Stories from December 3, 2017
The Mapuche Language Finding New Trails Online: Just One Piece of the Puzzle
Presenter Simona Mayo is a Lingüistics Ph.D student at the University of Buenos Aires. Since 2010 she has worked with the Mapuche social organization “Kom kim mapudunguaiñ”, which is dedicated to the Mapudungun (Mapuche language) revitalization, teaching, and diffusion in Chile and Argentina. Eddie Avila explains that a key right...
How Conflict Shapes Storytelling and Storytellers
The first victim in conflict is often the truth. How do online storytellers uncover the human stories?
Fake News is Old News
Taisa Sganzerla, Lusaphone editor for Global Voices, leads a panel titled “Fake News is Old News” with the story of a Brazilian cartoonist from a century ago who was continually accused of defamation and blasphemy for lampooning the monarchy, the church and other institutions of the time. She wonders whether...