July 19, 2014
CMCS Research Fellow Markos Kounalakis writes about the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight 17, Russia's involvement, and how the world will react.
http://www.sacbee.com/2014/07/19/6566579/markos-kounalakis-russia-is-now.html
July 16, 2014
Hungarian monthly Mediapiac reports: The traditional Russian media is entirely controlled by the Kremlin and the oligarchs enslaved to it, and as a result of a legal amendment, they are now increasingly able to influence the online press as well. An interview with Irina Borogan, the deputy editor-in-chief of the Russian investigative portal agentura.ru specialized in the activities of secret services, was asked about their methods and the situation of journalists.
July 15, 2014
Phil Howard, professor at CEU's School of Public Policy and director of CEU's Center for Media and Communication Studies, speaks to the BBC about how social media is being used to win the hearts and minds of people in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28292908
July 12, 2014
http://www.kulturpart.hu/irodalom/42453/muszaj_megszolalni - Hungarian cultural news portal, kulturpart.hu, interviewed Peter Zavada about slam poetry, politics, and literature. Zavada mentions Peter Molnar, former Fidesz politician, now CEU researcher teaching the right to freedom of speech and expression, who uses slam poetry to express his political stance by pouring his feminist, anti-fascist and pro-gay views into slam lyrics.
July 9, 2014
http://www.klubradio.hu/cikk.php?cid=176417&id=16 - Hungary's Klub Radio portal reports in its daily international media outlook about a foreignpolicy.com article that investigates the story of a controversial planned remembrance statue to be erected by the Hungarian government to recognize the Hungarian victims of the Holocaust. "The government is redoing history, redoing the cultural markers," says Amy Brouillette, researcher at the Center for Media and Communication Studies t at CEU.
July 7, 2014
Foreign Policy magazine reports on the controversial monument in Budapest's "Freedom Square" (Szabadsag Ter) that is, ostensibly, meant to honor victims of the German occupation during WW II. CEU's Amy Brouillette (of the Center for Media and Communication Studies/CMCS) and OSA's Gwen Jones are quoted.
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