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Advocacy, International, Media and Communications

Homo Digitalis and the Citizen Journalist

An interesting dimension to the current conflict playing out in Ukraine amidst increasing aggression and spirited defiance, amidst airstrikes, war crimes, sanctions and diplomacy are the varied approaches to the flow of…

Pranith Wirasinha Pranith Wirasinha on 03/17/202203/18/2022
Anuradhapura, Development, Environment, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Puttalam

The ecology of an issue: ‘Save Wilpattu’ on Facebook and Twitter

When over the weekend, senior journalist Amantha Perera sent a link to a post on Facebook asking if it was one that was popular, the answer took me into a brief study…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 03/25/2019
Human Rights, Issues, Media and Communications, Politics and Governance

Media As Memory: Remembering July 1983

The flat, cardboard boxes are stacked almost to the ceiling. The neatly glued label of one of them is clearly visible when a door opens – briefly releasing a puff of air-conditioned…

Raisa Wickrematunge and Amalini De Sayrah Raisa Wickrematunge and Amalini De Sayrah on 07/26/201807/30/2018
Colombo, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Soundbites and sound bytes: Future of digital conversations in Sri Lanka

Even before the end of the war in 2009, but certainly after it, conversations on society, politics, culture, religion and other vital matters are moving online to digital spaces, or are increasingly…

Groundviews Groundviews on 12/04/201712/08/2017
Issues, Media and Communications

Disinformation in Sri Lanka: An overview

Fake news became a buzzword around the 2016 US Presidential election campaign. However, it’s something we have been grappling with in Sri Lanka for years. Fake news, is news created with the…

Groundviews Groundviews on 07/04/201707/08/2017
Issues, Media and Communications

Empathetic Media: Covering death with sensitivity

I’m here to speak to you today on a topic that, for me, has deep personal significance. It was quite a difficult decision for me to speak to you all today. In…

Raisa Wickrematunge Raisa Wickrematunge on 12/02/201607/28/2020
Issues, Media and Communications, Science and Technology

Groundviews: Now on WhatsApp

Featured image courtesy Wired Following trends in social media use,  is now enabling mobile updates via WhatsApp. To sign up, simply fill in this form and add the number specified within to your…

Groundviews Groundviews on 02/23/201606/15/2020
Colombo, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

In conversation with Chandana Sirimalwatte

Chandana Sirimalwatte is the Editor of the was attacked with iron rods in Jaffna. Chandana’s been arrested, interrogated by the CID and has had his press sealed. In October 2009, he was…

Groundviews Groundviews on 08/01/201108/01/2011
Colombo, Human Rights, Human Security, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

None Other Than Mahinda Rajapaksha!

Lasantha Wickrematunga faced his last moments at an unusual time at an unusual place. From the moment he left home the day he was murdered, he was aware that he was being…

Uvindu Kurukulasuriya Uvindu Kurukulasuriya on 03/07/200903/08/2011
Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

The Spectre of Terrorism and Cricketing Fears

Michael Roberts Dept of Anthropology, University of Adelaide Guided by existing evidence from the past two decades, in composing an article on 26 November 2008 I contended that “there [was] no evidence of…

Michael Roberts Michael Roberts on 12/12/200812/12/2008
Colombo, Media and Communications

Beyond ‘Babu SAARC’: Liberating airwaves for South Asians

Watching the current SAARC jamboree unfold over television news, my young daughter asked why none of the officials were smiling. The SAARC Secretary General, Dr. Sheel Khant Sharma, was always scowling. Others…

Nalaka Gunawardene Nalaka Gunawardene on 07/31/2008
Colombo, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict

A malicious “patriotism” and its impact on media and journalists

Journalists in Sri Lanka are trying to recollect whether they had a worse time under the regime of President Ranasinghe Premadasa when during the height of a crackdown on a JVP insurrection…

Ruwanminee Wickremasinghe Ruwanminee Wickremasinghe on 06/06/2008
Colombo, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict

Sri Lankan journalists: An extinct and unprotected species

By Satheesan Kumaaran   While the freedom of the press is a precious ingredient of a vibrant democracy, in most autocracies claiming to be democracies, journalists are casualties of the various conflicts…

Groundviews Groundviews on 06/01/2008
Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict

Media responsibility, the right to know what goes on in our own backyards & other such nonsense

The Media’s responsibility in securing it’s own freedom Despite my horror for cynicism, I find myself defeated into just that. While I would like to confine my ranting to discourses with my…

Ange Ange on 04/21/200804/21/2008

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