by Saskia Rowley | Nov 18, 2019 | Communication Rights
In January 1990, the President of Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel, warned his people, “The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.” He was referring to...
by Saskia Rowley | Oct 28, 2019 | Communication Rights
Recently, the European parliament voted in favour of stronger EU measures aimed at countering “highly dangerous” Russian disinformation and at upgrading the EU’s anti-propaganda unit. The “European Parliament resolution on foreign electoral interference and...
by Saskia Rowley | Oct 21, 2019 | Communication Rights
Children now represent one third of all Internet users. This number is expected to increase once developing countries – where most of the world’s children live –become digitized. This is both exciting and worrisome. Exciting because it has been established that...
by Saskia Rowley | Oct 14, 2019 | Communication Rights
Digital technology is a growing force in today’s world. Since advocacy groups during the Vietnam War became incensed by televised images of suffering and torture, information and communication technology has changed the way we interact with the world around us. But it...
by Saskia Rowley | Oct 7, 2019 | Communication Rights
It’s surprising that the issue of “fake news” took so long to raise its head. Deliberate misinformation and bias have been around for as long as journalism itself – more than 400 years by some accounts. The yellow press (a term coined in the 1890s to describe the...
