Following the recent rebellions in North Africa, Marco Artusi, professor of Web marketing at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) and CEO of LEN Strategy srl, makes an interesting analysis of the influence that media social network can have in promoting development. We saw that quite often common citizens have been quicker than mass media in providing crucial information to the world outside. As consequence, considering the debate about the rapid changes in media and society in North Africa, what is the relationship between communication and development in the Arab world? Is the new communication through Social Media a “tool” to develop a new kind of participation among common people to social life?
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Father Giuseppe “Bepi” Berton, an Italian Christian priest who has been living in Sierra Leone for over 40 years, is the founder of Family Homes Movement (FHM), a social Movement aiming to take care and educate children in particular need which, during the civil war, took care of about 3000 children soldiers.
In this interview he claims about the prejudices, stiffening the perception of the difference between “us” and “the others”, which are quite common even with NGOs and experts of Development, and gives his raccomandations in order to overcome them.
Read here his raccomandations, or watch the video of the interview (in Italian language)
What’s the reason why the common approach of Media in Europe is that of highlighting in the news only the negative events of murders, violence, family destroyed by young boys and girls, instead of good news related to actions focused to build positive and interactive future? In this interview – taken from the backstage of the activities held in Sierra Leone with the Eugad team, related to the Documentary production in support of MDGs – FRANCESCO BRANCATELLA, national RAI television journalist and expert of reportage in Europe, Middle East and Third World, gives his own point of view on this issue. He talks about the unsaid phobias of western people, the collective unconscious repression of their fears of living, and the way how a strong identity culture, built through a true intercultural dialogue, can help overcoming those fears. He also cites the lesson we can learn by Brazil, as vivid example of multicultural cohabitation.
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