The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation around the world and offered opportunities for increased connectivity. However, it has also exacerbated digital injustice: lack of access for many, lack of...
The World Council of Churches, ACT Alliance, Lutheran World Federation, World Communion of Reformed Churches, Anglican Communion, World Methodist Council, Latin American Episcopal Council and World Association for Christian Communication...
Reporters Without Borders has underlined growing concerns about a steady decline of press freedom in several European Union member states, including Greece, Malta, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovenia. In “‘Worrying picture’:...
What the MacBride Commission might have to say “about inclusion, exclusion, and social progress in the world taken over by digital technologies of all kinds” is the focus of the...
[caption id="attachment_36225" align="alignleft" width="190"] MD 2021/2[/caption] Media Development 2021-2 Revisiting MacBride: Communicative Justice Today If the 1980s MacBride Commission were to sit today, what might its members have to say about inclusion, exclusion,...
By Philip Lee Those familiar with the history of the 1970s New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) and the 1980s communication rights movement will remember the name of Seán MacBride...
Kaarle Nordenstreng and Juan Somavia This article is an extension to the video presentation at the online conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) in its final...
Stefania Milan Forty years have elapsed since the publication of the ground-breaking MacBride Report. In terms of technological innovation, however, it might as well be ten times as many years. Since...
Cees J. Hamelink Forty years ago, I edited one of the first critical commentaries on the MacBride report. In the preface I stated that it is a challenge “to see the...
Preeti Raghunath In April 2020, an announcement was splashed across the media in India – that of Facebook’s investments in Jio Platforms, acquiring a 9.99% stake through an all-cash deal. Jio...