by Saskia Rowley | Sep 2, 2019 | Communication Rights
Not everyone is familiar with climate change. A new survey released by Afrobarometer paints a bleak picture of how agriculture conditions are worsening due to higher temperatures, delayed rainfall, and crop failure. Crucially, among some people, it also identifies...
by Saskia Rowley | Aug 26, 2019 | Communication Rights
Privacy was something that used to be taken for granted. Ordinarily, the private life of an individual was not open to scrutiny, while public life was the concern of law and order and decency. In communication terms, privacy meant that only the addressee could open...
by Saskia Rowley | Aug 19, 2019 | Communication Rights
“For the past twenty years, the main issue restricting ublic debate in terms of Turkish laws has been the prosecution and imprisonment of journalists, writers and intellectuals on the grounds that they contribute to violence and terrorism.” This quote comes from a...
by Saskia Rowley | Aug 12, 2019 | Communication Rights
An influential book on communications in the 1980s was Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Communication, by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky. It proposed a “propaganda model” as a way of understanding how the mass media system intersected with the U.S....
by Saskia Rowley | Aug 6, 2019 | Communication Rights
In an era when misinformation and “fake news” abound on social media, it is important to understand where people get their news. Democratic participation and accountable government rest on informed and balanced opinion that is transparent about its motivations and...
by Saskia Rowley | Jul 29, 2019 | Communication Rights
Walk around any city and your face will be caught on camera and might even be added to a facial-recognition database. That data can now be processed in real-time. Regulations about how it can be used are minimal and generally weak. The military, law-enforcement...
