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The Facebook Oversight Board's decision to maintain the former president's ban won't change much (especially for the time being) On ...
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Can 5G be dangerous in any way? What are the major challenges in the full 5G infrastructure rollout? What are ...
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Recent major investments prove that the Internet is not only about protocols and faster telecommunication infrastructures. Soon we are going ...
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COMPACT recent report provides an in-depth insight into i) Progress in the implementation of EU standardization policies; ii) Strengths and ...
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In our study, we analyzed a varied range of information governance initiatives covering different issues related to information disorder. The ...
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READ FULL SOCIAL MEDIA AND GENDER REPORT HERE Our recently released report on Gender Aspects and Social Media could be ...
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Our report examines judicial approaches to social media and convergence. It identifies the jurisprudence of supreme, constitutional and appellate courts ...
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Our report on current policies and regulatory frameworks for social media and content convergence: information disorder, human rights and regulatory ...
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EU-funded (completed) projects on Convergence and Social Media The European Commission funded 27 projects on media convergence and social media ...
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For the last couple of years, social media platforms have been facing serious issues related to the propagation of fake ...
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We present our compendium on R&D Programmes, Activities and Issues in the area of technological convergence related to AR, VR, ...
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In the last five years many academics, CEOs´ social media platforms and politicians in the EU have increasingly accepted both ...
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The COMPACT project aims at enhancing awareness about the latest scientific discoveries - state of the art research on social ...
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American court dismisses lack of diversity allegations against Facebook On March 22, 2021, a California federal magistrate judge granted Facebook’s ...
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What’s new about the new app club? Clubhouse, the social networking app, has gained popularity for letting people gather in ...
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Social Media business goes VR According to a recent UploadVR article, almost 20% of Facebook employees (around 10 thousand people) ...
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On 3 March 2021, the Media4Europe Summit gathered media convergence stakeholders around discussion on the future of news, journalism and ...
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Immersive VR & Gender Immersive Social VR technologies, such as AltspaceVR, VRChat or the upcoming Facebook Horizon introduce new means ...
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WSIS Forum 2021 | ICTs for Inclusive, Resilient and Sustainable Societies and Economies (WSIS Action Lines for achieving the Sustainable ...
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Gender & Social Media - COMPACT Report Technological development and convergence require comprehensive exploration of how various dimensions of our ...
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International Federation of  Journalists (IFJ): Take part in the revision of UNESCO's Gender-Sensitive Indicators for Media In 2012, UNESCO published its ...
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Microsoft and Convergent Media Approach - Ignite Day I - all-in-Immersive-VR event Today COMPACT joined the event organised by another ...
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Microsoft CEO Speaks at an event organised entirely in VR Microsoft’s largest gathering of technology leaders and practitioners is kicking ...
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On 18th February 2021  NUIG, Ireland, and  Mediaframe, UK  will be hosting an online event titled: “Social media convergence: The ...
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Clubhouse and Misinformation over voice? The new arrival in the social media scene - Clubhouse, iOS-exclusive all-voice app, has been ...
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COMPACT Immersive Technologies Symposium: Virtual Reality technology and its impact The objective of the COMPACT project (EC, Horizon 2020) is ...
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COMPACT Horizon 2020 project experience: Virtual Reality communication and its implications Virtual Reality (VR) is more than just a new ...
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COMPACT experience: the convergence of Virtual Reality and Mainstream Media As the extended reality technology progresses fast, there is a ...
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Symposium on 5G: “5W on 5G” We have released our report on 5G symposium. We believe that this material provides ...
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Idols and virtual influencers – the future faces of advertising New technologies allow versatile advertising and promotional techniques to be ...
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From Fairy Tales to smart concepts: Storytelling for VR What we see around us and how today will affect tomorrow ...
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Immersion is often discussed during the topic of virtual reality rather like biscuits and tea, but what is immersion and ...
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The main problem with VR film is attention. How can we have as filmmakers control what the viewer sees so ...
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When we first think about scriptwriting, we tend to imagine that of a screenplay or feature film; TV, or Advertisement ...
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If we think about the last decades, everything has become much more story-centric, digital media, visual media, written media, even ...
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With Virtual Reality emerging quickly as a new and popular media, storytellers have had to learn quickly on how to ...
