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VERY excited to share something I have been working on... The Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy @mediatechdem @MaxBellSchool @mcgillu will examine how our media and technology infrastructure shape democracy and public life. mediatechdemocracy.com [Thread]
Our aim is to create public-facing work that informs urgent public and policy debates organized around three core research streams:
1⃣Tech Governance
2⃣ Information Ecosystems
3⃣ Media & Journalism
While we are launching the site today we have been building the team and research projects over the past year. Lots more exciting announcements in the coming weeks, but wanted to introduce a few things we have been working on: mediatechdemocracy.com/projects
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If you are lucky in life, you get to meet someone as powerful, smart, generous and urgently important as @mariaressa. In a new ep. of the #BigTechPodcast @dskok spoke to her a few days before her grossly unjust conviction. She is awe inspiring. (thread) cigionline.org/big-tech/maria…
Since the interview I have been reflecting on her message, which i have had the chance to watch evolve and build over the past few years. Maria is rightly being championed as a symbol of the free press in face of the autocratic state. And she is unambiguously this.
Autocrats are always threatened by a free press, and so they challenge the legitimacy of the media, support and promote statist journalism, propagate narratives of “fake news,” and prosecute journalists with spurious legal challenges. Her experience epitomizes these threats.
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