Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum 2011

The articles

• The media is not a promoter of human rights

  20.06.2011

  The media should respect and promote human rights, according to many speakers invited at the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum. But is the promotion of human rights the media's job?[more]

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• The times, they are a-changin'

  20.06.2011

  The Internet and the development of social media created a dramatic shift in journalism as well as policy-making.[more]

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• In the eye of the storm

  20.06.2011

  The Arab revolutions that swept North Africa and the Middle East were mostly reported by bloggers and social media activists. New media tools proved more powerful than government censorship, propaganda and blackouts—and this...[more]

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• The Deutsche Welle International Blog Awards

  20.06.2011

  The Best of Blogs (BoBs) honor blogs that promote the exchange of ideas and freedom of expression. Submissions to the contest can be in the any of the following languages: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, English, French, German,...[more]

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• Messages into the void

  20.06.2011

  Carceral states like North Korea represent some of the last information vacuums on earth, but activists risk a lot to offer an alternative view to state propaganda. Even the quest for freedom in the Arab countries didn't go...[more]

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• The money revolution

  21.06.2011

  Was the Egyptian revolution Twitter’s baby, or just the offspring of dollars and sense? [more]

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• Who’s afraid of the North African migrants?

  21.06.2011

  Civil war in Libya, refugees to Italy, the FRONTEX program and national parliaments. What they all have in common is one of the continent’s largest, and most heated, debates – should Europeans be afraid of immigrants? [more]

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