Frank Cody on his book, The News Event
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo190464205.html Shikhar Goel: Describe for us some intellectual motivations behind writing this book. What were some significant moments th…
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Talking to the BBC about social media in China
Earlier this month, I was very fortunate to be interviewed by the BBC on my research onto the use of technology in China. The article that was published…
From Facebook to ‘fakebook’ – who controls the information on social media?
A young Chinese factory worker reading on his smartphone. Mark Zuckerberg finally said that Facebook plans to have a more effective control of misinformation, which is a sharp reversal…
Power, culture and the state press in Ghana
Here is a sixth (6th) set of notes under the broad theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen…
Anything but selfies
In every respect we are delighted with the launch of our project. We now engage in daily interaction with thirteen thousand students registered on our FutureLearn course, plus 1,300…
Why We Post is “the biggest, most ambitious project of its sort”, says The Economist
Since our launch on the 29th February, the first three open access books in the Why We Post series have been downloaded over 6,000 times! 6,000 downloads in just…