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Martin Moore, author of Tech Giants and Civic Power and director of the Centre for Media, Communication and Power at King’s College London, reflects on this week’s announcement by the European Commission that – in its preliminary view – Google abused its dominant position by imposing restrictions on Android device manufacturers in breach of EU antitrust rules. Is the EU Commission’s new antitrust […]
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Media Policy Project
In the debate on algorithmic accountability, and platform responsibility more specifically, the contribution of the social researcher is immense. In this set of posts, researchers reflect upon broad themes of control and agency — not only that which is faced by the data subject, but also by the researcher who relies on proprietary platforms to understand how these systems operate […]
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Media Policy Project
By Kira KirschbachOn Tuesday, journalist Nikolay Semena was intimidated and detained. In addition, a newswebsite run by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is to be blocked.
In the morning of 19 April, Nikolay Semena’s flat was dearched. In addition, his equipment and computer was seized, he himself was detained by the security forces. He was released after several hours but it is reported that a travel ban and compulsory registration was imposed.
Dunja Mijatović, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media is worried about this development:
This recent detention only shows the urgent need to stop the arbitrary practice of silencing journalists in…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Are we sure that the situation in other European countries would be better than ours if they had their own local Ossigeno per l’Informazione?Freedom of the press in Italy is in a sickly state and the situation has severely worsened in the last year, just as the new report by Reporters Sans Frontieres states. But
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
The Internet operates in a space far removed from Westphalian sovereignty, where mostly self-regulated private entities set policy through network architecture and engineering decisions. Among these bodies, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a California-based not-for-profit, holds a monopoly over the technical and functional workings of the Internet’s domain name and numbering systems. It is also responsible […]
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Media Policy Project
Sports journalists “hand-slapped “by fans and club. A rise in episodes of intolerance in the world of football A phenomenon which in March was repeated several times concerns the intimidation and discrimination against sportswriters. Many journalists covering the news in this area are considered sports clubs’ propagandists. Some major companies believe that journalists in the
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
What changed with the votes of the Chamber of Deputies on the Report of the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission and the proposal to discourage frivolous lawsuitIn March 2016 in Italy numerous incidents of threats and acts of intimidation against media workers occurred. Fifteen have been documented by Ossigeno. But there have also been two important innovations
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Ossigeno Informazione » english
What changed with the votes of the Chamber of Deputies on the Report of the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission and the proposal to discourage frivolous lawsuitIn March 2016 in Italy numerous incidents of threats and acts of intimidation against media workers occurred. Fifteen have been documented by Ossigeno. But there have also been two important innovations
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
The incident at the comics’ fair of Rome. A group of far-right militants contested the works by Fabbri and Antonucci, which lampoons on Mussolini In an attempt to damage the copies of “Quando c’era LVI” (When HE was here), a comic strip which jokes about Benito Mussolini, three members of a far-right group have ruined
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
The warning comes from media freedom representative Dunja Mijatović. Reiterating call to decriminalize defamation. The german comedian derided Erdogan VIENNA, 15 April 2016 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today expressed concern about the decision in Germany to prosecute a satirist who derided the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. “This
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
