Podcasts
The organizers of Communication Rights in the Digital Age produced a five-part series addressing some key topics discussed at the conference:
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.
All the podcasts are licensed under Creative Commons: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
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