TweetWe’re hosting the following public lecture at the Centre for Film and Media Studies next week: The Remaking of Citizens: Media, Civic Participation and Learning. David Buckingham Loughborough University, UK In most Western democracies, young people are seen to be disaffected from civic and political life. Yet while television has been accused of contributing to [...]
The Remaking of Citizens: Media, Civic Participation and Learning. Lecture at UCT by David Buckingham
Affording images: Digital imaging and media-sharing practices in a corpus of young people’s cameraphone images
TweetPaper presented at Multimodality in Education colloquium held at Mont Fleur, Stellenbosch on 10 August, 2011 by Marion Walton and Silke Hassreiter, Centre for Film and Media Studies. University of Cape Town The affordances of mobile phones as devices for creating, publishing and distributing images means that they are often seen as a threat to [...]
The New Demographics of News – Portals growing among youth
TweetArticle from Jupiter research
Bloggers are trusted least as news sources, but youth prefer online sources
TweetPoll ranks the Internet and blogs at the bottom among news media. May 4, 2006 Bloggers rank lowest on the scale of trusted news sources, according to a poll released this week during a media conference in London. The survey, conducted by the polling company GlobeScan for the BBC-Reuters-Media Center “We Media” Forum and released [...]