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SXSW 2014 Interactive Festival 82 83 SXSW 2014 Interactive Festival CONTENT & DISTRIBUTION AUSTIN CONVENTION CENTER, LEVEL 4: 500 E CESAR CHAVEZ STREET 5:00 PM ACC: Room 12ab Cat Cash: The Economy of Internet Cat Videos In just the past year cat video "cat-lebrities" have inked movie and book deals, inspired touring festivals and are charting out new territory on web TV. This panel of experts and entrepreneurs will discuss how cat videos are making the leap from YouTube to becoming an effective and genuine vehicle for fundraising, marketing, commerce and audience engagement. Sponsored by the Knight Foundation. Ben Lashes, Grace Suriel, Scott Stulen, Will Braden Panel • Intermediate • #catcash 5:00 PM ACC: Room 18abcd Fearlessly Funny: The Women Changing Digital Humor Jane Pratt, founder of Sassy and Jane magazines and now xoJane.com, has assembled a panel of brilliant, feisty and fearlessly funny women. Join them for a discussion of what women actually find funny, how social media has empowered humor through shameless oversharing, and where these women find the best material. Audience Q&A to follow. Issa Rae, Jane Pratt, Kristina Wong, Mandy Stadtmiller Panel • Beginner • #Fearless SUNDAY, MARCH 9 11:00 AM ACC: Room 12ab Print Is Amazing (...ly Profitable!) Everyone knows print is dead. We get news on Twitter and analysis from blogs while more newspapers and magazines fold each year. And yet, some publications stub- bornly refuse to abandon paper. This session will talk about the next generation of successful print publications, their future leaders and how to approach the matter in a revolutionary way. Ann Marie Gardner, Jessanne Collins, Michael Renaud, Paul Carr Panel • Intermediate • #Print 11:00 AM ACC: Room 18abcd Can Great Journalism Make for Great Business? Great journalism can take many forms but what about the *business* of journalism? M. Scott Havens, president of The Atlantic, details how this 156-year-old brand has bucked the downward trend that's plagued the business of media for years and suc- ceeded in an increasingly fractured and competitive landscape. M Scott Havens Solo • Intermediate • #ATLSXSW 12:30 PM ACC: Room 12ab Communicating with Humor: Perils & Best Practices A joke can be a very serious thing—especially when it is used to affect real change. Social good marketers are increasingly using humor to break through the traditional PSA fray. This panel will examine recent success stories and best practices for comedic delivery of important information, when and why humor works and pitfalls to avoid. Baratunde Thurston, Jon Flannery, Mike McCamon, Sheri Klein Panel • Beginner • #FunnyAds 12:30 PM ACC: Room 18abcd Accurate, Fair & Safe: The Ethics of Social News Veteran social journalists Eric Carvin of AP and Jennifer Preston of The New York Times discuss the media's responsibilities to amateurs — everything from the handling of user-generated content to the safety of contributors. Citizen journalists, profes- sional journalists and interested members of the public are encouraged to weigh in. Eric Carvin, Jennifer Preston Dual • Advanced • #UGCEthics 3:30 PM ACC: Room 12ab The Fragile Law that Protects Online Speech Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is responsible for the shape of the Internet as we know it today, by freeing websites from needing to conduct a legal review of every communication that crosses their systems. And yet, it's protection is both controversial and fragile. This panel will explore the voices demanding changes to Section 230 and the consequences of yielding to such demands. Ari Shahdadi, Eric Goldman, Jeff Hermes Panel • Intermediate • #fragilelaw 3:30 PM ACC: Room 18abcd Jeffrey Tambor's Acting Workshop Jeffrey Tambor (Arrested Development, The Hangover) continues the tradition of his much loved workshop by returning to SXSW in 2014. Part one-man show, part seminar, part question and answer and endlessly entertaining, Jeffery's hilarious and empower- ing presentation inspires the viewer to discover the artist within. Jeffrey Tambor Panel • Beginner • #tamborsxsw 5:00 PM ACC: Room 12ab Algorithms, Journalism & Democracy Algorithms influence almost all the information you consume, from news stories, to social media updates, to movies, books, and television programs. Algorithms fuel the marketplace of ideas and ultimately grease the wheels of democracy. Algorithms can surface truths that improve our understanding of the world, but they can also perpetu- ate false information or distort the truth. Gilad Lotan, Kelly McBride Dual • Advanced • #scaryrithm 5:00 PM ACC: Room 18abcd Instagramming the News Associated Press photojournalist David Guttenfelder, who publishes his groundbreak- ing work from inside North Korea on his Instagram feed to a growing audience, dis- cusses the growing influence of social media on professional photography with Time Photo Editor Kira Pollack and Instagram Community Leader Dan Toffey. Dan Toffey, David Guttenfelder, Kira Pollack Panel • Intermediate • #TIMESXSW MONDAY, MARCH 10 9:30 AM ACC: Room 12ab If Content Is King, Who Is Sheriff? With bad (or wrong) online content, readers don't always know what to believe. Tech- nology can be leveraged to solve some of the same problems it creates, by helping us navigate the high seas of crap content or aiding content creators with automated infringement protection. A publisher, professor and marketer debate: Who is the new sheriff in town? Gail Marie, Kristina Eastham, Mike Schmidt, Robert Hernandez Panel • Advanced • #SXsheriff 9:30 AM ACC: Room 18abcd Syrian Electronic Army Wuz Here In the age of Anonymous, how do you objectively report on hackers—and hacker cul- ture—without opening up yourself, your company, and your sources to potential vulner- abilities? This panel will address the dangers lurking in the darker web. Austin Powell, Cole Stryker, Parmy Olson, Tom Cochran Panel • Intermediate • #DarkerWeb 11:00 AM ACC: Room 12ab Fact-Checking Goes Global Fact-checking is booming around the world, with sites popping up in Australia, Britain, Germany and elsewhere. But as they become more established, they're stirring up controversy and facing questions of long-term sustainability. How can they win over skeptical and often partisan audiences? And what's the best business model for this important journalism to survive? Bill Adair, Martin Kotynek, Mona Chalabi, Peter Fray Panel • Intermediate • #globalfact 11:00 AM ACC: Room 18abcd Why Didn't a Tech Journalist Break PRISM? The tech story of 2013—the PRISM revelations and their fallout—wasn't broken by tech- nology journalists. Why was that? Are most tech reporters too wrapped up in tasks like rewriting press releases about new apps and reviewing the latest hit smartphone to bother investigating real scandals? Re/code's Kara Swisher, TechCrunch's Alexia Tsotsis and The Next Web's Martin Bryant find out. Alexia Tsotsis, Kara Swisher, Martin Bryant Panel • Intermediate • #techmedia FESTIVAL SESSIONS

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