Tag: canada
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Maybe it’s because media concentration is accelerating. Or maybe it’s because new players are getting into the game. Maybe it’s because TV and radio are desperate to try new things as they compete for attention with the Internet. Or maybe it’s just because it’s 2012 and the world is going to end soon. Either way,…
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Iran: A Nation of Bloggers
[Originally published here on the WITNESS Hub Blog.] The Al Jazeera English show The Listening Post has just rolled a brilliant animation over its closing credits. Put together by 4 students at the Vancouver Film School, it’s called “Iran: A Nation of Bloggers”, and it’s got pace, energy and style (not unlike Avaaz’s “Clash of Civilisations” piece…
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Caught On Camera: Human Rights Videos on GV
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online] You’d be forgiven for thinking it’s been Saddam, Saddam, Saddam, in recent weeks, but GV has covered other human rights videos that deserve a bit of limelight – so, in this regular new feature, I’m going to round up the best of those…
Sameer Padania 