Media Development

The document investigates the shift from institutional 'journals of record' to 'globital' memory, where digital tools allow individuals to archive and share personal narratives. It analyzes the role of mobile technology in documenting gendered experiences and human rights abuses, the use of new media by asylum seekers to challenge state narratives, and the capacity of video games and virtual museums to engage with historical atrocities and marginalized identities. Additionally, it discusses the impact of digital connectivity on local community memory in Australia and the influence of religious fundamentalist actors in international human rights spaces.

• Digital media is shifting the power of archiving from institutions like museums and governments to the social collective and ordinary individuals, challenging the ability of powerful entities to preserve history on their own terms.
• The 'globital' age of memory, driven largely by mobile phones, allows memories to travel rapidly from individual to collective and local to global, which can either reproduce gender inequalities or enable new feminist actions against injustice.
• The production of digital memory has a significant environmental and human cost, involving the mining of rare earths like Europium on indigenous lands and the processing of e-waste by women and children in China.
• Asylum seekers can use contemporary media to bypass traditional media 'gatekeepers' and share their life stories to challenge state narratives that label them as 'illegal infiltrators' rather than refugees.
• While most mainstream historical video games are US- and Eurocentric and reinforce hegemonic power structures, some titles are beginning to engage with historical atrocities and marginalized perspectives.
• Virtual museums, such as the Museu da Pessoa in Brazil, are redefining the role of the visitor by allowing the public to act as curators of their own digital exhibitions, shifting the focus toward the humanity of individuals.
• The 'Museum on Wheels' project by the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews uses a mobile pavilion to bring Jewish history to small rural towns in Poland where Jewish communities were largely annihilated during the Holocaust.
• There is a growing trend of conservative, religiously-affiliated non-State actors, many based in the United States, operating within international human rights spaces to oppose progressive agendas regarding gender and sexuality.

APA

World Association for Christian Communication (2017). Media Development. https://new.waccglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/wacc-global/resources/md-2017-4/MD-2017-4.pdf

Chicago

World Association for Christian Communication. Media Development. 2017. https://new.waccglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/wacc-global/resources/md-2017-4/MD-2017-4.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldassociationforchristiancommunication2017media, author = {{World Association for Christian Communication}}, title = {{Media Development}}, institution = {World Association for Christian Communication}, year = {2017}, month = apr, url = {https://new.waccglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/wacc-global/resources/md-2017-4/MD-2017-4.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }