// 02.26.2009 at 11:40 am // Category About the Event // 2 Comments »
Schedule- find out what will happen on 19th March
Programme outline for the seminar ‘Election Times: Harnessing the Power of New Media’ Read more…
// 02.24.2009 at 4:46 pm // Category Case Studies // 4 Comments »
Election violence hatched in the Kenyan blogosphere
Sending SMSs or photos over the Internet is normal. However, given a political spin, hate text messages or photos can provoke ethnic violence. This is exactly what happened in Kenya. Read more…
// 02.24.2009 at 4:16 pm // Category Case Studies // 1 Comment »
Digital victory vs. digital rigging in Bangladesh
Tired of democratic uncertainties and unstable governments, the citizens of Bangladesh used the new media to great effect in the 2008 elections. How did a small instrument such as the mobile phone change the political fortune of the country? Read more…
// 02.23.2009 at 5:11 pm // Category Organizers // 1 Comment »
Astrid Kohl, Director, IIJ, on online media’s scope
The last U.S. election was an online media show. But is the rest of the world ready to harness its potential? Astrid Kohl, Director of the International Institute for Journalism (IIJ) of InWent, discusses the future of this medium. Read more…
// 02.23.2009 at 4:52 pm // Category Case Studies // Have your say »
India still votes for traditional media
This IT wonder kid of the world is reluctant to embrace the application of new technology in elections. For this reason, the Indian electorate is a tough client when it comes to buying a political argument. Why? Read more…
// 02.23.2009 at 4:24 pm // Category Case Studies // Have your say »
YouTube, the Achilles’ heel of dictatorship
When an authoritarian government in Pakistan cracked the whip on media, an increasingly online society used the media tools to crack its whip in turn. How did the common man gain access to information in the emergency situation? Read more…
// 02.23.2009 at 11:52 am // Category Case Studies // Have your say »
How the new improved the old
The entry of the Internet in Afghanistan’s political scene helped improve the traditional media landscape. Newspapers and TV are forced to put their act together, as more Afghans go online. Read more…
// 02.20.2009 at 6:43 pm // Category Speakers // Have your say »
Panel members
Mediapersons and experts, who will shed light on the uses of new media in the present-day politics, at the IIJ-Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung conclave on online media Read more…
// 02.20.2009 at 4:20 pm // Category Reports // Have your say »
The troposphere of bloggers
Blogging takes news out of the newsroom, making it a public domain. Citizens worldwide are already wide awake to the advantages of the new medium. Are the journalists ready to cash in on new possibilities? Read more…
// 02.20.2009 at 2:59 pm // Category Case Studies // 1 Comment »
Indonesia braces itself for e-savvy elections
The old-fashioned way of meeting constituents is to conduct an election rally in a community hall or in an open field on the campaign trail. Now, politicians can just sit behind their computers or take their Blackberrys with them all the time to talk to their voters wherever they are, 24 hours a day. Read more…
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- Check out our slide show pictures and audio report here http://tinyurl.com/dfmazc //
- Read our hottest report about the conference ?Let traditional media step down from the mounted frame? http://tinyurl.com/ca2s6x //
- Feel free to give your comments about the conference //
- Our first report article from the conference "Link between democracy, internet access" http://2009.inwent-iij-lab.org/?p=1218 //
- The conference is complete now. See our audio and video report on the website tomorrow http://2009.inwent-iij-lab.org/ //
- International media conference is over //
- http://twitpic.com/28rsh - Interesting discussion with interesting panel //
- Jan Faizullah said there is symbiotic relationship between traditional and digital journalism. //
- Premesh Chandran said, traditional journalism will survive if they could keep up both, credible and fast //
- Keep connection after the election is also important politician. //
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