Right-Wing Extremism 2.0: The Austrian Presidential Election on Social Media
Austria is a small country in the heart of Europe with about 8.7 million inhabitants. In international news coverage, you...
International media policy
Memes, not her health, could cost Hillary Clinton the US presidential race
This article has been reproduced here under syndication from The Independent. Over the past days, despite appearing unwell in public,...
The new Architecture of Communications
The new architecture of communications has two symbiotic features: an overwhelming abundance of information and communications and the emergence of...
When the President Divorced His Wife and Married the Country Instead
When the Russian president divorced his wife in 2013, social media crowds coined plenty of the Internet memes to interpret...
Great firewall of China reinforced as foreign media banned from publishing online
A new Chinese rule banning all foreign media from publishing online will come into effect on March 10, affecting everything...
Why new regulator could be a game-changing moment for journalism
You are unlikely to read about it in the mainstream press, but this week saw a major step forward for...
Bosses’ right to snoop on staff emails is an invasion of privacy and ignores the way we work
Since Edward Snowden revealed the existence of internet surveillance programmes such as XKeyScore, Prism and Tempora, there have been many...
Tests for Egyptian Journalists
In a classic essay in the Journal of Democracy in 2002, “The End of the Transition Paradigm,” democratization analyst Thomas...
Experiments in Euro-Med Collaboration in Children’s Screen Media
"At a time of mass migration from the Arab Mediterranean to Europe, as in 2015, there is an urgent need for...
Mixed messages, partial pictures? Discourses under construction in CCTV’s Africa Live compared with the BBC
Does the news element of the Africa Live program broadcast by CCTV News represent an alternative to influential Western global...
