Congratulations to @sina_jb! After being a valued colleague at the @IKMZ for many years, she takes a professorship for #Digital#Communication and #Datafication at the Department of Communication and Media #Research (DCM) at the University of Fribourg. She will also become Director of the Institute for Digital Communication and #Media#Innovation 👏🏻
Sina, we'll miss you – and wish you a smooth start in your new position in February '24!
Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media
A sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news that follows the no-holds-barred battle between two legendary explorers to reach the North Pole, and the newspapers which stopped at nothing to get–and sell–the story.
Very grateful to receive the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Early Career Award for my research on the visible and invisible mechanisms of information control in authoritarian states
Such awards tend to reinforce the idea of 'individual excellence' in academic research and push collaboration to the background. I'm immensely grateful to my co-authors, collaborators and network.
The best research emerges when we think together #TeamScience
#CfP for "Queering the #Family : Exploring Non-Normative Family Figures in #Literature, #Arts, and the #Media", which will be published in "#Whatever. A Transdisciplinary Journal of #Queer Theories and Studies, 7 (Summer 2024)".
In Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation, expert in media and politics Dannagal Goldthwaite Young offers a comprehensive model that illustrates how political leaders and media organizations capitalize on our social and cultural identities to separate, enrage, and—ultimately—mobilize us.
🎓 Webinar: Video Games as a Violence Prevention Tool
In this webinar, the founder and executive director of the ngo Jennifer Ann's Group will discuss how video games can be utilized to teach consent, healthy relationships, and resilience.
Join us to hear about this organization’s mission and work, and how these strategies can be used for violence prevention work with youth.
📆 Oct 19th 10:30AM-12PMPST / 1:30-3PM EST
Free and open to everyone! ASL interpreters will be present.
📚 Biofeedback-Based Videogames: Fostering Emotion Regulation at a Diverse Community Summer Camp
📚 Iterative Design, Feasibility, and Preliminary Efficacy Testing for the Development of a Cooperative Card Game Intervention to Reduce Loneliness and Foster Social Connection
📚 Cognitive Behavioral Immersion for Substance Use Disorders: A Feasibility and Pilot Study of a Peer-Based Coaching Program in the Metaverse
📚 Effect of Exergaming on Quality of Life, Fatigue, and Strength and Endurance Muscle in Cancer Patients: A Randomized Crossover Trial
Browsing through the news headlines these days is done in 10 seconds. It's all war, and other brutal violence. Sad people are still interested in this. One would think we would want to focus on the more productive and uplifting stuff.
I haven't seen any interviews with her, but #media / #journalists should really be speaking with Kassandra Luciuk about the SS veteran invited to Parliament. Luciuk is a historian (Dalhousie) of the Ukrainian community in 20th-century #Canada. She demonstrates that some Cold-War Canadian officials were quite happy for right-wing Ukrainian migrants to use violence against communist labour leaders, also from Ukraine, already in the country. #CdnPoli#CdnHist#histodons
I feel privileged to be invited back on ABC #Radio National/ #Religion & #Ethics to celebrate 💯 year anniversary of Khalil Gibran’s ‘The Prophet’ — a #book I encountered as a young teenager & which shaped the person/ #writer I am, today.
(My section begins at 18 minute mark).
Big Thanks, to sensitive host Meredith Lake of Soul Search for this gift 🙏🏼✨
When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; #culture-death is a clear possibility.
NBC press release: “This Sunday, Sept. 17 on NBC, the inaugural broadcast of Meet the Press with Kristen Welker will feature an exclusive interview with former President Donald Trump. The pretaped interview will take place Thursday in Bedminster, N.J. and will be Trump’s first broadcast network interview since leaving office.”
"There is nothing in journalistic standards that says you have to give a platform for someone to spread lies, even if they are a senator or representative (or even the [ex-]president)...
We do not need to reward bad behavior with airtime...
The iPhone of Meduza's Galina Timchenko was infected with Pegasus spyware in February 2023. The ability of Russian independent journalists to continue their work in exile is under tremendous pressure (Meduza has been operating from Riga since 2014). Yet more evidence how working from within the EU does not necessarily shield them from risk
For years, the media built up Elon Musk and got the public to buy into the myth of his genius. Now the truth of who he is can’t be hidden and changing how they cover Musk isn’t enough.
The media failed us. They not only need to inform the public about the harms of Musk’s empire, but change how they cover the entire tech industry so another grifter can’t replicate his rise. They owe us nothing less.
'The construction of Latin America’s media spaces was not the result of
particular struggles for participation and debate. From the beginning, these spaces were derived from elite power, being conceived as (a) commodities to be exploited by the private sector and (b) mechanisms of political and societal control'
Apparently, the #DailyMail has just launched "Woke Watch", where red faced pillocks send in angry e-mails, complaining about transgender asylum seekers giving their house prices pronoun cancer, or something.
Anyway, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should one e-mail [email protected] to #Troll, #Shitpost or just plain take the piss. No, that would be WRONG. Oh, for shame!