12 Nov 2018 Integrity in news coverage
The world’s leading newspapers are struggling to maintain their place as voices of conscience in society when via social media everyone is free to express alternative views and opinions....
The world’s leading newspapers are struggling to maintain their place as voices of conscience in society when via social media everyone is free to express alternative views and opinions....
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...Digital communication technologies have become ubiquitous and policymakers are still struggling to respond with appropriate infrastructure and governance models.
...Wikileaks and false news; an American Presidency run via Twitter; Charlie Hebdo; hackers manipulating elections, stealing corporate secrets and shutting down public utilities; mass surveillance via the internet of things; 24/7 news, information and disinformation cycles broadcast continuously on public and personal screens; wall-to-wall cultures...
At a recent IAMCR Conference (Eugene, Oregon),1 the authors presented a paper proposing that vulnerability could – or should – be the key concept of what they call the second generation of media or communicative ethics. This second generation began to appear during the last decade...
Is it possible to translate human rights into code? Joana Varon and her NGO Coding Rights intend to do so. Through innovative solutions, they hope to build bridges between gender,...