Media monitors at work in Senegal. Photo: FAMEDEV Communication is a key factor in tackling Gender Inequality. It can play a crucial role in empowering people to challenge gender norms, promote gender justice and positive relationships among all genders. For gender activists and advocates the challenges...
Almost twenty years after the Women Empowering Communication 1994 conference,1 communicators return to Bangkok in December 2013 to consider questions about gender equality and women’s empowerment in and through the media. This year’s meeting, dubbed the Global Forum on Gender and Media...
“Media pluralism is the key that unlocks the door of freedom of information and freedom of speech.” – Miklós Haraszti.1
...It was in 1792 that the British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights, Mary Wollstonecraft, published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. Her book is a plea for gender equality at...
What will or should post-2015 development look like? Contributors...
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Community media – of which community radio is one sector – enable people to voice commonconcerns, to unite around common causes, to challenge decision-makers on their own turf, tocreate communities that better respond to the needs of their members. As such, technological convergence posits a...
The empire has no clothes without the raiment provided by the mass media. Open journalism may...
04 Mar 2013 2013/1 Citizen journalism is here to stay
30 Apr 2012 2012/2 Communication for All: What next?
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In less than a decade, and unsurprisingly given the rapid proliferation of digital media platforms, citizen journalism has upset the applecart of traditional journalism. Yet, for all kinds of reasons, professional journalists are increasingly...