Bad News for Refugees Book Launch

Fri, 18 Apr 2014 12:04:00 BST

A video recording from book launch event for Bad News For Refugees in April 2014. The book, written by Greg Philo, Emma Briant and Pauline Donald, is a political, economic and environmental look at how migrants have been stigmatised in political rhetoric and media coverage.

The Post-Trust Crisis of Mainstream Media

Mon, 01 May 2017 20:16:00 BST

Dr Catherine Happer takes a look at the 'failure' of the media to predict Trump's ascendancy to presidency and the vote for Brexit, as well as public's 'trust' in the media. She discusses recent research findings from focus groups in the UK and the US and argues that the winning back of trust in journalism must be addressed and there needs to be a more reflective take on journalists' own culpability.

Against ‘Social Media’

Thu, 30 Oct 2014 11:45:00 GMT

Stevie Docherty discusses her doctoral research on media coverage of the 2011 English riots. Stevie's research involves working with Facebook data but in this post she notes her unease with the term 'social media'.