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Prof Katy Parry

@katyjparry.bsky.social
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war and media; conflict photography; veterans and the media; political communication; visual comm (she/her). Co-Editor @MWC_Journal ; co-convenor PSA Media and Politics group

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Looking for a post doc? Come join us at the Machine Visual Culture Research Group, which “combines digital and computational art history, critical AI studies, and the history of art and visual culture.” www.biblhertz.it/3815269/2909...
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Call for Postdoctoral Research Fellows in Digital Art History
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👻Notorischer Diskurstroll🎃 @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AI #slopaganda is not so much about fakes or disinformation. It's about aligning the world with your preformulated descriptions of it, making reality disappear behind its formulaic image, rendering visible all your fears at once in order to enjoy them more. It's a technology of fascist daydreaming
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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 17/09/2026
So you just learned about the AI cult, huh? Here is the longform explainer you need to make sense of the very, very strange ideas driving tech policy in 2026. Buckle up, it’s a wild ride. www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...
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What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI
Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?
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PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Thrilled to have won this grant! 🎉 And excited to be running our workshop "Growing Up Digital: Young People & Technology" w @psampg.bsky.social *THIS* Wed 16 Sep, bringing together practitioners & academics to discuss and deliberate digital policy in the UK and its (potential) impact on young people
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“How to write criticism in the time of AI? By writing criticism in such a way that no AI could.” www.boundary2.org/2026/05/arne...
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Arne De Boever–The Essay vs. AI: On the Literary Value of Criticism
This text is part of the b2o: an online journal special issue "EXOCRITICISM", edited by Arne De Boever and Frédéric Neyrat. The Essay vs. AI: On the Literary Value of Criticism Arne De Boever   All im...
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Of interest to some folks here, Lauren Goodlad on LLM text, literary theory and stochastic parrots — (Goodlad is the editor of @criticalai-journal.bsky.social) : online.ucpress.edu/representati...
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We Have Always Been Action TheoristsToward a Critical Theory of Language for the Era of “Large Language Models”
Scholars of literature and culture understandably place themselves among the world’s premiere experts on matters of language. But they also know that fields like linguistics and communication have the...
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Prof Katy Parry @katyjparry.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Thanks so much @herazhar.bsky.social for inviting me to talk about war images with you!
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Prof Katy Parry @katyjparry.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Questions now for our panel on how journalists manage risks and ethical considerations @mwcjournal.bsky.social
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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Next up are Reema Altamimi and Lise Dabrowski exploring the reporting of Gaza on Instagram.
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Prof Katy Parry @katyjparry.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Maha Bashri starts off with an exploration of witnessing and archive building on TikTok.
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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
How, she asks, do we think about (and visualise) war and peace? How does this affect our imagination? What else might be possible?
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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Omar al-Ghazzi talks next about the politics of war reporting in the Arab Media System.
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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
In our afternoon panel our first paper from Lesego Phale looks at the persecution of female journalists in South Africa - how do they continue working despite ongoing threats? Are the public aware of this harassment? Lesego uses a podcast to explore these questions
Presentation on women journalists on South Africa
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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Hala Gupta, Maha Bashri and Carolyn Wallcot present their paper on three challenges Sudanese female journalists face in reporting the conflict. There is a tension between personal experiences and professional objectivity. How to make Sudan relatable for audiences who don't know Sudan?
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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The final paper in this panel is Oleksandr Chubko talking about his ethnographic research with Ukrainian and international photojournalists noting how quickly the war is changing, and its unique intensity in terms of the sheer amount of soldiers and weaponry
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Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net · 15/02/2026
Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books
Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.
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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Today's round-up features pieces on news produced for and by people with learning disabilities, a UK Labour 'think tank' investigating journalists, and an 'excruciating' Trump-NBC interview Click to read, subscribe and share www.linkedin.com/pulse/news-p...
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News by and for people with learning disabilities
Journalism Today. 6 Feb 2026 Research | Reporting | Fellowships | Leadership 🗞️ Our top story A ground-breaking project.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Michael Sheen raises the curtain on the new Welsh National Theatre www.channel4.com/news/michael...
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Michael Sheen raises the curtain on the new Welsh National Theatre
The arts scene in Wales was left reeling more than a year ago - after funding cuts led to the end of an institution - National Theatre Wales.
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gillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
register now for the Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies conference, 2-3 Feb 2026 in Oxford! with keynotes @joannazylinska.bsky.social and Daisy Ginsberg www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual... 🌳 📹 🦫 🛰️
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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
This is a quick reminder that Media, War and Conflict will be hosting an ICA preconference on challenges to contemporary conflict reporting. Deadline for abstracts is 31 Jan and you can read the full CfA at bit.ly/mwc2026cfa
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Michelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
They’ve arrived! It’s out!
