M100 Youth Media Workshop 2011 in Potsdam (Germany)

In recent years, tremendous efforts have been made (by politicians, foundations and educational institutions) to reach poorly educated and politically distant social groups. Unfortunately, the success remained mostly moderate. Instead many young people seem to turn away from politics and the participation in social discussions, obtain less information from newspapers and rather visit chats and forums.

This development poses big challenges for politics as well as for journalism. Nowadays, media producers (regardless of the genre) are also faced with the question of how to reach people - how to encourage them to read their news and editorials?

These issues have be addressed at the four-day-long M100 Youth Media Workshop that tooks place in Potsdam for the 7th time this year. 

More information: www.m100potsdam.org

The articles

• Have you ever heard about post-migrant theatre?

  26.08.2011

  Young filmmaker Asli Özarslan portraits emerging Ballhaus Naunynstraße theatre in her debut documentary “Bastarde”[more]

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• Albanians in Germany - A long history of poverty and success

  28.08.2011

  July 1990! The fall of the Berlin Wall paved the way for German reunification and “Wind of Change” was no more just a song of “Scorpions” but the sound of democratic revolution in Eastern (Communist) Europe, inspired from the...[more]

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• Dirty battle in danger

  29.08.2011

  Rotten tomatoes, smelly fish, loads of water and even dirty diapers. These are the weapons for the legendary water fight between the inhabitants of Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain. Whether the smelly fruit is going to fly over the...[more]

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• The cross-cultural exchange: A challenge to take or sacrifice to make?

  29.08.2011

  ’’Unite, Unite Europe!’’ was the chorus of Toto Cutugno’s famous Eurovision song, that often intrigued people to think about the idea of countries one harmonized ‘’composition’’ on the continent we live in.[more]

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• What's new on Facebook

  29.08.2011

  One click to Log in, and you see what your friends do, where they are, where they have been and where they will be in the near future, Independently to the sense of privacy and protecting our electronic information, we share our...[more]

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• Pirate Party Germany: waiting to get our asses kicked

  29.08.2011

  "Why am I hanging here, if you're not going to vote anyway?", - the sceptic guy asks from the poster. In such a way Pirate Party Germany (PPG) appeals to young electorate, which avoids taking responsibility. In 2009 the youngest...[more]

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• Fair/schön - On the quest of Berlin’s organic fashion

  29.08.2011

  Who hasn’t heard about biofuel, biofood, biocosmetics…but how can clothes also be bio? Uta Friedrich walked right into Berlin’s ecological fashion scene to find it out for you. [more]

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