17 Aug 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and biopolitics in Latin America
By Silvio Waisbord and María Soledad Segura
Does the COVID-19 pandemic mark the birth of a new form of biopolitics? The Latin American case shows important departures from Europe and the United States, both in the adoption of surveillance technologies and in the types of biopolitical control enacted through them.
17 Aug 2020 Tensions between media censorship and regulation in Jamaica
By Brittany Forsythe
Media regulation according to Fredman (2015) is defined as the process by which a range of specific, often legally binding, tools are applied to media systems and institutions to achieve established policy goals such as pluralism, diversity, competition, and freedom. Regulation consists of the deployment of formal statutory rules laid down by public authorities as well as more informal codes of conduct developed and implemented by media organizations in conjunction with the state.
17 Aug 2020 Time for Facebook to face the music
There are laws about what can be seen or said in public. So why don’t they apply to social media? In principle they do. The problem is enforcing them. In part it’s a problem of scale.
17 Aug 2020 Media Development 2020/3 Editorial
Mainstream media have produced extraordinary and sustained coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on health, care-workers, and government policies, as well as the impact on individuals and communities. The same cannot be said for social media, which have been the source of misinformation and fake news, amplifying rumour and stoking fear.
17 Aug 2020 Sensibiliser sur le COVID-19 : Un travail complexe
Par Mathilde Kpalla
Le Togo, comme la plupart des pays de l’Afrique subsahariens, est touché par le COVID-19. Pour le moment (mars 2020) pas à une grande échelle. Ainsi le Togo en est à 84 cas confirmés et 6 décès.
17 Aug 2020 European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (1998)
This treaty aims to protect and promote the historical regional or minority languages of Europe. It was adopted, on the one hand, in order to maintain and to develop the Europe’s cultural traditions and heritage, and on the other, to respect an inalienable and commonly recognised right to use a regional or minority language in private and public life.
17 Aug 2020 Media viability gets a boost
By Lorenzo Vargas
New models to fund and sustain the public interest media that the Internet disrupted are urgently needed. COVID-19 reminds us of just how pressing this need is.
17 Aug 2020 Digital justice manifesto: A call to own our digital future
By Just Net Coalition
The Digital Justice Manifesto, “A Call to Own Our Digital Future”, was launched in Berlin in November 2019 by the Just Net Coalition, a global network of civil society organizations and individuals, including the World Association for Christian Communication. The coalition was founded at a meeting in New Delhi in 2014, which agreed “The Delhi Declaration for a Just and Equitable Internet”.
17 Aug 2020 Promotion and use of multilingualism and universal access to cyberspace (2003)
he General Conference of UNESCO, recognizing the importance of promoting multilingualism and equitable access to information and knowledge, especially in the public domain, adopted the following Recommendation at its 32nd session (30 September – 17 October 2003).