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While DSA is under discussion there could be legal uncertainty with respect to content The new digital regulatory package the ...
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In December 2020, more attention in media has been given to voices speaking against Tech Giants practices that are perceived ...
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Regulating human rights violations in business Over the past years, the issue of the risks business poses for human rights ...
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The European Commission has released the awaited proposals of DSA & DMA. Digital Service Act, proposed by EC, aims at ...
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On the 21st of Jan 2021 we invite all of you to join our grand aligning of cyberspace during The ...
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What could the world expect from the approaching 2021 while the COVID 19 pandemic is still at its height? Taylor ...
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Due diligence and business Business enterprises and investors have a key role to play in stopping human rights violations. International ...
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Sustainability, pluralism, and trustworthiness of the European media system should be preserved in the light of the soon-to-be-announced digital services ...
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Online workshop on “European courts and digital media” The Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), in collaboration with ...
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After lengthy negotiations to settle the differences between the Senate and the Congress bills, finally the US Internet of Things ...
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CEE digital future: a new report by CMS Recently the CMS company has published an interesting survey that spans 18 ...
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TikTok: the clock of the administrative measures is ticking Amidst the US-Chinese technological war, recent skirmishes around TikTok have gained ...
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As the European Commission is preparing the Digital Markets Act, CERRE (Centre on Regulation in Europe) will present its latest ...
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Influencers on social media Among all other impacts social media networks have profoundly changed the way in which marketing information ...
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5G development and deployment: the latest news until November 2020 The Clean Network Strategy: Europe is split The Clean Network ...
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Cybersecurity: cases and policies Cyberattacks are becoming more sophisticated, targeted, and often undetected. That is why cybersecurity measures are intensely ...
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In anticipation of the Facebook Oversight Board start The long-awaited launch of Facebook’s new ‘Oversight Board’ is expected to happen ...
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Virtual reality: pros and cons Virtual Reality (VR) is a very wide-spread concept and with so many new devices and ...
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A new controversial Internet law in Turkey The Law on Regulation of Broadcasts via Internet and Prevention of Crimes Committed ...
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Competition rules and DSA The digital revolution demands new mechanisms to regulate competition in the digital sector and large online ...
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Public consultation on the Guidelines on the targeting of social media users (Guidelines) The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has ...
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EDiMA’s position on the EU Digital Services Act The main statement of EDiMA, a Brussels based trade association representing the ...
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ERGA‘s position on the Digital Services Act (DSA): extending and strengthening the powers of the national regulatory authorities (NRA) In ...
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Supporting Public Health Experts’ Vaccine Efforts - Facebook Facebook has announced that it will implement several protocols to support vaccination ...
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Facebook's Algorithm: A Major Threat to Public Health - AVAAZ Avaaz uncovers health misinformation spreading networks with an estimated 3.8 ...
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Can democracies stand up to Facebook? Ireland may have the answer - The Guardian Last month, the Irish data protection ...
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Twitter Will Turn Off Some Features to Fight Election Misinformation - NYT The platform is trying to address growing concern ...
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5G networks: business, security, and geopolitics Before full implementation, 5G technology requires a thorough investigation of its various security and ...
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The House Antitrust Report on Big Tech - NYT "In a report led by Democrats, lawmakers said Apple, Amazon, Google ...
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Assessment of the Code of Practice on Disinformation. Achievements and areas for further improvement, Brussels, 11 September 2020 The Code ...
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Recovery plan powers EU's strategic autonomy The topic on rebooting the EU economy after coronavirus brought together at the online ...
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Digital Education: Public consultation: Digital education during the COVID-19 recovery period and beyond The European Commission has launched an EU-wide ...
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Open data and COVID crisis Following the spread of COVID-19 in early 2020, countries across the world have adapted to ...
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Mozilla challenges the status quo and embraces openness: the position of the company on the Digital Services Act (DSA) On ...
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Internet Society: DSA Open Consultation Response The Internet Society welcomes the Commission’s efforts to develop new and revised rules to ...
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ARTICLE 19’s Recommendations for the EU Digital Services Act Twenty years after the adoption of the E-Commerce Directive, a cornerstone ...
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Response to the European Commission’s “Inception Impact Assessment for Deepening the Internal Market and Clarifying Responsibilities for Digital Services” The ...
