The first day of the conference I got to see some pretty cool presentations. Jenna Tiitsman, of the Auburn Media Group in New York, showed a review of media reports in the USA on the use of new media in the global south, and uses Myanmar as an example. In these media reports, citizen journalism provides media organisations with information about events in the country when the said organisations cannot enter. However, the journalists themselves are not praised, but the technologies they use. Western media uplifts the technology “given” to the east/south, as a tool for democracy and freedom of speech (Western values). Jenna claims that in an era of post- or neo-colonisation, our media do their best to still lay claim that the prosperity and happiness of the two-thirds world still lies in our hands.