19 Nov 2020 Media Development 2020-4 online magazine and pdf

[caption id="attachment_32520" align="alignleft" width="190"] MD 2020/4[/caption] Media Development 2020-4 Communication in a Time of Crisis The Covid-19 pandemic burrowed its way deep into the human psyche. It fractured family and community. It negated...

19 Nov 2020 MD 2020/4 Editorial

Fifty-five years after the death of the French author Albert Camus, and at a time when Ebola was raging in West Africa, the British journalist Ed Vulliamy wrote a glowing tribute about one of the writer’s best-known books first published in 1947. “Of all Camus’ novels, none described man’s confrontation – and cohabitation – with death so vividly and on such an epic scale as La Peste, translated as The Plague.”¹

19 Nov 2020 Actions, consequences, remembrances: Reflections on the coronavirus pandemic

19 Nov 2020 Covid-19, social exclusion and digital inclusion

By Philip Lee

A paradox was evident during the coronavirus pandemic. People turned to digital technologies to be in communication and yet felt increasingly out of communication. Self-isolating people became distanced from the socio-cultural environment in which they were accustomed to live and it began to appear alien. To adapt the well-known saying from L. P. Hartley’s novel The Go-Between (1953), the present became a foreign country, where they did things differently.

19 Nov 2020 Advocating a gender-equal post-pandemic world

By Marites N. Sison

A sampling of news headlines, five months after the WHO declared Covid-19 a pandemic, shows media and institutions finally catching up to the gender dimensions of the novel coronavirus: Covid-19 crisis could set women back decades, experts fear; Why Covid-19 is a disaster for gender equality; Decades of progress on gender equality in the workplace at risk of vanishing; Women essential in fight against pandemic.