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The Droids You’re Looking For: Bots as a Tool ...
By Samuel Woolley and Phil Howard In today’s data-saturated world journalists often struggle to report on many, if not most, of the potential stories that come across their desks. The average reporter is lucky to generate more than a few normal articles a week, while in-depth, investigative, p... |
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The New Gatekeepers: Why the Media Development C...
The algorithms social media platforms use to personalize content on newsfeeds have been making headlines recently. In February Twitter announced that it would begin using an algorithm to filter user’s newsfeeds. Then in March, Instagram, the Facebook-owned photo and video sharing platform, stated ... |
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Poland’s Shifting Media Environment: Thre...
In January, the newly governing right-wing Law and Justice party (PiS) passed changes to Polish media law that critics argued did away with protections meant to insulate public service media from political meddling. At the time, CIMA’s Senior Director Mark Nelson wrote about the potential threat... |
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Social Media Throws Republic of Congo’s Presid...
By Elie Smith Editor’s Note: On Saturday March 19th the Ministry of the Interior of the Congo ordered telecommunications companies to cut all mobile phone, text message, and Internet service for at least 48 hours in order to prevent “illegal” reporting of election results. The pe... |
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Almost there: A common-sense indicator for the U...
By Bill Orme After months of debate, the United Nations appears ready to begin official monitoring of legal guarantees for public access to information in all 193 UN member states, greatly strengthening a potentially historic effort to transform this principle into a new universal norm. This is a ... |
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CIMA and Indiana University Announce New Post-do...
In partnership with Indiana University’s School for Global and International Studies (SGIS), CIMA is pleased to announce the creation of “The Mark Helmke Postdoctoral Scholarship on Global Media, Development, and Democracy.” Through this exciting new initiative, SGIS and CIMA seek to contribut... |
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In Burma, a Chance for New Momentum on Media Ref...
As Burma’s new National League of Democracy (NLD)-dominated parliament nears the selection of the country’s next president, media reform advocates will be looking for the NLD to continue reforms of the country’s media environment, but little is known about the incoming leadership’s polic... |
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Caught between the East and West: The “Media W...
By Marija Šajkaš and Milka Tadić Mijović As EU and U.S. assistance to independent media in Serbia and Montenegro declines, Russians are seizing the opportunity to support and promote pro-Russian media, broadcasting news in the local language, and investing in media development in the western Bal... |