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MILEN has launched a new podcast on Digital Rights

11 January 2021

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MILEN networked announced the launch of a new podcast on Digital Rights. Over the next months of 2021, the network plans to explore issues related to digital rights violations. From targeted disinformation to hate speech, abuse of personal data and others. What does it mean when your rights are violated?

In the first episode of the new podcast, Digital Rights Explored: Local Fights, Global Perspectives, MILEN correspondent Osama Manzar brings into attention an insightful case story and a contextual analysis of how the longest internet shutdown in history took place in Kashmir.

Listen to the podcast here:
open.spotify.com

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MILEN

MILEN is an international network of Media and Information Literacy (MIL) experts. We operate from four continents: Asia, Africa, Europe and South America. MILEN is founded and supported by Deutsche Welle Akademie.MILEN's members come from different backgrounds in journalism, citizen engagement and development cooperation. Each of them contributes in a unique way to freedom of expression, an open and diverse debate, equal access to technologies and information, and empowering critical media consumers and producers.

Digital rights are considered to be the same fundamental human rights that exist in the offline world – but in the online world. In 2012 (and again in 2014 and 2016), the UN Human Rights Council agreed in a resolution that the "same rights that people have offline must also be protected online." This means that rather than seeking to define new rights for the online space, UN has recommended extending existing human rights to cyberspace. At the same time, rights such as privacy and freedom of expression have gained additional attention as cases of abuse have been noticed by both private and public stakeholders. In this context, a number of European and international organisations are on a path to ensure safeguards for human rights in the new digital era.

Digital rights are considered to be the same fundamental human rights that exist in the offline world – but in the online world. In 2012 (and again in 2014 and 2016), the UN Human Rights Council agreed in a resolution that the "same rights that people have offline must also be protected online." This means that rather than seeking to define new rights for the online space, UN has recommended extending existing human rights to cyberspace. At the same time, rights such as privacy and freedom of expression have gained additional attention as cases of abuse have been noticed by both private and public stakeholders. In this context, a number of European and international organisations are on a path to ensure safeguards for human rights in the new digital era.

A type of digital media, usually audio, that is available in a series of episodes or parts and is streamed or downloaded by the user over the Internet. Podcasts can be made available via a release schedule or uploaded to the Web randomly.

Any information that relates to an identified or identifiable living individual. Different pieces of information, which collected together can lead to the identification of a particular person, also constitute personal data.

Any communication that incites violence based on group specific hate of a defined group of people because of their collective characteristics (ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or other).

False information created with the intent to harm a person, group or country. It can include imposter content, false context, manipulated content and fabricated content (Wardle and Derakhshan, 2017). Misinformation becomes disinformation when the creator or multiplier of the information has the intent to mislead the recipient (Karlova and Fisher, 2013).

The pedagogical approach in MIL teaching that focuses on the study and analysis of the technical, narrative and situational contexts of media texts.