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Category Archives: International
May 13 2012
Breaking News In China
Leave a commentChina is making headlines around the world in many ways. The global media is fascinated by recent tales of alleged corruption and human rights abuse as well some signs that the all-mighty China economy might be stuttering. At the same … Continue reading
Posted by: May 13, 2012
Tagged with: Aljazeera, Beijing, cctv, China, Globalisation, human rights
May 7 2012
Non-User President: Will @PutinRussia replace @MedvedevRussia? (guest blog)
Leave a commentOn May 7 Russia got an old-new President and a new Prime Minister. Among the many differences between the members of the so-called “Russian tandem”, there is one that is less visible, but important. It is the approach of Vladimir … Continue reading
Posted by: May 7, 2012
Tagged with: Asmolov, Freedom of expression, Guest bloggers, guest blogs, Innternet, internet, Putin, Russia
Apr 29 2012
New Media’s Mid-Life Crisis (thoughts from four sessions at the Perugia International Journalism Festival #IFJ12
Leave a commentNew media is entering middle age. We’ve all dropped the ‘new’ bit and instead talk about ‘social’ and ‘semantic’ as Web 3.0 becomes reality. Yet while digital communications are triumphing and networked journalism blossoms in this media mid-life, we are … Continue reading
Posted by: April 29, 2012
Tagged with: events, Freedom of expression, internet, Journalism, Kony2012, Leveson, Murdoch, Perugia, Phonehacking
Apr 20 2012
How did Kony2012 Go Viral and Should We Copy It?
Leave a commentIn this short draft extract from a much longer paper I argue that what made #Kony2012 go viral was not the slick content or the Invisible Children brand – it was its focus on networking as an end in itself. … Continue reading
Posted by: April 20, 2012
Tagged with: campaigns, campaings, coverthenight, Development, humanitarian communications, Kony2012, NGO, public sphere
Mar 29 2012
Revolutionary citizens become better journalists (new LSE research)
Leave a commentThis report by LSE’s Max Hanska-Ahy on his work with Roxanna Shapour on media and the Arab Spring. We know that ‘ordinary people’ played an important role in reporting the recent protests that cascaded across the Middle East and North … Continue reading
Posted by: March 29, 2012
Tagged with: Arab Spring, LSE, Max Hanska-Ahy, Middle East, politics, Research, social media
Mar 27 2012
Reporting Revolutions: Don’t Forget The Aftermath (Guest blog) #Polis12
Leave a commentThis report by Polis intern Barbara Feeney on our Reporting Revolutions panel discussion at the Polis Journalism Conference chaired by Richard Sambrook of Cardiff University with BBC’s Lyse Doucet, Lindsey Hilsum of Channel 4 News (who has a new book, … Continue reading
Posted by: March 27, 2012
Tagged with: Arab Spring, BBC, Chanel 4 News, conflict, Foreign Reporting, guest blogs, International, ITN, Libya, Lindsey Hilsum, Lyse Doucet, Middle East, Revolutions, Syria, Times, Tom Coghlan, War reporting
Mar 13 2012
How China markets its national brand in the global power marketplace (guest blog)
Leave a commentChina is spending billions on promoting itself across the globe but how successful is this strategy? Polis Intern Celine Lau reports on a talk by Professor Jian (Jay) Wang, Associate Professor at University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication … Continue reading
Posted by: March 13, 2012
Tagged with: brand, branding, China, diplomacy, events, Globalisation, marketing, nationalism
Mar 13 2012
Sex, money and power: reporting America for Al Jazeera (guest blog with audio report)
Leave a commentIt has been said that the two aspects of life most often lied about are sex and money – a stereotype that Zeina Awad co-host of Al Jazeera English’s flagship American current affairs programme, Fault Lines, knows all too well. … Continue reading
Posted by: March 13, 2012
Tagged with: Al Jazeera, Elections, events, feminism, gender, guest blog, Guest bloggers, USA, women, Zeina Awad
Mar 8 2012
In Defence of the #Kony12 Campaign (guest blog)
10 CommentsThe Invisible Children Kony campaign has succeeded in one important thing. It has sparked a global debate about the best way to mobilise support for human rights action. With brilliant use of film and online social networks it has created … Continue reading
Posted by: March 8, 2012
Tagged with: Africa, Campaign, humanitarian, Kony, Kony12, social media, StopKony, Uganda
Mar 8 2012
Polis Summer School 2012: The Role of the News Media in the Modern World
Leave a commentThis year we celebrate the sixth POLIS Summer School: International Journalism and Society – The Role of the Media In The Modern World. Amazing things have happened in global news media recently and this course has been revamped to reflect those changes. … Continue reading
Posted by: March 8, 2012
Tagged with: LSE, Polis, Summer School, Teaching
