Best Media and Information Literacy Expert Network (MILEN Podcasts (2024)

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Disinformation War - Telegram & Deep Fakes in Ukraine 30:23

1+ y ago30:23

30:23

It’s been half a year since Russia invaded Ukraine. And while millions of people have fled the country, there are still many who remain living in different regions of Ukraine. In this episode, we will have a closer look at the digital rights challenges that citizens who currently are staying in Ukraine, are facing, during this horrible war of aggre…

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Content Moderation: To Keep or to Delete? - RightsCon Live Recording 49:13

2y ago49:13

49:13

In this live recording of our Podcast "Digital Rights Explored: Local Fights, Global Perspectives," we talked about content moderation by social media platforms taking a wrong turn. From their initial hands-off approach when it came to content, they turned to today’s invasive approach using also automated processes in making decisions. The platform…

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Cybercrime - Nowhere to hide 32:45

2y ago32:45

32:45

Being online means being at risk. This episode is dedicated to a problem affecting us all, worldwide - cybercrime. We travel to Kenya where cybercrime is on a steep rise. There has been a 37.3 % jump in cyber criminal activities in Kenya between April to June in 2021 alone. The pandemic played a major role in the rise of cyber crimes like impersona…

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The Metaverse: A Witness from the Future 30:14

2y ago30:14

30:14

In this episode we talk about the biggest hype of our time when it comes to our digital lives: the Metaverse. Ever since Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement of what his company Meta is developing, everyone in the digital rights community is talking about the implications of this new immersive digital world on our personal lives and on our (digita…

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2021: Three of the Biggest Digital Rights Stories in Retrospect 31:19

2y ago31:19

31:19

Some of you listeners have asked us to explain the basics of digital rights, “what type of rights are there exactly”? Our response is this special episode of Digital Rights Explored where international experts talk with us about the major digital rights stories of our time. In this episode we will recap some of the most important digital rights new…

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IGF Live Podcast - Internet for All, but Privacy for Me 54:58

2+ y ago54:58

54:58

As people get online, they are encouraged or even forced to share significant amounts of personal information. What happens when this data is collated? And what happens when this data gets into the wrong hands? This can have very real effects offline, putting individuals’ lives in danger. Large corporations and government bodies, while digitising t…

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State Surveillance in the Age of Covid 26:52

2+ y ago26:52

26:52

In the face of the global pandemic, many countries have imposed different control measures on their citizens under the veil of curbing the further spread of the virus. In this episode we will discuss with Agnes Venema - an expert on national security and emerging surveillance technology - measures taken in Australia during the Covid-19 pandemic. Au…

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Addicted to Digital Love 27:19

2+ y ago27:19

27:19

The founder of Tinder said: “Nobody joins Tinder because they’re looking for something.” “They join because they want to have fun. It doesn’t even matter if you match because swiping is so fun.” However in this episode we have examined how dating apps have revolutionised the world of dating and relationships. We explore with an anthropologist and e…

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Digital Censorship on Social Media Platforms 26:44

3y ago26:44

26:44

In this episode we talk about digital censorship of independent and critical voices on major social media platforms. This is a contradictory circumstance since it is exactly these platforms that serve, in particular in countries with oppressive regimes, as the channels for dissenting voices to be heard and seen. The platforms often state that the c…

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Smartphone Divide 23:08

3y ago23:08

23:08

In this episode we explore the topic of the smartphone divide in Namibia amongst its youth. In Namibia, smartphones are the main entry point to the Internet for young people. The country officially has an excess of smartphones per capita. Yet the distribution of smartphones shows a deep urban-rural gap, and therefore leaves around half of the popul…

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Digital Security: Threats & Activism 22:30

3y ago22:30

22:30

Across Latin America, Indigenous human rights defenders have been targeted by enemies who wish to see them silenced because of their work. According to the Colombian non-governmental organization, Indepaz, 269 Indigenous leaders have been murdered in the country since 2016, with 94 leaders in the state of Cauca. As with most types of activism, digi…

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Internet Shutdowns 24:44

3+ y ago24:44

24:44

In Kashmir (India) citizens suffered the high-handedness of the government with the longest imposed Internet shutdown of 213 days, just before entering into Covid-19 time. Mir Basit Hussain, a journalist and the initiator of the first digital news platform in the valley - Free Press Kashmir - tells us about this period of being digitally left “in t…

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Media And Information Literacy Expert Network (MILEN Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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Digital Rights Explored: Local Fights, Global Perspectives

Media and Information Literacy Expert Network (MILEN)

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Disinformation War - Telegram & Deep Fakes in Ukraine 30:23

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Content Moderation: To Keep or to Delete? - RightsCon Live Recording 49:13

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Cybercrime - Nowhere to hide 32:45

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The Metaverse: A Witness from the Future 30:14

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2021: Three of the Biggest Digital Rights Stories in Retrospect 31:19

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IGF Live Podcast - Internet for All, but Privacy for Me 54:58

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State Surveillance in the Age of Covid 26:52

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Addicted to Digital Love 27:19

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Digital Censorship on Social Media Platforms 26:44

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Smartphone Divide 23:08

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Digital Security: Threats & Activism 22:30

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Internet Shutdowns 24:44

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