Event to explore impact of internet on mass media

How the internet is changing the world of mass media by affecting how we tell stories and how we receive news will be explored at a one-day digital media conference to be held in Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) tomorrow.

Conference speakers are Jill O’Sullivan, editor of breakingnews.ie, Thomas Crosbie Media, and Dr Chris Speed, reader in digital architecture at Edinburgh College of Art.

The event takes place in the Conference Room, The Nimbus Centre, CIT, at 2.15pm.

“The speakers will be looking at how can our built environment and public spaces be enlivened by digital technology to tell new stories in new ways and what is the future of storytelling, particularly in the media, in our ‘always-on’ society,” said Emmett Coffey, lecturer in the Department of Media Communications which is organising the event.

The event is part of CIT Innovation Week, which runs until Friday. Tomorrow morning at 10.15am another event will explore case studies that show how online communications and social media are transforming business promotion, brand building and customer relations.

Speakers include Natasha Lynch who runs language school Essential French, and Vicki O’Callaghan, digital analyst at Thomas Crosbie Media.

That event also takes place in the Conference Room, The Nimbus Centre, CIT, at 10.15am.