Sentences with phrase «media on democracy»

- Just announced committee of academics to commission independent research on social media on democracy.

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Rasiej is the founder of Personal Democracy Media, a New York - based group that focuses on the intersection of politics and technology.

EVENT Join us on 5/14 for the 2018 Media and Democracy Public Talk, «Safiya Noble: Confronting Algorithms of Oppression»

The indictment of 13 Russian nationals for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election has reignited the debate on whether Facebook and other social - media giants are a threat to democracy.

Girls who are on social media are more likely to feel dissatisfied about their bodies,» Josh Golin, executive director of the advocacy group, said on Democracy Now!

New Social Data Initiative to equip scholars and researchers with processes, data, and information necessary to examine the impact of social media on society, beginning with elections and democracy.

Zuckerberg claims the election research commission will be «independent» of Facebook and will define the research agenda, soliciting research on the effects of social media on elections and democracy

Last month a report by the US Senate — entitled Putin's Asymmetric Assault on Democracy in Russia and Europe: Implications for US National Security — also criticized the adequacy of the investigations conducted thus far by Facebook and Twitter into allegations of Russian social media interference vis - a-vis Brexit.

Democracy depends on a wide range of institutions: political parties; courts, police, and media; non-partisan civil servants and arms - length regulators; and universities with experts who pursue truth wherever evidence may lead.

The Public Policy Forum's report on the future of journalism and democracy was designed to convince the Liberal government to enact a number of changes to help Canada's media industry, including amending the Income Tax Act and the Copyright Act to provide new streams of revenue for the media.

OCTOBER 18, 2003: Plans for a new B.C. focused news publication announced by David Beers on a Media Democracy Day panel in Vancouver.

Any substantial defections requiring the support of major opposition party New Democracy would open up the possibility of broader changes to the government or a referendum, said Saravelos, who calculates that between 10 and 40 Syriza lawmakers could dissent based on local media reports.

The use of the mass media in a democracy of worth is based on four principles.

Acting within this framework, the communication media are actually suppressing democracy through its influence on the political process.

But according to the House Minority Whip's office, some 280,000 people voted online or via text on the particular measure they'd like to see deleted from the federal budget, in what Cantor's new media guy described as «the most direct use of technology to establish a more direct democracy in the history of the federal legislature.»

He worked between October 2009 and September 2013 as a senior research fellow with Media and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, a European Research Council project based at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, and spent five months in 2003 on a Fulbright Research Grant at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina studying the history and standards of political journalism in the United States.

The statement reads: «The attention of the Nigeria Police Force has been drawn to the media reportage of the Senate's resolution on Senate Order Paper of today, Wednesday, 9th May, 2018 after a closed door session that the «Senate declares the Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim k. Idris, NPM, mni, as enemy of democracy and unfit to hold any public office within and outside the country».

It is also why developments in the business of digital journalism matters for democracy, especially in countries like the U.S., where private sector media provide by far the largest share of news coverage of public affairs, because of the low levels of funding for public media — as commercial media organizations in many countries continue to lose revenue and lay off reporters because their legacy platforms (like print) grow less popular by the day, the future of the private media sector, an important part of our democratic systems, depends in part on its ability to find new business models and reinvent itself for a new century and new media world, online and elsewhere.

This would allow legislators, the public and media to weigh - in on the appropriateness of these allocations before the budget is passed to better engage citizens in this representative democracy.

Open Democracy article on the politics of advertising Open Democracy article — pre the phone - hacking scandal - addressing why we should be concerned about Sky Open Democracy article on securing a more plural, diverse media Guardian article on public opinion and the war in Iraq Guardian article on media bias and the war in Iraq

So instead of standing up for his chosen profession and defending its worth, he has followed the media's agenda of undermining representative democracy, by jumping on the anti-politics (and for that, read «anti-democracy») bandwagon.

The ad, part of a $ 230,000 TV campaign by New York Friends of Democracy, will air on broadcast and cable television in the Albany media market for the next two weeks.

Saraki made the call in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, in Abuja, to commemorate the 2017 Democracy Day celebration.

