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Last Friday, December 8, the sixth step of this road, that we have been covering during the Communication, Power and Counterpower Conferences, took place. On this occasion we met at the Espace Martin-Luther-King, in the city of Montpellier, where, through his experience, Philippe Corcuff made an analysis of the media today and our role to achieve emancipation. Through his talk “Criticism of media and emancipation in today’s world”, Philippe introduced to us the classic analysis of the media that only … Read more

On December 13 the 11th inter-ministerial conference of the WTO ended. The conference could not reach a needed consensus for the signing of a final document between the ministers, mainly due to the confrontation between protectionism and multilateralism. Just in parallel, the Peoples’ Summit took place during these days, which filled Buenos Aires with demands, debates and alternatives. The new US government that turned to protectionist positions, came to this summit with clear criticism of the WTO. Against this, China … Read more

Last Friday, December 8, we took the last step of these Communication, Power and Counterpower Conferences. This led us to Mcgill University in Montreal where, together with Dmitri Vitaliev, project manager eQualit.ie, we set out to discover how information can be manipulated through the net. This lecture, entitled “Manipulating the net. Stories of censorship and resistance”, began with a short presentation of the eQualit.ie project that aims to provide security tools, communication and data analysis to groups, activists and journalists. … Read more

The 11th ministerial conference of the WTO will take place in Argentina from the 10th to the 13th of this month. This summit, which is the first time it takes place in a South American country, is intended to close the Mercosur-EU agreement as one of the central points for the host country. At the same time, the Peoples’ Summit will take place, which will bring together dozens of trade union organizations, NGOs, social groups and activists from different countries … Read more

Last Saturday, November 25, we continued to follow this path that is helping us to analyze communication in today’s world, with a fifth step of the Communication, Power and Counterpower Conferences. We gave this step with Magda Bandera, director of La Marea magazine, who gave us her vision on what digital media entails today. This lecture entitled “Myths about the supposed digital revolution in the media”, began with an introduction about the turning points that occurred in the 21st century … Read more

On November 24 we met once again in A Coruña to follow this path that is serving to unravel communication and its relationship with political power and transnationals. We took a fourth step together with Antonio Caro within the framework of the Communication, Power and Counterpower Conferences, which helped us to get closer to the implications of advertising in the field of communication and how it affects our lives and societies. In this lecture entitled “Advertising as an instrument of … Read more

On November 23rd, at Casa Museo Casares Quiroga in A Coruña, Marcos Pérez’s lecture, “Every journalist has his/her own truth. War of stories in a fragmented world”. It was the third step towards discovering the implications of communication for citizens and how networks convert the consumption of information into a problem, since there is no culture of responsible consumption of information. In this step of the way that we continue traveling within the framework of the Communication, Power and Counterpower … Read more

Last November 18, we met at the café De Catro a Catro to attend Pepe Ribas’ lecture, founder of Ajoblanco, one of the countercultural publications most linked to the years of the Transition. This lecture, which is part of the Communication, Power and Counterpower Conferences, served to delve into the concept of freedom of press, being the second step that will help us analyze communication and power relations that are woven through it. The conference entitled “Is there free press?” … Read more

On the 17th in Compostela, the Communication, Power and Contrapoder Conferences were launched. The first step of this road for the analysis of problems and alternatives within the current communication, which we will continue until December 8, we accompanied José Candón, who portrayed his vision of digital activism and the contradictions represented by the internet through his extensive experience in the world of communication, activism and new technologies. We met at Gentalha del Pichel at 9 p.m. to listen to … Read more

Last Thursday November 2 the conference entitled: “Victims, Sinners and Feminazis” took place in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication in the city of Pontevedra. Lorena Arévalo gave us an analysis of how women are represented through the media and the different problems that arise from it. In this event Lorena Arévalo, PhD in Communication Sciences and Master in International Cooperation, presented us through her professional experience how there are several archetypes of women, prefabricated by patriarchy, in mass … Read more