Episode 1 – Interview with Victor Pickard, University of Pennsylvania

• What’s the state of communication rights in the digital age?
• What’s the role of scholars within this landscape?
• Is it possible to have democracy without journalism?
• Potential long-term consequences of the decline of journalism
• What role do citizen-journalists play?
• What are some of the underpinning aspects of the net neutrality debate?

Episode 2 – Essential questions, insights: Part 1

With:

Karen Donders, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Marko Milosavljević, University of Ljubljana
Hannu Nieminen, University of Helsinki
Phil Napoli, Duke University
Victor Pickard, University of Pennsylvania
Amit Schejter, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel and the Pennsylvania State University
Josef Trappel, University of Salzburg

• Question 1: Whose rights are communication rights?
• Question 2: Who can claim a right to communication in the digital age?

Episode 3 – Essential questions, insights: Part 2

With:

Karen Donders, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Marko Milosavljević, University of Ljubljana
Hannu Nieminen, University of Helsinki
Phil Napoli, Duke University
Victor Pickard, University of Pennsylvania
Amit Schejter, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel and the Pennsylvania State University
Josef Trappel, University of Salzburg

• Question 3: If and when the rights collide, who and how decides who is right?
• Question 4: What is the role and competence of regulation in the digital age?

Episode 4 – Panel Discussion on Rights and Differing National Contexts

With:

Elena Vartanova, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Tendai Chari, University of Venda
Josef Trappel, University of Salzburg

• Trappel on the power struggles
• Vartanova on the relationship between society, communication and cyberspace within the Russian context
• Chari on the #DataMustFall campaign and some of the communication rights challenges
• Trappel on the role of telecommunication corporations, access to data and regulation
• Chari on the challenge of the price of data and Information Apartheid
• Vartanova on the current state of communication rights in the digital age
• Trappel, Chari, and Vartanova on the role of scholars in the communications right and digital age content

Episode 5 – Interview with Philip Napoli, Duke University

• What are the traits of the so-called Disinformation Age?
• The implications of Algorithmic News
• The consequences, for users and user data, of Algorithmic gatekeeping
• The role of citizen-journalists in this landscape
• The role of scholars in this landscape
• User data as a public resource
• Some of the steps that can be carried out to try to revive public interest – as discussed in professor Napoli’s latest book Social Media and Public Interest: Media Regulation in the Disinformation Age
• The current state of communication and the digital age and thoughts on potential future aspects related to this space

About the host: Yann Ilunga is a podcasting and business systems consultant, podcaster and international speaker. A University of Helsinki alumni, he’s been featured on the likes of Forbes, Inc., Entrepreneur and Foundr Magazine.

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