13 May 2017 On the Screen MD 2017-2
At the 67th Berlin International Film Festival (9-19 February 2017) the Ecumenical Jury made the following awards.
...At the 67th Berlin International Film Festival (9-19 February 2017) the Ecumenical Jury made the following awards.
...Digital communication technologies are transforming the world and people themselves. At the same time, there is a perception that content is less trustworthy and that digital media are more susceptible to abuse. It is too early to tell how these profound changes will play out...
Freedom of expression through media has been important to the reformation agenda in Indonesia since the fall of Suharto’s New Order in 1998. This article examines how this plan has been working, tested, challenged, and sustained under Joko Widodo’s administration, whose political agenda has a...
We can all relate to Charlie Chaplin in his classic film Modern Times. As the Little Tramp falls behind on the production line, the conveyor belt pulls him into the factory’s cogs. We might laugh as he winds through the gears, but we too are working...
The world is awash with data. Today, more data than ever in human history is produced on a daily basis....
It was hard to escape news in early 2016 of Facebook’s “trending” feature. First we learned there were human curators behind what the social media company claimed to be an automated algorithm, then that these employees may be censoring conservative voices from users’ feeds. ...
In 2015, the United Nations calculated that the number of migrants in the world – defined as those living in a country other than the one in which they were born – had reached 244 million....
In 2013 UNESCO commissioned a series of Working Papers on Mobile Learning. The aim was to better understand how mobile technologies can be used to improve educational access, equity and quality around the world.
...Clic y scroll. El idioma anuncia nuevas incorporaciones mientras surge una nueva red social. Ya no hablamos de lectores o públicos. Estamos en el terreno de los usuarios, prosumidores y fanáticos.
...Internet freedom has declined for the sixth consecutive year, with more governments than ever before targeting social media and communication apps as a means of halting the rapid dissemination of information, particularly during anti-government protests....