Napoleon to heavy metal: academic blogs
By Editor on May 14, 2008 10:13 pm / Permalink
In the first of a series, Rohit Chopra surveys academic blogs from the worlds of history, media studies, and the social sciences.
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Online (+ print) = future
By Amy Blyth on May 7, 2008 1:08 am / Permalink
Print will fall and online will rise and rise. In five years most journalists will produce multi-media content. But quality of journalism may not improve… What 700 editors and newspaper executives across 120 countries said in the second Newsroom Barometer Survey.
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‘What does online democracy mean?’
By Editor on April 28, 2008 7:18 pm / Permalink
Professor Mark Nunes, in conversation with Rohit Chopra. In this inaugural interview in a series on new media and culture, the author of Cyberspaces of Everyday Life discusses the limitations of democracy online and the expectations from Web 2.0.
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The road not taken
By Editor on April 23, 2008 6:40 pm / Permalink
Could the Iraq war have been prevented had the American media asked the right questions? How do conservative media commentators frame the actions of different religious communities? Does the media pay due attention to history? Mike Ghouse reflects on the political impact of mainstream media decisions.
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War reporting is dead
By Jameela Oberman on April 22, 2008 9:22 am / Permalink
It has been shot in the head by ‘embedded journalism’. “Reporting conflicts in foreign lands has become an extension of government justification for the war,” says Phillip Knightley, “rather than the public reality of war.”
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How the media fails India
By Editor on April 16, 2008 8:57 am / Permalink
Media is big business in India. But it largely ignores the voting classes, catering not to the 700 million poor Indians who vote but to the middle class of 300 million who ask ‘Why should I vote?’ Fulbright scholar James Mutti calls for a new model.
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NUJ seeks sensitive reports on immigrants
By Ryan Hooper on April 14, 2008 9:08 am / Permalink
The UK union of journalists has urged members to “help nail asylum myths”, following concern over some reporters’ loose use of language on immigration issues.
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About a war
By Editor on April 10, 2008 11:42 pm / Permalink
So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits — and the President — Failed on Iraq lays bare the psychology of the ongoing self-censorship in the American media. There was not so much a conspiracy of silence about the war as an ideological refusal by the media to listen, see, and ask. Rohit Chopra reviews Greg Mitchell’s book.
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