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 [...]

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 [...]

‘Around the world in 80 blogs’

Hey ho,  our presentation is rolling!!!  We all have agreed to divide each of us in regimes. So here’s each one’s regime:
Nina : Warzones, Paul – Developing countires, Jules – Democracies, Sauly-Communists, Kamini – Newly industrialised nations or emerging markets.
So let’s buckle up!!!!!!!!

Our Presentation

Handy pow-wow yesterday, thanks to all.  Just to capture my main thoughts on content :
*  Major, headlining stories that should offer us scope / case studies etc. : Tibet / China ; North Korea ; Mumbai (obviously including the “Twitter” angle) ; Zimbabwe ; Gaza…I’m sure you’ll have others to suggest.  Basically, we’ve a strong stock [...]

Re:presentation of press and media freedom

 I thought i’d get down some ideas I’ve had for how we can do our presentation, and the possible ingredients we need to get into the mix:

A quick potted history on media freedom (contextual background-differernt forms of media etc)
Case study areas on where media freedom is repressed/controlled-could focus on one particular area for this??
How people [...]

Our Group Pres

We should meet ASAP for a team chat…had a useful impromptu Mini-Meet with Jules this afternoon.  It’d be good to settle our basic running order / storyboard.  Jules and I are voting for high-impact, mostly “live” material…but, yes, it’s a multimedia brief so we should use some nifty technology as well. 
But, remember, to your audience, [...]