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The New Media Times

The New Media Times

Final Blog Post: Acknowledging the Digital

In the past months, I wrote four blogposts related to new media and development. My blogposts encompassed topics like the Black Lives Matter movement, COVID-19 and censorship, the dehumanizing use of marginalized people on development organizations’ social media and the role of the digital ‘world’ in relation to displaced people …

Fake News, Fake Ads, and Twitter Bots

On my previous post I briefly mentioned the relation between media and climate change deniers. On this post I would like to focus on social media giants (Facebook, Twitter and YouTube) and their handling of misinformation, especially regarding climate. As you might have read on Ellinor’s post, we’re currently in …

Is it possible that an environmental movement will change for good due to a global pandemic and digitalization?

Keywords: Greta Thunberg, climate change, activism, protest, digitalization, climate strikes, Fridays For Future. School strike week 88.Today we had planned a global climate strike with millions taking part. But in an emergency you have to adapt and change your behaviour.The climate crisis is still ongoing and we must fight every …

Why NGOs and Refugees Should Meet in the Digital Space

If you would have to suddenly flee your home, what would you take with you? Probably your smartphone, right? It is almost impossible to imagine our lives without a smartphone by our side. As well for refugees fleeing to Europe, smartphones are often the most important item they carry with …

The Media is Whitewashing Climate Activism

Does the name Autumn Peltier ring a bell to you? And Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim? Isra Hirsi? What about Greta Thunberg? You’ve probably read or heard the last name, even if you aren’t particularly concerned about climate change. The other ones… I only heard about doing research for this post. If …

Spectacularizing Disasters as a Social Media Strategy

For development organizations, it is difficult to attract an (online) audience that is involved and lasts. Visual media can help attracting such an audience. Visualizing a cause is a great way to reach more engagement. Images receive more attention from viewers, are better understood and give credibility to a message. …

The three C’s: Corona, Conspiracy & Censorship

When talking about (social) media, we also have to address the topic of censoring. Briefly, censoring or censorship is the suppression of speech, because this speech is harmful. Censoring is also being done by big social media platforms. These platforms, like Facebook and YouTube, have policies regarding what is and …

Green Pledging for Virtual Clout

  Have you ever heard about ‘greeenwashing’? Cambridge Online Dictionary defines it as making “people believe that your company is doing more to protect the environment than it really is”. It is the new trend in the world of marketing and PR with companies using ‘green’ words on their products, …

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