07 Nov 2016 Media Development 2016-4 pdf
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14 Oct 2016 Testing media freedom in “vibrant” Pacific Island democracies
Despite positive media freedom ratings and dedicated journalists, the geographical and socio-cultural complexity, as well as mineral resource dependency, which characterizes the developing Pacific Island states of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands means that the mass media’s role in effectively supporting right...
14 Oct 2016 Media manipulation and the battleground of memory
The Italian daily newspaper Il Giornale runs a front page article with the headline “The Fourth Reich”, warning that the “Germans are returning, not with guns but with the euro.”1 An ISIS soldier films a bulldozer pushing down a rampart of sand on the Syria-Iraq border and...
14 Oct 2016 Historical amnesia and the right to communicate in Indonesia
The relationship between media and historical perception is a deeply entwined one – as a platform for the dissemination of communication, media possess the power to both strengthen the links and shape the understandings that communities have to their respective pasts. The concept of collective...
14 Oct 2016 La memoria en los medios
“No aceptes lo habitual como cosa natural.Porque en tiempos de desorden,de confusión organizada,de humanidad deshumanizada,nada debe parecer natural.Nada debe parecer imposible de cambiar”.Bertolt Brecht
14 Oct 2016 La responsabilidad de hacer memoria
Hace 20 años que ejerzo el periodismo. Inicié muy joven, en medio de la difícil situación que afrontaba mi país. Era un momento determinante porque el narcotráfico había permeado todas las esferas de la sociedad, incluso el mismo periodismo. Desde que tengo memoria me gustó...
14 Oct 2016 Digital nostalgia
Some miss and regret past times or places, others are nostalgic for a past that has never been. But nostalgia is not only recalling what is gone or what will never be (again) exactly as it was. It is also a mnemonic source of creativity,...
14 Oct 2016 The Caribbean and the right to memory
As we are discovering every day, with an increasingly elderly population succumbing to Alzheimer’s, when we lose memory we lose what makes us who we are. How many wives or husbands exclaim when their dementia suffering partner loses his or her memory, “This is not...
14 Oct 2016 Preserving India’s palm leaf manuscripts for the future
India’s rich repository of knowledge has been passed down for generations through oral and written traditions through a variety of writing materials such as stones, copperplates, birch bark, palm leaves, parchments and paper. Palm leaf manuscripts form an invaluable part of India’s documented heritage. Written...
14 Oct 2016 Select annotated bibliography: Media and memory
This edition of Memory Studies centres on the theme of digital media and its role in storing cultural memory. It emphasizes how digital media in a post-scarcity culture of data acquisition and hyperconnectivity allows for an annexing of the past. Further, the articles explore how media...
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