Latest Articlesuuid:9cbc8791-39a6-4159-991c-742b2b0741bc;id=122017-07-20T16:11:18Z9336The Global Principles on Protection of Freedom of Expression and Privacy2017-03-20T11:52:00-04:002017-03-20T11:52:00-04:00Article 19<p>A Policy Brief by Article 19 (2017). From the Introduction: "Freedom of expression and privacy are mutually reinforcing rights – all the more so in the digital age. Both are essential foundations for open and democratic societies, and among the basic conditions for its progress, and for each individual’s self-fulfilment. For democracy, accountability and good governance to thrive, freedom of expression and opinion must be respected and protected. The same is true of the right to privacy, which also acts as a powerful bulwark against state and corporate power in the modern age."</p>
<p>These Principles were developed in order to provide a systematic analytical framework for assessing the ways in which the rights to freedom of expression and privacy are mutually reinforcing, and for determining the permissible limits which can be placed on these rights where they are in conflict, both on and offline.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.agilitycms.com/centre-for-communication-rights/Images/Articles/pdf/Expression-and-Privacy-Principles-1.pdf">The Global Principles on Protection of Freedom of Expression and Privacy - PDF</a></p>
<p> </p>9328Communication Rights and Social Justice: Historical Accounts of Transnational Mobilizations2014-12-31T15:57:00-05:002014-12-31T15:57:00-05:00<p>Communication Rights and Social Justice edited by Claudia Padovani and Andrew Calabrese offers historical perspectives on struggles to use the instruments of state and political participation - power, inter-governmental treaties and declarations, and various forms of political advocacy and protest politics - to articulate the concept of communication as a fundamental right. The contributions make up an intergenerational and multi-vocal dialogue. Different generations of scholars, activists and practitioners, who have been engaged with mobilizations at different times, present their views; some adopt a more academic style, others reflect autobiographically on personal experiences. The collection acknowledges the plural geo-cultural roots that compose what have eventually become a network of transnational mobilization dynamics that are increasingly global, digitally mediated, multi-stakeholder and faced by new and forthcoming challenges. It makes an original and welcome contribution to understanding a vital history that will only grow in worldwide importance.</p>
<p>Introduction: Communication Rights and Social Justice: Historical Accounts of Transnational Mobilizations; Claudia Padovani and Andrew Calabrese</p>
<p><strong>PART I: COMMUNICATION STRUGGLES IN A GLOBALIZING CONTEXT</strong><br />
1. Communication Rights and the History of Ideas; Cees Hamelink<br />
2. Communication Rights and Media Justice between Political and Discursive Opportunities: A Historical Perspective; Stefania Milan and Claudia Padovani<br />
3. Living the New International Information Order; Roberto Savio<br />
4. Continuities and Change in the Nexus of Communication and Development; Ingela Svedin<br />
5. Are States still Important? Reflections on the Nexus between National and Global Media and Communication Policy; Marc Raboy and Ayesha Mawani<br />
<strong>PART II: MOBILIZING COMMUNICATIONS: REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICES </strong><br />
6. The Democratization of Communication: Latin American Perspectives and Initiatives; Sally Burch<br />
7. Beyond the Dominant Paradigm of Communication Rights? Observations from South Asia; Pradip Thomas<br />
8. Establishing a 'Rights Regime' in Iran: Thinking Communications, Politics and Gender Together; Annabelle Sreberny<br />
9. Communication Rights as a Networking Reality: Community Radio in Europe; Salvatore Scifo<br />
10. Media Reform and Communication Rights in the United States; Andrew Calabrese<br />
<strong>PART III: ONGOING RESISTANCE, NEW FRAMES AND CHANGING NARRATIVES </strong><br />
11. Media Justice and Communication Rights; Seeta Peña Gangadharan<br />
12. Bringing Communication Back In: Social Movements and Media; Lorenzo Mosca<br />
13. Reframing Communication Rights: Why Gender Matters; Margaret Gallagher<br />
14. Practising Communication Rights: Cases from South Korea and Honduras; Dorothy Kidd<br />
15. Communication Rights and Neoliberal Development: Techno-Politics in India; Paula Chakravartty<br />
