Public presentation delivered at the Zurich Film Festival 2019, on 5 October.

1. Speaking truth in a
post-truth world
Sanjana Hattotuwa
ICT4Peace Foundation

4. State of playWhat are the markers of
power

5. Blurring real & unreal
Whispers of immortality
or barbarians at the
gate?

6. The Irishman, Netflix

7. Gemini Man

8. “Junior in the movie is twice as
expensive as Will Smith,” said
Lee. “I dare anybody to try. It’s
so hard. It’s like impossible. Will
Smith is easy. Tell him this and
that and he’ll act. And then,
when we do Junior, it’s a poor
imitation of God’s work. That’s
how hard it is. It’s pretty
impossible.”

9. Identity markets/markersWho is real?

11. Identity masksWeaponising anonymity

12. Mat Brinkman, New York Times

13. Beyond comprehensionThe illusion of informed
consent

15. Invisibility of manipulation
indivisible from media
Weaponisation of
algorithms

16. Pitfalls of privacy pivotRadicalisation under the
radar

18. Premade choicesThe illusion of agency

20. Constricted worldviewThe illusion of
engagement

22. Obscenity of othersNo common ground &
increasing fracture

24. Deception disguisedCapture & retention of
attention

25. Vase in the Form of a Siren
Terracotta, mold made
ca. 540 BCE
Walters Art Museum

26. Twittering Machine
(Die Zwitscher-
Maschine)
Paul Klee

27. Protesting power
from Latin protestari,
from pro- ‘forth,
publicly’ + testari
‘assert’

28. Mapping wicked problems
No (easy) solutions to
VUCA, power of
description

30. Grounded research on
construction of social
media
A gaze from within
instead of outsider
frames

32. Reconfiguring/regulating
the Valley
From profit, growth &
toxicity to duty of care,
privacy & health

34. Agility, adoption &
adaptation
Critically embrace
potential to drive
change

36. Danger of the
single story
Chimamanda
Ngozi’s prescient
warning, now
amplified & via
diverse vectors

38. Our stories. Our way.Publishing for posterity

39. The weight of the world
is love.
Under the burden
of solitude,
under the burden
of dissatisfaction
the weight,
the weight we carry
is love.
Allen Ginsberg, Song

40. Thank youwww.ict4peace.org