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Free Press in Turkey is Unlikely but Not Impossible

April 21, 2016
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“We’re not in a great place politically,” said Kadir Has University Assistant Professor Efe Sevin about Turkey. He noted Turkey’s current five-year decline in Freedom House’s press freedom rankings and highlighted the change in status from “partly free” to “not free” in 2013. “Despite a plethora of news outlets and capital accumulation sources of media, why are we stuck in this situation?” he asked the audience.

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Technology is Changing How we Interact with and Experience Conflict

April 15, 2016
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Gregory Asmolov raised some interesting questions during his public lecture at the Center for Media, Data and Society at CEU’s School of Public Policy on April 12.  The focus of his presentation was the role of information and communications technology (ICT) in modern conflicts.

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IRC is not dead: Maxigas argues for a shift towards use-centric media and communication studies

March 17, 2016
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Maxigas, who is currently a post-doctoral fellow at CMDS presented his work on the social history of Internet Relay Chat on March 10, arguing how looking at its affordances today opens the way for a critique of social media monopolies and contributes to a new perspective in media and communication studies, drawing attention to the contemporary significance of the “old new media”.

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CMDS publishes the final report of the CAPTCHA Project

February 16, 2016
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The CAPTCHA project was a partnership of three community media organizations (Radio Corax, Germany; the Near Media Co-op, Ireland; Radio FRO, Austria) and the Center for Media, Data and Society. The project, which ran from September 2013 to August 2015, was supported by a grant from the Culture Programme of the European Union and it aimed to empower community media and programme makers to increase the online accessibility of their programmes.

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Blogging in Bangladesh

February 1, 2016
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“Five violent deaths, nine months, and no final convictions.” That’s how Rezaur Rahman summed up the risks of blogging in Bangladesh these days. The “five violent deaths” of four Bangladeshi bloggers Avijit Roy, Washiqur Rahman Babu, Ananta Bijoy Das, and Niloy Chatterjee, and publisher Faisal Arefin Dipon, took place between February 26 and August 6, 2015.

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