16. Remixing the Spring! Connective Leadership and Read-Write Practices in the 2011 Arab Uprisings; Donatella della Ratta and Augusto Valeriani<br />
Afterword; Andrew Calabrese and Claudia Padovani <br />
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<em>Palgrave Macmillan (2014).</em></p>9215More or Less Equal: How Digital Platforms Can Help Advance Communication Rights2014-11-30T10:04:00-05:002014-11-30T10:04:00-05:00Philip Lee, Dafne Sabanes Plou <p><em>More or Less Equal: How Digital Platforms Can Help Advance Communication Rights</em> edited by Philip Lee and Dafne Sabanes Plou asks what challenges this development poses for societies worldwide. What ethical questions does it raise? The book explores these questions against a background of rapid technological change and with the aim of strengthening the communication rights of all people everywhere.</p>
<p>The book suggests that today's digital platforms offer the tantalizing possibility of learning and taking into account opinions from the margins that contradict the dominant voices in the public sphere. The concept of citizen journalism has radically altered traditional news and information flows, encouraging greater interaction and interdependence.</p>
<p>The book’s essays include such topics as ethical challenges and social media, communication networks in Latin America, women’s access to social media networks, media ethics and citizen journalism, and the gender dimensions of communication rights.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.globethics.net/web/ge/global-series">Globethics.net Global 9</a> (2014).</p>
<p> </p>9201Four challenges in the field of alternative, radical and citizens’ media research2014-03-31T15:54:00-04:002014-03-31T15:54:00-04:00Clemencia Rodriguez, Benjamin Ferron, Kristin Shamas<p>In January 1994 the Zapatista movement in southern Mexico inaugurated a new era of media use for dissent. Since that time, an array of dissenting collectives and individuals have appropriated media technologies in order to make their voices heard or to articulate alternative identities. From Zapatista media to the Arab Spring, social movements throughout the world are taking over, hybridizing, recycling, and adapting media technologies. This new era poses a new set of challenges for academics and researchers in the field of Communication for Social Change (CfSC). Based on examples from Mexico, Lebanon, and Colombia, this article highlights and discusses four such research challenges: accounting for historical context; acknowledging the complexity of communication processes; anchoring analysis in a political economy of information and communication technologies; and positioning new research in relation to existing knowledge and literature within the field of communication and social change.<br />
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<em>Media Culture Society</em>, March 2014, vol. 36 no. 2, 150-166.</p>
<p> </p>9202Global Communication2013-12-31T15:59:00-05:002013-12-31T15:59:00-05:00Cees J. Hamelink<p><em>Global Communication</em> explores the history, present and future of global communication, introducing and explaining the theories, stories and flows of information and media that affect us all. Based on his experience teaching generations of students to critically examine the world of communication around them, the author helps readers understand the thinkers, concepts and questions in this changing landscape. This book explores the cultural, economic, political and social dimensions and consequences of global communication; introduces the key thinkers who have been inspirational to the field; teaches you to master the art of asking critical questions; and takes you through concrete cases from UN summits to hot lines and cyber-surveillance. It guides students through the complex terrain of global communication, helping them become critically informed participants in the ever-changing communication landscape. It is essential reading for students of communication and media studies.<br />
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<em>SAGE Publications </em>(2013).</p>
