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Media: Citizen Participation and Technology: An NDI Study
Posted on July 1, 2014 by Julianna Jerosch — After the Arab Spring, technology became the panacea for democratic development issues. Many programs...
Media, Development: Calls for media freedom to be included in post-2015 development goals
NEW YORK, 4 July 2014 (IRIN) - In the debate over the inclusion of media freedom and access to information in the post-2015 development agenda, it...
Media, Development: Guide to Apps for Social Change
Posted by Valerie Oliphant on July 7, 2014 at 11:05am Dear Colleagues, One of the main goals of this site is to help practitioners, students, and...
Media: Participant Index Seeks to Determine Why One Film Spurs Activism, While Others Falter
NYT, By MICHAEL CIEPLY, JULY 6, 2014 The documentary film "The Square," about the Egyptian uprising in Tahrir Square, Cairo. On an impact scale of...
Media: Shubhranshu Choudhary: Giving a Voice to a Ravaged, Neglected Region | Innovators
news.nationalgeographic.com, June 30, 2014 As the South Asia producer for BBC TV and Radio during the 1990s and early 2000s, Shubhranshu Choudhary...
Media: Citizen journalism gets more stories out than traditional reporting in war-torn Syria
phys.org, June 29,2014 Citizen reporters are increasingly getting stories out of remote areas of Syria, which are difficult for traditional media to...
Media: Yes, media freedoms can be measured
cima.ned.org, by Mark Nelson, June 19, 2014 If you hang around the halls of United Nations and World Bank long enough, you’re sure to encounter the...
Media: The Christian Science Monitor is thinking about the best ways to turn reading into action
niemanlab.org, by Jeff Israely Lucia Moses has a story in Digiday about a new redesign of The Christian Science Monitor’s website. Here’s a promo...
Media, Haiti, Development: Sean Penn Accuses the Media of Ignoring Haiti’s Progress. But He’s Ignoring a Few Uncomfortable Facts, Too.
New Republic, June 19, 2014, By Jonathan M. Katz These days, when U.S. media outlets are looking for an update on the state of things in Haiti, one...
Media: Does good journalism promote transparency?
Does press freedom promote democracy or the other way round? Martin Scott considers the influence of the media by Martin Scott, Guardian...
Media: The role of media in the South Sudanese conflict
Sudan Tribune, April 2nd 2014 By Alyssa Mesich If good information is not available then rumors will spread. The weak media culture in South Sudan...