Anti-vaccine activists are using the side effect reporting system to spread fear and misinformation about the COVID-19...
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Worldwide, democracy is in decline, with two-thirds of the world’s people living in autocracies, including “electoral autocracies.”...
The daily deluge of information produced by the news media can drown consumers in confusion and anxiety....
America’s public sphere is broken because propaganda has replaced political communication. Introduction The U.S. is in an...
No other large media organization in the United States leans on its protections like Fox News. By...
How evolving information and communication technologies (ICTs) can influence the mass media and contribute to social and...
Defining media, society, culture, and communication broadly. By Dr. Mark PoepselAssociate Professor of JournalismSouthern Illinois University The Role...
Advertising has always been about tapping into consumers’ existing needs or about creating a need and inserting...
These new technologies made it possible to influence the public opinion of whole populations at once. By...
Despite his reservations about the dangers of propaganda, President Roosevelt created the Office of War Information (OWI)...
The main agenda for the doctrine was to ensure that viewers were exposed to a diversity of...
Restoring trust in journalism is a necessary step to rebuilding our fractured republic. The ugly message “Murder...
Of the 1,770 people who wrote to the main CBS station about the broadcast, 1,086 were complimentary....
W.T. Stead’s 1885 account of the process by which wealthy Londoners procured teenagers for sex became a...
Remembering what one of last century’s most courageous Jewish journalists taught us. By Peter Dreier In this...
Thanks to Ida Tarbell, we’re not to afraid to expose the shenanigans of the super-rich. Over the...
‘Look me in the Eye’ on SBS and programs like it blur the line between reality TV...
White House Press Corps, 1918 In light of the relationship between the press and the president, the James...
Creative Commons At the intersection of applied linguistics and journalism studies lies media linguistics. By Dr....
A statue of Henry David Thoreau in front of a replica of his cabin in Concord, Massachusetts. Chris...
Despite being largely forgotten today, Lowell Thomas was a pioneering journalist of the 20th century who reshaped...
Dr. Benjamin Rush The first attacks on Rush followed the outbreak of a devastating yellow fever epidemic...
Jefferson’s faith in free presses was ultimately faith in the people with a moral sensibility sufficient to...
It can be hard to fathom the society-altering impact the new printed image had when it first...
The censorship board. George Creel is seated at far right. Harris & Ewing/Library of Congress An executive...
Men working at a printing press, proofing copy, inking, and setting type. Wood engraving after a woodcut...
Image Creative Commons By Dr. Jack Lule Joseph B. McFadden Distinguished Professor of Journalism and Communication Lehigh University...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 03.03.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Pop Culture Mania Figure 1.1: Just as...
One of the most notorious fake news websites in the United States published a fake news story...
By Dr. John Postill / 06.21.2017 Senior Lecturer in Communication RMIT University, Melbourne Abstract In this article...