#SMCAKL - Panel Announcement
#SMCAKL - Panel Announcement
Social Media Club Auckland (#SMCAKL) has announced the panel for next week’s event.
This topical event on cyber bullying and the recent
instances of online abuse towards celebrities will be
facilitated by an impressive panel including:
• Media
personality Russell Brown
• Psychiatrist of The Nutters
Club fame Dr David Codyre
• and long-time New Zealand
journalist Sarah Stuart.
Check out smcakl.com for more info and to register your place!
The
Panel:
Russell Brown @publicaddress
Russell
Brown was blogging before there were blogs. His Hard News
commentary for 95bFM was first published online in 1993 and
became a fully-fledged blog when he launchedpublicaddress.net in 2002. Hard News
went on to become the first blog to win a Qantas Media
Award. Russell was the founding host of Radio New
Zealand’s Mediawatch and television's Media7 and Media3
shows. He spends a lot of time on Twitter, but he sometimes
wonders about that.
Dr David Codyre
@thenuttersclub
David is a psychiatrist with 28
years’ experience working in the community mental health
sector. He has been a long-time advocate for improvement in
mental health services, mental health promotion; and for
development of peer support services for people with mental
health issues. For the past four years he has co-hosted the
mental health promotion radio/TV show ‘The Nutters
Club’, with comedian Mike King, as well as providing
advice and expertise to regional and national-level mental
health promotion and strategy activities.
Sarah Stuart
@ stassee
Sarah Stuart is the former editor of the
New Zealand Woman's Weekly, deputy-editor of the Heraldon
Sunday and managing editor of APN's regional daily and
community newspaper group. A journalist for 24 years, she is
currently studying for a MBA at the University of Auckland
and writes the popular 12 Questions column in the NZ
Herald.
The Event:
When: 6pm, Wednesday
19th March
Where: Vodafone, 20 Viaduct Harbour
Avenue, Auckland City
Topic: Is social media
anti-social?
The aftermath of Charlotte Dawson’s
tragic death has provoked a tsunami of online and print
commentary around cyber-bullying, mental illness and online
abuse of celebrities. The public reaction has been strong
with the online and social world providing an unrestricted
platform for people to share their varied opinions and angry
responses.
Meanwhile, amidst the harsh judgement on obnoxious online behaviour, NZ Herald sports reporter Dana Johannsen was subjected to vile online abuse after she wrote an article critical of New Zealand’s performance at the Winter Olympics.
This begs the question, is social media enabling wider public discourse or simply subjecting commentators and personalities to vitriolic and anonymous abuse whenever they venture an opinion that someone disagrees with or just doesn’t like?
Join us to explore why the line between valid debate and abuse is so quickly crossed on social media and whether there are any realistic solutions? Is it simply a case of harden-up, enforce regulation or is the social media community naïve to think it can promote behaviour change. Can we simply be nicer to each other online?
#SMCAKL #BeNice
ENDS