by Saskia Rowley | Jul 27, 2020 | Communication Rights
No apologies for quoting at length from “The Media Isn’t Ready to Cover Climate Apartheid” by Michelle García (The Nation, 17 June 2020). While praising the public service ethic of many media outlets, whose coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic has been exemplary, she...
by Saskia Rowley | Jul 20, 2020 | Communication Rights
In times of disaster, the need to engage with affected communities to ensure useful, timely and accurate information is mutually shared is increasingly recognised as essential. As the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA)...
by Saskia Rowley | Jul 13, 2020 | Communication Rights
A group of 153 academics, writers, and social activists published a letter in Harper’s Magazine (7 July 2020) expressing concern that “a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments” are tending “to weaken norms of open debate and toleration of differences in...
by Saskia Rowley | Jul 6, 2020 | Communication Rights
Electronic tagging has always been controversial. Today it is being touted in the name of health security. According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, intrusive monitoring tools adopted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic may further normalize the surveillance...
by Saskia Rowley | Jun 29, 2020 | Communication Rights
Protests against racism unleashed by the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, at the hands of police in Minneapolis spread all over the United States, Canada, and parts of Europe in May and June of this year. As the protests spread, so did the practice of...
