Commercial media outlets around the world are struggling to stay afloat financially. This is related in part to the shift of advertising revenue away from commercial media organizations and towards social media companies like Facebook and Google. This shift is undermining the financial viability of these...
The headline in the Statista information bulletin leapt out at me. Highlighting a recent report from the World Economic Forum, it stated that based on current trends, it will take another 131 years to close the global gender gap, 30% higher than its 2020 prediction The...
According to a recent report (The Guardian, 19 May 2023), the BBC has commissioned a study on whether a broad range of viewpoints on migration are being reflected in all aspects of its immigration coverage. Samir Shah, who contributed to the UK government’s controversial Sewell report...
[caption id="attachment_52894" align="alignleft" width="190"] MD 2023/2[/caption] Media Development 2023-2 Archival Justice: Unfinished Business This issue of Media Development argues for “archival justice”, since what is archived or retained in political, economic, and social structures – including the media – embodies inclusions and exclusions, discriminatory attitudes and behaviours, one...
A pebble on a beach is an archive of geological stories that “are gigantic, and reach realms well beyond human experience, even beyond human imagination. They extend back to the Earth’s formation – and then yet farther back, to the births and deaths of ancient...
Stanley H. Griffin “I am living while I am living to the Father I will pray Only him know how we get through every day, With all the hike in the price Arm and leg we haffi pay While our leaders play… I could go on and on, the full has...
Embert Charles The observance of international mother language day during the month of February every year by the United Nations (UN) organization, since 1999, was intended to promote awareness of the estimated 6,000 to 7,000 languages that exist in our world. More importantly, people around the...
Sparkle N. Ferreira The Caribbean is a melting pot of people of different ethnic backgrounds, rich cultural heritage and history recorded not only in our publications (formal records) but so too in our music, art, festivals, food, and memories (informal records). A significant amount of information...
Sandra Obradović Within memory studies there has been a gradual move away from the dichotomous divide between individual and collective memory, with work emerging arguing for the importance of acknowledging the interrelations between self and other in processes of remembering. This strand of research conceptualizes...
Charles Okigbo Communication for All is the principle that everyone needs relevant information and communication in their daily interactions with each other and as active participants in the inescapable exchanges that characterize their membership of and participation in society. Human communication, in all its varied forms,...