Tag: advocacy
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Tow Center Report – THE NEW GLOBAL JOURNALISM: FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE IN TRANSITION
[Including this chapter, close to my heart:] A Professional Kinship: Journalism and Advocacy With media tools like video recording and Internet transmission now widely available, people and institutions all over the globe have the ability to commit journalistic acts. Advocacy organizations such as Human Rights Watch and WITNESS have developed digital skills put to practice with the…
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The debate about the rise of civil society in Mexico suggests that the processes of political and economic liberalization are multiple and uneven and, thus, have different and contradictory effects on different social groups. This study takes such arguments into account and examines the nature of collective identities and social networks that are more likely…
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The emergent new media ecology which integrates participatory media into the structure of global information flows has fundamentally affected the means of production and distribution of attention, a key resource for social movements. In social movement scholarship, attention itself is rarely examined directly; rather, it is encountered in the study of means of delivering attention…
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Urgent: micro-grants available for ITU/WCIT work (deadline Wednesday night)
Here’s an urgent message from the Mozilla Foundation regarding micro-grants for work related to the ITU (deadline Wednesday night GMT) – read below, and send your application to apply@mozillafoundation.org (do not send your application to mediapolicy.org or to OSF). — Open Internet Microgrants to Support Civil Society Engagement with the ITU On December 3rd, the…
Sameer Padania 