“Very hands-on and a great learning experience,” is how Esta Yee sums up her summer internship as a project and research assistance with WACC’s Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP). Joining the GMMP team only a few weeks after the 2025 monitoring day, the fourth-year undergraduate student...
With “Artificial intelligence: Friend or foe?” WACC’s quarterly journal takes a communication rights lens to the digital technology that is re-shaping our world.Artificial intelligence is here to stay, notes Media Development editor Philip Lee in the 2025/3 issue. Technology continues to advance, and its effects...
Lemi Baruh and Mihaela Popescu When we talk about online privacy, what comes to mind? For decades, the dominant answer in law and everyday thinking has centred on one idea: control over personal information. This approach, called informational privacy, treats our personal data – our clicks,...
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The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) encompasses three variations. There is Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) with limited capabilities, e.g. Google translate and Siri. There is Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), which attempts to replicate human capabilities, e.g. chatbots. And then there is Artificial Superintelligence (ASI): machines that...
Anne Kruger and Richard Murray Responses from policymakers, professionals and educators to the urgency of AI draw many parallels to earlier phenomena in the growth of online misinformation and disinformation. A key difference however was the sudden global generative AI product releases that forced stakeholders into...
Vamsi Krishna Pothuru How the advent of generative AI has worsened the misinformation problem in India – and the responses from stakeholders, along with potential solutions for the future. In recent years, misinformation aided by digital technologies has been a persistent problem. It has been proven to...
Hasani Felix Journalism is a field which entails telling the public what they need to know with accuracy, clarity and simplicity so everyone can understand. The general aim is to provide new and relevant information to an intended audience. Historically, journalists began publishing news utilizing the...
Ricardo Brooks It was with some interest that I noted that the 2025 Global Risk Report by the World Economic Forum identified misinformation and disinformation as the most pressing risk facing the world over the next two years. Admittedly, at first glance one could be forgiven for...
Cordel Green In a world where the flick of a thumb can transmit ideas across continents, ignite social movements, or unleash torrents of disinformation, the question before us is urgent: how do we safeguard the public interest in this vast and often uncharted communication space? How...