11 Nov 2018 Media Development 2018/4 online magazine and pdf
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11 Nov 2018 Media Development 2018/4 Editorial
Digital communication technologies have become ubiquitous and policymakers are still struggling to respond with appropriate infrastructure and governance models.
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11 Nov 2018 Critical media literacy and digital ethics
Wikileaks and false news; an American Presidency run via Twitter; Charlie Hebdo; hackers manipulating elections, stealing corporate secrets and shutting down public utilities; mass surveillance via the internet of things; 24/7 news, information and disinformation cycles broadcast continuously on public and personal screens; wall-to-wall cultures...
11 Nov 2018 Gender and human rights in the digital age
Is it possible to translate human rights into code? Joana Varon and her NGO Coding Rights intend to do so. Through innovative solutions, they hope to build bridges between gender,...
11 Nov 2018 “Vulnerability” as the key concept of a communicative ethics for the 21st century
At a recent IAMCR Conference (Eugene, Oregon),1 the authors presented a paper proposing that vulnerability could – or should – be the key concept of what they call the second generation of media or communicative ethics. This second generation began to appear during the last decade...
11 Nov 2018 Digital poison or digital balm
As Christians struggle with social media ethics, where are the guideposts?
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11 Nov 2018 Challenges facing Albania’s media landscape
According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, freedom of expression is the right of every individual to hold opinions without interferences and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of any barriers.1 In practice, freedom of expression is often...
11 Nov 2018 Recuperar la utopía de la democratización de las comunicaciones
El informe de la Comisión Internacional para el Estudio de los Problemas de la Comunicación (CIC), o conocido también por el nombre del Presidente de esta comisión como el Informe MacBride, en alusión al jurista Irlandés, Premio Nobel de la Paz (1974) y Premio Lenin...
11 Nov 2018 On the screen (MD2018/4)
At the Locarno film festival (August 1-11, 2018) the Ecumenical Jury, appointed by INTERFILM and SIGNIS, awarded its Prize, endowed with 20.000 CHF by the Reformed Churches and the Catholic Church of Switzerland, and bound to the theatrical distribution of the film, to Sibel directed by Guillaume...