Media & communications - openDemocracy (Page 84)

Warum wir openMedia ins Leben gerufen haben

Vergisst Fake News. Big Money – das große Geld – beschneidet Pressefreiheit weit mehr: durch Advertorials und durch gekauftes Schweigen. Wir haben vor, dagegen vorzugehen. (French, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, English, Serbian, Russian.)

By Mary Fitzgerald

/ 14 Dec 2017

¿Por qué lanzamos openMedia?

Olvídense de las noticias falsas. El gran capital está distorsionando la libertad de prensa de manera mucho más inquietante: a través de los anuncios publicitarios y mediante la compra de silencios. Esto es lo que nosotros vamos a hacer al respecto. (French, Hungarian, Italian, English, Dutch, Ger

por Mary Fitzgerald

/ 14 Dec 2017

Waarom wij openMedia lanceren

Vergeet fake news. Groot geld vormt nog een veel groter gevaar voor de persvrijheid – door middel van advertorials, en door het kopen van stilte. Dit is wat wij eraan gaan doen. (English, French, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, German, Serbian, Russian.)

By Mary Fitzgerald

/ 14 Dec 2017

To become a bit more human: Review of Belén Fernández, “Letter from Iran”

In “Letter from Iran” Belén Fernández reminds us that we—people everywhere—are not Washington cyphers but flesh-and-blood human beings who must keep being defiant in order to retain that status.

By Julie Wark

/ 13 Dec 2017

Internet equality in question again: perspectives on Net Neutrality

As the US regulator seeks to erase Net Neutrality, we ask a number of commentators to share their views on this momentous decision.

By Matthew Linares

/ 12 Dec 2017

Trading away our Privacy; the WTO Ministerial in Buenos Aires

If countries from the Global South want to prepare for data wars, they should start thinking about how to reduce the overwhelming control of Big Tech. Español

By Renata Avila and Burcu Kilic

/ 12 Dec 2017

Cuando lo que se negocia es nuestra privacidad: la Ministerial de la OMC en Buenos Aires

Si los países del hemisferio Sur quieren prepararse para librar guerras de datos, deberían empezar a pensar en cómo reducir el control de las grandes compañías tecnológicas. English

por Renata Avila y Burcu Kilic

/ 12 Dec 2017

#Tech4Worse: The problem with digital labour initiatives for the Middle East

Contrary to their marketing, digital labor schemes don’t work in spite of predicaments like the occupation or the refugee crisis - they work because of them.

By Miranda Hall

/ 7 Dec 2017

Who’s to blame? The internet on the defendant's bench

Seeking to unravel what is behind a change in public sentiment towards the internet, this series begins with intersecting dimensions in what is lazily often presented as ‘The Internet’s problem’. Part One.

By Juan Ortiz Freuler

/ 6 Dec 2017

In defence of Damien Green

How could a defender of human rights on so many occasions turn so quickly into being an inquisitor?

By Daniele Archibugi

/ 6 Dec 2017

From Fake to Fact – and then?

Do all of us need to move outside our ‘comfort zones’ and self-imposed ‘echo chambers’, both to come up with better diagnoses of the populist challenge, and to define constructive political action collectively ?

By Georgios Kolliarakis

/ 4 Dec 2017

Beyond fact-checking: the media, populism and post-truth politics

Why do people want to believe what they do? They want meaningful lives. Why do it this way? A report-back from the Strasbourg World Forum for Democracy 2017.

By Andries du Toit

/ 1 Dec 2017