18 Nov 2024 MD 2024/4 Editorial
At the beginning of 2024, Media Development took the theme Towards Democratic Governance of Digital Society. Its editorial claimed that a digital era that is genuinely democratic depends on “Societies...
18 Nov 2024 An Invitation to Consider a Progressive and Decolonial Civil Society Agenda for WSIS+20
Clemencia Rodriguez (Colombia/USA), Seán Ó Siochrú (Ireland), Parminder Jeet Singh (India) The fictional portrait below of Nelly and her family living in a media and digital world is based on research...
18 Nov 2024 The Global Digital Compact – an “add and stir gender” déjà vu?
Anita Gurumurthy and Nandini Chami The Global Digital Compact upholds “gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and their full, equal and meaningful participation” as a core principle...
18 Nov 2024 Victims as heroes or villains: Double standards in covering two contemporary conflicts
Daya Thussu As the world marks the first anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel and its bloody aftermath, it is worth reflecting on the way this ongoing conflict has been...
18 Nov 2024 Unearned prestige: How The Economist covers the war in Ukraine
Robert Hackett, with Farrukh Chishtie “Pretend you are God.” – Editor’s advice on how to write like The Economist.1 In a confusing and turbulent world, many readers, presumably seeking comprehensive and reasonably objective...
18 Nov 2024 Why Al Jazeera’s news coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza has gained global credibility
Kiran Hassan The Council of Europe defines the role of media in conflict situations and wars as critical to providing the public with accurate and timely information. It suggests that the...
18 Nov 2024 On the Screen (MD2024/4)
Venice (Italy) 2024 The 13th INTERFILM Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue has gone to Quiet Life directed by Alexandros Avranas (France, Germany, Sweden, Greece, Estonia, Finland). Motivation: “Quiet Life” is not always...
11 Nov 2024 Standing up to tyranny, protecting press freedom
The disastrous outcome of the US presidential election – for global peace, and within the USA for women’s rights, immigration, the environment, gun laws and LGBTQ+ rights – is also...
06 Nov 2024 WACC urges ACT Alliance members to be attentive to issues of communicative justice
WACC has urged ACT Alliance members to give greater attention to communicative justice as a key dimension of sustainable development and humanitarian response, highlighting in particular the need for more...
28 Oct 2024 Confessions of an AI Sceptic
When it comes to generative artificial intelligence, I am a sceptic. Is it just another Big Tech tool for collecting our personal data? Will it just magnify misinformation in a volatile...
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