21 Sep 2020 Instagram – the opium of the people
Once used mainly by teens and young millennials, Instagram continues to grow as one of the most popular social media platforms. As of June 2018, Instagram had reached one billion monthly active users. More than 500 million use the platform daily.
17 Aug 2020 Time for Facebook to face the music
There are laws about what can be seen or said in public. So why don’t they apply to social media? In principle they do. The problem is enforcing them. In part it’s a problem of scale.
31 Jul 2020 Building a digital rights movement in India
WACC is supporting a project in India that will help civil society sectors understand and address policy issues around digital rights, which have been greatly affected during the Covid-19 pandemic. The use by many governments of monitoring tools in response to the Covid-19 pandemic has raised...
07 Jul 2020 Digital literacy workshops empower Palestinian women in Gaza Strip
Sameera Zoroub, who graduated with a degree in media, used to think that her social media accounts were “secure and protected.” But when she attended a Digital Security workshop organized in late June by Community Media Centre, a Palestinian NGO, she realized that there was so much she didn’t know about safely navigating the mobile and online world. At the end of the...
19 May 2020 Publication explores ‘Spirit of Truth in a Digital Age’
What does it mean to be human in the digital age? What do advances in communication technology mean for communication rights and other human rights? “Do we live in a ‘post‐truth’ era?”
31 Mar 2020 WACC announces support for digital justice
As part of its efforts to promote communication rights around the world, WACC is proud to announce the launch of its new Communication Rights in a Digital Age Programme. The programme will support civil society organizations around the world working to advance digital media literacy and the use of open source...
18 Feb 2019 I Got Algorithm
How to prevent social networks from damaging the well-being of young people?...
04 Feb 2019 Data protection and googol fines
Data privacy, also called information privacy, is about what data in a computer system can be shared with third parties.
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