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Political Bots are Skewing our News Diet
Was one of the news headlines you scrolled past on your social media feed today shared by a bot? Depending on the platform and the country you’re in, the odds are surprisingly high that automated computer scripts – political bots – are shaping the type of content you are seeing online. These b... |
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Censorship in the name of security: PakistanR...
Tensions between press freedom and national security came to a head recently in Pakistan when the nation’s most widely read English newspaper, Dawn, published remarks from a closed-door government meeting last fall that offered a glimpse into the increasingly fractious relationship between elected... |
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With Mainstream Media Weakened in Bolivia, Socia...
By Raul Peñaranda U. In February 2016, the independent Bolivian news agency ANF, where I work as managing editor, revealed that vice president Alvaro García Linera had not graduated from Mexico’s prestigious UNAM university with a degree in mathematics, as he had been claiming for decades. AN... |
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Will media development finally receive the spotl...
By Nicholas Benequista and Kate Musgrave Those who provide support to the development of media around the world have occupied a special, and quite separate, field within the broader realm of international development, and have worked largely in the shadow of larger governance concerns. But that may ... |
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Indonesia Plays Host to World Press Freedom Day ...
In observation of World Press Freedom Day, CIMA and the International Forum for Democratic Studies will host a discussion with six journalists from around the world on Wednesday, May 3, at 4:00pm. Please find more details and RSVP for the event here.Last year, the official celebration of World Press... |
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How Romania’s independent media woke up its re...
As January came to a close, Romania’s government met late at night on the last day of the month to approve an emergency ordinance that decriminalized cases of official misconduct, or simply put: corruption. In the weeks leading up to this, a few members of the Romanian independent media heard whis... |
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Digital Violence in India: Silencing Women’s V...
By Japleen Pasricha In my country of India, as elsewhere in the world, online harassment of women and marginalized genders and sexualities is rampant. This stands in stark contrast to the Internet’s initial promise of providing equal opportunity for all. Instead, what we have today is a flawed Int... |
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Lugar, Schiff remember Mark Helmke as CIMA annou...
On Thursday, December 1, Indiana University’s School of Global and International Studies (SGIS) joined CIMA and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in announcing a new partnership, the Mark Helmke Postdoctoral Scholarship on Global Media, Development, and Democracy. The announcement coincid... |
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Diversifying Internet Governance with a Focus on...
Seeing as the Internet is now, in many countries, the primary conduit for the circulation of independent journalism, how it is governed will impact both media development and press freedom. Will global Internet policies foster the free circulation of information? Will they be structured in ways that... |
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Measuring the link between the Media and Democra...
Elizabeth Stein is a political scientist and inaugural Mark Helmke Postdoctoral Scholar on Global Media, Development and Democracy, which is sponsored by Indiana University’s School of Global and International Studies and the Center for International Media Assistance. The following is a lightl... |