Media Development 2019-2 MacBride +40: What next for media...

In 1976, UNESCO’s General Conference instructed its then...

This article discusses the role of media and communications in...

This article responds to the International Panel on Social...

L’article qui suit se concentre surtout sur le rôle des...

The role of women in the film industry has been the focus of...

Since 2005, an Interreligious Jury appointed by SIGNIS (World...

This issue of Media Development goes in search of the missing UN...

This issue of Media Development goes in search of the...

In 1999, in a landmark essay, WACC’s former Director of Studies...

Drawing on learnings from WACC consultations with 92...

In the early 20th Century, the American pragmatist philosopher...

It has been over four years since the heads of states gathered...

La lucha de los organismos de derechos humanos por el...

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside...

La salud es una condición de bienestar físico, mental y...

What follows are the summary, introduction and conclusion from...

Even though freedom of expression and opinion are guaranteed...

This article sets out the conclusions of a year-long research...

“There is no system!” This is the most bureaucratic and...

At the 69th Berlinale (7-17 February 2019), the Ecumenical Jury...

Media Development 2019-1 Brave new digital world What are the...

Towards the end of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Miranda says,...

In the emerging digital era of electronic networking and massive...

U.S. society is obsessed with social media and online networks...

How new and how brave is the “Brave New Digital World”? When I...

Could connecting the next three billion people to the Internet...

The digital revolution is one of the mega-themes of our times –...

In the German church setting of today, two main positions...

El movimiento de lo que hoy llamaríamos Radios Comunitarias...

Communication among peoples of a nation is critical to...

America is addicted to fake news. What “appears” to be a new...

The challenges facing community radio remain similar all over...

Cameroon is on the verge of a separation. Two sets of people;...

The Ecumenical Jury at the 23rd SCHLINGEL international film...

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Digital communication technologies have become ubiquitous and...

Is it possible to translate human rights into code? Joana Varon...

At a recent IAMCR Conference (Eugene, Oregon),1 the authors...

As Christians struggle with social media ethics, where are the...

According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, freedom...

El informe de la Comisión Internacional para el Estudio...

At the Locarno film festival (August 1-11, 2018) the Ecumenical...

WACC at 50: Celebrating Inclusion Fifty years after its...

“What the churches say about communication is not half as...

Millions of people on every continent lack a voice to address...

We live on a fractured planet and we are the most fragmented...

The other day, as part of the process of subscribing to an email...

The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg faced legislators in...

“It is no coincidence that whenever intellect is seen as a...

There is no doubting the fact that WACC has played an important...

We were having Sunday lunch at one of those new, up-scale burger...

I would like to congratulate WACC on its 50th anniversary. It...

The recent public exposure of extensive sexual abuse of children...

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Media Development 2018-2 Journalism that serves the public...

At the heart of this issue of Media Development lies...

The founder of Time magazine, Henry R. Luce, would likely be...

In the clamour and razzmatazz of our high-tech media, form tends...

If the Public Broadcasting System in Germany did not already...

After several decades under a shroud of neglect, Latin American...

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is the third largest news agency in...

Public Journalism was a US-led reform movement that spread to...

Adela Navarro is director of the weekly news magazine Zeta,...

The following interview with Fr Ismael Moreno, Director of Radio...

It is an honour and a great responsibility to assist and guide...

On the Screen: Saarbrücken, Berlin, Fribourg 2018

The articles in this issue are based on papers to be presented...

The 62nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)...

In 1995, Governments participating in the Fourth World...

Developing gender-empowering media policies and normative...

When women media professionals attain very senior editorial...

Cette contribution au dossier que prépare L’Alliance...

If the monitoring of media content over the last 40 years has...

The legacy of women’s media networks that negotiated for the...

The following article is a shortened version of a speech given...

Defined by the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of...

“The absence of substantive education about gender issues and...

La Conférence des Nations Unies sur les femmes tenue en...

Community, alternative and popular radio stations have a long...

The INTERFILM Jury at the 74th Mostra internazionale d’arte...

Media Development 2017/4 Digital Media and Social Memory ...

Memory is power and power is politics.

For millennia humankind has given future generations access to...

More than 60 million people were forcefully displaced from their...

I’ve played video games for as long as I can remember. From the...

“I’m here to tell you a little bit of my story, and I’d like you...

“New museology” is a notion which has been gaining popularity in...

The late science-fiction author Octavia Butler once wrote in her...

The following article is part of a memories project being...

The trend is unmistakable and deeply alarming: in international...

The 70th Locarno film festival − held during the first days of...

Great expectations have been placed on social media platforms as...

Great expectations have been placed on social media platforms as...

