Communication and Human Rights Meeting: Communicating from the perspective of responsibility and respect

May, 2023 - Society is currently facing rapidly changing political and cultural scenarios, making the reading of reality oscillate between hope and uncertainty.

In our country, political, electoral and social processes seem to give no respite since 18-O, to which is added the proliferation of disinformation campaigns, hate speech and denialism. Where the media used to be a reference to try to better understand reality, today we find social networks, platforms that can either amplify truthful information or be expeditious channels for false news and disinformation.

In this scenario, it is worth asking what is the role that communicators should assume in their most diverse functions, journalists of public or private institutions, in foundations or organizations of different nature or professionals working in areas of liaison, among others, delving into what are the ways to accompany society in an open, respectful and responsible view of the phenomena that occur every day.

In order to address this problem, the Millennium Institute for Research on Violence and Democracy, VioDemos, the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data and the Center for Justice and Society Studies, convene the Meeting Communication and Human Rights, on Thursday June 8 between 10.00 and 13.00 hours in the Auditorium Mide UC in the San Joaquin Campus.

The conference will address issues such as the importance of communicating with a human rights approach, the challenges this poses, why communicators should integrate respect for human rights in their content and what are the axes of responsible and respectful communication.

The Communication and Human Rights Meeting will be divided into two blocks. The first will be the presentation of the Portable Manual of Communication and Human Rights of the National Institute of Human Rights, by Daniela Fernández, journalist of the Promotion, Education and Participation Unit of the same institution.

In the second block, the Dialogue "Why communicate with a human rights approach?" will be held with the participation of:

Ignacio López, Professor at the UC School of Communications. PhD in Language, Discourse and Communication, King's College London. Master of Science (MSc) in Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science. Journalist and Master in Strategic Communication, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His areas of research are digital communication, communication ethics, discourse analysis, semiotics and written narrative. He is a professor of Communications Ethics, Nonfiction Written Narrative and Research Seminar.

Magdalena Browne, Dean of the School of Communications at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. MSc. in Media & Communication at the London School of Economics, Journalist and Sociologist at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She has an extensive professional and academic career in the area of public opinion and communications, public policy and organization. She was Director of the Direction of Social Studies of the Institute of Sociology of the UC, and General Manager and Partner-Director of Tironi y Asociados.

Roberto Herrscher, Director of the Journalism of Excellence Award and of the Diploma in Narrative Non-Fiction Writing at Universidad Alberto Hurtado. B.A. in Sociology, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Master of Science in Journalism, Columbia University. PhD Candidate in Journalism, Universidad San Jorge, Spain. Author of, among other books, Crónicas Bananeras.

Moderator: Camila Diaz, Director of Research and Academic Training Millennium Institute Fundamento de Datos. Political Scientist from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Diploma in Education, Memory and Human Rights from the Universidad de Chile. She has been a teacher of Citizenship Education for high school students in a context of high social vulnerability. She was executive coordinator of Plataforma Telar, a research project that gathered the vision of the most diverse social actors, media and social networks in Chile, within the framework of the constitutional debates.

For those who wish to attend, please register at: https://bit.ly/DDHH-IMFD

COMMUNICATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS MEETING PROGRAM
10:00 a.m. Presentation of the "Portable Handbook on Communication and Human Rights" of the National Institute of Human Rights.

Daniela Fernández, journalist Promotion, Education and Participation Unit INDH

11.30 Dialogue "Why communicate with a human rights approach?"

Ignacio López, Professor, UC Communications Faculty

Magdalena Browne, Dean of the School of Communications, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

Roberto Herrscher, Director of the Journalism of Excellence Award and the Diploma in Narrative Nonfiction Writing at Universidad Alberto Hurtado.

Moderator: Camila Díaz, Director of Research and Academic Training Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data