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Our stories examine the ways that race, religion, class, dis/ability, age, gender and sexual identity issues intersect with major topics in the media, and aim to bring new perspectives to light.
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Watch Out, 2020! What Media Trends Should You Keep An Eye On?
The roaring twenties have just begun. We have left behind a decade where online media morphed from being about sharing …
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Instagram: A Place For Indian Students To Organize Against Facism
by: Gopika Shaji When Indian police fired teargas at students at Jamia Millia Islamia University campus on the night of …
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Iraq Is Once Again In The Headlines. What About Iraqis?
It feels almost impossible to avoid scaremongering headlines predicting an imminent war in the Middle East. It didn’t take long …
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TikTok, China and the World: A Complex Relationship
“Hi guys, I’m going to teach you guys how to get long lashes”, Feroza Aziz says to the camera whilst …
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CIVIS Media Prize: Migration, Integration and Cultural Diversity
European programmes exploring the topics of migration, integration and cultural diversity are invited to enter. A new addition to the 2020 competition is the topic of democratic culture – with a particular focus on the fault lines of an integrative...
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Ága – A Glimpse of Cultures Being Destroyed by Russian Colonialism ...
This year’s London Migration Film Festival screened Ága, an eco-drama set in Northern Siberia’s Sakha Republic that shows the silent struggle of an …
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Counting the Dead, Calling Out Femicide: How French Media Has Finally...
By: Sophie Chauvet A year ago, 12,000 purple-clad French women took the streets of Paris in the biggest march against …
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Sadfishing: a New Phenomenon Affecting Young People Online
It is no secret that many young people today face a whole new world of influence and pressures through online …
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CIVIS Media Prize: Migration, Integration and Cultural Diversity.
The CIVIS MEDIA PRIZE 2020 is now accepting submissions. European programmes exploring the topics of migration, integration and cultural diversity …
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A Nazi Song Cover Gets 9/10 for a Secondary School Assignment in Argen...
Trigger Warning: this article mentions extreme anti-Semitic content. Most people who lived through the late nineties and early two-thousands will …