Elias Tsourapas, Author at EAVI https://eavi.eu/author/eliasts/ Information and Democracy Tue, 15 Jun 2021 13:58:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://eavi.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/cropped-Untitled-design-32x32.webp Elias Tsourapas, Author at EAVI https://eavi.eu/author/eliasts/ 32 32 Copy-Me: A Web Series About Copying https://eavi.eu/copy-me-a-web-series-about-copying/ Tue, 24 Oct 2017 10:46:29 +0000 https://eavi.eu/?p=12100 About Copy-Me is a series from Romanian organisation, copy-me.org that aims to debunk myths and misconceptions about copyright and copying. The series explores the topics of remixing, the history of copyright, distribution and pricing and 'is copying wrong?' The videos are informative, funny and challenge the powerful status quo messages of industry [...]

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]]> Privacy International Explainer Animations https://eavi.eu/privacy-international-explainer-animations/ Tue, 24 Oct 2017 09:18:24 +0000 https://eavi.eu/?p=12115 About Based in London, Privacy International investigate, expose and litigate against government surveillance and the companies that enable it. Here you can find a playlist of some of Privacy International's excellent 'explainer' animations, topics include; What is Privacy? Data Protection Explained Big Data What is Data Exploitation? Communications Sureveillance What is Government [...]

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]]> Good Copy Bad Copy (2007) https://eavi.eu/good-copy-bad-copy-2007/ Fri, 21 Apr 2017 15:03:43 +0000 https://eavi.eu/?p=12130 About Good Copy Bad Copy (subtitled "A documentary about the current state of copyright and culture") is a 2007 documentary film about copyright and culture in the context of Internet, peer-to-peer file sharing and other technological advances, directed by Andreas Johnsen, Ralf Christensen, and Henrik Moltke. It features interviews with many people [...]

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]]> Democracy im Rausch der Daten https://eavi.eu/democracy-im-rausch-der-daten/ Wed, 22 Mar 2017 13:45:01 +0000 https://eavi.eu/?p=12165 About Swiss director David Bernet provides with this very detailed documentary, an insight into the legislative process at EU level. The camera follows the actions taken at the level of the EU institutions by a handful of people who try to protect society from the dangers of big data and mass surveillance. The [...]

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]]> Stuart Hall: Race, Gender, Class; the politics of news https://eavi.eu/stuart-hall-race-gender-class-the-politics-of-news/ Wed, 22 Mar 2017 13:39:18 +0000 https://eavi.eu/?p=12189 About Mainstream media wield an enormous power in shaping perceptions of race, ethnicity, gender and class. The job of the media theorist is exposing and questioning the ideology that lies behind such representations. This idea was first explored by the Jamaican-born cultural theorist Stuart hall, who studied and worked in the UK at [...]

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]]> Edward Said: Framed: the politics of stereotypes https://eavi.eu/edward-said-framed-the-politics-of-stereotypes/ Wed, 22 Mar 2017 13:35:29 +0000 https://eavi.eu/?p=12192 About Are we sure that the perception that we have about the East (and about the Middle East and the different struggles it is going through) is neutral and unbiased? The Palestinian academician Said advanced the hypothesis that the European perspective on the East, that  has been shaped throughout the 18th and 19th [...]

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]]> Noam Chomsky, The Consent Factory https://eavi.eu/noam-chomsky-the-consent-factory/ Wed, 22 Mar 2017 13:27:59 +0000 https://eavi.eu/?p=12195 About Are we really sure that concepts such as propaganda only apply to countries like North Korea or China, and that Western civilisation is, on the other side, the gatekeepers of freedom and democracy? The truth is that, even in the absence of a state media apparatus, phenomena like propaganda are present and [...]

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]]> Marshall McLuhan Digital Prophecies: The medium is the message https://eavi.eu/marshall-mcluhan-digital-prophecies-the-medium-is-the-message/ Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:59:00 +0000 https://eavi.eu/?p=12199 About McLuhan does not analyse the content, but the form in which this content is delivered to us by the media. Since the medium is the message, if you don’t understand the medium you don’t understand the message either. The form informs identity, the ways we perceive ourselves, and since the form changes [...]

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]]> The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies: Doug Belshaw TEDxWarwick https://eavi.eu/the-essential-elements-of-digital-literacies-doug-belshaw-tedxwarwick/ Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:24:59 +0000 https://eavi.eu/?p=12203 About Media literacy can be understood in different ways: there are several ways to approach media education. The starting point, however, must always be the traditional concept of ‘literacy’; therefore, the traditional definition of it as it was defined back in 1957 is still valid to this day. We have to start from [...]

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]]> Sanne Blauw: How to defend yourself against misleading statistics – TEDxMaastricht https://eavi.eu/sanne-blauw-how-to-defend-yourself-against-misleading-statistics-tedxmaastricht/ Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:03:27 +0000 https://eavi.eu/?p=12206 About Sanne Blauw, journalist and statistician who holds a PhD in Statistics, exposes us to the biases hidden in the data and statistics that appear in the media. Basically, we can make a set of data say whatever we want it to say, we can ‘force’ them to serve any purpose and back [...]

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