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Media, Migration, and Displacement in South Asia...
By Miriam Kueller In spring 2022, more than 50 media professionals, activists, and experts from across South Asia met to develop a plan for improving journalistic reporting on migration and displacement in their respective countries. The region experiences large-scale migration flows, yet refugee an... |
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Brokering Local-International Knowledge: An inte...
Noah Arjomand is a sociologist and is currently the Mark Helmke Postdoctoral Scholar on Global Media, Development, and Democracy which is sponsored by Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies and the Center for International Media Assistance. The following ... |
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The Battle for Freedom of Expression Online: Whe...
By Andreas Reventlow Online surveillance, phishing, and content blocking is familiar territory for most journalists who uncover corruption, misuse of power, or who report on human rights abuses. Although their rights to freedom of expression and privacy online are challenged on a near-daily basis, h... |
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Open Internet Principles for Democracy: Putting ...
Last year the editor of Abia Facts Newspaper, a small, local news platform in Nigeria was arrested at his home on charges of blackmail and criminal defamation. According to the state security officers who detained him, his crime was the reporting he had done on a local politician. More startling, ho... |
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China’s multi-billion dollar telecommunication...
By Andrea Vega Yudico The Chinese government is making significant investments in telecommunications infrastructure across Africa. According to the Tracking Chinese Development Finance project at AidData, between 2000 and 2013, 38 African countries received $1.7 billion in combined Chinese investm... |
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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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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... |
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Who to follow on Twitter if you’re interes...
Global efforts to Counter Violent Extremism (CVE) are a hot topic right now. Just two weeks ago CIMA published a report by Courtney C. Radsch,“Media Development and Countering Violent Extremism: An Uneasy Relationship, a Need for Dialogue,” that examines how #CVE and #mediadev efforts have inter... |
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A Marriage of Convenience – Looking at the...
By Anya Schiffrin The influence that advertisers and owners have on the editorial line has been well documented, but what happens when the funder is a well-meaning foundation that is on a mission to change the world? Indeed, in recent years we’ve seen an uptick in alternative funding scenarios for... |
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Empowering Girls Online: ICTs and Young Women in...
By Nyaradzo Mashayamombe Internet connectivity in Sub-Saharan Africa has grown quickly over the past couple of years. In my country of Zimbabwe, for example, by 2015, 48 percent of the population had internet access according to the Postal and Telecommunications Regulation Authority of Zimbabwe (PO... |