The governor in a statement issued in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday, and signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, called on the international community and the media to save democracy in Nigeria from being truncated by «the APC cabal's desperation to hold on to power by whatever means.&rMedia, Lere Olayinka, called on the international community and the media to save democracy in Nigeria from being truncated by «the APC cabal's desperation to hold on to power by whatever means.&rmedia to save democracy in Nigeria from being truncated by «the APC cabal's desperation to hold on to power by whatever means.»

The attention of the Nigeria Police Force has been drawn to the media reportage of the Senate's resolution on Senate Order Paper of today, Wednesday, 9th May, 2018 after a closed door session that the «Senate declares the Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim k. Idris as enemy of democracy and unfit to hold any public office within and outside the country».

Others on the panel included Ana Maria Archila, Co-Executive Director of The Center for Popular Democracy; Andrew Rasiej, Founder of Personal Democracy Media; and Serge Kreiker, Co-Founder and CTO at Kapitall.

Speaking through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Uche Anichukwu, Ekweremadu said the victory is a defence for democracy and one which was well deserved.

Speaking through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Uche Anichukwu, Ekweremadu said the victory is a defence for democracy and -LSB-...]

Our weak campaign finance laws and a commercial media that counts on huge revenues from political ads bought by corporate - sponsored candidates have put our democracy up for sale to the highest bidder.

Fayemi, in a congratulatory message by his Special Assistant on Media, Mr Yinka Oyebode, said Akeredolu's victory at the poll was victory for democracy as well as the people of Ondo State who have long clamoured for change.

Isn't it telling that the people that constantly talk about splits, the people at the heart of the failed and incompetent coup against the Labour membership and internal democracy, and the people constantly trying to undermine the Party in the media (including disgracefully even the S * n) are all on the right of the Party.

A Senior Special Assistant on Media and Strategic Communications to Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State, Oliver Okpala, described the judgement as a landmark in the country's march to a viable democracy.

Over the next year, campaigners, non-governmental groups and the media need to establish equally hard - edged thresholds of what the Conservatives need to do to be taken seriously on the environment, democracy and social justice before Cameron's policy commissions make their recommendations.

In a statement signed by Mr. Reuben Abati, Special advicer on media and publicity to the president, Jonathan also commended the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, its personnel and the nation's security services for ensuring that the elections were free and fair in keeping with his administration's commitment to continually strengthen democracy in Nigeria through the establishment of a more credible electoral system.

Prompted by the widespread Russian influence campaign that targeted nearly two dozen states during the 2016 presidential election and the proliferation of secretive political advertising on social media platforms like Facebook, Cuomo proposed and the state Legislature successfully passed the «Democracy Protection Act,» which prohibits foreign entities from creating independent expenditure committees or buying political ads, requires anyone who purchases an online political ad to register as an independent expenditure committee, and also requires online ads to include information about who paid for them, as is currently required of traditional media platforms.

Forum, Cultural Dialogue and Intercultural Dialogue, Development of sermon of various religion with Peace issues, Interactive Dialogue on the Radio, Campaign for Peace and Democracy Development Through Various Media); Cultural revitalization (`

Activities conducted under this program include: Development Discourse Pluralism and Peace Building (Formation of ulti - ethnic self - help groups, Pancasila Forum, Cultural Dialogue and Intercultural Dialogue, Development of sermon of various religion with Peace issues, Interactive Dialogue on the Radio, Campaign for Peace and Democracy Development Through Various Media); Cultural revitalization («Mosehe» Culture of Tolaki Ethnic Group, Inter-religion dialogue); Other activities (Working jointly to build a places of worship, building Peace Monument, Performing Arts and Sports, economic activities)

Arizona «Ground Zero» for Koch Attack on Public Education (The Center for Media and Democracy) Mention of HGSE Professor Marty West's research into voucher programs in Louisiana and their impact on student achievement.

For onlookers of democratic politics, rather than assuming a trajectory in which democracy (by which too many onlookers assume Western liberal democracy) prevails, it is prudent to heed the contested nature of this concept and note that among populations that are deeply divided on the separation of religion and state, if some form of democracy does arise once the dust settles it will by virtue of the democratic process likely take place in between the essentialized and polarizing categories — those «secular» and «Islamist» conceptions — that are so prevalently and popularly discussed in popular discourse and the media.

I know, the social justice media organization Take Part isn't exactly objective, but they have done a great job on the peppy animated Civics in a Minute videos, with political commentator Jacob Soboroff explaining some of the ins and outs of our democracy.

Read CCSA's statement in response to a report by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), «Charter School Black Hole» released on October 21, 2015.

This lesson focuses on the ways that digital media, and especially mobile media, are shaping the relationship between the people and the press and expanding the role that citizen watchdogs can play in a democracy.

UPDATED: 8:35 am on 10/22/2015 The federal government paid at least $ 1.7 million to 25 Michigan charter schools that never opened, according to a report released this week by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD).

I recently took part in a broadcast panel discussion on bilingual education at the CCTV Center for Media & Democracy (Channel 17) in Burlington, Vermont, to both present my book, The Bilingual Revolution, and support efforts to create a bilingual educational experience in the school system of Burlington.

The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) has been reporting on some of the bizarre choices for ALEC's «Legislator of the Week Award.»

The analysis, done by the Center for Media and Democracy, a nonprofit liberal watchdog and advocacy agency based in Wisconsin that tracks corporate influence on public policy, says that four companies — Pearson Education, ETS (Educational Testing Service), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and McGraw - Hill — collectively spent more than $ 20 million lobbying in states and on Capitol Hill from 2009 to 2014.»

A week ago, on the night of Friday, February 17th, two incongruently mirrored exhibitions opened on either side of the East River: Charles Atlas» The Illusion of Democracy at Luhring Augustine's new Bushwick outpost; and What I Know, a large group show of Bushwick artists, curated by Jason Andrew, at the New York Center for Art & Media Studies (NYCAMS) in Chelsea.

(Group Show)(Berlin 2006), The Wonderful World of irational.org (Dortmund 2006, Glasgow 2007, Novi Sad 2008, Leuven 2012), History Will Repeat Itself (Dortmund 2007, Berlin 2007 - 2008, Warsaw 2008, Hong Kong 2008), Anna Kournikova... Art in the Age of Intellectual Property (Dortmund 2008), «Awake are only the Spirits» — On Ghosts and their Media (Dortmund 2009, Toruń 2010), Building Memory (Vilnius, Lodz, Tel Aviv, Dortmund 2010), Arctic Perspective (Dortmund 2010), Laure Prouvost: Monolog (Bielefeld 2011), Barbara Breitenfellner: Traum einer Ausstellung (Dortmund 2011), The Oil Show (Dortmund 2011 - 2012), Artur Zmijewski: Democracies (2012), Suzanne Treister: HEXEN 2.0 (2012), Francis Hunger: History has left the Building (2012), Sounds Like Silence (John Cage — 4» 33» — Silence today / 1912 — 1952 — 2012)(2012 — 2013), His Master's Voice: On Voice and Language (Dortmund 2013, Montpellier 2015), INDUSTRIAL (Research)(2013 — 2014), Evil Clowns (Dortmund 2014, Erlangen 2016).

2011 Persona Performa * Performa 11 at the Museum of the Moving Image, New York On Received Pronunciation Banner Repeater, London, UK Backstage Riders Former Tagesspiegel Building, Berlin, Germany Berlin 2000 - 2011: Playing among the ruins Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan Finding Correspondences Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC, Canada Double Democracy Video art: gwangju: 11, Gwangju, Korea Rollenbilder — Rollenspiele Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria Invisibleness is Visibleness MOCA Taipei, Taiwan Knotting: Swarm in the Era of Digital Media National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan LIFE OF IMITATION * Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan based in berlin Atelierhaus Monbijoupark, Berlin, Germany Biji Diva!

SAM MIDDLETON, «Hymn to Democracy,» 1962 (mixed media and collage on illustration board).