06 May 2024 He who pays the piper calls the tune
The WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event to be held in Geneva 27-31 May 2024 will mark twenty years of progress made in the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit...
05 May 2024 Media Development 2024-2 Online Magazine and PDF
Media Development 2024-2 Weaving Communication in Solidarity Articles in this issue of Media Development underline the need to resist by every means possible the steady erosion of democratic values, of press freedom, and...
05 May 2024 MD 2024/2 Editorial
Ever since a right to communicate was imagined by Jean D’Arcy in 1969, the concept has been controversial. Like the right to memory, without which individuals and communities would be...
05 May 2024 Compassionate communication as human solidarity
Cees J. Hamelink In a recent book on “Communication and Human Rights”, I propose that all discussions on communication rights, the right to communicate or the right to communication should be...
05 May 2024 Power, participation, discourse and communication
Nico Carpentier Power is pervasive, all-encompassing, and ultimately ungraspable. At the same time, power generates difference through a logic of privilege. Even though a distinction between “the powerless” and “the powerful”...
05 May 2024 Communication rights and autonomy in the era of data
Pradip Ninan Thomas The ability to Voice, Access resources and technology, the strengthening of local capabilities within an enabling environment and being able to communicate through a language of one’s choice...
05 May 2024 Sobre cómo romper el silencio
María Elena Hermosilla Son meses y días de calor intolerable para una chilena criada en el frío. Es el “calentamiento global”. En el litoral, los incendios forestales queman Viña del Mar...
05 May 2024 Communiquer comme un droit
Mathilde Kpalla Il y a plusieurs décennies, Jean d’Arcy a promu sans relâche le concept de droit à la communication dans les instances internationales. Depuis, de sérieux débats continuent sur la...
05 May 2024 Radios et réseaux sociaux, des réponses aux besoins d’interactions sociales des jeunes
Sébastien Nègre La famille, les amis, l’école, le travail, les loisirs constituent autant d’espaces essentiels pour les interactions sociales des jeunes.1 Partout dans le monde, les médias et les réseaux sociaux...
05 May 2024 A “brand-new” world communication order: BNWCO?
Aliaa Dakroury There is always a “once upon a time” prologue in stories, but they do not necessarily end with “happily ever after”. I am not sharing any spoiler when I...