Mapping Digital Media: a global research project
How has the Internet changed the media landscape in Romania? What do we mean by a “digital dividend”? How active is digital activism in Mexico? What effects has the digitization of broadcasting had on...
View ArticleConference: Rebuilding Egyptian Media For a Democratic Future (March 2011)
In March 2011, the conference on Rebuilding Egyptian Media for a Democratic Future took place in Cairo under the auspices of Professor Emad Abou Ghazi, Egypt’s Minister of Culture, and the chairmanship...
View ArticleViewpoint: Global Voices Summit: The World is Talking – Who is Listening?
Guest Column By Justin Schlosberg This summer’s Global Voices Summit in Nairobi once again brought together bloggers, activists and academics from around the world to celebrate, discuss and plan the...
View ArticleWhat does Wikileaks tell us about the future of media?
This is a guest post by Arne Hintz. Through its mega-releases of secret documents in 2010 – including the Afghan and Iraq war diaries, and 250,000 US diplomatic cables – WikiLeaks has sparked fierce...
View ArticleMedia Barometer reports for Africa, Asia and Europe (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung)
German Foundation Friedrich Ebert Stiftung has regularly conducted one of the widest assessments of African media environments (and now Asia and Europe), using their Barometer methodology: Every two to...
View ArticleGezi 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...
View ArticleLibya’s Media Transition – New Report from POLIS@LSE
Libya’s media sector has undergone huge change since the country’s 2011 Revolution. Yet, as a new report by Fatima El Issawi for LSE/POLIS shows, considerable challenges remain – for media...
View ArticleMapping Digital Media reports now as ebooks
We’re excited to announce that, starting with News and New Media In Central Africa, we’re experimenting with releasing future MDM reports in two ebook formats, .epub and .mobi, as well as the original...
View ArticleDigital Review of Asia-Pacific – research on Asian ICT economies
We’re constantly coming across excellent research funded by Canada’s IDRC, but stumbling across this terrific resource on Asian digital economies was a bit of a revelation. Originally a print-oriented...
View ArticleNew Analysis from Canadian Media Concentration Research Project
The Canadian Media Concentration Research Project is gradually releasing its analysis in a series of blog posts. Here’s an extract (with links and references removed) from today’s, which outlines what...
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