2020 Vision: Forecasts for the year ahead from Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media and Culture
Four small words; the future of journalism. What should we expect to see making a dent in our profession over the 12 months ahead?
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Politics
I didn’t hear the news today, oh boy
As someone addicted to the rhythms and familiarities of radio 5 live every morning, it took me a few minutes today to adjust to the seemingly new format of its breakfast show.
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Facebook: it’s the advertising, stupid
Leighton Andrews’ research seminar will focus upon the complex role of online advertising in the General Election and in particular the dominant player, Facebook.
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Deepfake political ads not as disturbing as the real thing
Deepfake videos create an opportunity to present content that never actually happened.
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UK election 2019: digital election dominated by videos – real and faked
In the days since parliament was dissolved, news coverage of the digital election has been dominated by coverage of videos the parties have posted online.
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A terrible week for the Tories as Labour go for the mainstream press
Despite the fact that the General Election campaign did not officially start until Wednesday it’s fair to say that for the Conservative party in particular it has been a miserable week.
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General Election 2019. Some early thoughts…
If we were to look back to the last General Election to held in December, a superstitious Conservative party member may have cause to worry.
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The return of Spitting Image
Does satire have a role to play in the age of Trump and Johnson?
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Greta Thunberg and Climate activism
The tragedy is, aside from the attacks on Thunberg and the personal impact of such vitriol which we can only guess at, is that the real issues get side-lined or ignored.
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