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The content and context of "hate speech": Peter Molnar lectures at Turkish universities

December 9, 2013
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CMCS Research Fellow Peter Molnar, co-editor of The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses, visited Turkey on 20-21 November to give lectures at Okan University and Kadir Has University in Istanbul on the subject of his book.

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Hackers rarely involved in digital activism, finds new report by Phil Howard

November 22, 2013
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Hacking and cybercrime are extremely rare in cases of digital activism despite popular media coverage which would often suggest that the two are closely linked.

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Kate Coyer speaks at Budapest Human Rights Forum

November 8, 2013
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Kate Coyer was an invited panelist of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry's 6th Budapest Human Rights Forum, on November 7-8 2013. She spoke on the panel Human Rights and the Media, addressing the right to free expression as a human right central to functioning democracy, and the concerns around media freedom in Hungary.

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CMCS Appoints Four Fellows

November 7, 2013
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The Center for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS) at CEU’s School of Public Policy has announced the appointment of four leading and emerging media scholars and practitioners as fellows of the Center.

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Media Freedom in Hungary roundtable discussions: A European Fundamental Right at Risk? Watch the video online

November 3, 2013
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On October 31, the CEU School for Public Policy and the CMCS, in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Stiftung, organized two roundtable discussions on media freedom in Hungary. Panelists at the first roundtable reviewed the state of the media in Hungary three years after the adoption of new media laws, while the next panel discussion focused on media pluralism and the European agenda.

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