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Tag Archives: media
Jun 14 2013
SuperCarney to the rescue, falling real wages and living with a post-truth media: Top 5 blogs you might have missed this week
Leave a commentTweet Chris Dillow of the Stumbling and Mumbling blog explores why real wages have been falling in the UK. Over at the Mindful Money blog, Shaun Richards evaluates the impact of this on the UK economy. Writing in The Independent, Danny Blanchflower comments on the ridiculously high expectations facing Mark … Continue reading
Posted by: June 14, 2013
Tagged with: falling wages, gay marriage, Mark Carney, media, Whistleblowers
May 24 2013
Should the media have shown the images of the Woolwich attacker?
Leave a commentTweet Graphic images of the senseless tragedy in Woolwich on Wednesday were displayed prominently by the mainstream media. Charlie Beckett asks whether the media should have done this or if some images are better left unpublished. Should the media have shown the … Continue reading
Posted by: May 24, 2013
Tagged with: media, press, social media, tabloids, Woolwich
May 6 2013
Consumer policy in telecoms: making all relevant information available is far from guaranteeing informed consumers
Leave a commentTweet The increasing convergence of services, devices and content leads to a more complex digital market that affects both consumers and telecom providers. In this post, Claire Milne focuses on ideas about consumers and market transparency in the current telecom sector. Based … Continue reading
Posted by: May 6, 2013
Tagged with: communications, markets, media, telecommunications, telecoms
Apr 18 2013
The notion of ‘public value’ has an important role to play in making a case for the BBC, however its practical implications need to be articulated in greater detail
1 CommentTweet Dave O’Brien reflects on the controversies which have afflicted the BBC in recent months and their implications for its role and status within public life. The BBC Trust had already sought to address its critics through the articulation of the … Continue reading
Posted by: April 18, 2013
Tagged with: BBC, Broadcasting, media, public value
Mar 17 2013
Book Review: Life After New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process
Leave a commentTweet In Life after New Media, Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska make a case for a significant shift in our understanding of new media. They argue that we should move beyond our fascination with objects such as smart phones to … Continue reading
Posted by: March 17, 2013
Tagged with: media, mediation, New Media, privacy, social media
Jan 12 2013
Can journalism count as an academic research output?
Leave a commentTweet Charlie Beckett argues that if we are to understand the potential value of any piece of research we should not circumscribe its audience by academic gate keeping. Ideally the academic will be the journalist, though it might be that there is a … Continue reading
Posted by: January 12, 2013
Tagged with: Impact, journalism, media
Oct 14 2012
Book Review: Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All
Leave a commentTweet In 2010, California suffered the largest and deadliest outbreak of whooping cough in more than fifty years. In recent years, other diseases with available vaccines such as measles and mumps have also made a comeback. Infectious-disease expert Paul Offit argues … Continue reading
Posted by: October 14, 2012
Tagged with: campaigns, children, health, media, vaccinations
Sep 16 2012
Book Review: Dial M for Murdoch: News Corporation and the Corruption of Britain
Leave a commentTweet Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers had been hacking phones, blagging information and causing emotional stress to those in the public eye for years, but it was only after a trivial report about Prince William’s knee in 2005 that detectives stumbled on … Continue reading
Posted by: September 16, 2012
Tagged with: Leveson inquiry, media, news corporation, phone hacking, rupert murdoch
