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Internet Cults, Disinformation, and Democracy
From Gamergate to Pizzagate and beyond to QAnon, internet manipulation and disinformation campaigns have grown to a geopolitical scale and spilled into real life with devastating consequences, entangling everyone from politicians to Hollywood celebrities.
media relations
communication
Audience loyalty may not be what we think
Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis, Nieman Journalism Lab, 27 April 2023How participatory journalism became a taken-for-granted norm, how news use can help mitigate misinformation beliefs, and the limits of live fact-checking.
media relations
socio political environment
Communications and media in Australia: How we watch and listen to content
ACMA, ACMAThe Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) have released a report titled Communications and media in Australia: How we watch and listen to content.
communication
media relations
Is the media doomed?
POLITICO, 21 January 2022It’s almost conventional wisdom right now that the news media is in a fast-moving crisis. With mainstream news sources collapsing, Americans are increasingly divided not only in what they read, but even what facts they choose to believe. How much worse will it get? Is there a way out? The changes in the media industry make it nearly impossible...
media relations
How can journalists defend the free press?
The Economist Asks Podcast, The Economist, 22 October 2021In this episode of The Economist Asks, host Anne McElvoy asks joint Nobel Peace Prize winning journalists, Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, how they are defending the free press. The panel discusses how their work safeguards freedom of expression and...
socio political environment
media relations
Investors are ignoring a dangerous crackdown on press freedom
Ian Marlow & Isabella Steger, The Sydney Morning Herald, 06 August 2021With a crackdown on the world’s press comes a more challenging business landscape for investors. Restricted information flows can mask political and regulatory problems as well as potential fraud and corruption, raising the risks of doing business — particularly in more volatile emerging markets where good quality information may already be...
media relations
advocacy
Big tech, science communications, and corporate values during COVID
24 November 2020On In Conversation, we discuss the recent moves in the United States to regulate big tech, the importance of science communications and what lessons can be learned, and how can the corporate public affairs function adapt to working from home.
Joining us for this episode are two experienced...
socio political environment
public policy
media relations
Australia’s newspaper ownership is among the most concentrated in the world
Nick Evershed, The Guardian, 14 November 2020Ownership of Australia's newspapers is one of the most concentrated in the world but changes in how metrics are collected is making it difficult to get an updated picture. The 2016 'Who Owns the World's Media?' study on media ownership and concentration found in 2011 Australia had the most concentrated newspaper industry of...
public policy
media relations
Journalists perceive stories published in local news outlets to be less newsworthy
Mark Coddington & Seth Lewis, Nieman Lab, 05 September 2020A survey-based experiment with 1,510 American newspaper journalists has discovered journalists consider news stories published in national publications didn't give stories a newsworthiness boost compared to the same story being unpublished or published by a mid-size paper. However, a story published in a local newspaper was seen as less...
media relations