Tag: Media
26 Articles
- Science & Technology
A Proposed International Human Rights Law Framework for Facebook and Its Pending Oversight Board’s Content Regulations
The ICCPR is the primary multilateral treaty concerned with freedom of expression and currently has 173 states parties. Since Facebook is a worldwide platform and information on…
May 14, 2020
- Society & Culture
Troll Politics
The Trolls Are Everywhere Medieval Iceland has one of the most significant literary heritages of Europe, including a wide variety of prose texts in the vernacular. These…
April 22, 2020
- Dialogues
Dr. Ben Buchanan on Cybersecurity Challenges in Democracy and Statecraft
GJIA: In today’s event, you discussed how cyber warfare is more like covert operations than traditional warfare. What do you think might be the positive and negative…
March 24, 2020
- Dialogues
Migration and Displacement in an Era of Chaos with Caroline Njuki
GJIA: The atmosphere surrounding the migrant crisis seems to be extremely chaotic and dramatized in the media. Is this helping? CN: There is a lot of talk and seeming action, as…
December 17, 2019
- Science & Technology
The American Antitrust Breakup of Facebook and the Dangers of China’s WeChat
However, in all the discourse on breaking up the tech giant, not a single candidate has focused on the effect it might have overseas. In principle, Senator Warren and Mr. Yang&…
December 11, 2019
- Dialogues
Stéphane Dujarric on Contemporary Challenges Facing the Media
GJIA: How, if at all, has the U.S. government’s use of the term “fake news” undermined the media and impacted your job at the UN? SD: I think there has been a growing…
December 2, 2019
- Dialogues
Franklin Foer on Big Technology, Journalism, and Government
GJIA: Given how social media is used as a mass distribution channel for journalism, what do you think are ways journalism can live sustainably within social media? FF: This may…
October 21, 2019
- Global Governance
How Poland’s Law & Justice Party Plans to Win
From Hungary to Turkey, strong, democratically-elected parties have used their control over the legislature to change their constitutions and other rules of the game in ways that…
October 3, 2019
- Global Governance
PART II: Russo-Georgian Dystopia
Russian sanctions might not be that impressive, but they are extremely dangerous for Georgian unity. Russia has been destabilizing that unity since Georgia’s independence in…
July 24, 2019
- Global Governance
PART I: Russo-Georgian Dystopia
“Georgians have always had a grievance complex, because Turks or Persians have always suppressed them. The lack of independence, the inability to have one’s own state —…
July 22, 2019