Media & Communication: Research Guide

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The migrations of left-leaning users to Bluesky could deepen the divide with right-leaning users on X, and undermine cross-ideological discourse and democracy.

Inside the $32 billion industry transforming marijuana, its consumption and beliefs about its ability to heal.

The Times wanted to go online in 1996 with nytimes.com. But the domain was already owned — by a Times reporter.

The right is ecstatic about the end of the Biden era – but remains polarized about some of Trump’s decisionsAmericans really do inhabit two worlds: some shed tears of sadness at the advent of Donald Trump’s second presidency. Others cried, too – with joy.Across the conservative, “post-liberal” and alternative media spheres, journalists, pundits and some social media circles celebrated the end of the Biden era with the enthusiasm of rebels toppling the relics of a collapsing dictatorship. As Trump swore his presidential oath, the writer Walter Kirn, a pro-Trump, anti-establishment agitator on X, grandiloquently declared: “This is a revolution against a corrupt ancien regime.” ..

Second series of BBC drama was initially rejected by all the streaming services, Peter Kosminsky tells inquiry into UK film and TVMark Rylance took a “significant” pay cut along with other members of the Wolf Hall team to get the second series made, the director Peter Kosminsky has said.The BBC drama, based on Hilary Mantel’s final novel in her epic Tudor trilogy, returned last year with Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light. Continue reading...

After 12 episodes, eight ‘murders’ and 14 banishments, winner or winners revealed on BBC One showWarning: this article contains spoilersAfter 12 episodes, eight “murders” and 14 banishments, the winners of The Traitors were revealed after a nail-biting finale.More than 7 million viewers tuned in to see project manager Jake Brown and former soldier Leanne Quigley triumph and share a prize pot of £94,600. Continue reading...

Whatever deal the US president is eyeing over the app, it is further proof some digital giants wield disproportionate cloutLate on Saturday 18 January, TikTok, the short-video app beloved of millions of users mostly aged between 18 and 24, went dark in the US. This was not because of a power outage, but because its owner switched it off. For an explanation of why it did so, though, we have to spool back a bit. For years, TikTok has been a thorn in the sides of US legislators and national security officials for two reasons. First, it’s owned by a Chinese company, ByteDance, which doubtless does whatever Xi Jinping tells it to do. Second, TikTok hoovers up phenomenally detailed data about it..

This docuseries doesn’t just show the tale of the YouTubers who created content out of adopting a child – until they gave him up. It’s also a valuable indictment of our obsession with living onlineEverywhere you look on the internet, people are doing things for attention that most of us might reasonably term “buck wild”. There are people eating the entire McDonald’s menu in one sitting, people willingly uploading slickly edited videos of childbirth (“My Labour Journey PART ONE OF SEVEN”), people making TikToks at funerals. All of life is in your phone – even, and in fact especially, the bits we used to keep to ourselves.This online attention economy sets the scene for An Up..

A popular TV host admitted trying to conceal a sexual assault complaint. This time, the reaction was swift and harsh, and aimed not only at him but also his employers.

¿El final del litigio también podría ayudar a resolver el distanciamiento de Enrique con su hermano Guillermo y su padre, el rey Carlos III?

A diferencia de Biden, Trump considera que la posibilidad de captar la atención de los periodistas en un momento dado es una de las mejores partes de su trabajo.

Duke of Sussex and Tom Watson have struck a deal, but saga may not have ended for News Group NewspapersIt was at 10.16am – just 14 minutes before the trial was due to start in court 30 of the Rolls building of the Royal Courts of Justice – that the deal was struck.After a frenetic 24 hours of legal wrangling, it was agreed that Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers (NGN) would issue an apology to Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, and admit for the first time that beyond the well-chronicled criminality at the now defunct News of the World, there had been “incidents of unlawful activities carried out by private investigators working for the Sun”. Continue reading...

The broadcaster’s new documentary sees presenter Vicky Pattison create an AI-generated explicit film of herself – against wishes of campaign organisationsChannel 4 has been accused of ignoring the wishes of campaign organisations representing those whose images have been digitally turned into pornography and shared online against their will.The broadcaster’s new documentary, Vicky Pattison: My Deepfake Sex Tape, saw it consult groups representing survivors of online image abuse, before having its reality star presenter create and release an AI-generated explicit film of herself – despite groups saying they specifically advised it against doing so. Continue reading...

