Aliaa Dakroury There is always a “once upon a time” prologue in stories, but they do not necessarily end with “happily ever after”. I am not sharing any spoiler when I argue that it is a very familiar story of human communication. The story of our...
Working Group An international working group prepared a paper for the symposium on “Communication for Social Justice in the Digital Age”, which took place in Berlin and online September 13-15, 2021. It set out an understanding of public space today, outlined what issues are at stake,...
Women, Media & Development (TAM) The following article – written at the end of January 2024 – comes from the Women’s Media & Development Association “TAM”, a WACC project partner based in Jordan. It offers a “no holds barred” perspective on the silencing of Palestinian voices...
Jack Nassar In Bethlehem, the harmonious sounds of last Christmas’ carols mix with geopolitical horrors. Despite being Jesus’ birthplace, the Holy Land wrestles with escalating war in Gaza and Israeli settler attacks in the West Bank. Here, the power of expression becomes crucial for empowerment and...
Camilo Pérez y Jair Vega Los pueblos Kogui y Kankuamo de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, en Colombia, asumen la comunicación (Jui Shikazguaxa) como un proceso que implica dos acciones simultáneas: en primer lugar, se comunica desde adentro, desde casa (en un sentido individual y...
Camilo Pérez and Jair Vega The Kogui and Kankuamo communities of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia understand communication (Jui Shikazguaxa) as a process involving two simultaneous actions: firstly, communication stems from within, from home (both in an individual and collective sense, simultaneously), and...
Lorenzo Vargas The following article reviews some of the main ways in which scholarship on community and alternative media has sought to understand itself and argues that despite disagreements around definition, these debates have translated into tangible calls for social transformation in the form of the...
Lenin Martell El 1 de diciembre de 2018, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) asumió el cargo como presidente constitucional de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Fue el primer presidente de izquierda en acceder al Poder ejecutivo en la historia del país. Como parte de su plataforma política...
Saarbruecken (Germany) 2024 At Saarbruecken (22-28 January 2024), the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Max Ophuels Prize), endowed with €2500 by the Katholische Erwachsenenbildung Saarland - Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft e.V. and the Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft für Evangelische Erwachsenenbildung im Saarland e.V., represented by the Evangelische Akademie im Saarland, was awarded...
The Centre for Media Monitoring report “Media Bias Gaza 2023-24” (published 6 March 2024) exposed significant biases in news coverage in the United Kingdom. The report, published by the Muslim Council of Britain, offers a critical examination of media coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza...