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Gender in the information Society: Emerging issues

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:34 | 3,837 views
This publication is a collection of 13 papers developed for a pre-World Summit on the Information Society seminar, produced by UNDP-APDIP in partnership with UNIFEM and IT for Change. It showcases perspectives that critique the engagement with new technologies in various development sectors such as the governance, media and work.

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Do Not Look at Porn...

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:34 | 7,254 views
The video presents different perspectives on pornography in the context of internet and other media. This presentation was prepared for the panel “Content regulations from gender and development perspective” organized by APC WNSP during the first Internet Governance Forum (Athens, October 2006).

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Father's Rights Groups & the Backlash Against Feminists in the Online World

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:34 | 4,478 views
The document analyses the thin line between free speech and open hate, particularly in the Internet. It explores the organized backlash to feminism among men that has increasingly made itself visible in Canada and among most Western capitalist countries.

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Women and Media: International Perspectives

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:33 | 4,234 views


Women and Media: International Perspectives
brings together eight international scholars to explore key issues of the gender-media relation, from an analysis of news media's coverage of women politicians, to the

marketing of 'girl power', to strategizing for equality in newsrooms.

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MEDIA BRIEF: Cultivating Violence Through Technology? Exploring the Connections between Internet Communication Technologies and Violence Against Women

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:32 | 6,023 views
This brief is a condensed version of the issue paper with the same title written by Jac sm Kee for APC WNSP. The paper explores the connection between new information communication technologies (ICTs) and violence against women (VAW). From the perspective of representation and rapid dissemination of information and communication enabled through ICTs, the paper looks at domestic violence in the…

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Access Denied: The Impact of Internet Filtering Software on the Lesbian and Gay [version 2.0.]

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:32 | 6,209 views
A survey of how internet filtering software, and ratings systems affect the lesbian and gay community. "Access Denied" contains sections analysing the legal, political and social implications of enforced invisibility on the web. It also includes testimonials from lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons, who are those most directly affected by the lack of access to important information…

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The Media Freedom Internet Cookbook

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:32 | 5,029 views
The Media Freedom Internet Cookbook offers recommendations and best practices, the results from the 2004 Amsterdam Internet Conference of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media. Among others, it looks at "The Role of Filtering Software in Internet Content Regulation", and documenting the number of cases how the filters censor websites, and educational materials regarding AIDS, drug…

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Communication Rights Are Women's Rights

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:32 | 4,789 views
The Foundation for Media Alternative's statement in conjunction with International Women's Day, 2006, calls for four specific measures needed to recognize communication rights as women's rights.

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Access is denied: a report on the status of the internet in Iran

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:32 | 4,885 views
The report published by an Iran CSOs Training and Research Center discusses the advent and development of the internet in Iran, censorship and its methods, weblogs and their role in the civil society. As documented by the study, the content filtering basically blocs all content concerning women.

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Malaysian gov't must review laws to free media and information

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:32 | 3,785 views
The paper outlines various discriminatory practices that have been faced from the laws on media and communications in Malaysia, as compelling reasons why the legislations must be reformed.