The Stefanovic saga represents a high-profile example of the transfer of journalism’s hard-earned credibility into a rapidly growing alternative media sphere.
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Setting up shop outside mainstream news organisations and using social media platforms allows for greater creative and financial control.
For more than a decade, self-professed cinephiles have flocked to the studio for edgy content. But how long can it retain its cult status?
Legacy newsrooms have lost their audiences. Could a radical transformation in how they practice journalism make the industry relevant again?
The liberal establishment can also be responsible for disseminating conspiracy theories.
Citizens’ social media is a form of alternative media that challenges both mainstream media and right-wing propaganda.
Data show many mainstream print media outlets are growing their readership - but it would be worrying if this was because they are aping what happens on social media.
Not everyone voicing suspicion of mainstream media is a conspiracy theorist – we need to guard against the far right monopolising the terms of media criticism.
Press-bashing was a feature of the years Trump was president. But a new, more constructive kind of press criticism has also emerged that aims to improve journalism, not delegitimize it.
The letter is part of a campaign running across Google’s platforms, designed to gaslight Australian users. Don’t fall for it.
Scandals are violent shocks to social systems, yet not all questionable behaviour produces scandal. How can we explain that some figures escape the consequences of their own behavior while others don’t?
Feminists in Africa must step up to the challenge and redress the manner in which African women are portrayed in the digital age.
Street art promotes public dialogue on social justice issues and can lead to opportunities for learning outside of formal schooling.
African newsrooms are using media analytics to study their audiences but there’s a downside.
In Kenneth Burke’s ‘The War of Words,’ the late rhetorical theorist picks apart the little ways news articles can subtly influence readers – and harden divisions.
The power of the mainstream media to put pressure US government policy should not be underrated.
It’s not just the US which is seeing a rise in support for neo-Nazi organisations and right-wing politics. In Scandinavia it’s infiltrating the mainstream.
While specific stories from RT don’t reach many people, they change the mainstream media’s behaviour.
It’s election time and all the political parties are locked in a social media battle. But does it help inform political debate or just cause even more confusion?
In Africa, the idea of a post-truth era - which by implication fundamentally presupposes the existence of an era in which ‘truth’ was self-evident - is folly.
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Paterno Family Liberal Arts Professor Emeritus, Penn State
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