Welcome to the Media Law Roundup, a survey of the week’s developing media news. Vietnam Announces Fines for Social Media “Propaganda” Against the State Fines of 100 million dongs ($4,740 USD) will now be given to anyone in Vietnam criticizing…
Read More//Margrét Magnúsdóttir, Legal Advisor, at the Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture in Iceland discusses upcoming changes to Iceland’s evolving media law. Over the past two years Iceland´s media regime has undergone major legal reform. Following banking crash of 2008,…
Read More//CGCS Media Wire provides a look back at 2012’s new and social media law, legislation and activism in Pakistan. CGCS writer Arzak Khan explains. 2012 showed netizens worldwide that new and social media can be used to advance societal ambitions…
Read More// CGCS Media Wire and the Annenberg School for Communications bring us this reaction piece from graduate student Kate Zambon on the true value of social media for promoting democracy. Zambon examines the technologically driven narratives like The Twitter Revolution…
Read More//CGCS Media Wire is proud to present a inside look at Truthy. Karissa McKelvey, and Filippo Menczer of the Indiana University Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research discuss the motivations, inner workings and practical application of the API power…
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