Media & communications - openDemocracy (Page 125)

One satirist exposes Egypt's lopsided media viewpoint

Nowadays it’s hard to find any national newspaper, TV channel, radio station, or even website that avowedly criticizes the government or the military.

By Ahmed Magdy Youssef

/ 20 Nov 2013

Out of the press box and onto the field

I am a player in NewCo. I have to publicly abandon any position as an observer or independent analyst of Pierre Omidyar’s new venture in news. Out of the press box and onto the field.

By Jay Rosen

/ 18 Nov 2013

A smaller BBC would be good for audiences

In a digital age it's unhealthy for the Corporation to spend the whole licence fee.

By Roger Mosey

/ 14 Nov 2013

Mistaking omniscience for omnipotence

Everyone assumes the value of an increasingly para-militarized, bureaucratized, heavily funded creature we continue to call “intelligence,” even though remarkably little of what would commonsensically be called intelligence is actually on view.

By Tom Engelhardt

/ 13 Nov 2013

Mexican beheading: how to deal with real violence on the internet

Shying away and blocking out violence, however, is never a permanent solution. We have become the intimate witnesses of real horror.

By Daniel Zylbersztajn

/ 6 Nov 2013

Crimewatch: dupers or duped?

The October edition of Crimewatch, focussing on the case of Madeleine McCann, featured new photofits of a potential suspect - only, they weren't new. According to the Sunday Times, they had been repressed by the McCanns themselves. The failure of the BBC to report this is extraordinary.

By David Elstein

/ 4 Nov 2013

Argumentum ad wikipedium and what the social sciences might learn

Sadly, the hallmark of a contemporary academic career has become the invention of a new term, whether or not the subject matter requires it.

By Marc Chehab

/ 1 Nov 2013

The crisis of Grangemouth and what it says about Scotland and Britain

The Grangemouth crisis doesn't just remind us of the problems of the capitalist class, but of the political class and trades unions too.

By Gerry Hassan

/ 1 Nov 2013

Can digital empowerment alleviate poverty in India

The focus has, until now, been on access but is gradually shifting towards changing social behaviours within communities.

By Meera Vijayann

/ 29 Oct 2013

Egypt's most powerful man tries to tame the media

To reconcile two different media perspectives of him, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, commander of the armed forces, has resorted to attempting to control Egypt's media himself.

By Ahmed Magdy Youssef

/ 25 Oct 2013

Snowden and Socrates

In our liberal democracy, the democracy needs fixing before we can turn our thoughts to whether the liberalism needs fixing as well. The NSA should at last be able to jolt us into recognizing this.

By Peter Martin

/ 23 Oct 2013

On superheroes: who will save us now?

Comicbook superheroes live in a world where individuals can change with ease into objects, think out loud, or kill with a stare. Yet they fight only to maintain the status quo. How would it be different if superheroes were the people who are oppressed?

By Zia X

/ 23 Oct 2013