CONFERENCES COMUNICATION POWER AND COUNTERPOWER

Conferences that will analyze how networks are woven between transnational corporations, the media and political power to structure the current system through power relations and the construction of a hegemonic and uniform discourse. At the same time it aims to show and examine how people are organized in the construction of counterpower through the vertebration of an alternative discourse and a new culture whose central point is the transformation of the citizen into an active subject, thanks to the emergence of new tools, new knowledge and a different conception of communication and information since the appearance of the internet.

The world today is marked centrally by how information is created, manipulated and distributed. The mass media became a key instrument for the power established in all the latitudes of the world, since the mass media have the capacity to create a subjective and non-truthful social perception of the reality we live in. The information receivers have problems to look for reliable sources, in a context in which infoxicación, the media silence or thematic targeting and repetition are a constant.

Today, the environmental omnipresence of terrorism serves to justify the cutting of fundamental rights and freedoms of people at all levels. The different legislative changes of the states are aimed at avoiding all kinds of dissidence in a world in which the tension is increased by the application of neoliberal policies that understand the planet as a large pantry, and to people as cheap labor and consumers which allow for continued growth benefits for transnational corporations. At a communication level in particular, the marketing of personal data, the criminalization of encrypted communication, the penalization of freedom of expression, high prison sentences, and repression of those who reveal information about the outrages of states or the control of communications, are continuous elements of the policies of the states today.

The conferences will consist of free open lectures that will be developed in different localities around the planet, and that will be built through different types of channels and digital spaces. Each of the lectures will have a specific subject but will form a joint construction with the issues addressed in the other lectures. Thus, a set of analysis spaces will be formed that, interconnected with each other through the digital space, will build in the following days an analysis of communication as a key element in the construction of power and counterpower.

Each of the lectures will consist of a public exhibition and a second moment of pooling, as well as debate.

The crowdfunding has a progressive character with 6 levels of development according to the amount reached at the end of it.

The Conferences "Communication, Power and Counterpower" are aimed at people who want to deepen the knowledge of today's society from a critical perspective and has as its main objectives:

• Mapping the causes and consequences of the communication system in today's society.
• Knowing projects and communicative initiatives that generate alternatives when it comes to building societies.
• Learning how people can use communicative tools to rebuild the world.
• Knowing how to handle infoxication and informative silence.
• Understanding the real power of the media.
• Knowing diversity in the type of communicative activism.

ECOAR))) is a tool of an independent nature Which is based on direct action, public pressure, awareness and solidarity, to build a global system based on justice, ethics and dignity.

Furthermore ECOAR))) is a space of a global nature conformed by people of very diverse overview and profile that are coordinated, constructed and act, from the local to the international:

• To address global injustices and problems related to human rights and the environment.
• To activate citizenship by acting effectively and efficiently through analysis, planning and strategy.

You can find more information about us on the web https://ecoarglobal.org/en/