23 March 2015
Dr. Jamie Wardman offers a personal history of important advances and trends in the evolution of ‘computer-mediated risk perception and communication’ over the past twenty years.
19 March 2015
The growth of applications like WeChat, Line, and KakaoTalk have raised questions about the pressures they may face in specific jurisdictions to censor or monitor communications and provide governments with user data. Masashi Crete-Nishihata, from Citizen Lab, will present his research on these issues, as well as how these companies may respond to these demands.
17 March 2015
11 March 2015
Fifty years of military rule has left Myanmar with a shortage of journalists and an immediate need for journalism and news literacy education taught with an emphasis on balanced, ethical reporting, according to JMSC associate professor, Masato Kajimoto.
27 February 2015
In this talk Dr. Kajimoto examines how university educators in Vietnam, Malaysia and Myanmar adapted a news literacy curriculum initially designed for the students in democratic societies.
25 February 2015
Health professionals from China and Afghanistan have completed a JMSC health risk communication workshop, the second such workshop held at the JMSC.
13 February 2015
JMSC graduate Lhagva Erdene has helped establish a media ethics council in Mongolia.
10 February 2015
The JMSC is launching a new open online course, called Making Sense of News, that will enable people to learn how to critically evaluate their news and news sources to better understand the social issues and current affairs that affect their everyday lives.