12 Nov 2017 Go-ogle: Gender and memory in the “globital” age
For millennia humankind has given future generations access to the past by making recitords of events and genealogies. Now we go-ogle the past through the internet.
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12 Nov 2017 Museums that travel
“New museology” is a notion which has been gaining popularity in museum studies since the 1980s when Peter Vergo (1989) proposed it in a book he edited. The “novelty” of new museology concerns a shift of focus in museum work: redefining...
12 Nov 2017 The political economy of historical digital games
The late science-fiction author Octavia Butler once wrote in her unpublished work Parable of the Trickster that: “There’s nothing new / under the sun, / but there are new suns.”
...12 Nov 2017 It’s Time … a speech that shaped a life and Australia
The following article is part of a memories project being carried out with a ;local council in Sydney, Australia, recording memories of senior citizens in a city that has changed culturally and geographically and in many other ways. Stories are recorded in video...
12 Nov 2017 Rights at Risk: Observatory on the Universality of Rights Trends Report 201
The trend is unmistakable and deeply alarming: in international human rights spaces, religious fundamentalists are now operating with increased impact, frequency, coordination, resources, and support.
12 Nov 2017 The Meaning of Life: Locarno Film Festival 2017
The 70th Locarno film festival − held during the first days of August on the shores of Lake Maggiore on the border of Italy and Switzerland − again proved magical. But as Golshifteh Farahani, an actress staring in The Song...
20 Oct 2017 WACC promotes gender awareness in media and information literacy
UNESCO conference in Jamaica focuses on education and transformation....
20 Oct 2017 Keeping WACC’s ear to the ground
Consultation in Costa Rica focuses on “Communication and Social Change: Beyond the SDGs”.
...29 Aug 2017 Media Development 2017-3 online magazine and pdf
Great expectations have been placed on social media platforms as a panacea for the challenges facing societies worldwide. In particular, social media platforms are expected to strengthen open dialogue and public debate and to be sources of information and knowledge. They could have a...
29 Aug 2017 Media Development 2017-3 Editorial
Great expectations have been placed on social media platforms as a panacea for the challenges facing societies worldwide. In particular, social media platforms are expected to strengthen open dialogue and public debate and to be sources of information and knowledge.
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