communications

January 12, 2017

Liberty launches crowdfunded legal challenge to mass surveillance powers

The civil liberties and human rights organisation Liberty is launching a landmark legal challenge to the extreme mass surveillance powers in the Government’s new Investigatory Powers Act
January 3, 2015

Pew report highlights key privacy issues in a digital age

The terms of citizenship and social life are rapidly changing in the digital age and no issue highlights this better than privacy.
October 31, 2014

Digital platforms and communications rights

Globethics.net has announced publication of a new book that examines how the world of digital technology is reshaping communications and the implications for society, culture and politics.
January 30, 2014

Methodists make communications a priority in Edinburgh

The City of Edinburgh Methodist Church now has a communications coordinator to raise the profile of the church in Scotland's capital.
November 7, 2013

Language as unfinished business

In his second of six Gifford Lectures on Tuesday 5 November 2013, Dr Rowan Williams landed some rather effective blows on a deterministic view of language, which renders free will obsolete and ends up
October 18, 2013

Youth address community issues in churches' virtual conference

The World Council of Churches (WCC) held its first Youth Virtual Conference titled “Live your Faith!” on 12 October.
December 11, 2012

WCC seeks young communicators to work for its 2013 assembly

The World Council of Churches wants young communication professionals to work for its upcoming 2013 Assembly in the Republic of Korea.
November 10, 2012

Canterbury to become a fully-fledged See of Twitter

For the first time in history, the announcement of who would succeed to the See of Canterbury was seen first on twitter (via the @Number10press office), before the formal Downing Street and Lambeth announcements of the archbishop elect.
April 3, 2012

German Catholics and Protestants plot online-assisted future

Catholics and Protestants are cooperating on a new website that allows Germans to find their nearest church service, anywhere in the country, any day.
March 1, 2012

How can weapons of war be turned into life-giving art?

As previously reported on Ekklesia, Professor Jolyon Mitchell from Edinburgh University delivered his inaugural lecture entitled 'How can weapons be turned into art? How can swords be transformed into ploughshares?' back in September last year. It is now available to view here on YouTube, and very well worth watching.