« La preuve par l’image » (1/5). Comment des Etats, des particuliers ou des groupes de pression s’appuient sur l’image pour se protéger ou établir une vérité. Dans cet épisode, la Chine, où la vidéo-surveillance massive joue un rôle central dans le contrôle de la population. Ou encore dans la répression de la minorité ouïgoure.
L’image pourrait être tirée d’une adaptation high-tech de 1984, la dystopie d’Orwell : de simples badauds, traversant un passage piéton, identifiés automatiquement par les caméras de surveillance d’un Etat autoritaire, capables d’afficher aussitôt sur un écran le nom et le numéro de carte d’identité d’un individu. Et de faire remonter son casier judiciaire ou le dossier concernant sa loyauté politique au régime. Les plaques d’immatriculation et le type de véhicule – modèle, couleur – sont relevés, eux aussi, pour un suivi au plus près.
En Chine, cette vision est en train de devenir réalité, du fait des progrès de l’intelligence artificielle mis au service d’un régime qui, sous la main du président Xi Jinping, n’en finit pas de se refermer.
Anthony Feinstein is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is the co-author of this report on the emotional toll on journalists covering the European refugee crisis that we published in 2017. This piece is a lightly edited transcript of his opening remarks at a seminar chaired by Meera Selva on 27 May 2020. You can watch the whole event in this link.
Anthony Feinstein
I’ve devoted 20 years to looking at the emotional well-being of journalists. I first became interested in the topic around 1999 when a patient was referred to my clinic with a very unusual presentation. She was a frontline journalist who had been working in East Africa. She had covered a lot of conflict, and over the years she’d become progressively distressed emotionally until she had this major breakdown, had to come back to Canada and was referred to my clinic.
She did really well in therapy. She made a full recovery, and I remember saying to her at the time, “Why had you not reached out for help earlier? You know, you work for a large news organisation – you knew that you were getting into trouble. Why did you not ask for assistance?”. And she said to me: “You don’t understand my profession. If I had told my manager I was feeling this way, they would not have sent me out into the field again and my career as a frontline correspondent would have been over.”
I was intrigued by her response. I thought this was somewhat punitive, and so I asked my research team at the time to go and look at the literature and tell me what had been published on the topic of journalists and trauma and emotional well-being. And they came back and said, “We can’t find a single paper”. I didn’t believe them because in medicine there’s always someone who’s been there before you. And so we went to the big library at the University of Toronto and we asked the librarians to check and they came back and said, “No, there’s nothing there.”
On the basis of that, I wrote a grant application and sent it to the Freedom Forum in Washington DC. Based on that early grant, we were able to undertake a study looking at frontline journalists who were working for the BBC, for CNN, for Reuters, Associated Press. I was given a Rolodex of 170 names of leading frontline journalists who basically defined their careers covering war and disaster and revolution. And we had a control group of journalists who had never done that, who’d stayed at home in Canada covering domestic news, and we had a look at topics like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety and substance abuse.
Hay al menos dos maneras de entender qué es TikTok. Uno. TikTok es una red social china de vídeos cortos en la que unos 800 millones de adolescentes de todo el planeta, algún adult elmundo.es 12:15 PM · Aug 9, 2020
PAPEL@Papel_EM
«TikTok no es particularmente más dañina que cualquier red social. Todos los datos terminan siempre en manos de alguien. El problema es quién es ese alguien. ¿Prefieres que tus datos estén en manos de Zuckerberg o en manos de un gobierno?»
In this episode of The Director’s Chair, Michael Fullilove speaks with Brookings Institution scholar, and former Russia adviser to President Donald Trump, Dr Fiona Hill.
Fiona is one of the world’s leading Russia experts. She has worked in the US government under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and then served for two years in the Trump Administration. At the end of 2019, Fiona became world-famous following her testimony in the impeachment hearings into Donald Trump’s presidency.
Michael and Fiona reflect on Fiona’s journey from County Durham in northern England to the corridors of the White House in Washington DC, and discuss the British class system, the US foreign policy establishment, American partisan politics, US-Russia relations, and Donald Trump’s relationship with Vladimir Putin.
It’s July 2030, and there’s a crisis brewing in the East China Sea. On July 22, 2020, audience members played along as the CNAS Defense team and leading experts hosted a live, interactive wargame exploring what the United States and China might do if push comes to shove over the Senkaku Islands. Continue leyendo →
The Beirut Explosion – Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane? Is It A Faked Video Of A Missile? – bellingcat
In the days after every catastrophe, it is inevitable that rumours and misinformation will be passed around on social networks and by word of mouth. This appears to be a universal human behaviour…. bellingcat.com 1:13 AM · Aug 8, 2020
Monica G. Prieto@monicagprieto: Menos mal que nos queda @bellingcat
A Hidden Tycoon, African Explosives, and a Loan from a Notorious Bank: Questionable Connections…
Since the devastating explosion of a store of ammonium nitrate in Beirut’s port on August 4, Lebanese citizens have taken to the streets in shock, outrage, and grief. occrp.org 6:18 PM · Aug 21, 2020
–La investigación demuestra que el propietario del barco que transportó el nitrato no era quien se estaba diciendo. Además, el navío, en fatal estado, estuvo retenido durante días en el puerto de Sevilla (ojo, entonces no llevaba la peligrosa carga)
–Este reportaje demuestra que, cuando reporteros entusiastas y capaces de diversos países y medios se ponen a trabajar juntos, el periodismo de investigación es imparable.
