Programme: GenZ – What’s in your hands?
What does it mean for you, me, everyone and anyone to have a smart device in our hands? What does it give? And what does it take away?
GenZ – what’s in your hands? is a two hour, in-person workshop designed to think, explore and discuss the digital world and our relationship with it. Following three themes of usability, responsibility and reliability, participants will be challenged to think deeply, laterally, forward and backwards about the media, news media and social media.
It’s all about the questions – since without questions there are no answers. Here are some questions we can tackle during the workshop: What is the media? Who is the media? What value does social media bring? What do I add to it? Who can I trust? Why do I do about what I don’t trust? Who trusts me?
Group exercises, case studies, breakouts and brain storms, scenarios and a working journalist take us through a story they produced and engage participants to explore and develop their own abilities, responsibilities and reliabilities.
For those who like a shopping list, here’s what you could walk away with; practical tools to assess and verify information, ways of framing and managing your participation, increased knowledge of how media and social media works, understanding of a range of issues for GenZ and info tech, familiarity with some of the ethical and values questions that social media poses, ideas to tackle the challenges and embrace the utility of the smart mobile device. And confidence to keep asking uncomfortable questions.
That is certainly our shopping list – since we hope to learn as much as everyone else.
