A number of recent research reports investigate the impact social media has on mental health, social well-being – and political polarization.
One study, supported by Meta, involved collaboration with a number...
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Media Development 2023-3
Who is talking with the audience?
Understanding the importance of media literacy as an instrument of public policy-making is essential to promoting democracy and...
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This issue of WACC’s journal Media Development presents texts in English and Spanish on the theme “Who is talking with the audience? Understanding audience engagement and...
Kanchan K. Malik and Vamsi Krishna Pothuru
Several initiatives in India are endeavouring to integrate media literacy into formal education curricula and promote it through community initiatives. These initiatives aim to...
Renee Hobbs
The United States is now experiencing significant levels of political extremism, rage, and anti-government activism that is associated with targeted violence and domestic terrorism (Bergengruen, 2022). Domestic terrorism is...
Dominik Speck
One Tuesday afternoon in November 2022, fears of a further dramatic, even nuclear escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian war rose. That day, a missile had struck a village in Poland,...
Herman Wasserman
The contemporary media landscape in Africa is characterised simultaneously by disruptions brought about by new digital technologies, such as shifting journalistic practices and media consumer habits and preferences, and...
Fernando Oliveira Paulino
Como parte de su misión fundamental, a lo largo de los años, los medios de comunicación se especializaron en el monitoreo de acciones de personas y entidades que...
Cynthia Ottaviano
El término “techo de cristal” fue acuñado hace casi medio siglo. Sin embargo, muchas de las razones que llevaron a su autora, Marilyn Loden, a definir las desigualdades por...
Laura Martínez Aguila
Las defensorías de las audiencias en México reciben comunicaciones de las audiencias a través de las cuales pueden identificar y procesar necesidades específicas enfocadas al diseño e...