November 10, 2015
CEU Visiting Professor Miklos Haraszti authored a press release in his capacity as the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus. He called on the country to start reforming its laws and practices that have for two decades stifled its citizens' right to freedom of expression.
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=16718&LangID=E
November 10, 2015
In this Marketplace interview, Kate Coyer, director of the Civil Society and Technology Project for the Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS), talks about technologies that have been vital for refugees making the long and often treacherous journey from the Middle East and Africa to Europe.
http://www.marketplace.org/2015/11/09/world/technology-new-kind-lifeline-refugees
November 9, 2015
Kate Coyer, director of the Civil Society and Technology Project for the Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS), is quoted in this Mashable article on technologies that have been developed for refugees making the long and often treacherous journey from the Middle East and Africa to Europe.
November 3, 2015
Edited by Center for Media, Data and Society fellows Lina Dencik and Oliver Leistert, Critical Perspectives on Social Media and Protest takes a much-needed critical approach to the relationship between social media and protest. Highlighting key issues and concerns in contemporary forms of social media activism, including questions of censorship, surveillance, individualism, and temporality, the book combines contributions from some of the most active scholars in the field today.
November 2, 2015
Video of Communication Access for Refugees (CMDS Media & Change)
October 28, 2015
Kate Coyer, director of the Civil Society and Technology Project at the Center for Media, Data and Society at SPP, and Stefan Roch, doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at CEU, gave a brief overview of the Keleti Wifi / mobile charging project and the ongoing efforts across the region to continue to provide tech support and communication access for refugees on Oct. 22.
October 26, 2015
Kate Coyer, director of the Civil Society and Technology Project at CEU's Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) is featured in this Business Insider article. Coyer's grassroots tech initiative has provided both free wifi and free mobile phone charging to thousands of refugees making their way across Europe.
October 26, 2015
Center for Media, Data & Society (CMDS) Research Fellow Markos Kounalakis writes about feminist Gloria Steinhem's association with the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s and how the agency has since changed dramatically.
http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/markos-kounalakis/article40988637.html
October 15, 2015
Sejal Parmar, assistant professor of law in the Department of Legal Studies at CEU, is one of ten expert contributors of “Journalism at Risk,” a new book from the Council of Europe examining the role of journalism in democratic societies. Parmar’s chapter analyzes the “The international human rights protection of journalists.”
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