Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) 2022 At the 56th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival July 1-9, 2022, the Ecumenical Jury, appointed by INTERFILM and SIGNIS, awarded its Prize to A Provincial Hospital (Edna provintsialna bolnitsa) directed by Ilian Metev, Ivan Chertov, Zlatina Teneva, (Germany, Bulgaria, 2022). Motivation: A...
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s 2021 report unequivocally linked climate change to human activity and predicted more frequent and more severe natural disasters over the coming years. Given the current trajectory of emissions and lack of meaningful climate action, the world is...
Mozilla, the organization/community that built the Firefox browser and now has a Foundation working to ensure the internet remains an open and accessible public resource, has released a 12-minute documentary, “Unknown Influence” The documentary interviews independent researchers and technology experts from the US, Kenya, France, United...
The world’s law enforcement services are in cahoots, sharing detailed data about individuals as well as corporations “in the interest of national security”. In 2021, the Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of the United States of America on Access to Electronic Data...
The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Terri R. Miller, a communications specialist, editor, and writer from Sudbury (ON), Canada, as its communications coordinator. As WACC’s communications coordinator, Miller is tasked with strengthening WACC’s public profile, vision, and mission. “I’m...
Pursuit of profit and social media algorithms foster and elevate hate into the mainstream. In yet one more example, misogynistic and violent messages made by influencer Andrew Tate, recently banned from social media platforms, were viewed billions of times on TikTok alone. His rise on...
On September 4, 2022, Chilean voters rejected a new proposed constitution that would have set the foundations for a progressive, rights-based, gender-sensitive, decolonial, and ecologically sound form of governance. Despite some gaps in terms of clarity and concerns about the fiscal load that the constitution would...
On 5 July 2022, the European Parliament approved the final text of its Digital Services Act (DSA), the new rule book for moderating digital content. The DSA aims to limit the spread of illegal content online and it establishes a new set of obligations for private...
Media Development 2022-3Democratizing CommunicationRediscovering SolidarityFrom legacy media’s propaganda potential to the Internet’s “platform power”, how can we bring about global cooperation to build an alliance of democracies strong enough to set the rules, standards, and red lines of a democratic digital future, worldwide? View online magazineDownload...
The theme “Democratizing Communication, Rediscovering Solidarity” suggests that there is an essential link between people’s capacity to communicate their concerns and aspirations and their ability to bring about greater political and social justice. We know already that Putin’s savage, criminal, and inhuman war on Ukraine was...