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Follow on Google News | Media Forum 2019: Freedom of JournalismBy: International Affairs magazine Paradoxically, in the era of advanced technologies and highly developed economic systems the global community is existing in the conditions of total vulnerability. The trends which seemed inspiring before, have yielded unexpected results: globalization has aggravated local conflicts, tolerance has laid bare the issue of values and meanings, multiculturalism has brought forth the subject of identity and tradition. Finally, the question about the "power of law" and "the law of power" has come to the fore. The world has entered an era of ideological multipolarity. This was acknowledged by Francis Fukuyama, the author of the End of History. "What I said back then (in 1992) is that one of the problems with modern democracy is that it provides peace and prosperity but people want more than that... liberal democracies do not even try to define what a good life is, it's left up to individuals, who feel alienated, without purpose, and that's why joining these identity groups gives them some sense of community. This extended period, in which a certain set of ideas about the benefits of unregulated markets took hold, in many ways it's had a disastrous effect." Are the media ready to appropriately reflect the new reality that challenges much of what is known as the "mainstream"? New information technologies have provided humanity with an ocean of opportunities, which is fraught with considerable danger and a lot of trouble. At present, cyber security issues affect nearly every user of the Net: be it an individual, a large corporation or a country. Fear of nuclear war is replaced with an equally destructive threat. Cyber wars have a tendency to grow - from point and local to large-scale and even global, with unpredictable consequences. How are cyber security issues presented in modern media? Experts will discuss these and other issues at the session "Information and Communication Technologies in the Media." End
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