*** All proceeds direct to charity ***

Attention is activism’s most crucial resource, and social media has revolutionised the competition for it.

In many ways, social media has empowered activists and fuelled positive change. But could the trade for our attention be hijacking our free will, and even our democracy?

Join Unicef Next Gen London at this charity event to ask whether social media is empowering or enslaving our generation, with panellists:

- Professor David Runciman: Head of Politics and co-director of the Conspiracy and Democracy Project at Cambridge University.

- Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu: co-organiser of the Women's March London, lawyer and founder of Women in Leadership.

- James Williams: winner of the 9-Dots Prize for his groundbreaking research into the ethics of attention and persuasion in the digital age, recipient of Google's highest honour during his ten years' employment at the company.

- Nimco Ali: anti-FGM campaigner and founder of Daughters of Eve, named 'Woman of the Year' by Red, and ranked as one of Debretts' 500 most influential people in Britain.

- Richard Wilson: founder of Stop Funding Hate, the viral social media campaign challenging hate advertising in British Tabloids.

- Jamie Bartlett (Chair): Author of The Dark Net and Radicals and Unicef Next Gen London Committee Member.

The panel discussion will start at 7.30pm until 9pm, arrivals from 7pm with time for chat and drinks after.

All proceeds will go to Unicef’s emergency appeal for the children of Syria.

Kindly hosted by Newspeak House, The London College of Political Technologists. For many more events on all aspects of how technology is changing democracy, see http://www.nwspk.com/events