In today’s world, media cannot be overlooked. Such is their...

When first created, the internet and social media were thought...

I love the Caribbean. I was born and grew up in the Bahamas, and...

Issues of human rights, gender equality, and democratic...

Dedicated to opposing Israeli oppression of the Palestinians and...

El modelo comunicativo imperante en el país necesita...

ARTICLE 19 delivered the following statement at the 35th Session...

In the early 1990s, the media industry in Jamaica was...

At the 63rd International Short Film Days (11-16 May 2017), the...

Reforming the Word Celebrating 500 years of the Reformation,...

On 4 April 1967, the Revd Dr Martin Luther King Jr gave his...

Well before people even named them, Martin Luther unknowingly...

Martin Luther did more than just serve as a catalyst for the...

In 1517, when Martin Luther hung his 95 theses on the wooden...

The 400th anniversary of the Reformation 100 years ago coincided...

Le protestantisme est né avec l’imprimerie, va-t-il...

Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate,...

In the last US elections, social media had the freedom to...

What do Edward Snowden, the whistle-blower behind the NSA...

Fabricated or inaccurate news stories are not new; they are the...

At the 67th Berlin International Film Festival (9-19 February...

A recent report from the World Economic Forum (WEF)1 says...

In the last several decades, human intelligence has begun to...

Internet freedom has declined for the sixth consecutive year,...

Clic y scroll. El idioma anuncia nuevas incorporaciones mientras...

With communication a central element in humanitarian crises and...

In 2013 UNESCO commissioned a series of Working Papers on Mobile...

In 2015, the United Nations calculated that the number of...

It was hard to escape news in early 2016 of Facebook’s...

The world is awash with data. Today, more data than ever in...

We can all relate to Charlie Chaplin in his classic...

Freedom of expression through media has been important to the...

An Ecumenical Jury awarded prizes for the first time ever at the...

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The voice of the people is all very well as long as it can be...

Despite positive media freedom ratings and dedicated...

The Italian daily newspaper Il Giornale runs a front...

The relationship between media and historical perception is a...

“No aceptes lo habitual como cosa natural.Porque en tiempos de...

Hace 20 años que ejerzo el periodismo. Inicié muy...

Some miss and regret past times or places, others are nostalgic...

As we are discovering every day, with an increasingly elderly...

India’s rich repository of knowledge has been passed down for...

This edition of Memory Studies centres on the theme of...

  Community radios were often established as a response to...

On the Screen

Local vs. Traditional Media Deep-seated changes in the newspaper...

Today, profound changes in the newspaper and journalism...

James Carey, a communication and journalism scholar who taught...

Local media are the active watchdogs that democratic communities...

Observers of the Malaysian media environment will notice two...

The continued dominance of traditional journalism practice in...

En 1988 una fábrica de autos intentó adelantarse a...

In the United States, it’s no longer newsworthy to say that...

La literatura de todos los tiempos nos ha  provisto...

As a starting point, we need briefly to address what is...

Nyon (Switzerland) 2016 An interreligious jury appointed by...

Media Development 2016/2

International principles of journalism ethics...

We have to acknowledge that the media, more often than not,...

Islamophobia is a term used to describe irrational...

La pedagogía se ocupa de los seres humanos, de cada uno de...

There is a current obsession in mainstream media and academic...

Forty-seven years ago, Jean d’Arcy, the father of the right...

The following article provides an overview of New Zealand...

As an American Muslim who speaks at about 25 college campuses a...

Democracyas a system of governance is supposed to allow...

El vertiginoso y deslumbrante desarrollo de la tecnología se...

The Ecumenical Jury at the 37th Film Festival Max Ophüls in...

Media Development 2016/1

A quarter of a century ago, in an essay published in the...

In 2015 I was lucky enough to be chosen by WACC to evaluate its...

My work addresses communication rights in the context of the...

On January 20, 2015, the town of Santa Eulalia Huehuetenango,...

Is it possible to create an open community space so that people...

Las redes sociales se han evidenciado como instrumentos...

Les femmes représentent la majorité de la...

Freedom. Democracy. Justice. These are a few concepts that many...

A good entry point for newcomers to the idea of communication...

Media Development 2015/4

“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall” is the first line...

In the summer of 2015, distressing scenes of refugees and...

One factor that motivates research in the intersections between...

Generalmente cuando reflexionamos sobre la sostenibilidad de los...

Afghanistan once housed tourists from around the world intrigued...

“Media freedom and democracy are about people’s happiness”...

El estado de Tabasco se ubica en el sureste mexicano, frente al...

When criticizing Israeli policies, one is often reminded that...

Born in 1948 in Barton Lake in northwestern Ontario, Bill was...

