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...
11 Aug 2019 Media Development 2019-3 online magazine and pdf
Media Development 2019-2
MacBride +40: What next for media democracy?
11 Aug 2019 On the screen (MD2019/3)
Of his film When Persimmons Grew (still above), director Hilal Baydarov says: “When the primroses were turning red, and the white cherries were in bloom” — that is when my...