A decade ago on 14th January 2011, after weeks of historic protests, Tunisians deposed their decades-long dictator Ben Ali. Inspired by this revolutionary development, Egyptians embarked on an equally inspiring revolt which in barely 18[...]

South-to-South Communications: The Role of Mediactivism, Art-ivism and Visibility to Fight Marginalisation In this presentation, Andrea Medrado analyses a South-to-South connection between media-activists and art-ivists – artists who are activists – in the Global South.[...]

A talk by Graham Murdock, hosted and organised by InnoPSM: AHRC Research Network on Innovation in Public Service Media Policies. Respondents: Alessandro d’Arma, University of Westminster; Minna Aslama Horowitz, University of Helsinki; Klaus Unterberger, Austrian Broadcasting Corporation[...]

The epistemological underpinnings of knowledge in today’s world were shaped during colonial times for purposes of social control. For the majority of people in the world, particularly those in the global South, what is learnt,[...]

Peace on Facebook? Problematising Social Media as Spaces for Intergroup Contact in Divided Societies As far back as the late sixties, renowned peace theorist Johann Galtung (1967) predicted that the rapid growth of new media[...]