11 Nov 2018 Digital poison or digital balm
As Christians struggle with social media ethics, where are the guideposts?
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11 Nov 2018 Challenges facing Albania’s media landscape
According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, freedom of expression is the right of every individual to hold opinions without interferences and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of any barriers.1 In practice, freedom of expression is often...
11 Nov 2018 Recuperar la utopía de la democratización de las comunicaciones
El informe de la Comisión Internacional para el Estudio de los Problemas de la Comunicación (CIC), o conocido también por el nombre del Presidente de esta comisión como el Informe MacBride, en alusión al jurista Irlandés, Premio Nobel de la Paz (1974) y Premio Lenin...
11 Nov 2018 On the screen (MD2018/4)
At the Locarno film festival (August 1-11, 2018) the Ecumenical Jury, appointed by INTERFILM and SIGNIS, awarded its Prize, endowed with 20.000 CHF by the Reformed Churches and the Catholic Church of Switzerland, and bound to the theatrical distribution of the film, to Sibel directed by Guillaume...
05 Nov 2018 When media, politics and sexual violence collide
How media report on sexual violence when political interests are at play is a litmus test for how serious they are about professional ethics.
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29 Oct 2018 ‘Fake news’ is undermining Brazilian rights
During Brazil’s military dictatorship (1964-85), the people’s ability to exercise some of their most fundamental human rights was severely curtailed. In addition to engaging in torture, extrajudicial killings, and repression against opposition groups, the successive military governments that governed Brazil during this period relentlessly restricted...
22 Oct 2018 Beware propaganda from the wireless industry
There has always been a suspicion that radio waves do more harm than good. With the arrival of the Internet of Things – wireless computing devices embedded in such everyday objects as fridges, washing machines and coffee makers – the scenario easily slips into one...
15 Oct 2018 Media bread and circuses
On 7 September 2018, former President Obama delivered a pointed critique of the Trump presidency. Speaking to students at the University of Illinois, he urged political awareness and action, saying:
...08 Oct 2018 Genocide in the news: On media elitism and racism
Why do some genocides make the news and others hardly? Let me rephrase: Why do international news media give grossly disproportionate attention to different yet similarly grave ‘deliberate and systematic destructions of a racial, political, or cultural group’ (Miriam-Webster definition)? ...
01 Oct 2018 When did you last take a break from social media?
According to a 2018 research report from the Pew Research Centre on trends in social media use in the United States, 74% of Facebook users in that country visited the platform at least once a day, and 51% did so several times a day. ...