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Tag Archives: Summer School
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
Jul 24 2011
WikiLeaks: Making Life Difficult (Summer School Guest Blog)
2 CommentsThis report is by Polis Summer School student Felicia Oschmann. Apart from several photographs of Julian Assange entering the Royal Court of Justice in London during the course of the last weeks, the media’s attention seems to have slipped away … Continue reading
Posted by: July 24, 2011
Tagged with: Murdoch, Summer School, wikleaks
Jul 20 2011
War Reporting: It’s Just Journalism (Summer School Guest Blog)
1 CommentThis blog by Polis Summer School student Reena Gurung is based on a talk by BBC News producer Stuart Hughes who lost a leg in a landmine explosion while covering the conflict in Iraq. Ever since the Vietnam War, media globalisation … Continue reading
Posted by: July 20, 2011
Tagged with: iraq, stuart hughes, Summer School, War reporting
Jul 17 2011
Kevin Marsh: Ethical Journalism (Polis Summer School – guest blog)
Leave a commentThis guest blog was written by Polis Summer School student Karuna Kumar At a time when the News of the World’s unscrupulous journalistic ethics are hitting the headlines across the globe it is difficult to stand on the other side of the … Continue reading
Posted by: July 17, 2011
Tagged with: BBC, Kevin Marsh, Summer School
Jul 16 2011
Power In The Pantry: Mumsnet at Polis Summer School (guest-blog)
Leave a commentThis blog is by Polis Summer School student Kat Bucalina. When one thinks of the word “mother”, a politically conscious, Internet savvy woman does not usually come to mind. Mums are more likely to represent cookie dough, cough mixture and … Continue reading
Posted by: July 16, 2011
Tagged with: Mums, Mumsnet, Rowan Davis, Summer School
Jul 16 2011
Platon: Curing society’s amnesia (Polis summer school – guest blog)
Leave a commentThis guest blog was written by Polis Summer School student Elisabet Casamitjana i Marcet After photographing the most dangerous people in the world and without having ever refused a work for political reasons, Platon Antoniou delighted us with a thought-provoking … Continue reading
Posted by: July 16, 2011
Tagged with: photojournalism, Platon, Summer School
Feb 8 2011
Join Us At the POLIS Summer School: A Real Global Media Experience
1 CommentThis year we celebrate the fifth POLIS Summer School: International Journalism and Society – The Role of the Media In The Modern World. Amazing things have happened in global news media in that half decade and this course reflects those … Continue reading
Posted by: February 8, 2011
Tagged with: Summer School
Jul 21 2010
BBC, Al Jazeera and globalisation of news (guest blog)
1 CommentThis is an edited version of an essay by Polis Summer School student Victoria Yates. The idea of globalization is not new, despite many of the modern connotations attached to the term. The creation of the printing press created … Continue reading
Posted by: July 21, 2010
Tagged with: Freedom of expression, Globalisation, humanitarian comms, International journalism, Middle East, new media, Summer School
Jul 21 2010
Living In A World Of Distorting Lenses (Guest blog)
Leave a commentBy Chrysostomos Agapitos (Polis Summer School student, 2010) Some years ago, I came up with this naïve idea for a short story. The plot revolved around a group of people being locked up in a room whose walls consist of … Continue reading
Posted by: July 21, 2010
Tagged with: governance and journalism, Guest bloggers, humanitarian comms, Networked journalism, Summer School
Jul 21 2010
Orwell, Hezbollah and Rusbridger: the limits on media freedom (guest blog)
Leave a commentThis is a paper submitted as part of the Polis Summer School The limits on freedom of expression in journalism by Rebecca Hales A western European, when questioned on the subject of freedom of expression, might wave his or her … Continue reading
Posted by: July 21, 2010
Tagged with: Democracy, Freedom of expression, Guest bloggers, Journalist ethics, new media, Summer School
