From NWICO to WSIS: another world information and communication order?

Great Media and Communication Debates: WSIS and the MacBride Report

Author(s): Mansell, Robin; Nordenstreng, Kaarle Title: Great media and communication debates: WSIS and the MacBride report Year: 2006 Journal Title: Information Technologies and International Development Vol and number: 3 : 4 Pages: 15-36 Publisher: USC Annenberg School for Communication ISSN: 1544-7529 Discipline: Media and communications Item Type: Journal Article Language: en URN: URN:NBN:fi...

From Lisbon to the World...

Understanding WSIS: An Institutional Analysis of the UN World Summit on the Information Society

The Cold War’s end stimulated new interest in a long-standing UN institution: the World Summit. World summits are one-time conferences organized by the UN to address global issues such as environment, housing, or food. They involve thousands of policy makers working together over several years to develop consensual visions of principles and possible solutions to some of humankind’s most challen...

Mapping the information flow from one brain to another during gestural communication.

Both the putative mirror neuron system (pMNS) and the ventral medial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) are deemed important for social interaction: the pMNS because it supposedly "resonates" with the actions of others, the vmPFC because it is involved in mentalizing. Strictly speaking, the resonance property of the pMNS has never been investigated. Classical functional MRI experiments have only investi...

the role of russia in transmission of energy from central asia and caucuses to european union

پس ازفروپاشی شوروی،رشد منابع نفت و گاز، آسیای میانه و قفقاز را در یک بازی ژئوپلتیکی انرژی قرار داده است. با در نظر گرفتن این منابع هیدروکربنی، این منطقه به یک میدانجنگ و رقابت تجاری برای بازی های ژئوپلتیکی قدرت های بزرگ جهانی تبدیل شده است. روسیه منطقه را به عنوان حیات خلوت خود تلقی نموده و علاقمند به حفظ حضورش می باشد تا همانند گذشته گاز طبیعی را به وسیله خط لوله مرکزی دریافت و به عنوان یک واس...