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Blog: GIP
On the 14th and 31st of May, the Georgian Institute of Politics (GIP) organized media briefings about political and media polarization in Georgia comparing the situation to the V4 states. The meeting was held under the framework
Blog: Social Europe
EU member states must not water down critical legislation protecting media independence and pluralism.
Blog: Impact of Social Sciences
Is social media in a period of change? David Beer considers whether trends towards repetition and uniformity are prefiguring a new standard for the way in which social media intersects with academic life. Might we be moving into a different period for social media? A period defined by a growing sense of disenchantment. A slipping … Continued
Blog: OxPol
A Pew Research Centre survey showed that citizens of 19 advanced economies consider social media simultaneously constructive and destructive in political life. A majority of citizens believe that social media has had a positive impact on democracy. What about frontier economies? How has social media affected politics and political interaction in African countries with rapid population growth, increasing life expectancy, and widespread poverty? Consider Nigeria. In mid-2017, Nigeria was the most populous nation on the continent. By 2050, Nigeria will be the third most populous nation in the world. This large population has increasingly adopted social media. There were approximately 33 million users in 2022, up from 18 million in 2017. Young people aged 18 to 34 make up the ...
Blog: OxPol
A Pew Research Centre survey showed that citizens of 19 advanced economies consider social media simultaneously constructive and destructive in political life. A majority of citizens believe that social media has had a positive impact on democracy. What about frontier economies? How has social media affected politics and political interaction in African countries with rapid population growth, increasing life expectancy, and widespread poverty? Consider Nigeria. In mid-2017, Nigeria was the most populous nation on the continent. By 2050, Nigeria will be the third most populous nation in the world. This large population has increasingly adopted social media. There were approximately 33 million users in 2022, up from 18 million in 2017. Young people aged 18 to 34 make up the ...
Blog: Global Voices
The China's State Council is the sole shareholder Contemporary World Publishing Co., Ltd, the company behind Star Media Group's latest media partner, Contemporary World Magazine.
Blog: Cato at Liberty
So rather than redirect funds to legacy media outlets, state lawmakers might instead consider allowing private actors to get on with the business of sharing neighborhood news without state intervention.
Blog: American Enterprise Institute – AEI
Should the laws, interpretations and enforcement of one country's view of "internet safety" be able to trump platforms' content management decisions in the interests of free speech to allow the content to be seen in other parts of the world, enabling consumers to form their own views?
The post Australia Rules Social Media, OK? appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.
Blog: Global Issues
US campaign financing rules have been relaxed even further in recent years, making a worrying problem about the state of American democracy worse (because those with money have even more ability to try and buy votes or influence policy).
Media coverage of this issue, though it may pop up from time to time, seems quite limited. Perhaps because it is estimated that television stations this year could make as much as eight billion dollars from political campaigns.
The state of US mainstream media has unfortunately been lamentable for many years, and after the issues around hurricane Katrina, it was thought that the media would be rejuvenated. Unfortunately it does not seem that way.
This page has been updated with further information about campaign financing issues and how limits in the US have been lifted making the problem worse. Also added were notes on US press freedom, and an info graphic on media ownership concentration.
Read full article: Media in the United States
Blog: DFID in the news
The Prime Minister's call for global cooperation and investment to find a coronavirus vaccine has received widespread positive coverage in newspapers, online news and broadcast outlets.
Blog: Global Voices
For two years now, Alexander Gronsky has been documenting what Moscow looks like and how it lives during the war and how the war intrudes into the urban space.
Blog: Global Voices
The poet, activist and leader of the Yakut punk band Crispy Newspaper Aikhal Ammosov regularly took to the streets with pickets and performances, painted graffiti and tried to hang anti-war banners in Russia.
Blog: Global Voices
The Freedom House report categorizes Zambia as "partly free," giving it a score of 54 out of 100 because of restrictive laws that limit political space and online speech.
Blog: Crooked Timber
Today, I signed up for Bluesky and Threads, taking a brief look at each of them, and announced my final departure from Twitter, to take place when Musk removes the Block feature[1]. Meanwhile I'm still using Mastodon as my main microblog along with CT and my personal blog for long-form blogging. I'm trying to maintain […]
Blog: Reason.com
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook on Thursday at 1:30 p.m. Eastern for a live discussion with Jay Bhattacharya and John Vecchione about their legal case against the Biden administration.