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Fear of the Spanish Red Danger: Anti-Communist Agitation and Mobilisation in Portugal during the Spanish Civil War
Between 1936 and 1939 Portugal feared the “revolutionary” contagion from republican Spain, whose Popular Front government represented a dangerous...
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Just Net Coalition: Seeking Anchors of Equity and Social Justice in a Digital World
This chapter traces the journey of claiming social and economic rights in the digital sector over the last decade and a half. The focus is on the...
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Writing Social Relevance: US Television Dramas in the Civil Rights Era
By 1960, US television networks were exerting more control over programming than ever before, and television producers faced multiple obstacles in...
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Putting algorithmic bias on top of the agenda in the discussions on autonomous weapons systems
Biases in artificial intelligence have been flagged in academic and policy literature for years. Autonomous weapons systems—defined as weapons that...
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Introduction
When David W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (film)releases of1915 context of was released in 1915, it was half a century after the end of the...
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Cultural Diversity at UNESCO and ITU/WSIS: 50 Years of Milestones (1980–2020)
This chapter examines contributions by IAMCR members to the global debates leading to the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity...
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Derek Walcott a Saint Lucian Poet: Between the Country and the Town
The chapter locates Derek Walcott’s poetry within Saint Lucia through a review of the poet in a chronology focused on location and events; the...
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The MacBride Round Tables: In Pursuit of Equality, Plurality, and Diversity
This chapter discusses the work of the MacBride Round Tables on Communication. These were established when the need for a New World Information and...
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Complexities in Falsehoods Management and Implications for Research and Practice
Online falsehoods, in the form of fake news, misinformation and disinformation disseminated via electronic communications, remain a critical one that...
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Monumentality, Forensic Practices, and the Representation of the Dead: The Debate about the Memory of the Post-Civil War Victims in the Almudena Cemetery, Madrid
Memorialization often follows internationally established aesthetic models to commemorate the dead after political repression, mass violence, or...
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Well-being, Values, Culture and Society
This chapter looks at the relationship between culture and well-being. It introduces how the ‘the culture-well-being relationship’ is invoked in...
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Human Rights as a Lens on Global Media Developments
Since the first UN World Summit on the Information Society, a broad range of “human rights approaches” to media and technology issues have...
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A Society of Transparency, an Economy of Attention
Focusing on a selection of key conceptual uses of transparency that emerged toward the end of the twentieth century, this chapter commences the...
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Song as Matrix of Parrēsia: Mtukudzi and the Quest for Truth and Democratic Ethos in Society
The intrinsic ethical value of Oliver Mtukudzi’s songs has arguably made him a musical virtuoso globally. His songs are not only philosophically...
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The Journey of the Lebanese Disability Rights Movement Towards Inclusion and Equality
This chapter provides an overview of the human rights and disability rights movementsDisability rights movement that originated in the United States...
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A Framework for Participation
This chapter elaborates why the involvement of arts practitioners in cultural policy activity matters, and proposes that the question of their...
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The Hybrid Media System as Battlefield for Climate Politics: Media and Politics in Transformation
In this chapter, I argue that the field of climate politics represents an ideal object of investigation when studying the changes in political...
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FURNIVALL, J[ohn] S[ydenham] (1878–1960)
J[ohn] S[ydenham] Furnivall was a British colonial administrator of the Indian Civil Service who served in Burma in the early decades of the...
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Transforming Conditions of Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism
This chapter provides an in-depth understanding of the conditions for feminist and LGBTI+ activism in Russia, Turkey, and Scandinavia, including...
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Conclusion. Acting on Policy: Arts Practitioners in the Spotlight
This chapter draws together the lines of argument developed in the preceding chapters, in order to answer the question posed at the outset as to...