Three decades after governments pledged transformative change for women through the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, progress towards gender equality in and through the world news media continues to...
Have you ever read through the agenda of a United Nations General Assembly? The 80th regular session of the General Assembly opens tomorrow, 9 September. Under the theme, “Better Together: 80...
Who makes the news in 2025? What progress has been made towards gender equality in and through the media over the past three decades? What can be done to address...
Visiting the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is harrowing. It records, in photos, artifacts, quotes, and stories, the days and months following the dropping of the first atomic bomb on 6...
“Very hands-on and a great learning experience,” is how Esta Yee sums up her summer internship as a project and research assistance with WACC’s Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP). Joining the...
With “Artificial intelligence: Friend or foe?” WACC’s quarterly journal takes a communication rights lens to the digital technology that is re-shaping our world.Artificial intelligence is here to stay, notes Media...
Lemi Baruh and Mihaela Popescu When we talk about online privacy, what comes to mind? For decades, the dominant answer in law and everyday thinking has centred on one idea: control...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] [caption id="attachment_64937" align="alignleft" width="190"] MD 2025/3[/caption] Media Development 2025-3 Artificial Intelligence: Friend or Foe? Artificial Intelligence is here to stay. Technological development never goes backwards,...
The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) encompasses three variations. There is Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) with limited capabilities, e.g. Google translate and Siri. There is Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), which attempts...
Anne Kruger and Richard Murray Responses from policymakers, professionals and educators to the urgency of AI draw many parallels to earlier phenomena in the growth of online misinformation and disinformation. A...