Tag: mediapolicy.org

• Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends, 2013 edition

  Mary Meeker of American venture capital firm KPCB has released her annual Internet Trends Report. This year she highlights several important trends, including a section extracting lessons from the Chinese tech market, data on the eye-popping rise in tablet shipments worldwide, and indicators for the increasing adoption of wearable/flyable/scannable technology. Essential reading for anyone interested…

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  04/06/2013

  Research & Evidence

  china, data, featured, internet, mediapolicy.org, report, social media, trends, usa

• Gezi Park Protests Push Turkey’s Media into the Spotlight (Updated)

  By now, you’ll have heard – perhaps via international media, or on Twitter or Facebook – about the protests that started in defence of one of Istanbul’s last remaining green spaces, and have now, in response to heavy-handed policing and broader worries about democratic rights, spread across many cities in Turkey.  I’ve been following the torrent of…

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  01/06/2013

  Policy, Law & Regulation

  #gezipark, censorship, demokrasi, feature, featured, gazetecilik, iyi yönetişim, media policy, media reform, mediapolicy.org, medya politikası, Press freedom, protest, report, research, self-censorship, Turkey, turkiye, twitter, yayın

• Policy-making 2.0 – the EU’s Crossover Project

  How can policy-making be made more timely and participatory? How can policy-modelling make better use of ICTs and data? Questions pertinent to the media policy community all over the world… Well, the EU’s Crossover project set out to answer these and related questions, and on 17th and 18th June, they’re holding their final project conference in…

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  31/05/2013

  Research & Evidence

  conference, europe, mediapolicy.org, participation, policy-making, social media, Technology

• “Counting What Counts” – Nesta on Big Data in the arts and cultural sectors

  In this excellent February 2013 paper for Nesta, Counting What Counts, Anthony Lilley, never one to mince his words, pushes the arts and cultural sector (public service broadcasting included) to embrace the opportunity of Big Data: There are some fundamental barriers to the use of big data approaches in arts and cultural institutions. The first…

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  31/05/2013

  Research & Evidence

  culture, data, funding, investment, mediapolicy.org, public service broadcasting, resilience

• Somalia Conference: promises of action on media freedom, safety of journalists

  “We agreed on the important role a free and independent media should play in Somalia, and welcomed the Federal Government’s commitment to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the killing of journalists, and to promote press freedom.” (Somalia Conference 2013: Official Communiqué at GOV.UK.) Yesterday’s conference communiqué was unambiguous on the need to protect the…

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  08/05/2013

  Policy, Law & Regulation

  africa, featured, Horn of Africa, Impunity, journalists safety, Media Law, mediapolicy.org, politics, Press freedom, report, Somalia, UK