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“During research for her review, she met representatives from global tech companies, and told them how when Volvo invented the three-point safety belt they gifted the patent to the rest of the industry because staff realised the innovation was so vital to raising safety standards. “My pitch was that they have a duty and responsibility to double down on trying to get technology that can clean up these situations, and they should share that technology.”

A core innovation of the project was the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to identify and analyse smell-related references in more than 43,000 historical images and 167,000 books, across six European languages and four centuries (from the period 1600-1920). This resulted in the European Olfactory Knowledge Graph with 2.5 million smell experiences, which now supports research in literature, food history, health, and community engagement. The project’s methodology included identifying olfactory motifs in visual art, the language(s) we use and the way we and others live and have lived, making it possible for institutions to bring smell into their interpretation of existing museum collections. The developed key digital resources include the Odeuropa Smell Explorer (the first database to search heritage by smell), the Encyclopaedia of Smell History and Heritage; and an Olfactory Storytelling Toolkit for museum professionals developed with perfumers and heritage science experts to enable the presentation of historical scents in museum exhibitions

The idea of the inclusive society as a policy instrument is based on equality of opportunities and the equal capacity of members, irrespective of differences such as gender and faith. Operating within society, the idea of inclusive journalism follows this model, including the anthropocentric practices that exclude the living conditions and concerns of most nonhuman animals. This article argues that for journalism to be truly inclusive the anthropocentric nature of both society and the media must be exposed, and our social practices extended beyond the species divide. The article begins by illustrating the common journalistic practices of reporting on farmed animals, before exploring the new practices of Animal Journalism and, within scholarship, the field of Critical Media and Animal Studies. The article then turns to political theory before suggesting that Donaldson and Kymlicka’s concept of positive relational rights can be placed at the centre of a non-anthropocentric and inclusive journalism practice.

15 years is an eternity in the digital age. YouTube, Twitter, CreativeApplications.Net (CAN)—Geneva’s Mapping Festival precedes them all. Founded in 2005 to rally a prospering VJ scene (after all, Geneva is home to the makers of Modul8), Mapping quickly ascended to become Europe’s foremost summit for anyone interested in audiovisual synthesis and performance. But whereas other festivals came and went, Mapping is still going strong. The secret: as anything that retains relevance over time, the festival never stopped evolving, maturing, and diversifying. Now known for its cross-disciplinary mandate that merges creativity with criticality—“visual audio + deviant electronics”—Mapping has grown into a festival fixture that feels exceedingly current. Its 15th anniversary, for example, coincides with this year’s 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web; a fact that festival directors Ana Ascencio and Audrey Powell carefully weaved into the program. Under their direction, more than fifty international artists, designers, musicians, and researchers will join the festivities not just to dazzle us with “visual audio” (TUNDRA, Freeka Tet, Recent Arts, Grand River & Marco C), but to problematize the “deviant electronics” underpinning the Web (Marc Garret, Joana Moll, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Régine Debatty). Between the exhibition, the forum, and the performance program, the four-day schedule is dense with opportunities to converse, experience, and to learn hands-on. The latter is were we come in: once again, CAN is proud to contribute Mapping’s educational program. Across twelve workshops, lead by some of our favourite artists, designers, and researchers, participants will examine network infrastructures, prototype post-screen interfaces, build energy-free radio receivers, and transplant scents.

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This paper presents a three-level conceptual and methodological framework for assessing local journalism and the extent to which it meets community information needs. This research grows from frequent calls from policymakers, foundations, and advocacy groups for methods and measures to facilitate comparative analyses of the state of local journalism in different communities. Further, the goal here is to develop a methodological approach that can be realistically scaled to large numbers of communities in order to facilitate analysis of both the factors that affect the state of local journalism and the ways local journalism may affect the state of local communities. The methodological approach presented here focuses on infrastructure (the availability of journalistic sources), output (the quantity of journalistic output from these sources), and performance (the extent to which this output is original, is about the local community, and addresses critical information needs). An exploratory application of this methodological approach is then presented for three communities. The results indicate substantial differences in the journalism infrastructure, output, and performance across these communities and suggest possible points of focus for future research.

The Walton Family Foundation invests in journalism as one element in its high-impact social change strategies, especially in its environment and K–12 education programs. A process that included one-on-one interviews, group conversations and extensive review of grant materials has found that the foundation’s journalism investments have a variety of impacts on individuals, networks, institutions and in media broadly. To inform continued grantmaking in this space, and to learn from past investments across issue areas and platforms, the foundation sought to standardize terminology and align on impact measures across program areas.

At Radio Študent Ljubljana we believe that being an actor in media means having power to be seen or heard, power to be visible. That is why it is important for media to reflect the (cultural, ethnic, political, gender...) plurality which can be found in the actual society we live in. Since refugees today represent an important, but also vulnerable and silenced part of our society, they should have an opportunity to represent themselves in media instead of being represented by others. That is why we decided to establish a refugee broadcast hosted by the refugees and asylum seekers at our radio. Having their own radio show enables the refugees in Slovenia to be creative, express their opinions, present their cultures, tell their personal stories, explain the situations in their home countries and so on. For us the importance of this action lies in the combat against the dominant representations of the refugees in the mass media which are mostly characterized by homogenization, generalization, victimization or spreading fear regarding the refugees.

Global Insights on Access to Justice: Findings from the World Justice Project General Population Poll in 45 Countries presents data on how ordinary people around the world navigate their everyday legal problems, highlighting the most common legal conflicts and courses of action, whether respondents are able to resolve their legal problems, and their satisfaction with the resolution process. The study also highlights respondents’ assessment of their own legal confidence and capability, hardships experienced as a result of their legal problem, and whether any party involved in the dispute resorted to violence.

The vetting process is a basic diligence function, ensuring that those who serve in positions of power are free of conflicts of interest or other compromising embarrassments and entanglements. Across nearly every industry, similar checks are performed — of executives and business partners, of borrowers and grantees, and even of political candidates themselves. It's basic risk management.

There are a lack of incentives to share phone numbers with strangers and answer their calls. Experty aims to solve this problem. Through Experty any influencer, professional, or expert can grant instant access to their knowledge from anywhere in the world to anyone in the world.

This year, due to the consolidation of civic crowdfunding practices across Europe and the increasing importance of blending schemes and financial instruments in the future European funding landscape, the conference focuses on how to best combine crowdfunding with other sources of funding, among which the European Structural and Investment Funds.