Landscape. Due to the unconstrained, free-flowing nature of the World Café format, the ideas gathered at the event were not structured and came from a variety of people with different backgrounds. Therefore, the report should not be seen as a complete picture of the future media landscape and related politics, but rather as a snapshot of all the ideas, thoughts and questions that were in the room that day.
This report also features interviews with a few of the speakers and participants of the conference, the programme of the day, bios of speakers, and a participants list.
To read the report as a pdf, click here.
