Round Table on Storytelling and its Ethics of Production and Dissemination on Web Platforms

Participants: Liz Miller, Director (The Shore Line Project); Julien Boisvert, Director (Parrainez un enfant riche/Sponsor a Wealthy Child); Patricia Bergeron, Producer;  Iphigénie Marcoux-Fortier, Documentary Filmmaker (Projet BRiB);  Ghassan Fayad, Producer; Ralph Dfouni, Creative Director; Kevin Lo, Art Director (Life on Hold – Al Jazeera).

This round table will present reflections and practices influencing how stories on environmental issues, critics of humanitarian campaigns, urban appropriation of space and life in a refugee camps have been developed, produced, marketed, disseminated and received on web platforms. Members of the round table will reflect briefly (15 minutes) from different standpoints on the ethical dimensions involved in and raised by their work and the collaboration it entails before we engage into a group discussion.

Inquiries can be made to cohds.chorn@concordia.ca