Assignment #3
The Right to Communicate
This assignment builds on the readings you have done about
the right to communicate, including the essays by Calabrese, Jean D’Arcy, the
MacBride Report, and the documents pertaining to the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS). In particular, you should pay close attention to
the Civil
Society Declaration to the WSIS. For this assignment, please do the
following:
- Review
the Civil Society Declaration to the WSIS and identify two of the “core
principles” it discusses that you would like to further investigate;
- Using
the United States
and one other country of your choice, compare the degree to which the two core
principles you’ve chosen are addressed in these countries;
- Explain
how the problem areas highlighted by the core principles you’ve chosen can
be improved in the two countries you are examining;
- How
well do the WSIS
Declaration and Action Plan address these problem areas? In answering
this question, you may focus on the two countries you are examining, but
you need not focus your comments entirely on those countries.
Maximum length: 4 double-spaced pages
Due date: March 17 (in class)