John Keane | Media and Democracy
36
archive,paged,category,category-media-democracy,category-36,paged-3,category-paged-3,do-etfw,ajax_fade,page_not_loaded,,wpb-js-composer js-comp-ver-4.1.2,vc_responsive
 

Media and Democracy

John Keane   |   Articles in the Press, Democracy in the 21st Century, Media and Democracy, Notes on Democracy   |   No comment

Murdoch, mediacracy and the opportunity for a new transparency

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="668"] Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper empire is reeling under the phone hacking scandal. AAP[/caption] Schadenfreude is the tough-sounding word that wins my vote for describing accurately how millions of people around the world are feeling about Rupert Murdoch’s...

Read More
16 July 2011
0
John Keane   |   Articles & Essays JK, Civil Society, Democracy in the 21st Century, Media and Democracy, Notes on Democracy, Religion and Politics   |   1 Comment

Revolution in the Arab world

Great revolutionary convulsions typically trigger long-lasting reflections on their causes and consequences. The European tradition of political thinking harbours many well-known examples, including Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), Harold Laski’s Reflections on the Revolution of Our...

Read More
02 May 2011
0
John Keane   |   Articles & Essays JK, Civil Society, Democracy in the 21st Century, Media and Democracy   |   3 Comments

Democracy in the Age of Google, Facebook and WikiLeaks

In the beginning there was the grand spectacle of a worldwide satellite television broadcast, featuring Maria Callas, Pablo Picasso and the Beatles. Then came fax machines, photocopiers, video recorders and personal computers. Now there are electronic books, scanners and smart...

Read More
09 March 2011
0