New Book: Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Egypt
Investigating key features of contemporary Egypt, this volume includes Egypt’s modern history, politics, economics, the legal system, environment, and its...
International media policy
Afrokology and the Right to Communicate in Africa
This article argues for a reconstruction of communication rights theories from an African episteme and experience. It reviews the impact...
A Trajectory of Caudillo Press, Journalism, and the Authoritarian Dilemma in Venezuela
This edited book, by Ximena Orchard, Sara Garcia Santamaria, Julieta Brambila and Jairo Lugo-Ocando, aims at bringing together a range...
The Arab uprisings a decade on: Egypt and Tunisia
A decade ago on 14th January 2011, after weeks of historic protests, Tunisians deposed their decades-long dictator Ben Ali. Inspired...
Tim Berners-Lee’s plan to save the internet: give us back control of our data
Releasing his creation for free 30 years ago, the inventor of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, famously declared: “this...
Advocating for Public Service Media: Scholarship and Praxis
This new special issue of Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture features 10 research papers and commentaries addressing questions around...
The Ethics of the Digital Commons
This paper asks: Why is it morally good to foster the digital commons? How can we ethically justify the importance...
Soft Power to Whom? A Critical Analysis of the Publicity Film “CPC (Communist Party of China) is With You Along the Way” in Relation to China’s Soft Power Project
The existing literature on China’s soft power is mainly concerned with its success or failure, ignoring the ideological tensions between...
The Online Advertising Tax
In the age of austerity, there has been increased public criticism of large transnational corporations’ low tax contributions. Google and...
Nicaragua crisis: how democracy dies in the era of fake news
For decades, Central America was mostly sidelined as far as global news was concerned. That all looked set to change...
