16 Feb 2015 Media Development 2015/1 pdfs
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21 Nov 2014 Media Development 2014/4 pdfs
Media Development 2014/4 Seeing and Hearing is Cool Hip hop and graffiti affirm identity and open up space for alternative views and opinions. As early forms of social media, graffiti and hip hop can be said to embody true freedom of expression. But who is listening? And...
20 Nov 2014 On the screen
Locarno (Switzerland) 2014 At the 67th Locarno International Film Festival (6-16 August 2014) the Ecumenical Jury, appointed by INTERFILM and SIGNIS, awarded its Prize to Durak (The Fool) directed by Yury Bykov, Russia (2014). The prize carries prize money of 20.000.- CHF, donated...
20 Nov 2014 Religion in plain view
Manuela Kalsky In December 2008 the Study Centre for Theology and Society of the Dutch Dominicans founded an Internet platform on interreligious and intercultural communication with the support of the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Planning and Environment (VROM). Five and a...
20 Nov 2014 Soft power and the Chinese dream (中国梦)
Jan Servaes “The jury is still out on the Chinese dream. It is the favored slogan of the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, who took over as paramount leader in early 2013. Even for hardened apparatchiks, it seems...
20 Nov 2014 Voices of icons
Hans W. Florin Religious icons had no prominent place in my life until, in the late 1980s, I sat alone in the chapel of a Romanian Orthodox Monastery. It was an overcast winter day, the dim reflection from the snow outside...
20 Nov 2014 Why global Internet governance must matter to social justice activists
Seán Ó Siochrú, Sally Burch, Bruce Girard, Michael Gurstein, Richard Hill What does the way the Internet is run have to do with development or social justice? Isn’t it just for technical specialists, making sure everything works properly? Well no, actually. The...
20 Nov 2014 God wears Tom Ford: Hip hop’s revisioning of divine authority
Anthony B. Pinn The poetic quality of music and the imaginative style of lyrical expression have given African Americans ways to describe and critique life arrangements within a society always on guard against challenges to the status quo. Over the course of...
20 Nov 2014 Social media protest in Iran: Re-imagining the Iranian people
Samira Rajabi Not long ago, few media consumers could truly name a time in which they witnessed a real death in the media. Of course, with mass media proliferation, most of the developed world has been exposed to some degree of...
20 Nov 2014 Rap, graffiti and social media in South Africa today
Itunu Bodunrin Hip-hop in South Africa has been on a roller coaster ride since its emergence as a protest tool among non-white youths against apartheid in the early 1980s. Although the collapse of apartheid in the early 1990s opened up an...