Regulation of legacy media and digital platforms is crucial to ensure accountability for human rights for all and specifically for the right to freedom of expression for women and girls,...
“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...
Two contemporary “utopias” come under communication rights scrutiny in the latest Media Development, WACC’s quarterly journal. The issue “Utopia or Bust: In Search of Inclusion” examines the Metaverse, which seeks 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...
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...
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...