A picture of a pile of my books which have just arrived, complementary copies destined for copyright holders and kind friends.
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THE SOE and British Culture @covertcultures.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
NEW book by Guy Woodward: Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing features chapter on special forces memoirs including accounts by Fitzroy Maclean and Jasper Rootham of their time in occupied Yugoslavia. Published today by OUP: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Somebody scraped & shared every song on Spotify, with metadata — a boon for research into music and algorithms, but also, inevitably, what the training data is going to be for every AI music company in 2026. annas-archive.li/blog/backing...
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Backing up Spotify
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirro...
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.
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Ben O'Loughlin @benoloughlin.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I was asked to give a keynote on the future of soft power and strategic narrative, in a room in DC in 2025 where the intensity and stakes could not be higher. Please read here: blogs.gwu.edu/ipdgcsmartpo...
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25 Year Anniversary Special Blog Series: The Future of Soft Power and Strategic Narratives
Written By: Ben O’Loughlin …it is a national security imperative for the United States to achieve and maintain unquestioned and unchallenged global technological dominance. (Trump, cited in 2025 US AI...
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I am hiring for two postdocs in the creator economy, hosted at Aarhus University. One is on monetization and governance with flexible methods and area focus: www.au.dk/om/stillinge... #commsky #academicchatter #polisky
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Monetisation, Governance, and the Creator Economy at the Department of Media and Journalism Studies - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet
Ledig stilling ved Institut for Kommunikation og Kultur - Afdeling for Medievidenskab og Journalistik, Aarhus Universitet
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.
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Ben O'Loughlin @benoloughlin.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Big CfP: ICA preconference in Cape Town, 3 June 2026, for our Media, War and Conflict journal. Theme: Challenges to Contemporary Conflict Reporting bit.ly/mwcpreconfer... - any questions can be emailed to the organisers at: r.j.stupart@liverpool.ac.uk. Thanks to @icahdq.bsky.social!
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Challenges to Contemporary Conflict Reporting Preconference
The journalism of war and conflict is facing extraordinary threats. Israel's ongoing assault in Gaza has killed a historically unprecedented number of journalists at a time when the norms protecting t...
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PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
🚨 Deadline today! 🚨 Join us on 19 Nov at our OfcomxTIP in-person workshop on 'Future Directions of Academic Research in Online Safety, Tech & Policy' in London. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity for networking and future collaborations! Link w info 🔗 ofcom.eventogy.com/c/technology...
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Technology, Internet and Policy and Ofcom: future directions for academic research
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Visual Culture in Britain @vcib.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Introducing our editors: @saradominici.bsky.social, Gary Bratchford, Victoria Horne, and @ecoomasaru.bsky.social. Interested in publishing with us? Please do get in touch!
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Prof Katy Parry @katyjparry.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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A-level English, voluntary work, delayed citizenship: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants | Nesrine Malik
It’s easier for politicians to blame others than to face the truth: Britain has been stripped of the spaces and opportunities that allow for true social integration, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Ma...
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto. ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE
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The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 12/10/2025
‘The number of Cafe Royal titles has passed seven hundred; together they constitute a singular record of British and Irish vernacular photography between about 1960 and 2010.’ Ben Campbell on a collection of his father Peter’s photographs of London in the early sixties www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Ben Campbell · In the Shoebox: Peter’s Snapshots
The snapshots in my father’s book were taken during his first three years in London, after he emigrated from New...
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Prof Katy Parry @katyjparry.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
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Why Trump’s speech to US military top brass was such a disaster | Sidney Blumenthal
The president of the United States seemingly does not understand what the military is for
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IAMCR @iamcr.org · 29/09/2025
📘 Public Communication in Freefall: Revisiting the Work of Jay Blumler — edited by Stephen Coleman, Frank Esser @esserfrank.bsky.social, Julie Firmstone, Katy Parry @katyjparry.bsky.social and Chris Paterson. Part of the Palgrave/IAMCR series IAMCR members get 35% off 👉 iamcr.org/iamcr-book-s...
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Prof Katy Parry @katyjparry.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Repeal the 20th Century www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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William Davies · Repeal the 20th Century: Pre-MAGA
To understand the intellectual coordinates of Trumpism requires us to look in less conventional places and to pay more...
