M.08. Media, Arts and Digital Democracy: Negotiating New Cultural Ecologies

This panel brings together contributions that examine how digital culture operates as a radical process of transformation affecting the practices, languages, and institutions of contemporary creative expression, with particular attention to educational implications and democratic negotiation processes. In the current media ecosystem—defined by algorithmic platforms, content fragmentation, and participatory forms of cultural production—fields such as television, cinema, visual and interactive arts, performing arts, music, and poetry are undergoing profound metamorphoses. Television is increasingly configured as a public platform, a hybrid space between broadcast and social media, capable of fostering new forms of media literacy and supporting the formation of a critical citizenry. Cinema is experiencing a transition from the photogram to the algorithm, negotiating between photographic regimes, digital codes, and generative models that redefine authorship, spectatorship, and cultural identity. Interactive artistic practices and the performing arts rewrite the relationship between body, technology, and participation, transforming the artwork into a process and reshaping aesthetic experience. Music, embedded within platform logics, becomes an identity-based, relational, and algorithmic language, while poetry expands into transmedia environments that hybridize narration, learning, and experimentation.
The structure of this panel gathers contributions that analyze these phenomena in their intersection with educational and democratic issues: how these cultural forms facilitate or hinder critical capacities, informed participation, inclusion, and shared meaning-making practices; and how television, cinema, the arts, performance, music, and poetry have become spaces of transformation and negotiation of collective experience in the digital age.