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This year's Media Democracy Day Vancouver event will take place on November 6, 2010 at the central branch of the Vancouver Public Library. The annual event brings together citizens, media professionals, academics and community leaders to discuss the influence of media on society. Key topics will include media policy, citizen media production and making media more representative. Organizers from the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, OpenMedia.ca and the Vancouver Public Library hope the event will promote media literacy and critical thinking about media messages.

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MDD Release 1 Final

This year's Media Democracy Day Vancouver event will take place on November 6, 2010 at the central branch of the Vancouver Public Library. The annual event brings together citizens, media professionals, academics and community leaders to discuss the influence of media on society. Key topics will include media policy, citizen media production and making media more representative. Organizers from the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, OpenMedia.ca and the Vancouver Public Library hope the event will promote media literacy and critical thinking about media messages.

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University, OpenMedia.ca, and the Vancouver Public Library (VPL)and coordinating partners
OpenMedia.ca are excited to announce the official date of Media Democracy Day (MDD)
Vancouver 2010. This year¶s event will take placeNovember 6 November 6, 2010 at the central
branch of the Vancouver Public Library, Central Library. (VPL).

Since 2001, Media Democracy Day has united and engagedVancouver- based citizens, cultural
producers, the media, academics, activists, students, and community leaders in a dynamic
discussion of the state of our Canadian media system.

³To assume that we are passive receivers of media messages vastly underestimates audiences
and citizens´ said this year¶s coordinator Tyler Morgenstern. ³Media Democracy Day seeks to
involve us all in the discussion of how media is shaping and influencingthe way we see the
world,´, he added.

MDD Vancouver 2010 will feature keynote speakers, interactive panels, and hands-on
workshops focused on critical analysis of media policy, citizen and alternative media production,
and the transformation of the media system to make it more diverse and representative of
audiences and communities.

For Morgenstern, these discussions are becoming more urgent: ³In the past year, we¶ve seen how
media from the margins can change the way we see major world events- think about the Iranian
election or the BP oil disaster. MDD celebrates how alternative and dissenting voices are
creating a richer, deeper view of such events for all of us.´

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