11 May 2021 MD 2021-2 Editorial
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...
11 May 2021 Revisiting 45 years of history in communication policies
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...
11 May 2021 Why digital culture needs a new MacBride Commission
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...
11 May 2021 The MacBride Report today: In search of communicative justice
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...
11 May 2021 Towards equitable and sustainable technology futures
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...
11 May 2021 Comunicación y democracia en el siglo XXI
Rafael Roncagliolo Resulta muy atractiva y desafiante la invitación de la WACC a revisar, cuarenta años después, el informe de la Comisión MacBride desde la perspectiva de los cambios recientes. ¿Qué...
11 May 2021 “Posverdad”, libertad de prensa y democracia
Juan Carlos Salazar del Barrio Las desgracias, como reza el dicho popular, nunca llegan solas. La pandemia del coronavirus, que ha paralizado al mundo, ha dado paso a otro mal, cuyo...
11 May 2021 The leaps and bounds of e-Estonia
Eneken Tikk Disassembling bronze monuments and concrete tokens of a half-decade of occupation and expelling Soviet troops from Tartu’s strategic bomber airfield and the Paldiski nuclear reactor base in the early...
11 May 2021 Africa’s information flows still suffer from global competition
Levi Obonyo The debate to end all debates ended with the promulgation of the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO), but like the African traditional hearth the embers linger on...
11 May 2021 News flow research during and after the MacBride era
Richard C. Vincent There is little doubt that well-written, thorough and objective, journalism is a vital component of modern life and a necessity for a democratic society. Whether the traditional newspaper-reporting...