Welcome to wannseeFORUM

The digital revolution has changed our society. It has an impact on interaction and communication as well as on patterns of thought and perception. Especially for young people, the new media have become an integral part of their everyday lives.

The interactive Web 2.0 is opening up new opportunities for their participation, but it also entails new risks such as data abuse or manipulation of opinion.

The aim of our seminars is to motivate and enable young people, teachers and multipliers to become actively involved in shaping our media democracy.

Here, the development of media competence becomes an essential part of education for democratic citizenship.

For this reason our seminars focus on the analysis, reflection and production of media as well as one’s own media usage and the critical analysis of the different interests of the state, the economy and the community in the media society.

Our focus is on the following topics, among others:

• Media, power and manipulation
• New forms of learning and participation through Web 2.0
• Copyright and intellectual property
• Data protection, personal rights, and freedom of information
• Contemporary history (e.g. 20^th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall)
• Film as a means of expression
• Media art