25 Aug 2025 The importance of the right to memory
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...
22 Aug 2025 WACC intern deepens skills and knowledge of gender in the news
“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...
14 Aug 2025 New Media Development looks at how AI can serve humanity responsibly
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...
13 Aug 2025 Temporal selves under siege: Artificial Intelligence and the need for privacy as a right to becoming
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...
13 Aug 2025 Media Development 2025-3 online magazine and pdf
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13 Aug 2025 Media Development 2025/3 Editorial
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...
13 Aug 2025 Australasia’s AI unveiling: pedagogy, practice and policy
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...
13 Aug 2025 Deepfakes, cloned voices, and digital media literacy: AI’s role in the misinformation crisis in India
Vamsi Krishna Pothuru How the advent of generative AI has worsened the misinformation problem in India – and the responses from stakeholders, along with potential solutions for the future. In recent years,...
13 Aug 2025 Ethical journalism in the age of AI
Hasani Felix Journalism is a field which entails telling the public what they need to know with accuracy, clarity and simplicity so everyone can understand. The general aim is to provide...
13 Aug 2025 Needed: An antidote to misinformation in the Caribbean
Ricardo Brooks It was with some interest that I noted that the 2025 Global Risk Report by the World Economic Forum identified misinformation and disinformation as the most pressing risk facing...