Los Estados están jugando un papel decisivo ya sea...

At the 12th Golden Apricot International Film Festival held in...

Media Development 2015/3 

Communication for Social Change (CSC) is a field shaped by a...

The emergence of new social mobilisations in developing...

Agricultural research for development (AR4D) that uses...

In March 2015, in a shipping container that serves as part of a...

Given the challenges of measuring outcomes in Communication for...

Big Stories Small Towns is a multi-platform process-driven...

This article examines the use of folk media in Irob district, in...

There is great contradiction between what a multicultural...

Worldwide, people are living in a culture of fear. They see the...

El filósofo francés Jaques Ellul, en la...

At Visions Réel 2015 – the 46th international film...

Media Development 2015/2 pdfs

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) fall due in 2015 and...

By September 2015 the member states of the UN have to agree on...

The Department for International Development (DFID) in the...

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have represented a...

When earthquakes hit Kathmandu, the only thing everybody wants...

The latest buzz word in the “war against terror” is leading us...

“Comunicación mundial significa: liberar el espacio para...

Growing up in a middle-class Evangelical home in the United...

Mission today must be seen in the context of the...

The WACC-SIGNIS Human Rights Award 2014 has gone to the film...

Media Development 2015/1 pdfs

What’s in a name? In 1989, the ruling military junta changed the...

The media in Burma are freer now than at any point in the last...

For 25 years, the international NGO Reporters Without Borders...

Freedom of religion in Burma has become a controversial...

Former political prisoner Nay Phone Latt, 34, is the secretary...

A few months before the 2013 elections, many Cambodians began to...

Freedom of expression is supposedly guaranteed in Cambodia. Both...

The increase of political conflict in Thailand from late 2013 to...

In February 1990, the same month that Nelson Mandela (known as...

At the 44th Kyiv International Film Festival (25 October to 2...

Media Development 2014/4 Seeing and Hearing is Cool Hip hop and...

Graffiti and public speaking have an ancient pedigree. In...

Michael W. Waters On August 11, 1973, a party in the recreation...

Itunu Bodunrin Hip-hop in South Africa has been on a roller...

Samira Rajabi Not long ago, few media consumers could truly...

Anthony B. Pinn The poetic quality of music and the...

Seán Ó Siochrú, Sally Burch, Bruce Girard,...

Hans W. Florin Religious icons had no prominent place in my...

Jan Servaes “The jury is still out on the Chinese dream. It is...

  Manuela Kalsky In December 2008 the Study Centre for...

Locarno (Switzerland) 2014 At the 67th Locarno International...

Pacific Island peoples and communities are facing unprecedented...

There are some 20,000 to 30,000 islands in the Pacific Ocean....

Media freedom as an issue in the Pacific has been defined in far...

2014 marks the 40th year of the Pacific Conference of...

It is difficult to treat communication separately from the other...

The advent of social media has altered the communication of...

The documentary film “The Act of Killing” reflects the ongoing...

This article documents the genesis of an innovative voter...

Rolando Pérez, profesor del Departamento Académico...

La actual crisis mundial que está afectando a millones de...

The Participate initiative provides high quality evidence on the...

The following speech was given at the 18th European Television...

A film about the imposition of a totalitarian form of Islam on a...

Media Development 2014/2 Indigenous media and digital...

This article analyzes the sites of struggle through which First...

At the contemporary historical moment, innovations in networked...

“La rebelión la hicieron nuestros padres, ahora la...

La comunicación comunitaria indígena es, en muchas...

“Desde principios de la década de los noventa, numerosas...

The youngest mechanism for Indigenous Peoples at the United...

In a recent interview, Denis de Moraes, Associate Professor at...

The cinema and the Church have a lot in common – they are both...

Media Development 2014/1 The Family in the Information Age 2014...

It was in 1948, with the adoption of the Universal Declaration...

The family remains the basic societal unit of reproduction,...

Throughout the world, children are using media and...

En la plenitud de su vida intelectual, Jean Paul Sartre...

El presente artículo busca presentar en forma somera algunos...

In the 1990s there was no actual research concerning young...

Fostering dialogue in societies torn apart by ethnic conflicts...

A resource guide on the rights of the child general comment...

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)...

Media Development 2013/4 Building alliances for gender and...

It was in 1792 that the British writer, philosopher, and...

“Media pluralism is the key that unlocks the door of freedom of...

Almost twenty years after the Women Empowering Communication...

Media monitors at work in Senegal. Photo: FAMEDEV  ...

Los y las periodistas tienen la posibilidad y la...

Cada cinco años desde el 1995, centenares de personas a...

At the end of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)...

The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) has been a mechanism...