Within the Baku International Humanitarian Forum, a panel session "Social journalism and high technologies" started at the Kempinski Hotel Badamdar.
According to the participants, application of high technologies in journalism is a new type of journalism and a social order.
The panels of session will discuss the links between the traditional information industry and the quickly developing social media, the new tendencies in information in the global age, the impact of social media on regional policy.
The panels are conducted by Azerbaijan State Telegraph Agency (AzerTAc), Russia`s ITAR-TASS Agency and the Turkish Anatolian Agency.
The panel is attended by authoritative representatives of international organizations, including politicians, public figures, men of art and culture, leading media outlets, experts, and journalists.
The first panel named "Social Journalism in the 21st Century: When Everyone Can Become a Journalist" will explore the interaction between the traditional news industry and ever developing social media.
In his opening remarks, director general of AzerTAc Aslan Aslanov wished success to the participants, noting urgency of this humanitarian topic and timely reaction of the Azerbaijani state to the humanitarian challenges the globe faces.
The general director stressed necessity of the discussions around the humanitarian topics which are also in the daily focus of mass media.
Moderator of the first panel, director general of ITAR-TASS Vitaly Ignatenko spoke of the traditional information industry and ever developing social media. He noted that "social journalism makes social platform", which, according to him, impacts on politics, education, culture.
Then, speaking of old and new models of journalism, deputy director of the Associated Press Agency Thomas Kent said both the traditional mass media and social media have their peculiarities, functions, professional technology. In contrast to other mass media, the social media has great opportunities to hear and understand the world around.
At the panel session, also was speaking the Assistant Director-General for UNESCO`s Communication and Information Sector Janis Karklins, director general of the Moscow newspaper "Moskovski Komsomolets" Pavel Gusev, the director general of Anatolian agency Kemal Ozturk, editor-in-chief of the journal "Ogonyok" Victor Loshak, dean from the Baku Slavonic University Aynur Beshirli and others, who underlined the role technical achievements fro communications, also noting that this tendency should not change the humanitarian principles of journalism.

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