Riesgos y oportunidades para la libertad de expresión en la era post primavera árabe. Periodistas premiados por Index on Censorship

Teresa  Sandoval-Martín; Leila  Nachawati-Rego

doi:10.4185/RLCS-2018-1294

Authors

Teresa Sandoval-Martín Carlos III University. Madrid http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9220-2299
Leila Nachawati-Rego Carlos III University. Madrid https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1772-4649

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2018-1294

Keywords:

freedom of expression, censorship, activists, journalists, cyberspace

Abstract

This study focuses on journalists and media outlets that have defended the freedom of expression and spoke out against censorship in the post-Arab Spring era. Methodology: The findings reported here are based on an examination of statements made by winners of the Index on Censorship’s 2015 Freedom of Expression Awards and an evaluation of the degree to which cyberspace raises the visibility of reporting exposing government oppression, corruption and restriction of free expression and international awareness of such situations. Results and conclusions: Journalists working under conditions that severely impede their ability to practice their profession are increasingly taking activist stances. The Web has become their primary means of drawing attention to the stories they produce and reaching a broad audience. Television and the Internet play a major role in the dissemination of their work. The questionable quality of some of the information exchanged via social media lowers the potential of these channels to promote constructive civil debate

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Author Biographies

Teresa Sandoval-Martín, Carlos III University. Madrid

Associate Professor of Journalism (UC3M). European PhD and Extraordinary Doctorate Award (La Laguna University).

Master on New Information Technologies and Communication (UNED). Director of the Research group PASEET and member of the UC3M research team in the R + D + I project “Big Data, Social Media and Data Journalism: Monitoring tools appliance to journalistic sources and content analysis”, finance by the Ministry Economy and Competitiveness of Spain, within the National Plan “R+D+I Projects of the State Program of Research, Development and innovation towards the rest of society”, Reference: CSO2013-47767-C2-1-R).

She has participated in 11 competitiveness projects, half of half of them in digital journalism. Co-author of several books on Internet and Journalism and many articles about this theme. Among others: Information Geo-location and Data Mapping in Online Journalism with Ushahidi (El Profesional de la Información, may-june, 2016), Journalism and Democracy in Online environments (SEP, 2016), Journalism in the Interenet Era (Ariel/Fundación Telefónica, 2008), Digital Journalism in times of crisis (Ariel/Fundación Telefónica, 2009) and Cyber-journalistic Writing Manual (Ariel, 2003). Board Member of Spanish Journalistic Society (SEP).

Leila Nachawati-Rego, Carlos III University. Madrid

She is currently professor of Journalism in the Department of Journalism and Audiovisual Communication of the Carlos III University of Madrid and a PhD candidate in Media Research at this university.

She is a writer (Cuando la revolución termine, Turpial, 2016) and professor specialized in the Middle East and North Africa. She works in the Association for the Progress of Communications, an international network of human rights that promotes social justice through information and communication technologies.

She holds a Master's Degree in Applied Research in Media (UC3M) and a BA in English and Arabic Philology. He has a Master's Degree in Cooperation.

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