Stories
Our stories examine the ways that race, religion, class, dis/ability, age, gender and sexual identity issues intersect with major topics in the media, and aim to bring new perspectives to light.
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Iraq Is Once Again In The Headlines. What About Iraqis?
It feels almost impossible to avoid scaremongering headlines predicting an imminent war in the Middle East. It didn’t take long …
TikTok, China and the World: A Complex Relationship
“Hi guys, I’m going to teach you guys how to get long lashes”, Feroza Aziz says to the camera whilst …
CIVIS Media Prize: Migration, Integration and Cultural Diversity
European programmes exploring the topics of migration, integration and cultural diversity are invited to enter. A new addition to the 2020 competition is the topic of democratic culture – with a particular focus on the fault lines of an integrative...
Ága – A Glimpse of Cultures Being Destroyed by Russian Colonialism ...
This year’s London Migration Film Festival screened Ága, an eco-drama set in Northern Siberia’s Sakha Republic that shows the silent struggle of an …
Counting the Dead, Calling Out Femicide: How French Media Has Finally...
By: Sophie Chauvet A year ago, 12,000 purple-clad French women took the streets of Paris in the biggest march against …
Sadfishing: a New Phenomenon Affecting Young People Online
It is no secret that many young people today face a whole new world of influence and pressures through online …
CIVIS Media Prize: Migration, Integration and Cultural Diversity.
The CIVIS MEDIA PRIZE 2020 is now accepting submissions. European programmes exploring the topics of migration, integration and cultural diversity …
A Nazi Song Cover Gets 9/10 for a Secondary School Assignment in Argen...
Trigger Warning: this article mentions extreme anti-Semitic content. Most people who lived through the late nineties and early two-thousands will …
Final Conference – Disability: A Matter of Perception
One day before the International Day of People with Disabilities, Media Diversity Institute (MDI) Western Balkans hosted the closing conference …
MDI at ARIJ 2019: Storytelling to Cure Social Divisions
Last week, Media Diversity Institute gave a workshop titled, “Storytelling to Cure Social Divisions” to the ICFJ (International Center for …
