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Critical minds needed more than ever to navigate global media landscape, say Sussex and CUHK In the face of an increasing challenging global media landscape, we need media literate graduates more than ever to understand the world we live in.

Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott MP has said that people should judge Jeremy Corbyn in six months, by which time she expects Labour's poor poll ratings to have improved.

Compressed sensing is an exciting new computational technique for extracting large amounts of information from a signal.

Imogen Crump has been appointed Editor of Pursuit , the University of Melbourne's multi-media news website.

The media are quick to criticise humanitarian organisations as inefficient and expensive, writes Corinna Frey (Cambridge Judge Business School), in The Conversation, but we should remember the extremely challenging work they do.

Jane Brody, personal health columnist for The New York Times, will present a talk titled - Does the Press Have a Caring Heart?- on Thursday, March 23 at 7:30 a.m. in the Park Street Aud

AMC recently premiered ten episodes of The Son, a series based on the celebrated novel spanning generations of Texans written by Austin novelist Philipp Meyer.

Journalism at Cardiff University is officially ranked amongst the world's best according to the latest world rankings published today (Wednesday 8 th March, 2017).

"Change is about identifying the mechanism that delivers" To celebrate International Women's Day on 8 March, Professor Claire Annesley, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Equalities and Diversity, suggests we consider being bold by changing the rules.

Reading or altering someone's online vote in Saturday's election in Western Australia might be much easier than it seems, according to an article published today in Pursuit. According to authors Dr Chris Culnane and Dr Vanessa Teague from the University of Melbourne, Dr Yuval Yarom and Mr Mark Eldridge from the University of Adelaide and Dr Aleksander Essex from Western University in Canada, voters with disabilities can register and vote over the Internet for the first time on a system called iVote .

Cardiff University's School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies is to move to a state-of-the-art building in Cardiff's Central Square Development, situated alongside national broadcaster BBC Wales.

German studies professor Patrizia McBride was drawn to montage because of its storytelling power. 'It assembles objects and narratives by culling fragments from different areas and then reassembling them,' she said in a 'Chats in the Stacks' talk Feb.

By Ann Lyon Ritchie "Lorna, The First Interactive Video Art Disk” by Lynn Hershman Leeson is a part of the Miller Gallery's current exhibition.

In a series of papers over the past 10 years, MIT Professor César Hidalgo and his collaborators have argued that the complexity of a country's exports - not just their diversity but the expertise and

Top BBC journalists return to Sussex Two eminent BBC journalists, who are also Sussex alumni, will be revisiting their alma mater next month to discuss the changing face of the media in the latest of the 'Alumni Masterclass' events at the university.

A study published in the journal Science by a research team from Gustave Roussy, INSERM, INRA, AP-HP, IHU Médiaterranée Infections* and Paris-Sud University shows that prescribed antibiotics impair the efficacy of immunotherapy in cancer patients.

Social Data Science Lab awarded £250,000 grant to set up centre to monitor Brexit-related hate crime on social media Researchers from Cardiff University have been awarded a quarter of a million pounds to help the UK Government monitor Brexit-related hate crime on social media.

"Fake news" has created a lot of buzz since the election. Facebook has announced its Journalism Project to flag disputed stories and promote news literacy. Meanwhile, some individuals and websites are now applying the term "fake news" more broadly. Where do we find real news' And what qualifies as being news literate? Stephanie Craft, a professor of journalism at Illinois, has wrestled with that issue for several studies, including some with teens.

A new and unique Welsh medium module, 'Cymru: Y Senedd, y Straeon a'r Spin' ('Wales: The Senedd, The Stories and The Spin'), will run for the first time in Cardiff University from February 2017.

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT DATE: 3 p.m. Feb. EVENT: "Leaks, Whistleblowers and Big Data: Collaborative Journalism across Borders" Wallace House presents the investigative journalists behind the Panama Papers and Luxembourg Leaks at the inaugural Eisendrath Symposium at the University of Michigan.

