How can journalists resist a master media manipulator, reach local communities and sift through fake news and propaganda? Media experts explore the challenges of covering the next administration.
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Even if fake articles could be curbed and filtered news modified, there’s something built into Facebook’s anatomy that foments partisan rage.
Lies, Twitter bots and sensation reign in the era of for-profit digital media.
A new database that shows the use of gendered words in major Australian newspapers tells us much about whose voices are being heard.
Changes in news media distribution and the impartiality of news sources provide good reason to be concerned. However, digital inequality is not the way to understand or measure it.
Making decisions about what people do and don’t read is the traditional role of an editor, no matter what Facebook claims.
Attempts to model your web experience led to fears of an echo chamber effect, but rather than reinforcing your sense of self, the process might be altering it.
There were high hopes that the SABC would become a true public broadcaster after the end of apartheid when it was used ruthlessly as a propaganda machine. But those hopes have since been dashed.
Social networking, smartphones, ad blockers, oh my. A global survey of 50,000 news consumers assessed the ways we get our news in 2016.
Researching how news has changed from the 17th century to the present makes two scholars sanguine about its future.
Journalists used to decide what was news. Things are very different now.
The rise of Facebook and Twitter is not necessarily a happy story for democracy.
The social media company seems to be mulling a massive increase in tweet length from the iconic 140 characters users have grown accustomed to.
The movie ‘Spotlight’ might depict heroic journalists in action, but increasingly, the public views reporters with suspicion – primed by the often harsh portrayal of the press in popular culture.
Murky ethics surround the pervasive practice of news sites engaging in online tracking.
Our journalism expert explains how to tell fact from fiction.
People found out about crime and punishment in that most spectacular era of public executions, the Renaissance, through melody.
The 2015 Reuters institute digital news report has just been published. It contains, according to Matthew Ingram in Fortune magazine, mostly bad news for traditional, mainstream media – confirming what…
Ubiquitous social media giant Facebook has launched a mobile service called Instant Articles. It allows news stories provided by a number of partners to be read in their entirety from the Facebook iOS…
What do stuffed crust pizza and terrifying newspaper headlines have in common? Our hard-wired evolutionary responses hold the answer.
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Associate Professor of Communication, University of Canberra
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Professor of Communication, News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra
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Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon
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Professor of Media Industries, University of Nottingham
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Assistant professor of political science, Colorado State University
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Carolyn S. Chambers Professor in Journalism, University of Oregon
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Professor of Journalism, University of Sussex
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Discipline of Media and Communications, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Professor Communications and Media, University of Canberra
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2024 Oxford University visiting research fellow RIJS; Professor of Political Communication., La Trobe University
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Associate Professor in Digital Media, Western Sydney University
