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FeaturesDarfurnica: Art must offend, shock and disturb
Rajashri Dasgupta visits Nadia Plesner’s Darfurnica exhibition in Copenhagen and reports on the Danish artist’s victory over accessories giant Louis Vuitton, which sued her for using a Louis Vuitton lookalike bag in T-shirts and paintings of a naked African boy to highlight the situation in Darfur and to condemn media’s obsession with celebrity coverage More... Assam: A minefield for journalistsFollowing the killing of J Dey in Mumbai, the safety of working journalists has been in the news. But Assam has seen the killing of over 20 journalists in the last two decades. And not a single conviction has taken place More... Copyright, copyleft and everything in betweenFilmmaker Paromita Vohra talks about her new film Partners in Crime, which explores issues around copyright, copyleft, culture and markets, and suggests that we might need a hybrid notion of copyright in which many forms coexist, just as we may need many markets based on many different ideas of exchange More... Turning journalism on its headCitizen journalism initiatives such as Global Voices, Open File and Media Co-operative get readers to tell editors what should be covered and how. They talk to the people affected first, and to the decision-makers later. A second report from the recent Citizen Media Conference in Montreal More... Marginalised voices get a new life on the NetFrom Vozmob, which helps Latin American immigrant workers in Los Angeles create and distribute stories about their lives using cell phones to an interactive network for Inuit and other indigenous communities, there is a growing universe of marginalised voices populating the Web. A report from a recent Citizen Media conference in Montreal More... Kashmir's e-protestThere is a rising tide of e-protest in Kashmir as the children of the Kashmir conflict make themselves heard through street graffiti, Facebook and YouTube More... A totem pole for a brave new virtual world‘10 Tactics for Turning Information into Action’ is a smart, nifty resource package, loaded with valuable information and links that unlock the doorway to a world where hard data, software technology, creativity and sheer human ingenuity frisson to tell tales of human resilience and struggles for social justice More... TB championsIt’s easy to blame the media for its disinterest in covering issues such as tuberculosis, which kills 1,000 in India every day. But the problem could be the way organisations working with TB communicate their information. Trainings in effective communication and media advocacy clearly hel More... Quiet death of a languageBoa Senior, the last speaker of a language called Bo -- one of the ten Great Andamanese languages -- died last week in Port Blair. She was aged around 85. With her death, the language that may have constituted the sixth language family in India has become extinct More... War of the videosFilms and videos that chronicle the peaceful resistance of people to powerful industrial and political interests that seek to dispossess them are extremely important at a time when all such dissent is criminalised. But they are often lost in the long list of films that seek to do just the opposite More... Is media part of the solution or part of the problem?The North-South divide on climate change is very marked. An international congress of journalists held in New Delhi in October 2009 discussed how reporting on the issue could help clinch an agreement at the all-important Copenhagen meet in December More... Women's voices hit the airwaves in Pakistan’s tribal beltRadio Khyber is among the four radio stations in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas started by the federal government in 2006 to counter militant propaganda and stem their growing influence in the region. And, a growing number of voices being heard over the air belong to women who have defied tradition and are working to demolish stereotypes in the area More... How one newspaper thinks positivePositive +, a free bilingual newspaper brought out on a laptop from Asma Naseer’s living room is India’s first newspaper on HIV/AIDS. The paper’s commitment to building up a friendship with the reader and its innovative design have made it popular in and around Chennai where it already faces a demand for more copies than the 5000 it can afford to print More... Moral panic in the mediaTo what extent did the media help – and hinder – the Pink Chaddi campaign against moral policing in Karnataka and initiatives that followed, such as Fearless Karnataka/Nirbhaya Karnataka? More... The making of media professionalsAs the various branches of the media industry have grown and become more popular and hugely lucrative, the education and training of media professionals to meet the growing demand has become crucial. Yet, as this analysis shows, though there has been an explosion of private training and education institutes, they are more interested in ‘placing’ their students than in equipping them with the complex skills necessary to do a good job as a media professional More... |
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