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#128. November 2023
Media freedom: Europe's media cannot be half-free
Blog: Social Europe
EU member states must not water down critical legislation protecting media independence and pluralism.
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#227. Oktober 2023
Social media ennui – the end of academic social media?
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
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#316. April 2024
What lies behind the 'golden opportunities' of Malaysian Star media group's new tie with its mainland Chinese partner
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.
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#424. Juli 2023
Politics in Nigeria After Social Media
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 ...
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#510. Juli 2023
Politics in Nigeria After Social Media
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 ...
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#629. Januar 2012
Media in the US: lax campaign financing bad for democracy but good for media companies
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
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#76. Mai 2020
'Humanity against the virus': how media reported the UK's coronavirus vaccine call to action
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.
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#815. April 2024
Moscow photographer captures the capital in military frenzy
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.
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#918. Oktober 2023
Anti-war activist punk musician from Yakutia detained in Kazakhstan
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.
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#1027. Dezember 2023
In Azerbaijan, an entire village was vacated for the President's son-in-law
Blog: Global Voices
Ten families were forced to relocate from their ancestral lands so that Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev's son-in-law could build an agrocomplex. Much of the project was funded by state financing.
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#1125. Dezember 2023
Head of Azerbaijan's Presidential Security Service implicated in corruption scandal
Blog: Global Voices
Baku's InterContinental hotel has a suspicious history. When the land around the hotel was put up for auction, the details of the land's address and size were purposefully blacked out.
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#1229. März 2020
Staff who miss out on holiday due to coronavirus can carry it over for 2 years
Blog: BEIS in the media
On Saturday 28 March there was widespread media coverage of an announcement that staff who might have forfeited annual leave due to Covid-19 could carry it over for 2 years.
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#135. September 2023
One traitor a day: The state of treason cases in Russia
Blog: Global Voices
"Holod" magazine has exposed a record number of criminal cases of treason and espionage, which are now being initiated more frequently than during the post-Stalin era in the USSR
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#1430. März 2024
What is behind the suicides of LGBTQ+ people in refugee camps in the Netherlands?
Blog: Global Voices
There have been at least four reported case of suicide among Russian-speaking refugees in the Netherlands over the past year
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#1524. November 2023
Navigating the media landscape in Zambia
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.