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A Telecoms Industry View on the Digital Services Act For this reason, we believe that the European Commission’s efforts in ...
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European Commission consultation on Digital Services Act (DSA): EBF response KEY MESSAGES: The EBF supports an ex ante regulatory approach ...
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EBU RESPONSE TO THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON THE DIGITAL SERVICES ACT Platforms mainly have tried to create transparency ...
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FACEBOOK RESPONSE TO EC PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON THE DIGITAL SERVICES ACT (DSA) While Facebook supports regulation requiring digital platforms to ...
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GOOGLE: Digital Services Act package: open public Consultation Google's response to the European Commission’s consultation on the Digital Services Act ...
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How to make Europe’s digital transformation responsible and accountable In its position IBM underlines that governments, and citizens, in particular, ...
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CDTEU Response to the European Commission Consultation on the Digital Services Act The Centre for Democracy and Technology’s EU Office ...
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European Union Update: The Digital Services Act ICANN points to the fact that within the domain name ecosystem, registrars could ...
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL SUBMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION’S CONSULTATION ON THE DIGITAL SERVICES ACT PACKAGE According to Amnesty International the new ...
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Digital Services Act: what we learned about tackling the power of digital platforms he European Digital Rights (EDRI) requests the ...
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The Digital Services Act: SMEs need a more open and competitive internet ecosystem The DIGITAL SME position paper calls for ...
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European Immersive Technologies Symposium Registration is Open! 19-20th of October - FREE ADMISSION We are organising the European Immersive Technologies ...
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Immersive Technologies Symposium – VR & ZOOM The symposium will be hosted on the 19th and 20th of October from ...
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JOURNALISM AND FACT-CHECKING: typification of sources used for checking and criteria for selecting fact-checked material – an analysis by Agência ...
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E. Psychogiopoulou and F. Casarosa, ‘Fundamental Rights in National Social Media Jurisprudence: A Study of Higher and Appellate Courts’, [2020] ...
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An Exploratory Study of Global and Legal Discourses on Social Media Regulation Andrej Skolkay - School of Communication and Media ...
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Open data and COVID-19 crisis Following the spread of COVID-19 in early 2020, countries across the world have adapted to ...
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The European Digital Services Act package (DSA) The Digital Services Act package was announced by the European Commission as a ...
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Smart Society – 'Fake Analytica' Style? Smart Cities and Regional Development Journal (v3. i1. 2019) Posted: 3 Jul 2019 Bissera ...
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Digital Library by Dr. Bissera Zankova ...
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Facebook's EU-US data transfer mechanism 'cannot be used', Irish regulator says (Reuters) - The key mechanism used by Facebook to ...
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Microsoft releases new technology to combat manipulated media Microsoft on Tuesday rolled out two new technologies aimed at identifying and ...
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Lisbon Seminar Report ...
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Media literacy as a psychological “vaccine” against manipulation ...
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GLOBAL APPROACHES TO SOCIAL MEDIA REGULATION (TAXONOMY) ...
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Kyiv Symposium - Internews Ukraine ...
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Kyiv Simposium - "Revision of the Historic Propaganda" - Presentation ...
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Media Convergence and Social Media - Fake news and validation of information in social networks, Kyiv, Ukraine 12 March Presentation ...
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Kyiv Simposium - "National court rulings on social media: The free speech dimension" Presentation by Evangelia Psychogiopoulou, Hellenic Foundation for ...
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HYBRID THREAT DECOMPOSITION METHODOLOGY: BIG DATA ANALYSIS BY ATTACKINDEX.COM Presentation by Elena Shnurko Tabakova ...
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E-platform for communication between Ukrainian journalists and experts Presentation by Anastasiia Shyrina ...
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EURODIG 2019 COMPACT partners took part in the organization of the Plenary 7 Session: "Tackling Online Harms" and Workshop 10 ...
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EuroDIG 2020 Forum forum | live transcript | live stream Day 1 / 11 June 2020 (all times CEST/UTC +2) 09.00 - 09.30 Studio open, ...
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Smart citizens for Smart cities: the role of social media for expanding local democracy (The case of local referendums in ...
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Report on Riga Symposium The symposium was organized by the University of Latvia Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS) on the ...
