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‘Eddington’ follows a centuries-old narrative pattern in which disability is framed as punishment, poetic justice or moral revelation.
Eat-the-rich films expose upper-class immorality and entitlement and offer revenge fantasies where those normally crushed by the system fight back or burn it all down.
The HBO Max series ‘And Just Like That…’ provides a platform for the representation of middle-aged women as multifaceted and sexually agentic individuals.
As one workshop participant, a journalism educator, put it: ‘We’re still telling the same stories, it’s like a circle, and we don’t seem to be able to break free from it. Nothing seems to change.’
What does it say about the online media ecosystem when the end of a 146-day strike is buried under headlines and posts about Swift’s budding romance with NFL star Travis Kelce?
In the competitive media landscape of the early 1990s, seizing audience attention was a priority. What better way to do it than with a cheaply produced show that appealed to viewers’ basest instincts?
Journalism has been fodder for politicians’ contempt for generations. A huge percentage of the public doesn’t trust the news media either. That mistrust isn’t a bad thing in a democracy.
When it comes to our ethical duties to animals, representation and respect should go hand in hoof.
The media tends to render Asian Americans as either a ‘perpetual foreigner’ or ‘model minority’ – both stereotypes that have been levied in tandem against immigrants from Asia since the 1830s.
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Professor of Communication and Journalism, University of Maine
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Davidson College
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Associate Professor of Journalism, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor, Management and Organizational Studies, Huron University College and Coordinator of Animal Ethics and Sustainability Leadership, Western University
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Associate Professor of Communication, Lesley University
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Senior Lecturer in the Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Visual Communication & Digital Media, RMIT University
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Professor of Strategic Communication, Texas Christian University
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Lecturer of Marketing, Loyola University Chicago
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Professeure de Marketing, HEC Montréal
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Professor of Marketing and Smith Chair of Business Administration, Loyola University Chicago
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PhD Candidate in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
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Lecturer, Disability Studies, King's University College, Western University
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Post-Doctoral Scholar, Centers for Violence Prevention, University of California, Davis