The internet and digital technologies are daily changing power structures across the world. While the secrecy of US diplomacy was recently hit by WikiLeaks, digital tools are being used to organise mass protests against autocrats in the Middle East. These technologies are blurring the old distinctions between media and public, seeming to offer a newly-minted democratised media. Is this a paradigm shift? Will it live up to its promise? To answer the big questions, Comment is free America is partnering with The Morningside Post (TMP), the student-run blog of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, which is holding its second annual conference, 'Information Overload? Navigating the Age of Democratised Media', on Friday 25 February, to bring you a series of articles by some of the leading thinkers participating. You can follow TMP on Twitter @morningsidepost and the conference via Facebook