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Democratic Public Services
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African media are threatened by governments and big tech
Media capture happens when media outlets lose their independence and fall under the influence of political or financial interests. This often leads to news content that favours power instead of public accountability. Media Capture in Africa and Latin America: Power and Resistance is a new book edited by news media scholars Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara and Bethia Pearson. It explores how this dynamic plays out in the global south and how journalists and citizens are resisting it.
African Media Is Threatened by Governments and Big Tech - Book Tracks the Latest Trends
Media capture happens when media outlets lose their independence and fall under the influence of political or financial interests. This often leads to news content that favours power instead of public accountability. Media Capture in Africa and Latin America: Power and Resistance is a new book edited by news media scholars Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara and Bethia Pearson. It explores how this dynamic plays out in the global south and how journalists and citizens are resisting it.
African media are threatened by governments and big tech – book tracks the latest trends
Media capture happens when media outlets lose their independence and fall under the influence of political or financial interests. This often leads to news content that favours power instead of public accountability. Media Capture in Africa and Latin America: Power and Resistance is a new book edited by news media scholars Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara and Bethia Pearson. It explores how this dynamic plays out in the global south and how journalists and citizens are resisting it.
Care, public services and the importance of integrated local public ownership
The importance of integrated local public ownership and control of services was highlighted during the COVID Pandemic where some of the world’s wealthier countries – notably the US and UK – experienced some of the worst infection and mortality rates.1 Research has suggested that a lack of local public capacity, as a result of decades of cuts to public services and the reduction of trained staff, often driven by austerity policies, hampered initial efforts to combat the spread of COVID.
New municipalism in South America? Developing theory from experiences in Argentina and Chile
Introduction The emergence of ‘new municipalism’ (hereafter NM) as a phenomenon and concept is making an important contribution to current debates on progressive urban movements emerging out of neoliberal crises in Europe and beyond. Key features of this nascent conceptualisation of city-based politics include strategising for the transformation of the social relations through forms of participatory and economic democracy at the local scale (Thompson, 2021).
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