12 January, 2015 / By Por Nicolás Del Valle O. El Ciudadano. La iniciativa Europea de crear instituciones comunes para discutir qué entendemos, cómo medimos y cuáles son las políticas sobre la comunicación, ha sido recientemente apoyada por UNESCO para América Latina, cuestión no menor al pensar a Chile en el contexto regional. ¿Necesitamos una institución independiente…
4 January 2014 / By Nils Muižnieks New Europe Online While thugs threaten journalists safety, courtrooms are used to muzzle them My Office received an email from prominent Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova. She pleaded for the case of a fellow Azerbaijani journalist sentenced to eight years in prison on trumped up charges. A few hours later,…
25th November 2014 / By Robert G. Picard Robert G. Picard is Director of Research at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, a research fellow at Green Templeton College (Oxford), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Here he argues that digital intermediaries should not be ignored in the…
23th November 2014 / By Vilma Tapia Anaya. La Razón (Edición Impresa) Hay necesidad de lograr un pluralismo lingüístico en los medios de comunica- ción. Incorporar paulatina y progresivamente las lenguas y los idiomas originarios en dichos medios. La interculturalidad es un diálogo entre culturas diferentes. El Instituto Internacional para la Democracia y Asistencia Electoral (IDEA Internacional),…
19th November 2014 / By Ellen P. Goodman Professor Ellen P. Goodman is a Professor of Law at Rutgers University and Co-Director of the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy & Law. Her research interests include media policy, spectrum policy, free speech, and the use of information as a policy tool. Here she argues that existing media…
18th November 2014 / By Peter Barron & Simon Morrison In this latest post in our series on the role of digital intermediaries and media plurality, Peter Barron, Google’s head of communications for Europe, Middle East and Africa, and his colleague Simon Morrison, Public Policy Manager, argue that the Internet and digital technologies have only…
15th November 2014 / By Natali Helberger This post originally appeared on the LSE Media Policy Project blog Professor Natali Helberger is professor of Information Law at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA), Institute for Information Law (IViR). Here she highlights the need for the plurality debate to focus on user demand and consumption, in particular defining…
1th november 2014 / By LSE Media Policy (blog) LSE Media Policy Project (blog) Over the coming weeks, this blog will host insight from leading world experts focusing on the topic of the role of new digital intermediaries in the context of traditional media policy concerns with media pluralism and editorial responsibility. We are pleased…
October 29th, 2014 / by LSE Media Policy Project This year has seen significant developments in internet governance, including the Brazilian government’s attempt to create a truly multistakeholder global process in the wake of the Snowden revelations, and the US government’s announcement of its intention to transition domain name functions to the global multistakeholder community.…
October 19, 2014 / By Diego Taboada Varela Pues siento decirlo, pero para mí la península ibérica no tiene solución. Haría falta un verdadero milagro político para poner algo de orden en lo que José Saramago bautizó como la Jangada de Pedra. Pues siento decirlo, pero para mí la península ibérica no tiene solución. Haría falta…
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