<p> </p>9259Press freedom and communication rights: What kind of journalism does democracy need?2013-12-31T12:59:00-05:002013-12-31T12:59:00-05:00Robert A. Hackett<p>The task of identifying appropriate models of journalism for Pacific Island nations as they strive for more democratic governance is not a straightforward one. This article summarizes several contending models of democracy—market liberalism/competitive elitism, public sphere liberalism, and radical democracy—and their attendant expectations of news media. When measured against the stated ideals of press freedom, and notwithstanding the emergence of the internet, the existing news systems of the dominant Western liberal-democracies, notably the US and UK, have significant democratic shortcomings, in relation to ‘watchdog’, public sphere, community-building and communicative equality criteria. Accordingly, the author argues that the practices and concept of press freedom need to be expanded and supplemented by a broader understanding and implementation of communication rights, entailing legal and cultural forms that support the full participation of all segments of society. Such a paradigm is especially appropriate for post-colonial countries dealing with issues of economic development and inter-ethnic conflict.</p>
<p><em>Pacific Journalism Review</em> 19 (1) 2013 134-40. <a href="http://cdn.agilitycms.com/centre-for-communication-rights/Images/Articles/pdf/Hackett2013.pdf">PDF</a>.</p>
<p> </p>9145Communication rights ten years after the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS): Civil society perceptions2013-03-26T10:38:00-04:002013-03-26T10:38:00-04:00APC/Hivos<p>This report (2013), funded by the World Association for Christian Communication, responds to the opportunity provided by the WSIS+10 review which will culminate in 2015. Its purpose is to collate civil society perceptions of the changes that have taken place over the last ten years since the WSIS Declaration of Principles was adopted in 2003. The results are being used as input to the formal WSIS review process, as well as to strategise around civil society joint agendas and common positions. To this extent it contributes towards addressing two problems: an apparent absence - in most parts of the world - of a people-centred approach to information and knowledge-sharing society policy and regulation; and the fragmentation of the communications rights movement, which had mobilised so intensively to ensure that a people-centred approach informed the outcomes of WSIS.<a href="http://cdn.agilitycms.com/centre-for-communication-rights/Images/Articles/pdf/GISWatch2013.pdf"> PDF</a>.</p>9180Citizen Journalism: A Primer2012-12-27T16:43:00-05:002012-12-27T16:43:00-05:00Open News Room<p><em>Citizen Journalism: A primer on the definition, risks and benefits and main debates in media communications research</em> was published by <a href="http://www.theopennewsroom.com/" target="_blank">The Open News Room</a> (2012).</p>
<p>The risks and dangers of using copy from citizen journalists are real; the interconnectedness of the Internet means that unchecked false reports can be fed into the media, on a blog for instance and be picked up by many more websites and within minutes circulate throughout the world. The overall benefit however is that citizen journalism can help keep news current by publishing news as it happens. This can enrich mainstream media. With time, most citizen journalism will be clued on the do’s and don’ts of journalism and this can reduce the potential risk of citizen journalism to both the citizen journalist and the publisher. <a href="http://cdn.agilitycms.com/centre-for-communication-rights/Images/Articles/pdf/Citizen-journalism-primer-ONR2012.pdf">PDF</a>.</p>
<br />9154Comunicación para una ciudadanía integral e intercultural2012-03-26T16:14:00-04:002012-03-26T16:14:00-04:00UNIR<p>Esta memoria está compuesta por cuatro capítulos. El primero, 'Conceptos sobre comunicación intercultural', aborda fundamentos teóricos y debates contemporáneos sobre el tema; el segundo, 'Comunicación intercultural en Bolivia hoy', trata sobre la construcción pendiente - no exenta de contradicciones - sobre la interculturalidad en el país, a partir de la nueva Constitución.</p>
<p>El tercer capítulo expone las 'Prácticas de la comunicación intercultural y experiencias concretas desde el periodismo alternativo'; y el cuarto capítulo, 'Viviendo la comunicación intercultural', reúne las ponencias de actores que luchan cotidianamente por ejercer su derecho en una sociedad en la que la comunicación intercultural plena es una tarea pendiente, y son las luchas de las mujeres, de la comunidad afroboliviana, de los pueblos indígenas de tierras altas y bajas, entre muchos otros colectivos, las que deben orientarnos para construir juntos un país donde sea posible avanzar hacia una cultura de paz.</p>