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Sofia Symposium - COMPACT Project (Bulgarian Translation) Presentation by Dr Bissera Zankova ...
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The 5th Congress of the Polish Communication Association, entitled “Media Power: People – Organisations – Technologies”, aims at discussing the ...
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Materials from Regional COMPACT Symposium "Propaganda/disinformation, multi-lingual media, and social media regulation" The University of Latvia, Faculty of Social Sciences, ...
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Smart society and information disorder Smart citizens for smart cities: the role of social media for expanding local democracy (the ...
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The availability of studies which assess the implementation and performance of social media (SM) regulation within European Union countries is ...
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This study provides a global overview of some traditional but mostly innovative approaches that have been suggested for social media ...
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Have you ever wanted to gain a deeper understanding of the complexities of the digital environment? To have a map ...
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A Framework for Assessing Internet Development The Internet has developed rapidly into a communications medium which continues to transform access ...
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The Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and blockchain represent an unprecedented opportunity for the enterprise and the public ...
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Disinformation and democracy: The home front in the Information War  DISCUSSION PAPER  Paul Butcher  EUROPEAN POLITICS AND INSTITUTIONS PROGRAMME  30 ...
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Bissera Zankova, Media 21 UNESCO is one of the international organisations in the COVID-19 crisis that carry out continuous and ...
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This research and policy paper summarises the key findings and recommendations from up-to-date performance analyses of European organisations ...
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Germans place the highest value on privacy compared to the U.S. and Latin American countries.  Across countries, people place the ...
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Research done within the framework of the COMPACT project examined national court cases on social media and convergence in a ...
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Mark Zuckerberg published an op-ed in Financial Times titled Big Tech needs more regulation, on February 17, 2017. He outlined ...
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Council of Europe and hate speech Baku 2019 - Bissera Zankova “Hate speech for the purpose of the Recommendation entails ...
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Educational video for Medical Realities on Basic Life Support During Covid - 19 for training medical staff. The project was ...
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Mediaframe Studios presents: Episode 1: "Identity Theft" by Brigita Auskalnyte Content creators usually have a following – followers. It is ...
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Mediaframe Studios presents: Episode 2: "Wild Wild Web" by Isaac Linkens Information disorder is a term that is increasingly being ...
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Mediaframe studios presents: "Bittersweet" by Shazell Vassal Hall We start from the basic premise that gender equality comprises an important ...
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The Rise of Media Power ...
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Where are the limitations of freedom of expression in the online media sphere? Where should the states, private companies or ...
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11th-12th November 2019 Representation of the European Commission in Bulgaria The European House 124, „Georgi S. Rakovski“ Str. Sofia, Bulgaria ...
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Regional Symposium on Social Media Regulation - Riga, 10 December 2019 Report on “Disinformation, Media Literacy, and Social Media Regulation” ...
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by Bissera Zankova, Media 21 Foundation The Fifth Generation (5G) technology is expected to potentially affect almost every aspect of ...
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is the first epidemic in human history where information technology and social media are being used on ...
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Publication from NOVI SAD 10th International Conference THE BRIDGES OF MEDIA EDUCATION 2018 "Fighting fake news and hoaxes in the ...
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Smart society – “Fake Analytica“ style? ...
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Tackling information disorder - The Good, the Bad and the Urgent A contribution by Tanja Pavleska from Jozef Stefan Institute, ...
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Challenges and dilemmas for the national regulatory authorities in the age of convergence with respect to hate speech Since the ...
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Fighting fake news and hoaxes in the age of convergence: performance evaluation and policies against information disorder Bissera Zankova, Media ...
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This research and policy paper summarises the key findings and recommendations from up-to-date performance analyses of European organisations ...
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Our speakers addressed some important questions such as "What is 5G, where we can see it, and how it operates? ...
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Ms. Ina O’ Murchu, Technologist, Technopreneur, Ireland and Consultant at Onlim, Austria ...
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Ms. Andreana Atanasova, Deputy minister responsible for information technology and communication of Bulgaria: 5G will help economic growth and will ...
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Mr. Harri Paloheimo, CEO CoReorient, former Nokia Green Research Team Leader and Principal Researcher, worked on simulations of NextG radio ...
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Ms. Malika Keswani,  Senior Production Manager,  BBC World Services. BBC ensures that within the editorial brief none of the propaganda ...
