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Imagining ‘the other’– can the media challenge our assumptions?
This article is by LSE MSc student Tessa Venizelos studying Media, Communication and Development. We tend to think of ourselves as part of the majority, the mainstream. We tend to regularly associate...
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What role did the media play in the EU referendum?
By Nuala Gathercole-Lam, an LSE MSc student in Politics and Communication On the 23rd of June this year, the British people were asked to give their voice, to give their view, as to whether or not the...
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Networked Journalism updated: lots of examples
Networked journalism has gone from being a novelty to the normality of journalism online today. In fact, it’s difficult to find journalism that does not have an element of interactivity, connectivity,...
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Stumbling on the verge of catastrophe? The media and the transforming world...
By LSE MsC student Luca Bertuzzi An article published on Le Monde Diplomatique of last month (September 2016) reports the alarming fact that the United States is preparing for a major confrontation...
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German media on the refugee crisis: How the refugees-welcome campaign has...
By LSE MSc student Franziska Zimmerer Historically, Germany has not got a great international reputation for hospitality. But one year ago, in summer 2015, at the peak of the European refugee crisis...
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Rethinking Radicalism
By LSE MSc student Ambika Tandon How often in the past week have you read or heard the words ‘radical’ or ‘extremist’? What separates such groups from those propagating violence for a more ‘just’...
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Following the US elections as an expat in London
By LSE MSc student Christine Sweeney 2am quarrels, anxiety, doubt, ambivalence, feeling disconnected, refreshing the phone for updates. No, this is not a long-distance relationship on the rocks, it is...
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Crowdsourced journalism: a new democratic platform?
You might think that there’s too much news content out there already. And it’s struggling to find a model to pay for it. But is it possible to find a way to discover fresh, quality material from...
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Going beyond Westminister, war and wealth: in defence of ‘bad’ news
Is news too negative and narrowly focused? Would it be healthier for us to simply shut it out and concentrate on our real lives? Should journalists try harder to accentuate the positive? Branwen...
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Beyond Free Basics: Facebook, data bundles and Zambia’s social media internet
LSE’s Dr Wendy Willems argues that mobile data bundles are crucial to the growing power of social media platforms in Zambia, increasingly creating a ‘social media internet’. They also pose a number of...
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Tweeting the election: Journalistic voice, bias, and “knowing where the line is”
Svenja Ottovordemgentschenfelde is a Fellow at Tow Center for Digital Journalism and a PhD candidate in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE Something unusual recently made the news:...
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As Trump takes power, what can journalists, politicians and the public learn?
Can we stop talking about ‘the media’? We’re all in this together. Post-Trump, post-Truth, post-Brexit. It really is time to end this worshipping at a broken shrine. As a journalist, I would secretly...
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What does the Trump triumph mean for journalism, politics and social media?
There’s been a wonderful arc to the blame narrative in the wake of Donald Trump’s decisive victory in the Presidential election. I’m talking here mainly about the reaction of liberal or progressive...
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How do you report on something that isn’t true? Dealing with Trump’s tweets...
How do you report rumours or baseless allegations? Should you ignore them completely or is the job of journalism to bust myths and correct misinformation? This is a grave problem. Social media is...
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Drowning in social media: does real engagement happen offline?
LSE MsC student Jill Russo reflects on a visit from Carine Valleau, founder of Stories for Humanity Gone are the days of the “Letter to the Editor”, of audience participation relegated to a few...
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Global stories for a global audience?
By LSE MsC student Diska Putri Pamungkas on a Polis talk from Liz Mermin, Director of Visual at the Thomson Reuters Foundation In the world full of infotainment and politainment with fact-checking in...
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Chinese Media in Africa: Expansion, Perceptions and Receptions
LSE MsC student Linet Juma reporta on a lecture by Prof Herman Wasserman from University of Cape Town at LSE on 28 November 2016 China’s involvement and investment in Africa has intensified in the...
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Racing towards destruction? Robert Colvile on the Great Acceleration
By LSE MsC student Jill Russo Throughout his talk, Robert Colvile managed to maintain a note of measured optimism even as he discussed some of the ways in which news production and consumption are...
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LISTEN: Polis Talks 2016
Listen to our 2016 Polis Talks with guest speakers talking on a range of media topics including Brexit, Trump, Terrorism and Digital Disruption....
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A decade of disruption brings digital downsides and the hope of more honest...
It’s that time when we look back over the last year, but in this article by the veteran Swedish Journalist Ove Joanson, (who has edited newspapers and run the Swedish public service broadcaster, and...
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