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How Sex Could Save Japan

May 21, 2015
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In his latest article for the Sacramento Bee, CMDS Fellow Markos Kounalakis writes about the interplay between demographics and world politics, and the different approaches various countries take to stimulate population growth.  

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Anstead Explores How Social Media is Changing the Way We Think about Public Opinion

May 21, 2015
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During his presentation at the Center for Media, Data and Society at the School of Public Policy of CEU on May 14, Nick Anstead explained what prompted his interest in the impact that social media analytics has had on public opinion.

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Call for Participation at the Final Conference of CAPTCHA

May 14, 2015
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The closing conference of CAPTCHA, „Radio Archives in European Community Media“ will take place on 5-6 June in Halle, Germany at Radio Corax. Its aimed at encouraging people involved in community radio, community media archiving processes and multi-media archiving to explore current practices on archiving in their stations, invent new community dynamics to share content and to raise awareness for archiving processes.

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Loth and Hume Debate the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Legacy Newspaper Business in the U.S.

May 11, 2015
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CMDS hosted Boston Globe columnist and ArchitectureBoston editor Renée Loth on May 7. Loth, one of the highest ranking women in American newspapers, shared her perspective “from the front lines” offering fascinating observations on the impact that the digital transformation has had on American journalism. “When I started,” Loth remembered, “I saw journalism as a way to improve the lives of ordinary people, to shine a light on the needs of people.”

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CMDS Publishes Report on the State of Internet Freedom in Hungary as Part of Comparative Study of the Visegrad4 Countries

April 27, 2015
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CMDS is pleased to announce publication of a report on the state of internet freedom in Hungary, as part of a study of the Visegrad countries (Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia) led by Transitions and PASOS (Policy Association for an Open Society). The report was produced by Gábor Polyák (Mérték Média Monitor), Kate Coyer (CMDS), and Joost van Beek (CMDS). 

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