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derlie any specific political position.
The Internet, which, I believe, is unquestionably becoming a significant power in the media
world, may quickly create a stir but the latter subsides just as quickly, and often without
fallout that would have been caused by such a stir in traditional media.
Moreover, how much the average Russian trusts any specific piece of information depends
very little on where they get this information from.
To be honest, as a person who follows what's happening in the media community I was
quite amazed by this survey because it's generally accepted that the Internet and new tech-
nology are something that will eventually overshadow traditional channels of information.
It seems to me we're having a very important discussion here. I'm an optimist and so I be-
lieve that we'll definitely be able to come to some practical conclusions in regard to the is-
sues which are raised here, although, of course, we ought to be realists and to realize that
the situation changes very quickly and today's information processes are very different in
essence from processes that we have seen in the past, have studied, and have got used to.
Vedat Sevincer,
managing editor of the Norwegian
newspaper The Nordic Page:
I would like to speak
about online social media, their influence on the
overall media landscape and rhetoric used in the
media.
If we look at the influence of journalism and the
traditional media on social media, at the number
of channels through which social media operate,
and at the volumes of information that is publi-
cized through social media, we will see that that this mechanism is hopefully less controlled
and less filtered because, on the one hand, people can exchange information directly and,
on the other, they are able to criticize various events, and this gives rise to larger amounts
of diverse information. I wanted to check whether this was really happening in social
media. For instance, I've studied the coverage of the conflict in Syria. In social media, cov-
erage is mainly based on official reports, but at the same time there are reports from both
camps in the conflict. On the whole, one may say it is unbiased information, and that there
have been debates. But it has been heavily polarized, and it has been very difficult to find
common language, just as it has been for journalists to cover the conflict in Syria without
bias. The same is the case with other conflicts, for example that in Ukraine.
There are some practical and conceptual barriers to be overcome. As regards free flows
of information, crowdsourcing is an essential way to obtain unbiased information on the
ground. People who are on the ground make their own analysis of information and publish
their opinions. Such content is difficult to use for an unbiased report.
Data problems can be divided into three categories: data that exists and is in circulation,