Manifesto for Peace Media in the 21st Century
Professors and researchers in the field of communication launch a manifesto calling for the media to serve peace.
In the midst of an upsurge of...
Democracy Lost: Propaganda, Character Assassination and the Campaign Against Professor David Miller
On October 1st 2021, the University of Bristol decided to buckle in the face of a near 3 year-long militant Zionist campaign and fire Professor...
‘We Are a Nation of Shopkeepers’
Abstract
Professor Cees Hamelink has been a rare critical voice in Dutch and international communication scholarship for the last half a century. His work has...
Academic Complicity in the Censorship Industry: The Case of Kate Starbird
The U.S. Congress has recently heard a report from the House Judiciary Committee which presents disturbing allegations about U.S. Government involvement in surveillance and...
Whose Disinformation Is It Anyway? BBC vs Critical Academics
BBC Radio recently broadcast a File on 4 programme called Ukraine: The Disinformation War, promoted with the strapline ‘British academics accused of sharing Russian...
Reflections on PR and Propaganda at heart of Ethical Space
Reflections on public relations and propaganda and critiques of the corporate media lie at the heart of Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication...
Mass Shootings and Media Spin
Introduction
Mass shootings represent a complex and multifaceted phenomenon, drawing from individual, social, and environmental origins. Current legislative and media initiatives predominantly concentrate on firearm...
Michael Parenti – Rare Public Voice of Reason, Erudition and Humanity – Rest in...
Michael Parenti, the political scientist and Marxist activist with great intellectual range, recently died at the age of 92. The YouTube comments on one...
Attacks on Academic Freedom, the Times of London, and MI6
This article is also published at UK Column.
Once again, The Times newspaper is attacking academics who speak truth to power, with a new hit-piece. What the latest...
Who Guards NewsGuard? Academics asleep on the job
Recently, I was reading ‘an important paper’ recommended by a philosopher who specialises in epistemology (the study of how we know what we think...