“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall” is the first line of a famous poem by Robert Frost published in 1914. In “Mending Wall”, the narrator, a New England farmer, contacts his neighbour to rebuild the stone wall between their two farms. As the...
In the summer of 2015, distressing scenes of refugees and migrants from Syria, Afghanistan and a number of African nations began to dominate Europe’s headlines. The image of the drowned three year-old, Aylan Kurdi, lying face down in the Turkish sand, became the tragic icon...
One factor that motivates research in the intersections between communication and development is our willingness to contribute to social change. Buzzwords (Cornwall & Brock, 2005) such as “participation” and “empowerment” indicate scholarly intentions to contribute towards more just and egalitarian societies. It is certainly an...
Generalmente cuando reflexionamos sobre la sostenibilidad de los medios comunitarios nos referimos a los mecanismos que tienen las radios comunitarias para mantenerse “a flote”, casi siempre pensamos en la dimensión económica por sobre la dimensión social, cultural, legal, política o tecnológica. Estas reflexiones más que...
Afghanistan once housed tourists from around the world intrigued by the Silk Road stories, the poetic and mystic culture, the majestic landscape and the hospitable people. Their experience in Afghanistan was frequently captured through journalism and photojournalism of the early 1900s. However, Afghanistan’s very own...
“Media freedom and democracy are about people’s happiness” exclaims Gvozden Flego, a philosophy professor and member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) at a recent conference on Freedom of Expression. The discussion is intense and one of the most comprehensively organised...
El estado de Tabasco se ubica en el sureste mexicano, frente al Golfo de México. Fue el último estado de la República Mexicana en aprobar su Ley de Transparencia, dada la resistencia que tenía y sigue teniendo gobierno estatal para rendir cuentas a los ciudadanos.
...When criticizing Israeli policies, one is often reminded that “Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East”. There are many who argue about that definition of a democracy in the light of Israel’s control of millions of Palestinians under military law in the Occupied...
Born in 1948 in Barton Lake in northwestern Ontario, Bill was only seven years old when he was taken away by Canadian government officials and sent to Residential School.
...Los Estados están jugando un papel decisivo ya sea oponiéndose, propulsando o dirigiendo la innovación tecnológica. Por eso, en buena medida, la tecnología expresa la capacidad de una sociedad para propulsar el dominio tecnológico mediante las instituciones de la sociedad, incluido el Estado. Es importante...
