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Social media, democracy and dissent in Sri Lanka

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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
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Meera Selva, Director of the Reuters Institute Journalism Fellowship Programme, addresses our closing seminar of the term with a presentation on the media situation in Sri Lanka.
Attacks on journalists are – when they happen – shockingly brutal. News coverage tends not to cross socio-economic and ethnic/linguistic divides. Closing down social media in response to national crises invokes the law of unintended consequences.

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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
People
Meera Selva
Keywords
press freedom
murdered journalists
disappeared
linguistic divides
ethnic divides
religious divides
civil war
broadcasting atrocities
Department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)
Date Added: 24/06/2019
Duration: 00:24:13

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