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Is Hate Speech Driving Celebrities Off Twitter?
By: Mikhail Yakovlev What does this mean for the platform’s role in artistic creation and freedom of expression? Earlier this …
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Digital Transformation and Media Diversity: Two Sides of the Same Coin
In this day and age, media outlets are frantically trying to navigate the digital transformation—the pivot to video, the shift …
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Rough Sleepers, Faceless Statistics and Misperceptions: How the Media ...
If the media reframed homelessness, could the readers who have been lucky enough not to have a personal connection to homelessness be more sympathetic?
![Religion in the Balkan Media Landscape: Forgotten Nuance](http://diversity.syntax.media/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/SerbianOrthodoxChurch-365x248.jpg)
Religion in the Balkan Media Landscape: Forgotten Nuance
By Jelena Jorgačević Kisić As Serbian journalist Borivoj Erdeljan mentioned in the recent debate about the Churches under Communism in former Yugoslavia, …
![MLADI: “Youth in the Media Mirror”](http://diversity.syntax.media/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Screen_Shot_2020-02-14_at_12.53.44_PM-365x248.png)
MLADI: “Youth in the Media Mirror”
By: Ivana Jelača In Serbia, youth portals are the most likely to report about marginalised communities, and include more women …
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Disability in the Media: Mirroring Perceptions
People with disabilities are consistently pushed to the back of the media agenda in North Macedonia. In the rare occasion that …
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Bringing Media and Information Literacy to Public Schools in Jordan
Do you speak MIL? The Support to Media and Information Literacy in Public Schools project (lead by Media Diversity Institute, …
![Dear “Woke” Celebrities: How to Respond to Criticism, and ...](http://diversity.syntax.media/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Screen_Shot_2020-02-07_at_9.40.16_AM-365x248.png)
Dear “Woke” Celebrities: How to Respond to Criticism, and ...
by: Jeremy Ullmann Recently, the publishing world has been abuzz with Jeanine Cumming’s novel American Dirt—a novel that follows the story …
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The Consequences of the Daily Mail’s “Trans Trolls” ...
by: Mikhail Yakovlev Last week, MDI posted a brief Twitter thread in reaction to online harassment of our partner Stop Funding Hate UK. …
![TikTok and Xinjiang: An Unconventional Activist’s Tool](http://diversity.syntax.media/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Screen_Shot_2020-02-04_at_11.19.22_AM-365x248.png)
TikTok and Xinjiang: An Unconventional Activist’s Tool
By: Eline Jeanné We recently reported on TikTok and how the increasingly popular app has raised concerns in regards to censorship …
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Meghan Markle, and the British Media’s Defensiveness Around Race
Ever since Meghan Markle and Prince Harry announced their decision to step back as “senior royals,” the media has barely …
![Xenophobia and the Coronavirus: An Unacceptable Response](http://diversity.syntax.media/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Screen_Shot_2020-01-31_at_5.16.30_PM-365x248.png)
Xenophobia and the Coronavirus: An Unacceptable Response
News outlets around the world have been covering the coronavirus extensively this past week. The coronavirus virus originated in Wuhan, …