The meeting entitled “I am a newspaper” which was organized on April 2 in the “Akumb” complex was unprecedentedly crowded. It was an event from the series of Pecha Kucha meetings which means ‘chit-chat’ translated from Japanese.
This time Pecha Kucha proposed to chit-chat on issues regarding the media and the new media.
10 thematic presentations were represented during the event organized jointly with the “Internews” media support NGO. According to Pecha Kucha format each of the speakers had a chance to promptly, informatively and amusingly represent his/her speech along with only 20 pictures.
At this unofficial and entertaining evening the creative people shared their ideas, projects and opinions.
Specialists in the field of information technologies expressed conviction that social networks continue to develop and dominate upon the traditional media in Armenia. According to information technology expert Samvel Martirosyan this is in the case “when television has nothing to offer the audience except the soup operas”.
According to the speakers, audience of the traditional mass media is resolved and new associations and social movements are established through the Internet.
“Even people who are unaware how to use the Internet and what is the Internet are registered on social networks,” says Samvel Martirosyan.
The meeting entitled “I am a newspaper” which was organized on April 2 in the “Akumb” complex was unprecedentedly crowded. It was an event from the series of Pecha Kucha meetings which means ‘chit-chat’ translated from Japanese.
This time Pecha Kucha proposed to chit-chat on issues regarding the media and the new media.
10 thematic presentations were represented during the event organized jointly with the “Internews” media support NGO. According to Pecha Kucha format each of the speakers had a chance to promptly, informatively and amusingly represent his/her speech along with only 20 pictures.
At this unofficial and entertaining evening the creative people shared their ideas, projects and opinions.
Specialists in the field of information technologies expressed conviction that social networks continue to develop and dominate upon the traditional media in Armenia. According to information technology expert Samvel Martirosyan this is in the case “when television has nothing to offer the audience except the soup operas”.
According to the speakers, audience of the traditional mass media is resolved and new associations and social movements are established through the Internet.
“Even people who are unaware how to use the Internet and what is the Internet are registered on social networks,” says Samvel Martirosyan.
One of the speakers, student Narek Manukyan referred to the internet TV and represented especially the webtv.am website created by him.
Manukyan says they try to exclude all the shortages of traditional television. “There are no long and gaudy advertising blocks, soap operas on our website, and the viewer himself/herself chooses what to watch,” says Manukyan.
Also photojournalists spoke at Pecha Kucha. They expressed their concern on that almost all the media outlets are using their photos without adequate references. “They do not pay for the used photos, moreover do not mention the author’s name,” says photojournalist Anahit Hayrapetyan.
Finally, the Pecha Kucha participants draw a conclusion that media in Armenia is in crisis and expressed hope that similar discussions would afford new ideas especially to the youth.
The idea of Pecha Kucha was born in 2003, Tokyo. Now it is a great system of events functioning in more than 380 cities of the world.
Source: JNews.am