<p><em>Fundación UNIR</em>, Bolivia, (2012).</p>9181Communication perspectives on social networking and citizen journalism challenges to traditional newspapers2011-12-31T16:52:00-05:002011-12-31T16:52:00-05:00James E. Katz<p>Communication perspectives are presented on the challenges posed to traditional newspapers by social media and citizen journalism, with special reference to the United States. This is an important topic given the critical role investigative reporting, long the domain of newspapers, plays in fostering democratic practices. New Media and social networking technology are evaluated in terms of their impact on the newspaper enterprise. Alternative scenarios for future developments are examined as are the implications for social values and the role of an informed citizenry in democratic society. Strategic management issues are analyzed, and the possibility is considered that social media can fulfill much of the democracy-enhancing role served traditionally by newspapers.</p>
<p><em>Conference Paper.</em> 22nd European Regional Conference of the International Telecommunications Society (ITS2011), Budapest, 18 - 21 September, 2011: Innovative ICT Applications - Emerging Regulatory, Economic and Policy Issues. <a href="http://cdn.agilitycms.com/centre-for-communication-rights/Images/Articles/pdf/Communication-perspectives-Katz2011.pdf">PDF</a>.</p>9255Communicating with Children2011-12-31T12:23:00-05:002011-12-31T12:23:00-05:00Barbara Kolucki, Dafna Lemish<p><em>Communicating with Children: Principles and Practices to Nurture, Inspire, Excite, Educate and Heal </em>by Barbara Kolucki and Dafna Lemish is a resource package supporting the development priorities of UNICEF to improve the survival, development and protection of infants, young children and their families. Specifically, it is designed for use by anyone interested in communication for the holistic development of children.</p>
<p>Parts One and Two explain how the approach recognizes the diverse conditions in which children around the world live and the media environments to which they have access. Part Three maps the different developmental characteristics and needs of children at different ages, distinguishing generally between: early years (birth through 6 years), middle years (7 to 10 years), and early adolescent years (11 to 14 years).</p>
<p>The document draws upon available global literature on the role of media in all aspects of children’s lives, with potential for positive as well as negative outcomes. It suggests that media are not inherently good or bad, but are technologies at our disposal. Using this academic rationale, Part Four presents four central principles for producing communication for children, each supported by guidelines. Part Five suggests ways to avoid common pitfalls in developing communication for children and Part Six offers additional positive examples and supplementary resources (audio-visual materials, books, academic sources, etc.) <a href="http://cdn.agilitycms.com/centre-for-communication-rights/Images/Articles/pdf/CwC2011.pdf"> PDF</a>.</p>9196Language, Cultural and Communication Rights of Ethnic Minorities in South Africa2010-12-31T12:13:00-05:002010-12-31T12:13:00-05:00Last Moyo<p>This article focuses on ethnic and linguistic minorities and radio broadcasting in South Africa. It examines the country’s language, cultural and broadcasting policies and their potential impact on the participation of ethnic minorities in radio broadcasting. In particular, special focus is given to community and public radio. The study is broadly theoretical and exploratory, and examines how such policies influenced institutional changes in broadcasting and the communication rights of ethnic minorities. The critique of policy is done within the broader context of international human rights law which the South African government has ratified. Some of these treaties clearly put an obligation on state parties to support the rights of ethnic and linguistic minorities. These obligations are not only discussed within a rights framework, but also the country’s specific social and historical context.</p>
<p>In <em>The International Communication Gazette</em>, Vol 72, Nos 4 & 5, June/August 2010.<br />
