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Philip N. Howard: "If Your Government Fails, Can You Create a New One With Your Phone?"

August 4, 2013
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The Atlantic published an article by CMCS Director Philip N. Howard, called If Your Government Fails, Can You Create a New One With Your Phone? How citizens are using technology to fill in for weak states.

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Kristina Irion Wins Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship

July 17, 2013
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Kristina Irion, assistant professor in the CEU departments of Public Policy and Legal Studies and former Research Director Public Policy at the CMCS, has won a prestigious Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship to conduct a two-year research project on the “Governance of Digital Information.” The project will be carried out at the Center for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam.

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Peter Molnar cited on Wall Street Journal blog, in NY Times article

June 22, 2013
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"Roma Stand Against Prejudice in Hungarian University": a June 14 post on the Wall Street Journal's Emerging Europe blog reported on the efforts by two students of Roma origin to respond to course material they found racially offensive at a Hungarian university with the help of CMCS Fellow Peter Molnar, teacher of one of the students and legal representative of the other.

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Global Media and Communication publishes article by recent CMCS Fellow on "Defining the global at BBC World News"

May 17, 2013
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The journal Global Media and Communication is publishing an article by recent CMCS Fellow Lina Dencik, titled "What global citizens and whose global moral order? Defining the global at BBC World News".

Drawing on original research about BBC World News, Lina's article makes the case that news practices are developing in a far more complex and contradictory way than is often implied in discourses on the global ‘turn’ in politics.

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Paying tribute to Dr. Karol Jakubowicz (1941-2013)

April 30, 2013
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The Center for Media and Communication Studies at Central European University pays tribute to Dr. Karol Jakubowicz, a beloved scholar on media issues in Europe and a tireless advocate for the freedom of the media, who died on 28 April.

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