“For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change”– Audre Lorde Audre Lorde’s admonition that the tools of oppression cannot be effectively...
Since the start of the Russian invasion more than a year ago, over 8.1 million people have fled Ukraine. Nearly 4.9 million have obtained some form of temporary protection in different European countries — a major humanitarian challenge for the region, without counting the more...
“Get your skates on!” I sometimes hear, especially from harassed parents trying to speed up apathetic children. I can’t call communication rights advocates apathetic, but we should feel pushed to move faster and harder in response to rapid digital technology developments. It is, of course, fair to...
[caption id="attachment_51407" align="alignleft" width="190"] MD 2023/1[/caption] Media Development 2023-1 Utopia or Bust: In Search of Inclusion Two “utopias” are examined in this issue: the potential impact on communication policies of Latin America’s Pink Tide 2.0 – the resurgence of a turn towards left-wing governments in Latin American democracies...
The term “Metaverse” was first used in Neil Stevenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash, where it is described as a three-dimensional world accessed using goggles, similar to today’s VR headsets. In the novel, Hiro Protagonist, a computer hacker and pizza delivery guy, moves in and out of...
Gian M. Volpicelli From Microsoft to Meta, the race is on to sell an amorphous concept that no one really wants them to build. The race is on to cash in on the metaverse hype. Last week, Microsoft described its $68.7 billion takeover of gaming studio Activision Blizzard...
Philip Lee Like all digital technologies, the Metaverse ought to be a public good and, therefore, of direct benefit to society. A system that interweaves multiple sources of information across different platforms should be useful, affordable, accessible, and egalitarian. Yet the history of communication technologies demonstrates that...
[caption id="attachment_51428" align="aligncenter" width="800"] www.jpereira.net info@jpereira.net[/caption] Chileans demonstrate in favour of a new Constitution. Photo credit: The New School. Jose Pereira. CC BY-NC-ND 2.5. Lorenzo Vargas In Latin America, the “pink tide” governments of the first decade of the 21st Century transformed the movement for communication rights...
Hugo Ramirez Luego del reciente triunfo de Ignacio Lula da Silva en las presidenciales de Brasil la región latinoamericana inclina la balanza hacia gobiernos opuestos al neoliberalismo. Los últimos triunfos del progresismo lo protagonizaron Gabriel Boric en Chile y Gustavo Petro en Colombia. Más allá de...
Gissela Dávila Cobo El Centro Internacional de Estudios Superiores de la Comunicación para América Latina, CIESPAL, nace en el año de 1959 con la idea de acompañar la formación de periodistas en nuestro continente, siendo el tercero de los tres centros que promovió UNESCO en el...