This edition of Memory Studies centres on the theme of digital media and its role in storing cultural memory. It emphasizes how digital media in a post-scarcity culture of data acquisition and hyperconnectivity allows for an annexing of the past. Further, the articles explore how media...
Community radios were often established as a response to different kinds of struggle about socio-economic or cultural issues. In Nigeria, the establishment of community broadcasting is in direct response to the pressure from civil society on the Federal Government for the democratization...
On the Screen
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In 2016, the theme of the U.N.’s International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (Oct. 17) is “Moving from humiliation and exclusion to participation: Ending poverty in all its forms.”
...Local media are the active watchdogs that democratic communities need to stay healthy.
...Publication folds after 140 years in print.
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