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Global Voices

Overcoming negative stereotypes in the South Caucasus

Daniel Maree | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Harvard, Conflict, Armenia, Peace, Azerbaijan, South Ossetia, Bloggers, Global Voices, Twitter, Nagorno-Karabagh, US-Institute-of-Peace, Caucasus, Facebook, Ilham Aliyev, World News
Daniel Maree

This guest post was written by Onnik Krikorian and originally appeared on the World Development Report 2011 blog on August 6, 2010. In the 16 yea...

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Citizen Media: Drown Out the Noise

Ruthie Ackerman | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Saki G, Kate Thomas, Guinea, Myles Estey, Global Voices, Democracy, Liberia, David Sasaki, Hyperlocal, Shane Smith, Journalism, Participatory Journalism, Chimamanda Adichie, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Ceasefire Liberia, Shelby Grossman, Ethan Zuckerman, Glenna Gordon, Vice, Citizen Media, World News
Ruthie Ackerman

What makes (the best of) today's journalism different is that citizen journalists the world over have the opportunity to share their hyperlocal, interactive, personal portrayals of their communities.

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Media Literacy 101: Losing Our Ability to Listen to the World (in English)

Susan Moeller | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Blogosphere, Arab Media, Bloggers, Icann, Knight Foundation, English, Domain Names, Global Voices, Chinese, America First, Globalization, Official Language, Technology News
Susan Moeller

The decision to allow Web addresses to be written completely in non-Latin alphabets isn't just a huge deal for most of Asia, the Middle East and wide swaths of the rest of the world. It's a huge deal for Americans.

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The World Is Not Undecided

Jillian York | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Obama, If the World Could Vote, John McCain 2008, Barack Obama, Global Voices, Voices Without Votes, Mccain International Community, Obama International Community, Iran, Global Opinion, International Community, Election 2008, World Opinion, Home News
Jillian York

A quick glance at the global blogosphere and it's clear who the world wants for president: Barack Obama. The international community likes his charisma, foreign policy, take on the issues, and that he's so different from Bush.

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U.S. Election Gets Global Community Talking About What Needs To Happen In America

Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Tibet Freedom; Free Trade, Global Voices, Democrats Abroad, Myanmar Cyclone, Uganda Obama, World Reaction Obama, Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Myanmar Protests, Election 2008, Sarah Palin Reaction, John McCain, Home News
Hanna Ingber Win

Much of the international community has been watching the U.S. presidential campaign with keen interest -- in the results as well as in the daily drama (including discussion of lipstick on pigs and the Alaskan view of Russia).

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