Suchergebnisse

Con vistas al año 2000, la solución de los grandes problemas de nuestra época es inseparable del respeto de los valores universales que son el fundamento de la acción humanitaria. Cuando se trata de proteger la vida humana y aliviar el sufrimiento, luchar contra el hambre y la enfermedad, promover la reducción de las tensiones y la cooperación, no se puede lograr progreso duradero alguno si no va acompañado de medidas que salvaguarden la vida y la dignidad de todo ser humano.

Discusses political influence in Czech public television, protests in response to the appointment of Jiri Hodac as head of Czech Television (CT) and his subsequent resignation, and lack of response from Poland and the European Union, in context of pending EU membership; 2000.

Las Sociedades Nacionales árabes de la Media Luna Roja y de la Cruz Roja celebraron, del 5 al 9 de noviembre de 1988, su XIX Conferencia en El Cairo.Patrocinada por S.E. el señor Hosni Mubarak, presidente de la República Árabe de Egipto, esta Conferencia fue organizada conjuntamente por la Media Luna Roja Egipcia y la Secretaría General de las Sociedades Nacionales árabes de la Media Luna Roja y de la Cruz Roja, dirigida por el señor Abdel Ghani Ashi.Dieciocho Sociedades Nacionales árabes participaron en la Conferencia, asá como observadores de 10 Sociedades Nacionales, de organizaciones gubernamentales y no gubernamentales.Dirigida por el señor Rudolf Jäckli, vicepresidente del CICR, la delegatiôn del CICR estaba integrada por los señores Francis Junod, delegado en El Cairo, Michel Martin, jefe de la División de Doctrina y Relaciones con el Movimiento, Zidane Méribute, Ameur Zémali, miembros de la División Jurídica y Werner Kaspar, de la Divisiôn de Recursos Exteriores.

With the advent of organized eSports, game streaming, and always-online video games, there exist new and more pronounced demands on players, developers, publishers, spectators, and other video game actors. By identifying and exploring elements of infrastructure in multiplayer games, this paper augments Bowman's (2018) conceptualization of demands in video games by introducing a new category of 'infrastructure demand' of games. This article describes how the infrastructure increasingly built around video games creates demands upon those interacting with these games, either as players, spectators, or facilitators of multiplayer video game play. We follow the method described by Susan Leigh Star (1999), who writes that infrastructure is as mundane as it is a critical part of society and as such is particularly deserving of academic study. When infrastructure works properly it fades from view, but in doing so loses none of its importance to human endeavor. This work therefore helps to make visible the invisible elements of infrastructure present in and around multiplayer video games and explicates the demands these elements create on people interacting with those games.

Africa faces a double Covid-19 crisis. At once it is a crisis of the pandemic, at another an information framing crisis. This article argues that public health messaging about the pandemic is complicated by a competing mix of framings by a number of actors including the state, the Church, civil society and the public, all fighting for legitimacy. The article explores some of these divergences in the interpretation of the disease and how they have given rise to multiple narratives about the pandemic, particularly online. It concludes that while different perspectives and or interpretations of a crisis is not necessarily wrong, where these detract from the crisis itself and become a contestation of individual and or sector interests, they birth a new crisis. This is the new crisis facing the continent in relation to the pandemic.

The network society is moving into some sort of middle age, or has at least normalized into the daily set of expectations people have for how they live their lives, not to mention consume news and information. In their adolescence, the technological and temporal affordances that have come with these new digital technologies were supposed to make the world better, or least they could have. There was much we did not foresee, such as the way that this brave new world would turn journalism into distributed content, not only taking away news organizations' gatekeeping power but also their business model. This is indeed a midlife crisis. The present moment provides a vantage point for stocktaking and the mix of awe, nostalgia, and ruefulness that comes with maturity.

The study aims to examine the security of Taiwan's media system. Its main hypothesis is that the People's Republic of China is pursuing a deliberate strategy of influencing Taiwan's media at various levels by a range of means. Some authors refer to this approach as the commercialization and outsourcing of censorship and propaganda. The approach has had the effect of routinizing self-censorship. Research questions are also asked about the methods and strategies adopted by China to influence Taiwan's media, including the commercialization and outsourcing of propaganda. The idea is to 'hire' various state institutions and agencies or their subordinate organizations, commonly from the private sector and from third countries, to deliberately disseminate and endorse views and ideas aligned with China's interests. The strategy can be described as an invasion of sorts that is not of a coercive and/or external nature but rather is performed from the inside, aimed directly at the hearts and minds of the country's citizens. The paradox is that democratic media systems that protect freedom of speech are more vulnerable to this strategy. An attempt is made to demonstrate that the 'China factor' is increasingly present in Taiwan's media landscape. Its effectiveness may have grave consequences not only for the me- dia system itself but also for the political system of the Republic of China (Taiwan) in general. In addition, the article seeks to identify the most appropriate and effective strategies and means for countering and combatting such threats. In drafting this article, a range of research methods were employed, including that of inductive and deductive inference, the historical method (used to outline the historical background behind significant social and political transformations in Taiwan), the institutional and legal analysis method (used to explore the influence of institutions on specific social phenomena), the legal text exegesis method as well as the statistical method (to describe Taiwan's media system).