After three days of exchanges between journalists, content creators, experts and communication decision-makers from the global South and other latitudes, the IV International Colloquium Patria will end today in this capital.
This event, which has taken the University of Havana as its stage for dialogue on the present and immediate future of the infocommunication path of the global left, will feature on its last day the dissertation «Reprogramming the Net: strategies to mitigate polarisation and hate speech in digital environments», by José Manzaneda, journalist and director of the Basque media Cubainformación.
The panel «Technologies for emancipation: alternative communication and information sovereignty in the Global South» will be chaired by Venezuelan Jorge Arreaza, executive secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for Latin America and the Caribbean – People’s Trade Agreement, and Bolivian Sacha Llorenti, university professor.
Experts such as Pascual Serrano and Carlos Penalva from Spain, Alina Duarte from Mexico, Gabriela Rivadeneira from Colombia, and others from Argentina, Brazil, Ghana, India and Vietnam will discuss the strategies of the global South in the face of Western information hegemony, the media as political actors and consumption in the digital age.
Wafica Medhi, journalist and director of the Spanish-language newsroom of the pan-Arab channel Al Mayadeen, will give the conference «Media lessons from the Palestinian genocide: propaganda, silencing and media resistance».
Among the communicative experiences to be presented on Wednesday will be that of the Faculty of Communication, whose 40th anniversary is being celebrated in the context of the colloquium, and will be joined by Casa Editora Abril, Resumen Latinoamericano, Sputnik, among others.
With the slogan «We are peoples weaving networks», since 17 March the IV International Colloquium Patria has brought together almost 500 participants from more than 40 countries to offer keys to left-wing political communication in the face of the media war.
