mandag 6. juni 2016
Klokken : 13:00 - 15:00
Pris: Gratis
Sal: Thygesen
Arrangør: Institutt for journalistikk og Nettverk for etisk journalistikk
Nearly 4,000 people from Africa and the Middle East drowned in 2015 while trying to cross the Mediteerrenan Sea to reach Europe. But most of us only know the name of one; Aylan Kurdi.
On September 2, the photo of the Syrian toddler washed up on the beach in Bodrum, Turkey went viral on social media. A day later it was on the front page of newspapers worldwide. Since then media have called image ‘iconic’. Politicians and others have attempted to use the photograph for their own ends and to further their agendas. Supporters and opponents of a more generous refugee policy have also tried to embrace Aylan Kurdi as a symbol of their cause.
Over seven months on from Aylan Kurdi’s death, A Sea of pictures, a documentary film by Dutch public broadcasting programme Media Logic, asks:
- What is the significance of such an image in the refugee debate?
- Why did this particular picture come to symbolise the refugee crisis?
- Who was inspired by this? And who benefited from it?
The film explores both the ethical choices made by journalists that published the image as well as the impact it has had on policy and widerattitudes to migration. Although most of the film’s interviewees are interviewed in English the film has been given English subtitles for the purposes of this screening as the narration is in Dutch. The producer of the film Misja Pekel will be joining the event via Skype after the screening to answer questions from the audience.
The previous topics tackled by the Media Logic series include the role of the media in the Eurozone crisis which was nominated for the Prix Europa, and ‘The World According to Russia Today’.
The screening is being co-organised with Ethical Journalism Network who have recently published a report – Moving Stories – that reviews the good, the bad and ugly of media coverage of migration around world. As well as looking at the case of Aylan Kurdi and and migration in Europe, the report takes an in depth look at how African, Asian and American media have tackled the issue.
The Ethical Journalism Network and the Norwegian Institute of Journalism hope that the event will provide an opportunity for leading journalists to debate how the issues of migration and refugees are dealt with in media and what opportunities there are to work together to improve coverage of this important subject.
The film in Dutch: http://www.human.nl/medialogica/2016/een-zee-van-beelden.html
On Misja:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm6148494/?mode=desktop&ref_=m_ft_dsk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/misja-pekel-732b2013