Dune 2, Barbie and the Decline of Media Literacy
CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR DUNE 2 Dune as a franchise is profoundly anti-colonial and anti-imperialist. Its storyline is about the dangers of idolatry, how religion can be used to control the…
How Disinformation on Social Media Influences the Narrative
Beyond the amount of firepower, war is also about who controls the narrative. While various international and local media outlets are trying to cover the ongoing Gaza conflict, false information…
Transgender Representation in British Media
Trans people discuss how the British press misrepresents their lived experience Words by Rhys Mathers CW: Transphobia, mention of sexual assault “We’re being pressured into sex by some trans women”…
Journalists stage mass walk-out in response to No.10 press ban
On February 3, a group of Journalists walked out of 10 Downing Street en-masse, after the Prime Minister’s director of communications tried to restrict certain media outlets from attending a…
The only way is Media
The statistics show that both domestically and aggregately, the number of students undertaking media related subjects is falling. However, those who do proceed with such a degree are finding jobs…
Questioning the voyeuristic media
We live in a country that vehemently prescribes, promotes and defends the right to a fair trial, as explicitly proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 14 in…
Should we allow the media moguls to reach the Sky?
Not a day goes by without a reference in the media, the press especially, to an activity, action or decision relating to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, News International or more…
Television comes to Sussex campus
Student media at Sussex is set to be introduced to its first ever internet stream television station this year. The University of Sussex Student Television (UniTV) is an online video…
“Misleading, Incomplete and Regressive": the televised election debates
At the time of writing, the final televised election debate has just ended. The previous two debates were watched by 9.4 million and just over 4 million respectively, and we…