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</p>9195Investigating Evolving Discourses on Human Rights in the Digital Age2010-12-28T12:07:00-05:002010-12-28T12:07:00-05:00Claudia Padovani, Francesca Musiani, Elena Pavan<p>This article investigates how human rights in the digital age can be considered as an overall frame accommodating fundamental rights and freedoms that relate to communication processes, and related challenges, in societies worldwide. The article brings together different disciplinary backgrounds (communication studies, linguistics and sociology of networks) and complementary empirical analyses of the content, structure and relevance of evolving discourses concerning human rights in the digital age. In doing so, the article defines and adopts a constructivist and communicative approach to the study of world politics, and details its relevance in order to assess the evolution of normative standards concerning communication <span style="line-height: 20px;">as a human right in the transnational context.</span></p>
<p>In <em>The International Communication Gazette</em>, Vol 72, Nos 4 & 5, June/August 2010.<br />
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</p>9193The Negotiation of Meanings in the Evening News2010-12-28T12:02:00-05:002010-12-28T12:02:00-05:00Paula Lobo, Rosa Cabecinhas<p>This article discusses the importance of examining gender barriers in the deliberative processes of the public sphere. A participatory democracy is not feasible without the equal inclusion of women’s voices under similar conditions to their male peers. In the past, various studies have shown that women in the media are either rendered invisible or described according to stereotyped characteristics, which results in their ‘symbolic annihilation’. Arguing that television remains an important mass medium in the delivery of news to the general public, a qualitative study was conducted which aimed at understanding how gender meanings in the evening news are negotiated by television viewers. Within this context, a series of focus group discussions was organized in order to examine several gender perceptions of the news which contribute to the development of a critical perspective on media structures and content.</p>
<p>In <em>The International Communication Gazette</em>, Vol 72, Nos 4 & 5, June/August 2010.</p>9191Media Literacy and Communication Rights2010-12-28T11:53:00-05:002010-12-28T11:53:00-05:00Brian O'Neill<p>The dominant discourse of media literacy policy espouses an ethical individualism within the digital media environment in which the source of moral values and principles, and the basis of ethical evaluation, is the individual. In this perspective, even vulnerable citizens such as children and young people, who tend to be in the vanguard of new media adoption, are required to negotiate the risks and opportunities of the online world with diminishing degrees of institutional support from trusted information sources. Noticeably absent from this discourse is any consideration of the notion of communication rights. Examining an alternative conceptualization of media literacy identifies it as a fundamental human right as important as other forms of literacy. Examining some of the ethical challenges that citizens now face in the digital world, the article argues that a rights-based framework is required to address the challenges posed for media literacy education.</p>
<p>In <em>The International Communication Gazette</em>, Vol 72, Nos 4 & 5, June/August 2010.</p>9176Arab media adopt citizen journalism to change the dynamics of conflict coverage2010-12-27T16:32:00-05:002010-12-27T16:32:00-05:00Naila Hamdy<p>As the digital world and physical worlds blur further the Internet will become the information hub for a large percentage of the population in Arab countries. Social media, Web 2.0 and future Internet applications will bring more opportunities to those who wish to contribute to the news process. Traditional gate keeping methods will continue to erode and Arab governments and political media will continue to lose their grip on media content.</p>
<p>In the end, citizens will be able to add to the widening spectrum of perspectives allowing for more representation of people and less of the authoritative opinions. Mobilizing and manipulating the public will not be as simple as it has been in the past as more views contribute to the discourse surrounding each conflict, whether Arab/Israeli or otherwise. No doubt the next conflict will allow for more independent coverage as more Arab citizens bring additional sources to help society get a better understanding of the situation at hand.</p>