Online media use such as social networking and gaming could be strongly influenced by our genes, according to a new study by researchers from King's College London. Access to and engagement with online media continues to grow at an unprecedented speed, and it plays an increasingly important role in the development and experience of people across all age groups.

This slideshow requires JavaScript. Is fake news undermining the truth? That question, hashed out by Berkeley and industry experts, drew a crowd that filled Banatao Auditorium's seats and spilled into the aisles Thursday night.

Fabricated stories favoring Donald Trump were shared a total of 30 million times, nearly quadruple the number of pro-Hillary Clinton shares leading up to the election, according to Stanford economist Matthew Gentzkow.

A serious infection of dietary origin that is caused by the Listeria monocytogenes bacterium, listeriosis is associated with severe clinical symptoms and a high mortality rate in individuals whose immune system is weakened.

'Here in London, you can feel like you're part of history and that you're on the cutting edge at same time - it's a great fusion,' says Noam Angrist '13, a Rhodes Scholar who shuttles between the U.K. and Botswana on behalf of a development nonprofit he launched in 2014.

ATTENTION: Reporters covering media, journalism, the tech industry, law and politics WHAT: 'Separating fact from fantasy: Is fake news undermining the truth'' The proliferation of fake news and what

Women who binge drink are depicted more negatively by the media than men who do the same thing, according to new research. Researchers at the University of Glasgow and Glasgow Caledonian University have investigated how the media report women's and men's binge drinking. The study, which is published in BMJ Open, analysed 308 articles published over two years in seven popular UK national newspapers and found that women's binge drinking was given more coverage in the media, despite men drinking more in reality.

Conquer your inner weaker self: "Back to the desk!" Am 18. Jänner 2017 geht ab 19. Uhr in Kooperation mit der ÖH Salzburg in der Hauptbibliothek bereits die vierte Nachtschicht@UBS über die Bühne.

White House photographers once shot mostly for history; today their photos are as likely to be used for daily image-making and social media, thanks to changes under President Obama.

The earnings gap between African-American men and white men is the same now as it was 60 years ago for the median worker, according to a new study from University of Chicago economist Kerwin K. Charles and Duke University economist Patrick Bayer.

The 2017 election underscored the pressure on today's news media. There's a high demand for news from a public with a lower propensity to pay for it'at least with traditional subscriptions.

A list of the world's top-100 'most-discussed' journal articles of 2016 features research from The University of Queensland in 16 th and 59 th spots. The Altmetric Top 100 2016 lists academic papers that have received the most international attention through mainstream media, social networks and blogs, Wikipedia, public policy documents, and comments on post-publication peer review forums.

A new ranking of the year's top 100 research papers features two high-profile contributions from University of Glasgow scientists. The ranking, announced today by the data science company Altmetric, is an annually released list of academic papers which have received the most attention in the previous year from sources which Altmetric track.

Cardiff University's Creative Economy team has produced a detailed map of Cardiff's creative economy workforce.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Eduardo Navas, Penn State assistant professor of art, works with students in the School of Visual Arts' New Media and Interdisciplinary Digital Studio programs, teaching a range of digital art courses that draw on his expertise in cultural analytics and digital humanities.

Lewis Black may be a native of Washington, D.C.

Lewis Black may be a native of Washington, D.C.

According to research, if you are someone who customizes or decorates your pages to project your identity, then you are more willing to buy into anything that comes into that space. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Technology may have helped turn users into their own information gatekeepers, but they may not necessarily make better, more informed decisions with that data, according to researchers.

At the seventh "International Congress on Science and Skiing (ICSS)" in St. Christoph am Arlberg, organized by the Department of Sports and Kinesiology/USI at the University of Salzburg, numer

New artificial intelligence software designed to spot new child sexual abuse media online could help police catch child abusers. The toolkit, described in a paper published in Digital Investigation, automatically detects new child sexual abuse photos and videos in online peer-to-peer networks.