[vimeo 44627534]
Three Burmese journalists discuss the changing media environment in their country.
Jun 202012
Jun 202012
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Al Jazeera social media director Riyaad Minty speaks on the central role played by social media communication in the Arab Spring uprisings.
Jun 202012
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Jeff Jarvis, director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism, discusses the Internet as a tool of ‘publicness.’
Jun 202012
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Evgeny Morozov, author of “The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet,” talks about some of the ways that governments use social media to track and control their citizens.
Jun 202012
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Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Esser, the top U.S. diplomat in charge of online strategy, discusses the ways the State Department uses social media to understand events more clearly, share real-time information and engage people around the world.
Jun 202012
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A panel of experts discusses Internet freedom vs. regulation in Asia and the Pacific. Featuring: Donny B.U. (Budhi Utoyo), Executive Director, ICT Watch, Indonesia; Masashi Crete-Nishihata, Research Manager, Citizen Lab, Canada; Dr. Anja Kovacs, Founder and Director, Internet Democracy Project, India; and Kyungsin Park, Law Professor, Korea University. Moderated by Dr. Lokman Tsui, Policy Advisor, Google Asia-Pacific, Hong Kong.
Jun 202012
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U.S. political consultant Joe Trippi and Singapore “Facebook candidate” Nicole Seah discuss how social media is changing electoral politics.
Jun 202012
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Three experts explain how digital media has triumphed over censorship and obstacles to free speech in their respective countries. Featuring Steven Gan, founder and editor of Malaysiakini.com; Isaac Xianghui Mao, director of the Social Brain Foundation; and Seung-eun Myung, former chair of the Korea Business Blog Association. Moderated by Ying Chan of the University of Hong Kong Journalism and Media Studies Centre.
Jun 202012
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Yoichi Funabashi, chairman of the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation, speaks on new media’s role after the Fukushima earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster.
Jun 202012
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A panel of experts discusses new media innovations and trends across the Pacific. Featuring: Dan Gillmor, director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University; Stephen Quinn, digital media consultant in Hong Kong; and Alan Soon, Managing Editor for Yahoo! Southeast Asia in Singapore. Moderated by Amy McCombs, Lee Hills Chair in Free-Press Studies at the Missouri School of Journalism