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The Data Explosion: Media, Big Data, and the Int...
By Carlos Affonso Souza Director, Institute for Technology and Society (ITS), Rio de Janeiro Every day we generate more data: our schedules, itineraries, preferences, activities and even our relationships are increasingly quantified. What then is the impact of this explosion of data – potenti... |
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Distorting the News in Africa: How Dictators Hav...
By Elie Smith In response to the influence of Western media in their countries, African dictators have ramped up nationalistic and pan-African propaganda through government-sponsored media. These media outlets spend their time either painting an overly rosy picture of the situation in Africa, or att... |
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Divides and Nastiness Aside: The (few) advantage...
I lived in Beirut for over two years starting in 2012, where I worked on grassroots empowerment initiatives with a Lebanese and Syrian NGO. Media is a central part of life in Beirut, and Lebanese have a complicated obsession with their media. TV and radio relentlessly blast the insults being hurled ... |
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Caught between the East and West: The “Media W...
By Marija Šajkaš and Milka Tadić Mijović As EU and U.S. assistance to independent media in Serbia and Montenegro declines, Russians are seizing the opportunity to support and promote pro-Russian media, broadcasting news in the local language, and investing in media development in the western Bal... |
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China’s Quest for International “Discourse I...
In December, South Africa played host to the China-Africa Media Summit in Cape Town, a lead-up event to the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Summit (FOCACS). Representatives from 120 media organizations in 47 African countries and some Chinese media participated in the summit, whose theme was ̶... |
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State takeover of public media in Poland: Is an ...
The Polish Media Development Success Story In the early 1990s, Poland went through one of the most far-reaching and, at times, traumatic media reform programs that the world has ever seen. Formerly state-owned media enterprises were privatized with breathtaking speed. Legal and regulatory structures... |
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Soft censorship Tweetchat round up – #soft...
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Stifling the Public Sphere
Building political support for media is an essential piece of the development puzzle because, as a new report by the International Forum for Democratic Studies puts it, “Independent media are essential for determining the success or failure of government programs and assessing actual conditions ... |
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Media Use in Vietnam: Findings from BBG and Gall...
The biggest takeaway from the findings of the 2015 survey of media use in Vietnam, conducted by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and Gallup, is the dramatic demographic shift in the way people are accessing news, as young people increasingly turn to Facebook and Google at the expense of the... |
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New Media Merger Law in Ireland
A sustainable, independent media needs supporting institutions—among them, a wide variety of opinions and viewpoints available for public consumption. This includes the question of who owns the media, how they interact with each other, and what happens when one media outlet merges with another. Ev... |