The ongoing Digital Revolution changes the way we learn about the world around us and how we interact with society.This revolution is driven by new technologies, but it also impacts upon our private as well as social lives in many ways, and it poses highly political challenges.Audio visual media shape what we see and understand, and they affect how we shape our opinions and judgements.The PES Group in the Committee of the Regions is organising a conference on the future of audiovisual media, to discuss  the technological challenges and the political implications of the digital revolution with eminent practitioners from the media world and politics. This event will take place in the premises of the CoR in Brussels on 11 April 2014 and will be open to the public (you can register here).We will explore the impact of changing access to information, new ownership structures and new formats of audiovisual content, as well as the crucial issue of media (or information?) pluralism as a pre-condition for functioning democracy and active citizenship in the European Union.One key aspect of the digital revolution is of course its international nature and the way it changes traditionally national media systems.The European Union is frequently said to 'suffer' from a lack of a transnational public sphere, but new media and formats of information may be able to provide solutions to this problem.The local and regional media landscapes are also undergoing a transformation, this is why new challenges and opportunities need to be identified and addressed