interesting stuff

republic

Sanjana Hattotuwa

January 02, 2009 02:01

Media Re:public is a series of papers exploring the potential and the challenges of the emerging networked digital media environment. As it’s website describes the project, The transformation of the media world is well underway, facilitated by the spread of digital tools. A myriad of...

Sanjana Hattotuwa

Sanjana Hattotuwa

November 16, 2008 13:21

Censorship of media in Sri Lanka isn’t a new phenomenon, but the Rajapakse regime took it a step further recently when it recently promulgated a new set of regulations through a gazette notification, called the Private Television Broadcasting Station Regulations. The over broad and ...

5-years

Sanjana Hattotuwa

November 14, 2008 03:39

Bearing witness to the atrocities, brutality and embedded humanity in war is difficult. Embedded journalism is fraught with challenges and even projects like Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone faced problems of continued support for sustained coverage.  In this context comes a compelling website from R...

censored_poster_web

Sanjana Hattotuwa

November 13, 2008 16:21

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirise all orthodoxies, including religious orthodoxies, it ceases to exist. Language and the imagination cannot be imprisoned, or art will die, and with it, a little ...

Exploring Google Book Search

Lee Gesmer

August 01, 2008 18:23

In November 2005 I wrote an article about Google Book Search and the legal efforts of copyright owners to stop Google from achieving its goal of digitizing the world’s books and making them searchable on Google. The lawsuit filed by the Author’s Guild described there has dragged on...