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Highlights from the Global Media Policy Forum: T...
By Teemu Henriksson Editor’s Note: This post was first published on WAN-IFRA’s website and is republished here with permission. WAN-IFRA’s Public Affairs and Media Policy department held its annual Global Media Policy Forum held at the World News Media Congress on Monday 13 Ju... |
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Zero-rating the news: How will sponsored data in...
Personal mobile devices are increasingly the primary way people both log in to social networks and check the news. This is particularly true in the developing world where in many places mobile networks are the only way to connect to the Internet. Yet, mobile data plans are often quite expensive and ... |
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Is it time for an Algorithm Ombudsman?
In my recent post The New Gatekeepers I noted how algorithms are playing an increasingly important role in determining what information people are presented online. This is particularly true in an age where, according to a recent Pew Research Center report, 60 percent of Facebook and Twitter users s... |
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The New Gatekeepers: Why the Media Development C...
The algorithms social media platforms use to personalize content on newsfeeds have been making headlines recently. In February Twitter announced that it would begin using an algorithm to filter user’s newsfeeds. Then in March, Instagram, the Facebook-owned photo and video sharing platform, stated ... |
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Almost there: A common-sense indicator for the U...
By Bill Orme After months of debate, the United Nations appears ready to begin official monitoring of legal guarantees for public access to information in all 193 UN member states, greatly strengthening a potentially historic effort to transform this principle into a new universal norm. This is a ... |
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CIMA and Indiana University Announce New Post-do...
In partnership with Indiana University’s School for Global and International Studies (SGIS), CIMA is pleased to announce the creation of “The Mark Helmke Postdoctoral Scholarship on Global Media, Development, and Democracy.” Through this exciting new initiative, SGIS and CIMA seek to contribut... |
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In the age when everything is going digital, is ...
That’s the question we will try to answer this week in a special trans-Atlantic dialogue featuring a new CIMA report with responses from the World Bank, Internews and BBC Media Action. I will be moderating the panel of experts who have been grappling for decades with the question of how to introdu... |
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The Internet of Things & Media Development:...
What will the future of the Internet look like and how will it impact our democratic institutions? Will the ubiquity of Internet connected devices, which often track human behavior, benefit society or pose a risk to individual liberty? This was the topic of discussion last Wednesday when CIMA and th... |
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Soft censorship Tweetchat round up – #soft...
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Soft censorship has a hard impact on free media
By Andrew Heslop, Director, Press Freedom, WAN-IFRA By using financial and administrative power to pressure media outlets, punish critical reporting, and reward favorable coverage, biased government interventions in media sectors not only distort the market but also make it difficult for media to ex... |