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Subtly shifting the crafting and delivery of public health messaging on COVID-19 vaccines could go a long way toward persuading many of the unvaccinated to get the shot.
Schools are back, but NCEA level 1 media studies soon won’t be — at a time when media literacy is more vital than ever.
Journalists use real people’s stories to ‘humanize’ the news. But these tales – whether harrowing or heartwarming – can be misleading about the pandemic’s greatest threats.
BBC presenter John Humphrys seems to think the school of hard knocks is superior to academe. He’s wrong.
It’s time characters on TV reflected not only women’s experience of heart disease but those of men from diverse backgrounds if we want to prevent more people dying from heart disease.
According to a new study, those who have a tendency to sabotage their relationships may find solace in the fictional worlds of TV and movies.
Despite its magnitude, the response to the Montara oil spill did not receive the publicity of other offshore oil disasters like the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
A new study compared fictional patient experiences in Grey’s Anatomy with real trauma cases. It concluded patients who are fans of the show might have unrealistic expectations of medical care.
An analysis of media coverage provides lessons for how to move the climate debate forward and other highly polarized issues.
When the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was founded 50 years ago, it was supposed to reflect the nation’s disparate voices.
The growth of new, vibrant, independent media sites and projects in South Africa have challenged conceptions of what a newsroom is. On limited budgets, some even fare better than mainstream media.
Don’t listen to the headlines linking binge watching to depression and loneliness. It can be a positive experience – but only if we think of it as a good thing.
U.S. journalism has long championed an allegiance to cold objectivity. But one researcher analyzed Pulitzer Prize-winning stories from the past 20 years and found that they’re suffused with emotion.
Theodor Fontane was a German newspaper’s England correspondent – who reported ‘from’ London without leaving his Berlin desk.
On Q&A, government minister Zed Seselja remarked that surveys showed confidence in media has fallen globally. In Australia, he said, it has dropped lower than in the US. Is he right?
The Marvel superhero directly confronts a ‘war on terror culture’ that regards Muslim-Americans as threats.
The media as an institution in the United States is in a deplorable condition, and President-elect Donald Trump has been the beneficiary of its failings.
E-book sales are falling, even though many said they would “kill” print books. Computers and television were also supposed to spell the book’s demise. At one point, people even feared the phonograph.
Lies, Twitter bots and sensation reign in the era of for-profit digital media.
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SHARP Professor, leader of the Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, UNSW Sydney, and leader of the UNSW Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor of Communications, University of Oregon
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Associate Professor of Communication, University of Pennsylvania
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Andrea Carson is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Political Communication, Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Program Manager, Journalism, RMIT University
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Professor of Management & Organizations; Professor of Environment & Sustainability; Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the Ross School of Business and School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Professor of Film and Television, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Assistant Professor in Digital and Creative Media at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Communication, Public Policy & Urban Affairs, Northeastern University, Northeastern University
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Professor, School of Journalism, Media and Culture; University Dean of Research Environment and Culture, Cardiff University
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PhD Candidate on Media and Communication, University of Westminster
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Senior Lecturer in the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University
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Professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut
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Director, Center for Global Studies, Penn State
