As the world grows digital, media landscapes are drastically changing. With digitalization and the transformation of media ecosystems came great hopes that social networks would foster meaningful political participation, enlarging the public sphere, and bringing democratic values forward. Yet, social platforms, while encouraging the expression of oppositional voices, have also…
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Since 2015, PiS has cracked down on the independence of various media outlets and Polish courts by appointing its political allies in leading positions. Starting with the media – for several years, the PiS-led government has consolidated its control over public broadcasting by installing its political allies in the National…
Read MoreBy Anastasiia Khardikova Social media addiction is a young societal sickness. Some of us are aware of its virality: getting detox, distancing ourselves from some of the apps or even receiving an antidote by completely deleting it. Meanwhile, others keep feeding their bodies with this contagion and spread it all…
Read MoreMayhem broke out as YouTube deleted two German-speaking Russia Today (RT) channels following an earlier suspension of another German Russia Today channel. From this came talk of alleged censorship and the suppression of press freedom. …
Read MoreHow cyber and electronic warfare can be used to trick your signals By Sakari Teerekoski Our digital infrastructure is increasingly dependent on space-based assets. Communication satellites provide internet coverage and decent bandwidth to places that are unreachable with ground-based systems. With 5G and the Internet of Things, we utilize them…
Read MoreGeorgia has been hit hard by the recent diplomatic scandal of allegedly illegal wiretapping of foreign ambassadors and the employees of diplomatic missions by the country’s domestic intelligence agency.…
Read MoreAv Malin Aspberg Internets utveckling från 1990-talet tills idag har varit minst sagt revolutionerande för mänsklig kommunikation. Aldrig tidigare har människor kunnat uttrycka sig och kommunicera så pass fritt världen över. Tidiga internetentusiaster, som poeten John Perry Barlow, framhöll just internets framväxt som skapandet av en allmänmänsklig plattform frikopplat från…
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On February 25th of this year, Facebook made international headlines when it banned the Myanmar military (also known as “Tatmadaw”) from using its Facebook and Instagram platforms. “Events since the February 1 coup, including deadly violence, have precipitated a need for this ban,” the tech giant explained in a statement.…
Read MoreBy Astrid Othelius Two terrorist attacks. Eight days apart. Different parts of the world. But how were these events portrayed in Western media? Let us narrow it down and take a look at how the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter covered two terrorist attacks in New Zealand and Mali in 2019.…
Read MoreBy Emil Schröder Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple. It would not be a stretch to imagine that every single person reading this has used an application or product that is either provided or produced by one of these companies during the last 24 hours. At least one of them.…
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