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Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
*PSA EVENT* How do #students with different academic backgrounds engage with #genAI when given equal access? Join us and @bpiotrowska.bsky.social online for this #Teaching & #Learning Network webinar 📆 15 October, 2.30 - 4.30pm ➡️ Register your free place
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Teaching and Learning Network Webinar – ‘Prior Attainment Affects Uptake of genAI-Based Learning Activities’ with Dr Barbara Piotrowska | The Political Studies Association (PSA)
‘Prior Attainment Affects Uptake of genAI-Based Learning Activities’ with Dr Barbara Piotrowska, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Public Policy, Department of Political Economy, King's College…
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 04/08/2025
✍️ Yorkshire documentary spotlights artists with learning disabilities and autism Filmmaker Alfie Fox’s new documentary celebrates Leeds arts charity Pyramid and its work supporting artists with learning disabilities
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Yorkshire documentary spotlights artists with learning disabilities and autism
Filmmaker Alfie Fox’s new documentary celebrates Leeds arts charity Pyramid and its work supporting artists with learning disabilities
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Rainbow Murray @rainbowmurray.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
New job opportunity! Come work with me at @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social on my major project on the political representation of men. You: PhD in relevant area, strong quantitative methods skills, interest in representation. The job: 18 months full-time, London or remote qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/appcentre...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate - QMUL Jobs
ID: 6685. Title: Postdoctoral Research Associate. Application Deadline:
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Cindy Ma @cindyxma.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
New CfP! 🚨📣 Excited to announce colleagues @leedsunimedia.bsky.social are organising a Race and Media conference on 22-23 April 2026. We're currently accepting proposals for papers/panels, including ones centred on creative practice. More details here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
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Race and Media Conference
A major international conference exploring how race is constructed, represented and contested in media today, bringing together leading scholars across disciplines and methodologies
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Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
*PSA EVENT* 🚨 Programme now online🚨for our Teaching & Learning Network Conference, Bringing together the teaching and learning community to share practices, ideas and experiences @psateach.bsky.social 📆 4 - 5 September @royalholloway.bsky.social. ➡️ book your ticket
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Political Studies Association Teaching and Learning Network Conference | The Political Studies Association (PSA)
Theme: Teaching Well4th-5th September 2025 This year’s PSA TLN annual conference will take place on Thursday 4th and Friday 5th of September at Royal Holloway, University of London, in Egham, Surrey.
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Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
*PSA OPPORTUNITY* 🚨 Seeking new members to join PSA Early Career Network Committee. @psaecn.bsky.social‬ 📆 7 July for expressions of interest. Open to all. ➡️ Full details online. buff.ly/tQSYJSF #MondayMotivation #EarlyCareer
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PSA Early Career Network - Call for New Committee Members | The Political Studies Association (PSA)
Expressions of interest are invited by midday GMT, Monday 7 July Do you want to enhance your project management skills? Grow your professional development? Make new contacts and build your networks?…
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Prof Katy Parry @katyjparry.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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Kateryna Kasianenko @kkasianenko.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Honoured to have our article with @olgarithmic.bsky.social in the 15-Year Anniversary SI of the @mwcjournal.bsky.social. In the introduction, @katyjparry.bsky.social looks back on the developments of the field, featuring @richardstupart.com's reflection on the emergent critical ethics towards war.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Trump ‘harming’ US IQ with attacks on education – Percival Everett www.channel4.com/news/trump-h...
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Trump ‘harming’ US IQ with attacks on education – Percival Everett
Acclaimed American writer Percival Everett is best known for his sharp satirical takes on race and American culture.
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Ben O'Loughlin @benoloughlin.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Exciting! @katyjparry.bsky.social with the introduction for the special issue of our 15th anniversary issue of Media, War and Conflict - trends in the field over 15 years, and what these new articles offer: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
✨NEW BOOK CHAPTER OUT✨ The Phantom Counter-Public: Liberal Responsiveness to Far-right Information Networks as the Next Crisis of Public Communication. doi.org/10.1007/978-... In: Coleman et al.: Public Communication in Freefall: Revisiting the Work of Jay Blumler. 🧵⤵️
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Prof Katy Parry @katyjparry.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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‘Monks, politicians, drag queens – all life is here’: a trip to Japan’s Kyotographie festival
The theme of this year’s celebrated photo bonanza is ‘humanity’ – and Kyoto is bursting with images
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Imke Henkel @imkehenkel.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
📣It's out!📣 - Who are UK journalists? - How do they work? - What do they think? Answers now in our major new @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/uk-journalis... Huge, heartfelt gratitude to all 1,130 journalists who took the time to answer our substantial survey!
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UK journalists in the 2020s
This analysis of original survey data reveals the profile, practices, and perceptions of UK journalists in the 2020s, including a shift away from permanent contracts and lingering inequalities.
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