Archive for the ‘New Media’ Category
minha casa é sua casa
or my house is your house Before I headed out to Brazil, I was given the option by the Brazilian Embassy in Islamabad to connect with people that might interest me on my trip. I jumped at the opportunity, and googled “brazil citizen journalism.” I found the name of a Brazilian professional journalist who was [...]
Filed under: New Media, Travel | 5 Comments
Tags: Ana Carmen Foschini, Bloggers, Brazil, Brazil bloggers, Casa da Cultura Digital, Conquer the web, hackers, House of Digital Culture, Pakistan-Brazil exchange, Sao Paulo
Journalism Workshop at T2F
I’ll be running a journalism workshop at The Second Floor (T2F). There are five sessions starting on Saturday, the 2nd of April. If you’re interested in learning the basics of broadcast journalism, or if you are a citizen journalist striving to meet professional standards, you may want to look into this. Thanks!
Filed under: Media, New Media | 2 Comments
Gawaahi.com — our story
This story has been cross-posted in my website, http://gawaahi.com. If you haven’t seen it yet, please go over and have a look. Gawaahi.com was conceived at a wedding. I know how that sounds, but it’s true. Sana Saleem had just returned from Islamabad where she had trained to record digital stories. I had returned from [...]
Filed under: Child rights, Media, New Media, Social Issues, Socio-Economic, Women | 1 Comment
Tags: flood survivors, Gawaahi, Gawaahi.com, Mehreen Kasana, Naveen Naqvi, Pakistan, Pakistan floods, Pakistan NGOs, Pakistan websites, Sana Saleem
Heal someone’s world
In 2009, about 3 Pakistani children were sexually abused every day. A total of 2,012 reported cases of child sexual abuse were recorded from all over Pakistan. To lend perspective to that figure revealed this year by the non government organisation Sahil, let me add some numbers. Child abuse is a global phenomenon. As the [...]
Filed under: Child rights, New Media, Social Issues, Twitter | 2 Comments
Tags: Human Rights Watch, Pakistan child abuse, Sahil
Rising out of the Web
Today I learnt a new statistic. 95 percent of aggressive behaviour, harassment, abusive language and degrading images online spaces are aimed at women. This is a global phenomenon but one that can be and is overlooked. After all, when we think of violence, it is physical assault that comes to mind. What takes place in [...]
Filed under: Media, MInority rights, New Media, Social Issues, Technology, Women | 6 Comments
Tags: Pakistan, TakeBackTheTech, TBTT
