Press freedom, Scandinavian style

As part of our presentation, I’m looking at how democracies are using digital technologies to defend or improve press freedom.  A product of the digital revolution has been hyperlocal journalism  where a network is set up to report on local affairs on a macro-scale. The community generates the news and this is reported a network of [...]

Presentation…done!!!

Hey fellow faircommentors!
First of all I think we all deserve a big pat on the back for the presentation on Thursday. If I do say so myself, I think our hard work paid off and we all did a very good job.  I think the outfits and the music and dramtics really bought it to life. [...]

Pres Tips

Good morning Fairest of FairCommenters!
It’s been a great week for the Group so far, let’s hang on to it all right through to “final curtain” tomorrow morning.
I hope you agree last eve’s “stagger through” was highly worthwhile…there’s no substitiute for putting the Pres “on its feet” – especially as you’ve (we’ve?!) made such good progress [...]

Pre-meeting Post!

Just before we meet this eve…and partly as an aide-memoire…my latest thoughts / suggestions re our Pres next week…based in part on my previous personal & professional experience (20+ years now, OUCH!) of presenting….in a wide range of situations…
*  With a cast of 5…and really just 2+mins each of playing time, we should convey a real [...]

First of all sorry about the interview not working. Am trying to fix it. 
 
Anyways…on my first blog about developing countries I’d like to start by saying what a developing country is.
There is no definitive definition but generally a developing nation is a country that has low standards of democratic governments, free market economies,industrialization, social programs, and human rights guarantees for its [...]

Hello,
Well I am finally back into the bloggersphere andI have finally uploaded the Sami Ben Gharbia interview:
http://www.4shared.com/account/home.jsp?sId=mmC8ShabIAGFblsm
Hope it works.
So before you listen let me point out the different excepts I have cut it into.
Blogging in Gaza would interest you most Nina. With the western media banned from reporting from Gaza during the occupation Sami explains [...]

The freedom of expression project

The freedom of expression project sought in 2006 and 2007 to apply theory to the changing media landscape. Although the project is now completed in the academic sense, there are a whole host of useful links on their website. Check it out here

Just FYI Fair Commenters…

I’m in the newsroom tomorrow (Thurs 5 Feb) 1st thing ’til around 10.30-11.00….subject to weather / travel, I’m then due away from campus for the rest of the day (obviously will let you know immediately if weather / travel disruption changes that plan…back for bizniz as usual Friday morning…see you soon…have the strong impression that [...]

Cyberism – the new challenges -on Davos agenda

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/davos/7862549.stm
Apart from the ongoing discussions of how to survive the glitches of economic recession, the World Economic Forum in Davos also had Cyberism which discussed the rise in cybercrimes. It also tabled the rise of social media and its purpose were discussed by 10 prominent exponents of social media – from former Facebook and Linked-in executive [...]