Light of Hope, a harm reduction organization in Ukraine, is using media to advance the health and rights of marginalized groups, including people who use drugs and people living with HIV and Hepatitis.
Posts Tagged “social media”
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Posted in: Europe, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: drug policy, drug users, Gabriel Mumjiev, harm reduction, health media, Hepatitis C, HIV/AIDS, Light of Hope, Maxim Demchenko, public health, social media, Ukraine, World Hepatitis Day
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Sweden is a highly connected, internet-savvy country that still has a large newspaper readership and a strong local and regional press. It offers an intriguing test case for studying the impact of media digitization on journalism and democracy.
Posted in: Europe, Media & Arts
Topics: digital media, Henrik Ornebring, journalism, mapping digital media, social media, Sweden
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The Internet can help civil society come together to demand change, but it only works if organizations work with a collaborative vision and use the network to its full potential.
Posted in: Health, Media & Arts, United States
Topics: Allison Fine, Beth Kanter, digital activism, Facebook, HIV/AIDS, Internet, Mary Joyce, Networked Nonprofit, nonprofits, petitions, pharmaceuticals, public health, social media
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Developments in strategic communication and social media can be overwhelming. The Health Media Initiative has pulled together a few top online resources for nonprofit organizations seeking to be effective agents of change.
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Danica Radovanovic, recipient of a scholarship from the Open Society Foundations, is researching the impact of online social interactions, especially in the Balkans.
Posted in: Education & Youth, Europe
Topics: Balkans, Danica Radovanovic, digital divide, higher education, social media, Zoe Brogden
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A series of reports investigates how the growth of digital media is affecting journalism and democracy in 60 countries.
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Following last year's uprising in Kyrgyzstan, local NGO leaders were committed to finding a way to expand Twitter's reach by making it more accessible and affordable. Tweet.kg was born.
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Armenia offers a case in point in how social media is exerting quiet yet significant influence in broadening public discourse.
Posted in: Europe, Governance & Accountability, Media & Arts
Topics: Armenia, Khatchig Mouradian, social media, YouTube
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In this interview Ian Inaba, filmmaker and cofounder of Citizen Engagement Laboratory, explains how underrepresented constituencies can use new media to amplify their voices for social justice.
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This week, Open Society tweets covered events in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, the importance of education, social media use in Kenya, and the UN's silence on forced sterilization in China.
Posted in: Africa, Education & Youth
Topics: Brock Boddie, China, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, social media