New uses, media and content? Make a date with the Forum Blanc 2013 

Here's a taster of the programme and speakers.

Case studies including Destinées, Alma une enfant de la violence, Défense d'afficher

Dates for your diary

• 15/11 - 6/01: Forum Blanc registration
• 15/12: workshop registration
• 6/01: snow activity registration

Read the edito by René Broca and Cédric Guiard, Forum Blanc Co-Heads of editorial content.

Last year, we wrote that everything has changed and nothing has changed since the first Forum Blanc. We could repeat the same diagnostic today: unceasing innovations, in terms of creation, transmission and usage, but economic models that do not change. Being able to repeat the same analysis a year later is in itself a new element: the same thing, later, is not the same thing. Maybe this requires reconsidering the landscape?

Pioneers have not been replaced by builders; economic models are impossible to find or too many. Could it now be time for some agonising revisions?

Signs, at least, are dampening initial enthusiasm. Certainly, new media still remains the condition for the creation and transmission of many kinds of creative experiments and initiatives – but often outside the programme industry, including the political and social. And always outside of the market.

We seem to have rediscovered the obvious within the programme industry, including a majority taste for passive reception of linear stories, where there is perhaps a more frequent reference to "soft interactivity" that accompanies and enriches the main narrative, but does not replace it.

It would seem that paradigms are having a hard time and that access to user-generated content is not always worth paying for.

The field is wide open for new uses – programmes or services – capable of finding their public by meeting the desire for something more in the way of soul, dreams or knowledge.