[rohrpost] Participatory Academy

[François Smit-Löffler]

Participatory Academy – the firth European workshop on children,  
youth & crossmedia

The digital era has changed the rules on the global media market.  
Nowadays the traditional broadcasters, film companies and other  
creators of content are challenged by a new competitor – the audience  
itself. Helped by inexpensive home computers and an increasingly  
faster Internet thousands of new producers have made their voices  
heard publicly just the last year. This can be seen as a threat to  
the traditional industry or as a vitalization of the whole society.  
We take the positive stance and look forward to an exciting future  
where the professional media industry will work in symbiosis with the  
young bloggers, v-loggers and gamers.

We therefore established the Participatory Academy – a new forum for  
all media professionals and researchers engaged in collaborative  
methods and techniques. Participatory Academy will be held in Växjö,  
Sweden 22-24th of September 2006.

European meeting point
The last three years the Interactive Institute and Swedish  
Television, in cooperation with Växjö University, Danish Broadcasting  
Corporation, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, Prix Europa and EBU  
have invited practitioners and researchers to a creative weekend in  
Växjö on cross media. Approximately 100 people from the whole of  
Europe have participated each year – attending lectures, contributing  
with their ideas in working sessions, exchanging experiences and  
having a good time while building a professional network for the future.

Do you work with young audience in TV, radio or new media and do you  
want to learn the secrets of successful co-participatory work? Then  
you should attend the Participatory Academy held in Växjö, Sweden the  
22-24th of September 2006.

Welcome!

www.studio12-21.se/crossmedia