1. What is the main idea presented in the article?
2. Which theoretical perspective is reflected in the article? (i.e., is it a human rules perspective? a rhetorical perspective or one of the other theoretical perspectives you read about in the previous module?)
3. What type of communication practitioner(s) can benefit from reading this research? Why?

and communications will be used for increased state and corporate surveillance, censorship and data gathering need to become the focus of extensive civic debate and regulatory atten- tion." This thinking forms part of a larger initiative led by the International Panel on Social Progress, whose aim is to develop research-based, multi-disciplinary, non-partisan, action-driven solutions to the most pressing challenges of our time. In a sense, it is civil society's take on how to respond positively and with dignity to issues of social justice that may not be addressed by the government- led SDGs. Guided by a host of luminaries including Amartya Sen, Manuel Castells, and Sunita Narain, the IPSP assigns a crucial role for democracy to media and communications (Chapter 13 of the IPSP's 2018 Report). In a sense, Chapter 13 is the MacBride Report of our times and should certainly be read as such. It underlines Sen MacBride's assertion that there is "no magic solution to efface by a single stroke the existing complicated and inter- connected web of communication problems" and that, while the particulars of the process will continually alter, "its goals will be constant - more justice, more equity, more reciprocity." "5 Notes 1. Many Voices One World. Towards a new more just and more efficient world information and communication order, p. xiv. Paris: UNESCO, 1980. Reprinted London: WACC, 1988. 2. "Great Media and Communication Debates: WSIS and the MacBride Report" by Robin Mansell and Kaarle Nordenstreng in the MIT's Information Technologies and International Development Volume 3, Number 4, Summer 2006, 15-36. 3. See Pradip N. Thomas (2006). "The Communication Rights in the Information Society (CRIS) Campaign." International Communication Gazette 68(4):291-312 August 2006. 4. The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was held in two phases. The first phase took place in Geneva hosted by the Government of Switzerland from 10 to 12 December 2003, and the second phase took place in Tunis hosted by the Government of Tunisia, from 16 to 18 November 2005. 5. Many Voices One World. Towards a new more just and more efficient world information and communication order, p. xviii. Paris: UNESCO, 1980. Reprinted London: WACC, 1988. 6 Media, communication and the struggle for social progress Nick Couldry, Clemencia Rodriguez et al This article discusses the role of media and communications in contributing to social progress, as elaborated in a landmark international project - the International Panel on Social Progress. First, it analyses how media and digital platforms have contributed to global inequality by examining media access and infrastructure across world regions. Second, it looks at media governance and the different mechanisms of corporatized control over media platforms, algorithms and content. Third, the article examines how the democratization of media is a key element in the struggle for social justice. It argues that effective media access - - in terms of distribution of media resources, even relations between spaces of connection and the design and operation of spaces that foster dialogue, free speech and respectful cultural exchange - is a core component of social progress. n January 2015, a group of academics from areas convened in Paris to plan an initiative known as the International Panel for Social Progress: Re- thinking Society for the XXI Century (IPSP). Spearheaded by Princeton University philoso- Media Development 3/2019