Selected Events 2007 Consulate General Leipzig Welcomes Future Journalists to DVC with Media Experts

Digital Video Conference with Joe Misiewicz at the Consulate General

September 27-30, 2007. Consulate General Leipzig supported the national “Youth Media Days” (“Jugendmedientage”) in Leipzig. On September 28, a group of 20 students and future journalists came to the Consulate to discuss, via Digital Video Conference (DVC), the “Future of Media,” with Joe Misiewicz, a professor at Ball State University in Indiana. The students, who hailed from all areas of Germany, engaged in a very lively discussion with Prof. Misiewicz. The focus was on new media technologies and their impact on how information is selected and processed, which no longer is as passive reception. In Web 2.0, users become ever more active players in the global network of communication and information.The 20 participants were welcomed and introduced to the Consulate by Consul General Mark Scheland, Consulate staffer Zoe Kusmierz and American intern Eric O’Leary, and they actively discussed current issues in politics and transatlantic relations with the Consul General.