No more fun for The Sun?

Although our official blog deadline has passed, i’ve decided to carry on….
In just under a month, The Sun will be launching it’s own radio station   on the Internet. Though the mind boggles at how the contents of Page 3 might be translated into an aural medium, the launch raises serious questions about who might, and [...]

My MA Project and Free Speech

My MA Project, see here -, about the conflict between Christians and Hindus in India’s Orissa, touches on censorship issues over there.
One of which is this.
Also, I may encounter some freedom of speech issues my self, although I hope not. Any that I do I will log on this blog.
 
On the actual topic, even though I have learnt [...]

Where next for Fair Comment?

As we come towards the end of the posting period on Fair Comment, I’ve thought about where the future lies for the global press freedom, within a new media template. In my presentation, i touched on the way that Western Technology was creating a New Media Colonialism, where the privileged few have access to the technologies required to post messages, tweet [...]

Bloggers get a voice at G20

Political leaders at next month’s G20 summit are getting ready to be quizzed by bloggers.  It looks like this is the first major political meeting where bloggers have had the same  access as the media. It’s all part of a group called G20 Voices that’s been set up by charities like Save the Children, Oxfam and Comic Relief. Their main [...]

watching you, watching me

Back in May 2008, the NUJ launched a campaign to protect the freedom of journalists, particularly photographers and videojournalists. The NUJ claimed journalists were being put under surveillance by police photographers, armed with cameras and video recording equipment. They also claimed that journalists who were filming or photographing events, usually protests, were impeded from doing [...]

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 [...]