<p>Global Media Journal Arabian Edition, Fall/Winter 2010, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 3-15. <a href="http://cdn.agilitycms.com/centre-for-communication-rights/Images/Articles/pdf/Arab-media-adopt-Hamdy2010.pdf">PDF</a>.</p>9156Medios de comunicación y discapacidad2010-03-26T16:33:00-04:002010-03-26T16:33:00-04:00ANDI<p><em>Medios de comunicación y discapacidad: Análisis periodístico desde la óptica de los Derechos del Niño</em> busca ofrecer a los periodistas, estudiantes, profesores de comunicación social y actores sociales en general elementos que contribuyan a la multiplicación y el perfeccionamiento del espacio de debate dedicado a una cuestión fundamental: los derechos de las personas con discapacidad.</p>
<p>El origen de la obra es un análisis profundo de tipo cuanti-cualitativo - elaborada por un equipo de profesionales del periodismo y consultores especializados en el área - sobre el tratamiento proporcionado por los medios impresos brasileños al tema discapacidad.</p>
<p>A partir de esos datos, el libro busca señalar caminos para que los medios de comunicación consigan responder a la altura de los innumerables desafíos colocados por esa cuestión.</p>
<p><em>ANDI - Agência de Notícias dos Diteitos da Infância y Fundação Banco do Brasil</em> (sin fecha).</p>8721No-Nonsense guide to the Right to Information2010-02-01T21:37:00-05:002010-02-01T21:37:00-05:00WACC<p>The citizens of at least 90 countries and territories now have laws enabling them to obtain government records and other information. So, what does it mean to have a ‘right to information’? Why is it important? What has been its impact?</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.agilitycms.com/centre-for-communication-rights/Images/Articles/pdf/nng-rti-en.pdf">The No-Nonsense <em>guide to</em> the Right to Information</a></p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.agilitycms.com/centre-for-communication-rights/Images/Articles/pdf/nng-rtisp.pdf">La <em>guía breve</em> del Derecho a la información</a></p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.agilitycms.com/centre-for-communication-rights/Images/Articles/pdf/nng-rtifr.pdf">Le <em>guide pratique</em> du Droit à l’information</a></p>9257Communication and Human Rights2009-12-31T12:47:00-05:002009-12-31T12:47:00-05:00UNAM-IAMCR<p><em>Communication and Human Rights</em> edited by Aimée Vega Montiel is a collection of articles drawn from the conference of the International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) held in Mexico City at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in July 2009.<a href="http://cdn.agilitycms.com/centre-for-communication-rights/Images/Articles/pdf/Communication_and_Human_Rights.pdf"> PDF</a>.</p>
<p>Contents:<br />
<em>Introduction: Communication and Human Rights</em> by Néstor García Canclini<br />
<em>Communication and Human Rights: Index on Censorship</em> by Jo Glanville<br />
<em>Communication and Human Rights: Unesco’s Role</em> by Kwame Boafo<br />
<em>Communication and Human Rights: Article 19</em> by Agnès Callamard<br />
<em>Communication and Human Rights: The United Nations Special Rapporteur</em> by Frank La Rue Lewy<br />
<em>The Arabic Imperative in IAMCR</em> by Ibrahim Saleh<br />
<em>Towards Linguistic Diversity in IAMCR</em> by Aimée Vega Montiel<br />
<em>Languages, Research and Human Rights</em> by Divina Frau-Meigs<br />
<em>The Ibero-American Impulse</em> by Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes<br />
<em>Women’s Human and Communication Rights</em> by Margaret Gallagher<br />
<em>The Communicative City</em> by Cees Hamelink<br />
<em>Media Education and Human Rights</em> by Divina Frau-Meigs<br />
<em>The Right to Communicate, Not Yet for All</em> by Raúl Trejo Delarbre<br />
<em>Rights of Man and Communication in Latin America</em> by Antonio Pasquali<br />
<em>The Right to Identity and Communication</em> by Fátima Fernández Christlieb<br />
<em>Telenovela and Human Rights: Fiction Narrative as a Communicational Resource</em> by Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes<br />
<em>Democratic Communication Policies </em>by Miquel de Moragas<br />
<em>Strategic Challenges: Information Society and Human Rights</em> by Jesús Martín-Barbero</p>8717No-Nonsense guide to Media Observatories2009-12-10T21:53:00-05:002009-12-10T21:53:00-05:00WACC<p>What are media observatories? What do they do? How do they contribute to better democracy, greater accountability, and social justice?</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.agilitycms.com/centre-for-communication-rights/Images/Articles/pdf/nng-media-observatories.pdf"><em>The</em> No-Nonsense <em>guide to</em> Media Observatories, Good Governance, and Good Citizenship</a></p>