What are the implications of artificial intelligence for media educators, and for the media themselves?
Category Archives: journalism
Yesterday’s news?
Two recent reports cast further light on young people’s increasing disengagement from mainstream news media.
Navigating the Infodemic, Part Two
Navigating the Infodemic, Part One
What price ‘news literacy’?
How can journalists and news organizations contribute to media literacy education – and what are the pitfalls to avoid?
How much trust in media do we need?
In the face of ‘fake news’ and disinformation, people’s trust in media seems to be declining. But do we need to have more trust in media, or less?
Deepfake: the end of representation?
New software can be used to falsify moving images and create a new kind of ‘fake news’ on video. What are the implications for media literacy?
Media and the sharing economy
The so-called ‘sharing economy’ seems to be based on feel-good ideas about reciprocity and trust. Yet for companies like Uber, Airbnb – and for social media companies like Facebook and YouTube – it has become a new business model, which is massively profitable.
Op Ed, Drop Dead!
The rise of the opinion columnist is one side effect of the decline of newspaper sales. But are ‘op-eds’ (opinion columns) really a substitute for genuine journalism? What are the dangers of the new ‘opinion economy’, and can they be avoided?
David Buckingham 