By targeting monuments that celebrate historic figures who actively contributed to institutional racism and the oppression of marginalised peoples, Black Lives Matter and others have implicitly questioned the way collective...
The latest issue of WACC’s Media Development magazine examines the concept of public sphere, its role in promoting democracy and political accountability, and why principles of human rights and social...
Media Development 2021-3 DEMOCRATIZING THE PUBLIC SPHERE The “public sphere” is made up of overlapping influences, pressures, dominant and less dominant voices. It is also subject to technological change, marked most recently...
[caption id="attachment_37706" align="alignleft" width="190"] MD 2021/3[/caption] The World Bank notes that the public sphere “is an ideal of good and accountable governance. Its requisites are free flows of information, free expression,...
By Philip Lee Digital connectivity has transformed the notion of the “public sphere”. This is true at all levels: global, regional, national, community, and personal, where digital technologies have become ever...
World Bank The idea of the public sphere is normative. It is an ideal of good and accountable governance. Its requisites are free flows of information, free expression, and free debate....
By Pradip N. Thomas Jantar Mantar is the location for public protests in Delhi. It is a site at which literally scores of major protests have taken place – the Right...
By Deepti Bharthur and Ankita Aggarwal “Because of the greatness of our city, the fruits of the whole earth flow in upon us,” proclaimed Pericles, one of the founding figures of...
By María Soledad Segura In addition to the old problems of public communication in Latin America, such as media systems concentration, limited access to public information, attacks on press workers, etc.,...
Par Jorge Guachamín Llerena Los acontecimientos de la protesta en octubre de 2019 y la pandemia del Covid-19 revelaron el impacto de la inclusión digital y cómo ha ido modificando el...