19 Aug 2019 Ban books, ban people
“For the past twenty years, the main issue restricting public debate in terms of Turkish laws has been the prosecution and imprisonment of journalists, writers and intellectuals on the grounds...
16 Aug 2019 ACT Alliance responds to migrant, refugee crisis in the U.S.
The ACT Alliance in North America and Central America have issued a joint regional appeal to help undocumented migrants affected by U.S. President Trump’s immigration policies, which have included the separation of children...
14 Aug 2019 What would MacBride say about the Digital Age?
The year 2020 marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of “The MacBride Report,” written by UNESCO’s International Commission for the Study of Communication Problems.
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12 Aug 2019 Hearing the voices of young people
International Youth Day, first observed by the United Nations in the year 2000, will focus on “Transforming Education.” The aim is to highlight efforts to make education more inclusive and accessible for all...
12 Aug 2019 From manufacturing consent to manufacturing consensus
An influential book on communications in the 1980s was Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Communication, by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky. It proposed a “propaganda model” as a way...
11 Aug 2019 Film: Women in charge?
The role of women in the film industry has been the focus of discussion in the media since allegations of sexual harassment rocked Hollywood two years ago, eventually spreading to...
11 Aug 2019 Petrochallengers, du mur à la rue: La production alternative de l’information en Haïti
L’article qui suit se concentre surtout sur le rôle des réseaux sociaux dans la mobilisation des jeunes haïtiens autour des problèmes politiques de la société haïtienne. Ainsi, j’essayerai de montrer...
11 Aug 2019 Towards an intersectional analysis of media, communication and social progress
This article responds to the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP) chapter on “Media, Communication, and the Struggle for Social Progress”. I argue that in order to advance the IPSP’s...
11 Aug 2019 The MacBride Report legacy and media democracy today
In 1980, the year UNESCO first released the MacBride Report, one of us (Clemencia) was a second-year undergraduate communication major at Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. I remember knocking on...
11 Aug 2019 MD 2019-3 Editorial
By Philip Lee Seán MacBride was a keynote speaker at a consultation sponsored by WACC held in London in October 1982 titled “A new Babel: The communication revolution”. Photo: Contributed In 1976, UNESCO’s General...
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