Moral panics and media terrorism
There seems to be a lot of moral panics at the moment. Unhappily, they are largely engineered by fearful people determined to indulge their prejudices by undermining the safety and security of society.
Tag: media studies
Trial Access to Harper’s Bazaar
We have set up a trial of this amazing resource which gives you full text access to the archive of the UK (1930-2015) and US (1867 to present) editions of Harper’s Bazaar magazines. A fully searchable and browsable resource recording …
Just the facts (checked and verified)
In the modern world, it seems that we are submerged in information and yet verified facts are never at our fingertips. Happily there is now FullFact – an independent charity website that promises the full and unbiased facts of current …
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) available again tomorrow (Wed 31 August)
We have received an update from the supplier of Box of Broadcasts thanking you for your continued patience during the upgrade over the past month. BoB have been importing archive content into the new system and converting it to HTML5 format, so …
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Creative Arts Book of the Week 21/09/15
This week’s book, Magazine Movements is by Dr. Laurel Forster, from UoP’s School of Media and Performing Arts. It extends the current research on women’s magazines into broadcast programmes as well as print media, defining magazines as ‘any media genre of …
