The Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom will identify emerging ‘news deserts’ in Europe and map risks for local media.

‘News deserts’ are areas where citizens have very limited access to reliable news and information due to the absence of local, regional and community media. These media are vital for the creation of a democratic culture in any country, as they provide stories of relevance to local communities, show the impact of national issues on the local level, and ensure political accountability.

Kleinsatelliten mit einer Masse bis 20 Kilogramm werden vermehrt auch für kommerzielle Zwecke eingesetzt, etwa für Telekommunikationsleistungen, Missionen zur Erdbeobachtung oder für die Erprobung neuer Technologien im All. Das birgt Risiken: Mit der steigenden Zahl von Kleinsatelliten erhöht sich die Wahrscheinlichkeit für Kollisionen im Orbit.

Mobile Apps, Smartphones, Cloud Computing, 5G, the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence, Metaverse, Blockchain. The Chinese Internet has evolved into a multilayered stack of digital technologies and devices with embedded protocols, cultures, and norms, used by billions of people around the globe.  The Global South is where Made in China digital technology meets the world, reconfiguring how billions live, and China’s own relationship with the world.

Arjun Srinivas and colleagues from Kaivalya Plays have received grant funding and support from MediaFutures to produce an interactive theatre performance highlighting the effects of hyper-partisanship and hate speech in India. The performance will particularly focus on the targeting and persecution of minority Muslim women online.

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With ‘blockbuster season’ underway, new QUT research gleaned from a survey of 10,000 patrons reveals what audiences really want on a trip to the movies.

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Eigentlich hätte am kommenden Samstag, 17. Dezember 2022, die zweite Runde der Würzburger Turmmusik stattfinden sollen, die vom Institut für Musikforschung der Universität Würzburg organisiert wird. Mitglieder des Philharmonischen Orchesters Würzburg hätten dann ab 16.30 Uhr adventliche und weihnachtliche Kompositionen von der Balustrade des Turms der Neubaukirche in Richtung Innenstadt gespielt. Abwechselnd dazu hätte Universitätscarilloneur Dr. mult. Jürgen Buchner auf dem Carillon der Universität musiziert.

This post is authored by Ishita Tulsyan and Navdha Sharma. The introduction of The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act, 2022 ( ‘the Identification Act’) raised several surveillance and privacy concerns. Replacing the Identification of Prisoners Act 1920 ( ‘the Old Prisoners Act’), it attempts to modernize the process of identification of persons involved in criminal allegations […]

Nikita Aggarwal, European Corporate Governance Institute, December 6, 2022

Given the data-intensive nature of approaches such as machine learning, and the increasing ubiquity of AI in everyday products and services, there is a growing interest within the privacy community to understand its implications. At the same time, a tremendous amount of innovation and entrepreneurship in the AI space is emerging from Asia to address local challenges. 

We’ve had balcony concerts. Livestreams. Pots and pans banging. And clapping. (So much clapping). But we continue to ask: what next?

What happens when the music stops, but the surveillance doesn’t? When bands return to stadiums, but emergency powers don’t return to the statute books? When the ‘new normal’ becomes the same old scope creep? When beaches reopen, but migrant worker dorms don’t?

When the pandemic is over, what happens next?

The Hub launched our two-part series, The Next Digital Decade: Case Studies from Asia, in 2021 to trace the impact of the internet on society, politics, and life in Asia with a unique emphasis on pandemic-era changes and issues from 2020-2021. 

The Ethics of Digitalisation: From Principles to Practice advances dialogue and action at the intersection of science, politics, digital economy, and civil society. Digitalization efforts are rapidly proliferating across sectors, prompting new and large-scale ethical challenges that arise from technological development and deployment that have important rights and justice implications.

India is on the path of rapid digitisation of its public service delivery infrastructure, ostensibly building on the country’s history of encouraging Open Source Software (OSS) use by the government. If built in a sustainable, rights respecting manner, on principles of openness, transparency, and accountability, digital public infrastructure can be immensely useful, and help reduce inequality in access to government services.

Interview with Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejias by Teresa Numerico

Theory on Demand #46
Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in AI
Edited by Thao Phan, Jake Goldenfein, Declan Kuch, and Monique Mann

Dass Fußballdeutschland mit dem zweiten WM-Vorrundenaus einer DFB-Elf in Folge – 2018 übrigens noch eine unrühmliche Prämiere für den vierfachen Weltmeister – nicht zufrieden ist, wird niemanden überraschen. Entsprechend einig sind sich hier auch die über 3500 Teilnehmenden der jüngsten Umfrage, bei der Professor Harald Lange vom Instituts für Sportwissenschaft an der Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) Würzburg die Voting-App FanQ erneut als Experte unterstützt hat.