Editor of the Modern Review and Guardian columnist who later chronicled her experience of Huntington’s diseaseThe journalist Charlotte Raven, who has died aged 55, was often the tallest person in a room, and, with the most angular of bob hairstyles, she ensured that she was always noticed. She held everyone’s attention effortlessly with sharp opinions, literary allusions and good old-fashioned salacious gossip.In 2021, after starting experimental treatment for Huntington’s disease (HD), the illness that led to her death, she wrote a memoir, Patient 1, in collaboration with her younger brother, Daniel, in which she looked back on a career marked by controversies. She said: “Being paid..

Katja Meier says she was told women over 50 were not seen as a ‘valid audience’, so decided to make the pilot herselfWhen Katja Meier got on to a leading scheme for female writers over the age of 40, she could not have been more delighted.After finishing her script, production companies loved it – but had just one request: could she make the female protagonist 20 years younger? Continue reading...

eSafety commissioner expresses ‘great sadness’ that Axel Rudakubana viewed video before murdering three girls in the UK, noting ‘clear link’ between online material and real-world violenceAustralia’s online safety regulator has expressed “great sadness” after it was revealed a British teenager who fatally stabbed three children in the UK had earlier searched for a video of a Sydney church stabbing on social media that her office had attempted to have taken down.An eSafety spokesperson on Friday said in attempting to have X remove the Sydney video it “was guided by its mission to protect our community from harmful online material, including material that may severely traumatis..

Reporters covering Storm Éowyn in the UK and Ireland had to battle against strong winds and heavy rain blowing them around while on TV. The footage demonstrates the difficulty faced by people in those areas when going outside, with millions being urged to stay at home as 100mph winds pose a danger to lifeStorm Éowyn: 4.5m people receive siren phone alert in Scotland and Northern IrelandStorm Éowyn: millions urged to stay home as storm brings disruption to UK and Ireland – live updates Continue reading...

UK broadcaster waiting to see impact across seasonAll 36 teams to play simultaneously on matchday eightThe jury remains out on Uefa’s new Champions League format, according to TNT Sports, with the UK rights holder reserving judgment on whether an expanded league system has “landed as people hoped”.With a vastly expanded fixture list and an eight-match league stage, the Champions League has been criticised for its complexity and lack of jeopardy. Anticipation is building, however, for the final round of 18 matches set to be played simultaneously on Wednesday. Continue reading...

The hit show has been compared to cosy crime drama. But it also has parallels with Hilary Mantel’s historical masterpieceDoomy towers, candlelit assignations, whispers in corridors, banishments in the dead of night and a cruel and capricious master – The Traitors has more in common with the prestige historical drama Wolf Hall than you might expect. Based on Hilary Mantel’s Booker prize-winning trilogy following the life of Thomas Cromwell, The Mirror and the Light, its final instalment came to its bloody end in December. In January, the treacherous skies over 16th-century Hampton Court shifted to storm clouds swirling over Ardross Castle in Scotland for the return of the hit ..

Lawmakers argue that mass surveillance will help to protect children. But the implications for our privacy and security are staggeringIn my 20 years of being a reporter, I have rarely come across anything that feels so important – and yet so widely unnoticed. I’ve been following the attempt to create a Europe-wide apparatus that could lead to mass surveillance. The idea is for every digital platform – from Facebook to Signal, Snapchat and WhatsApp, to cloud and online gaming websites – to scan users’ communications.This involves the use of technology that will essentially render the idea of encryption meaningless. The stated reason is to detect and report the sharing of child sexua..

An accounting of the ceasefire is incomplete if it excludes how anti-Zionist and anti-imperialist forces in the Middle East thwarted US/Israeli designs.

Immigration itself is now not a human rights story, or even an economic one, but yet another story about “their” crimes and “our” safety.

There’s something about the start of a Trump presidency that makes grown men do strange things, like heiling Hitler.