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Mr. Andreas Geiss, Head of Unit for Spectrum Policy in DG CONNECT, European Commission ...
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Ms. Malika Keswani,   Senior Production Manager,  BBC World Services ...
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5G telecommunication benchmark creates an unprecedented level of expectations and at the same time strong resistance in tech advancement. 5G ...
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Discussion with Mr. Andreas Geiss, Head of Unit for Spectrum Policy in DG CONNECT, European Commission, moderated by Mr. Niall O’Brolchain, ...
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Dr. Jack Rowley, Senior Director for Research & Sustainability and works in the Advocacy Department of the GSMA ...
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Prof. Michel Israel, National Centre for Public Health and Analyses, Ministry of Health of Bulgaria ...
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Mr. Peter Kimpian , Data Protection Unit, Council of Europe ...
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Dr. Catalin Vrabie, Professor Assistant, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania ...
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Ms. Andreana Atanasova, Deputy minister responsible for information  technology and communication of Bulgaria ...
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Mr. Andreas Geiss, Head of Unit for Spectrum Policy in DG CONNECT, European Commission ...
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Riga Symposium: Compact Project Presentation by Oles Kulchytskyy Coordination and Support Action  3 years project Nov 2017 – Nov 2020 ...
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Habits of using Internet-based media Presentation by Velta Skolmeistare ...
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Information Disorder ...
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Bissera Zankova, Media 21 Undermining the right to health could generate serious risks for society and generations ahead. Disinformation represents ...
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Round table “Fake news and validation of information in social networks” On March 12th, the round table “Fake news and ...
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The first COMPACT symposium on 5G that was hosted online on the 14th of May, showed to be a big ...
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First comprehensive, international COMPACT symposium on 5G We would like to invite everybody to join the first comprehensive, international COMPACT ...
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Standards in the digital society should be responsive to gender equality Standards are key contributors to an inclusive digital society ...
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Standardization and coordination (the case of BG) Dr. Bissera Zankova, Media 21 Foundation General observations The primary objective of standardisation ...
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Standardisation  in the Digital Single Market - before and after 2020 Standardization issues in the new technological environment are of ...
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Conference on media security, held in Sofia, Bulgaria Dr. Bissera Zankova, “Media 21” Foundation Nowadays, the topic of debates is ...
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Social media regulation - a proposition for a social media arbitration mechanism Dr. Bissera Zankova, Media 21 Foundation Dr. Valeriy ...
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International community against disinformation in the situation of COVID-19 pandemic While the corona virus crisis is escalating, the U.N. Secretary-General ...
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The corona virus crisis and its digital implications The emergence of Corona Virus is related to a number of areas ...
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Corona virus and disinformation These days disinformation is developing as fast as the coronavirus spread. This is a reason for ...
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The multifarious effects of GDPR The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a milestone in the regulation of data and ...
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Are European children protected well online? The European Parliament and other stakeholders have put a lot of effort to protect ...
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CYBERCRYMINALS: Complex Times Ahead "Dangerous times have come. In the future, we need to be more vigilant about what we ...
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Invitation: To all members of the academic community and other interested parties that would like to discuss our dynamic digital ...
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Fears and speculations in Bulgaria after National Children’s Strategy draft project was introduced In April 2019 it was officially stated ...
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The personal data of millions hacked in Bulgaria What exactly happened?     The BBC reported on 17th of July, ...
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Issues related to the National Revenue Agency personal data leak Was the media and public institutions’ reaction adequate?     ...
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The case of social media used for donations of citizens and potential medical data protection: Example for the potential constructive ...
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UK's ambitious plan for addressing all online harms HM Government: Online Harms, White Paper The UK White Paper puts forward ...
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UNESCO, intermediaries and freedom of expression In 2017, UNESCO published its report “Fostering Freedom Online: The Role of Internet Intermediaries” ...
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Transparency of the Internet: Transparency of Internet Service Providers The public`s ability in using the Internet to become informed, to ...
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 IGF 2018 Key Messages: Digital Inclusion & Accessibility The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is a world platform which involves people ...
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IGF 2018 Key Messages: Media&Content The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is a world platform that involves people from various stakeholder ...
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EuroDIG 2019: Highlights of messages EuroDIG, the European Dialogue on Internet Governance, was established in 2008 as annual event that ...
