Non-traditional storytellers are challenging customary journalistic practices by giving ordinary people a chance to control the news narrative.
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Political actors can actively engage with university students by taking cognisance
of their political information needs
New media platforms have changed the way people create, consume and relate the news.
Kenya has just gone through a charged campaign period, followed by a contested election result. The media has been out in force covering it all. But did they do a good job?
Elected officials and the media are in cahoots. Both have succumbed to a two-party system that treats voters not as independent thinkers, but as blind partisans.
How much money does the government spend on producing information? How many people are engaged in this? We don’t know the answers - here’s why we should.
The murder trial of Oscar Pistorius is changing South Africa’s media ecology. It is the country’s first criminal trial to be covered fully on social media and live television, and both journalists and…
Blogs are thriving in New Zealand thanks to threats to media freedom, an increasingly commercialised media environment, and shifts in media ownership. The financial ownership of the major media companies…
Almost a quarter of UK jurors are unclear as to the legal level of internet use during a trial, according to preliminary…
In part four of our multi-disciplinary Millennium Project series, John Keane takes a look at the Chinese regime’s troubled relationship with the cyber world. Global challenge 4: How can genuine democracy…
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Global Scholar at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC and Hopkins P Breazeale Professor, Manship School of Mass Communications, Louisiana State University
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Professor of Communication and Journalism, Texas A&M University
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Associate Professor, Co-Director of the Research Centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy, Auckland University of Technology
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Professor of Politics, University of Sydney
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Caxton Professor of Journalism, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Media Industries, University of Nottingham
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Lecturer, School of Journalism, University of Nairobi
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Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, Daystar University
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Senior Lecturer of Communication Studies, University of Professional Studies Accra