The participants at a conference on teaching gender in journalism and media studies in Indonesia in October, where also UNESCO´s work on gender was presented. (Photo: Satri Nugroho, Universitas Indonesia)
Journalism & Media International Center (JMIC) at OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway has cooperated with UNESCO about the presentation of four reports in seven cities around the world this autumn. Read More
Violet Gonda, president of the International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT) with the book in Manila.
International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT) presented the bookTransnational Othering – Global Diversities, Media, Extremism and Free Expression during the conference Women journalists fight back! in Manila in the Philippines 7 November. Read More
PHOTO (From left:) Bora Ataman, Baris Coban, Abeer Saady, Elisabeth Eide, Kristin Skare Orgeret, Mubashar Hasan, Afshin Ismaeli and Atta Ansari
The anthology “Transnational Othering – Global Diversities” was launched for the third time at OsloMet, during the 5th journalist safety conference organized by the MEKK research group in co-operation with UNESCO, Free Expression Foundation, JMIC and the Digital media research group.
At the launch, several chapter contributors as well as two of the three editors participated, and made short presentations of their own work.
Elisabeth Eide and Abdul Mujeeb Khalvatgar
“Transnational Othering – Global Diversities” was launched in Kabul 4th November, hosted by Nai Supporting Open Media in Afghanistan. Read More
Photo (from left): Ade Armando, Nina Mutmainnah, Apriline Widani from the Norwegian Embassy in Jakarta, Lestari Nurhajati, Elisabeth Eide, Abeer Saady, Andina Dwifatma and Ming-Kuok LIM from UNESCO in Jakarta.
The anthology «Transnational Othering – Global Diversities» had its first launch in Depok, a city just outside Jakarta, Indonesia on 30th November, at Universitas Indonesia, the largest university in the country.
This was part of a three day event, including a two day workshop on teaching gender in journalism and media studies. Read More
NEW BOOK OUT!
A new anthology has just been published by Nordicom:
Transnational Othering – Global Diversities, Media, Extremism and Free Expression This is an open access book, which can be downloaded here:
https://www.nordicom.gu.se/sv/publikationer/transnational-othering-global-diversities
The book is the result of cooperation across many borders during the last three years, with contributions from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Norway, PakistanTunisia, and Turkey. Contributors include both academics and journalists. The anthology is divided into three parts:
Editors: Elisabeth Eide (OsloMet), Kristin Skare Orgeret (OsloMet) and Nil Mutluer, Humboldt University, Berlin.
From the awards ceremony yesterday – from the left: Düzen Tekkal (German Yezidi Journalist), Hanene Zbiss, Ensaf Haidar (Raef Badawi’s wife) and Michaela Lissowsky (Friedrich Naumann Fondation).
Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom presented the Raif Badawi Award for Courageous Journalists to Hanéne Zbiss from Tunisia at the Frankfurt Book Fair 16 October. Read More
Three women journalists from Saudi Arabia, Vietnam and Malta are the recipients of the Press Freedom Awards of Reporters without borders.
Abeer Saady, representing JMIC and International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT), reports from the awards ceremony in Berlin:
The student group (Photo: Mathias Falch)
62 students rounded off their first year at OsloMet’s journalism studies with an intense two week long workshop on press freedom.
Since 2002 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has published an annual ranking of press freedom in 180 countries. This year’s index shows that hate and violence against journalists have increased. Read More
JMICs two-day conference on the above topic took place earlier this week, with appr. 30 speakers and panellists. The participants represented a diversity of views and experiences, which was demonstrated both by the Scandinavian variety when it comes to the #metoo campaign and treatment of right-wing extremists, to a discussion on the invitation of Steve Bannon to the Nordic Media Days in Bergen. Experiences from countries where giving platform to extremists entails mainstreaming terrorists (Pakistan, Bangladesh, Tunisia, etc.) were exchanged. War reporters discussed the challenge of embedding and giving voice to jihadists. And a lively conversation with Peter Münster from Facebook took place after screening the film “The Cleaners”.
Keynote speaker Eric Heinze discussed in-depth arguments for and against No platforming.
A short text cannot pay justice to such a full program. The organizers will consider a publication from this conference.
