BBC bias?
To put it mildly, this has been a controversial General Election campaign thus far for the BBC.
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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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Christmas ad festival mustn’t overshadow poverty
Long before the dying embers of the last firework of Bonfire night were extinguished it was clear that the nation’s retailers were gearing up for the Christmas run in.
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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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Thrift labours: Charity shops in the austerity economy
This week’s Research Seminar from Dr Alida Payson will examine how charity shops serve as important sites of different forms of cultural labour typical of the austerity economy.
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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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[BigDataSur] Cashlessness for development: A dangerous orthodoxy
In this guest blog Silvia Masiero (Loughborough University) examines the gaps between the design of India’s cashless transaction architectures and the reality lived by urban street sellers in Bangalore.
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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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