MD 2024/2 Editorial
Ever since a right to communicate was imagined by Jean D’Arcy in 1969, the concept has been controversial. Like the right to memory, without which individuals and communities would be deprived of their identity and dignity, neither figures in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
Compassionate communication as human solidarity
Cees J. Hamelink In a recent book on “Communication and Human Rights”, I propose that all discussions on communication rights, the right to communicate or the right to communication should be based upon the notion of “communicative justice”.1 This means doing justice to the human...
Power, participation, discourse and communication
Nico Carpentier Power is pervasive, all-encompassing, and ultimately ungraspable. At the same time, power generates difference through a logic of privilege. Even though a distinction between “the powerless” and “the powerful” is too simplistic, we can still see, throughout the world, assemblages of the privileged,...
Communication rights and autonomy in the era of data
Pradip Ninan Thomas The ability to Voice, Access resources and technology, the strengthening of local capabilities within an enabling environment and being able to communicate through a language of one’s choice – these remain fundamental building blocks in the creation of sustainable communication environments. In...
Sobre cómo romper el silencio
María Elena Hermosilla Son meses y días de calor intolerable para una chilena criada en el frío. Es el “calentamiento global”. En el litoral, los incendios forestales queman Viña del Mar y amplios sectores de Valparaíso; se identifican más de ciento treinta muertos. ¿Cuántos más...
Communiquer comme un droit
Mathilde Kpalla Il y a plusieurs décennies, Jean d’Arcy a promu sans relâche le concept de droit à la communication dans les instances internationales. Depuis, de sérieux débats continuent sur la reconnaissance ou non de ces droits et surtout l’appréhension de ceux-ci. Comprenons-nous vraiment ce...
Radios et réseaux sociaux, des réponses aux besoins d’interactions sociales des jeunes
Sébastien Nègre La famille, les amis, l’école, le travail, les loisirs constituent autant d’espaces essentiels pour les interactions sociales des jeunes.1 Partout dans le monde, les médias et les réseaux sociaux permettent, eux aussi, aux jeunes de s’exprimer, s’informer, partager leurs préoccupations, poser leurs questions,...
A “brand-new” world communication order: BNWCO?
Aliaa Dakroury There is always a “once upon a time” prologue in stories, but they do not necessarily end with “happily ever after”. I am not sharing any spoiler when I argue that it is a very familiar story of human communication. The story of...
Creating public communication spaces that are open, accessible, comfortable, and sociable
Working Group An international working group prepared a paper for the symposium on “Communication for Social Justice in the Digital Age”, which took place in Berlin and online September 13-15, 2021. It set out an understanding of public space today, outlined what issues are at...
May 5, 2024: Love
Sixth Sunday of Easter Love The more I read through the Bible, the more I see the word “love”: love God, love each other. It sounds simple, but it is anything but simple. Our humanity limits our ability to remain faithful to these commandments. I grew up in a church-going family. By the time I […]