26 Feb 2024 Imagining immortality
Philip Lee Reflections on digital technologies and artificial intelligence, their potential to change the nature of being human, and the unintended consequences of a Promethean quest for scientific knowledge. In his book Irish Nocturnes, philosopher and poet Chris Arthur observes the unease with which human...
05 Sep 2023 Why grassroots communication is key to stopping Amazon deforestation
The Amazon is being decimated — by the expansion of the agricultural frontier, by illegal economies linked to drug trafficking, and by an economic model that privileges mining and ranching and negatively impacts vulnerable communities. These activities are pushing deforestation levels towards 20%, a point...15 Nov 2022 Communication for All: Sharing WACC’s Principles
World Association for Christian Communication WACC believes that communication plays a crucial role in building peace, security and a sense of identity as well as in promoting justice, mutual accountability and transparency. Communication, WACC believes, contributes to the common good. This conviction has led WACC...14 Feb 2022 Corona, the digital divide and Indigenous peoples
By Donn J. Tilson Black swan events come as a surprise, have a major effect, and are dismissed afterward according to their historical significance – World War I, the 1918 influenza pandemic, 9-11. Add to the list the Corona-19 pandemic, which has disrupted world economies,...
24 Jan 2022 Media coverage of migrants, refugees can and must be better
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A former refugee from Syria is urging journalists to avoid the narrative that portrays refugees as succeeding “despite being a refugee” or “despite (their) background,” and to recognize instead that people who were forced to flee their homelands do “have an entire life’s worth of...
24 Nov 2021 Media Development 2021/4 Editorial
By Philip Lee Towards the end of 2020, Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief of The Guardian newspaper, made a commitment to its readers and supporters: “The global climate crisis is the emergency of our times. Amid all the fear and sadness of 2020, it remains the overwhelming...
24 Nov 2021 Forests, fish, and the future: Living with mangroves in Zamboanga Sibugay
By Lora Batino In the Southern Philippines, a small town by Sibugey bay is home to both a community and the mangrove forests that they look after. The town of Kabasalan in the province of Zamboanga Sibugay shelters hectares of mangrove forests that have been...
24 Nov 2021 Smallholder farmers trying to survive in a changing world
By Edwin Kamau The following article describes how previously voiceless people in a small region of Kenya were given a chance to communicate to decision makers, the young generation, their peers and the general public. The topic? What climate change means to them and how...