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Germans place the highest value on privacy compared to the U.S. and Latin American countries.  Across countries, people place the ...
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On 6 February 2020, the COMPACT project consortium was represented at a Council of Europe exchange with internet companies. European ...
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The emergence of Corona Virus is related to a number of areas that can be explored to show its multiple ...
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On behalf of the organizing team it is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the upcoming Regional ...
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Messages from COMPACT Symposium “Technology and regulation in a convergent environment. The role of social media and its implications” in ...
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India’s social media content removal order The conversation, Academic rigour, journalistic flair, November 4th, 2019 In recent weeks India's High Court ...
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On behalf of the organizing team it is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the upcoming Regional ...
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Dortmund Symposium  Overview of Global Regulatory Initiatives and Suggestions, Governmental Initiatives, New Regulatory Challenges Please find below the discussion materials: ...
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Sofia Symposium 2019 “Technology and regulation in a convergent environment. The role of social media and its implications” was held ...
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The materials cover the following topics: Digital identity and why to regulate What are bots and are they dangerous to ...
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On behalf of the organizing team it is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the upcoming Regional ...
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The 5th Congress of the Polish Communication Association, entitled “Media Power: People – Organisations – Technologies” - Discussion on the ...
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Budapest Symposium "The intermediaries and their liability: If there is a quick, easy and permanent solution, please tell us as ...
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Dr. Bissera Zankova, Media 21 Foundation Dr. Valeriy Dimitrov, professor at the Legal Faculty of the University of National and ...
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Further to the public outcry over information disorder and hate speech online, the social media networks are increasingly under the ...
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Dr. Bissera Zankova, Media 21 Foundation, Bulgaria On 10 June 2019, the UN High Level Panel on Digital Cooperation released ...
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Conference on media security, held in Sofia, Bulgaria Nowadays, the topic of debates is no longer whether or not society ...
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Dr. Bissera Zankova, Media 21 Foundation, Bulgaria Created in 2008 by several organisations, government representatives and experts, the European Dialogue ...
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Dr. Bissera Zankova, Media 21 Foundation, Bulgaria The AVMSD set a difficult task for the European governments to find appropriate ...
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Dr. Bissera Zankova, Media 21 Foundation 1. General observations The primary objective of standardisation is to define voluntary, technical or ...
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On behalf of the organizing team it is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the upcoming Regional ...
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Standardization issues in the new technological environment are of increasing relevance for Europe. “Media 21” Foundation presents excerpts from the ...
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"I think that the opinions of people who are already part of an anti-spy lobby simply can not be changed, ...
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Amy Webb, futurist, NYU professor, and award-winning creator, has spent a lot of the final decade researching, discussing, and assembly ...
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Director General of DG Connect at the EC, Roberto Viola, gave speech to the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and ...
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Election cybersecurity: challenges and opportunities This paper presents ENISA’s opinion on the cybersecurity of elections and provides concrete and forward-looking ...
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Commissioners demand hard numbers from firm ahead of European parliament elections Facebook has repeatedly withheld key data on its alleged ...
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The harvesting of our personal details goes far beyond what many of us could imagine. So I braced myself and ...
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Facebook 'directed massive lobbying campaign at politicians around the world and called Irish PM a 'great friend' in battle against ...
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Dr. Bissera Zankova Media 21 Foundation, Bulgaria As the preparation of the new EU copyright directive is in full swing ...
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Suspicion that Google pays Internet celebrities for pushing their agenda has existed for a long time. But German journalist Constantin ...
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Dr. Bissera ZankovaMedia 21 Foundation, Bulgaria Beyond doubt the Facebook - Cambridge Analytica data scandal was one of the highlights ...
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Dr. Bissera ZankovaMedia 21 Foundation, Bulgaria When we consider contemporary means of communication we put the Internet at the centre ...
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Dr. Bissera ZankovaMedia 21 Foundation, Bulgaria The study of the World Bank “Women, Business and the Law 2019:A Decade of ...
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Since 2016, at least 43 countries have proposed or implemented measures aimed at combating influence campaigns on social media. This ...
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As it was reported by The Guardian, Tim Berners-Lee, English scientist and father of the Web, has launched a global ...
