Infiltration: What Healthy looks like for gamers when propaganda and mistrust sets in

What is the role of games and storytelling? What responsibility do we have to our players and each other in this industry, to create and nurture safe spaces that can be a refuge? Come join this interactive session as Benn Wiebe makes this an open discussion, with lots of posed questions, raised hands, and a room ready for dialogue on this profoundly personal issue. With the Infiltration of propaganda, it can often be insidious and gradual. The eroding trust we all have in our institutions that feed us stories, information, news, compounds the issue when we confront audiences with the question: Where do you spend your time? Where do you choose to receive your stories and information? Do you trust those places? And even if you did, do you believe they care about you and being transparently honest with you in what they are providing? Where do we reconcile that to better understand what healthy looks like? What does healthy look like to you? And is our industry providing that safe space and that refuge we all so want to create and nurture? Let’s explore that. Come along with Benn Wiebe, Vice Chairman of HFP, Mentor for Creative UK, former Strategy Officer for Safe in our World, who has produced impact campaigns and story driven initiatives for Netflix, UN Live, Vice, Sybo Games, Sony, UNFCCC, UNDESA.