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As it was reported on MarketWatch article (25/10/2018) by Kari Paul, a recent study conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of ...
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Representatives of online platforms, leading social networks, advertisers and advertising industry agreed on a self-regulatory Code of Practice to address ...
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A group of Oxford and Stanford researchers (Timothy Garton Ash, Robert Gorwa, and Danaë Metaxa) started with nine items, in ...
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»As it was reported in New York Times Magazine article (Jan. 16, 2019) by John Herrman: »How Secrecy Fuels Facebook ...
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Since the time of their inception media regulatory bodies have always faced big challenges. The latter pertain either to their ...
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Pavel Dvořák is a Slovak sinologist living and doing business in tourism in China. In theintroduction to his web blogs ...
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Tim Berners-Lee I’ve always believed the web is for everyone. That's why I and others fight fiercely to protect it ...
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Andrej Školkay, Gergö Hajzer, Juraj Filin, Tomasz Anusziewicz, Ľubica Adamcová, Veronika Vighová, Igor Daniš The purpose of this study is ...
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Minutes from Adria Information Disorder AI Tools 2018 Workshop, held on June 29-30, 2018, in Koper, Slovenia. Andrej Školkay opened ...
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In reaction to the Cambridge Analytica controversy, Facebook has recently announced a substantial tightening of access restrictions to the Application ...
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Bissera Zankova (Media 21 Foundation, Bulgaria) with contributions by Ondrej Jurišta, Juraj Filin and Andrej Školkay (School of Communication and ...
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Vidushi Marda, Stefania Milan Social media platforms are increasingly accused of shaping public debate and engineering people’s behavior in ways ...
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Bjorn Figur Cambridge Analytica, a Data Analysis Company used an application developed by Dr. Aleksander Kogan to gain access to ...
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According to the original report, Facebook has released personal data to more than 50 million users, which is the largest ...
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Leonard Reinecke, Profesor at University of Mainz Facebook has been overwhelmed with the personal data scandal. But do we not ...
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There is no doubt that it is unacceptable for organizations to track people in an illegal way and use the ...
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Tanja Pavleska, Laboratory for Open Systems and Networks, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana This article explains the link between information disorder ...
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Privacy dissolves, and with it our concept of the democratic public. Thoughts on Cambridge Analytica and the consequences of the ...
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Bissera Zankova, Media 21 Foundation, Bulgaria May 2 2018 Nowadays we are constantly witnessing how diverse Internet intermediaries are rapidly ...
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Lately, there have been frequent talks about fighting "fake news" and promoting media literacy. The President of Latvia has already ...
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As elections are approaching Latvia in autumn 2018, very important questions are been raised by agitation monitoring and elimination in ...
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The Czech Constitutional Court accepted constitutional complaint that both the Police and County Court broke constitutional rights with respect to ...
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The article published on the online news portal OFFNews discusses various aspects including psychological ones of the Analytica case. The ...
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Against the backdrop of the buzz about the leak in Facebook may be it is the time to ask what ...
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The material is about a piece of news announced during the regular news and current affairs programme of the Bulgarian ...
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Against the backdrop of the Analytica controversy the portal “Dnevnik” deals with the more practical issue how to protect data ...
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Author: Maria Manolova The Cambridge Analytica crisis has exposed the sinister sides of the social network. No easy solution appears ...
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An interesting article published by the Manager News site which reveals that a year ago Chris Clark - marketing and ...
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Prof. Nelly Ognyanova, media lawyer, comments on the recent developments in the ongoing Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal on her blog Media ...
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Author: Borislav Krastev Commenting on the recent Facebook scandal concerning “Analytica” Borislav Krastev provides his explanation of the conditions and ...
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Michal Zlatkovský, the data journalist from the Czech Radio argues that the problem is not Cambridge Analytica – the problem ...
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More Decentralized and Less Personalized Democracy as Protection against the "Fake News"? We present here some comments from a public ...
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Author: Nomi Byström, a postdoctoral researcher in computer sciences at Aalto University, Finland With the recent revelations on the unlawful ...
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Author: Miroslav Pikus, an expert on cloud and informatics Computers take privacy away from us and regulation by the state ...
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Dear visitors - journalists, researchers, stakeholders, policymakers and media enthusiasts! Our consortium joint together in project Compact to increase awareness ...
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