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Climate Change, Technology, and the Role of Media Activism: An Interview with Jeff Orlowski
Jeff Orlowski is the founder and president of Exposure Labs. Exposure Labs focuses on creating documentaries around areas that need...
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Mar 14, 20237 min read


How You Could Have Predicted Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, and Other Lessons in Media Signaling
As we now well know, on February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Three months earlier to the day, on December 24, Russia made a very...
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Nov 29, 20224 min read


Polarization, Covid-19, and Social Media: An Interview with Ezra Klein
Photo credit: Lucas Foglia Ezra Klein is a New York Times opinion columnist and host of the podcast The Ezra Klein Show. Before moving to...
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Oct 26, 20225 min read


The Cycle of Controversial Commentary: Why DeSantis’ Stunt at Martha’s Vineyard Made Him Even More P
On September 14, nearly 50 Venezuelan migrants were flown from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard without their full consent in a move...
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Oct 24, 20225 min read


Digital Blackface is Minimizing White Response to Violence Against Black Women
When you open your phone to send a GIF, what image surfaces in your mind? What media best encapsulates your feelings? For many people,...
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Mar 10, 20225 min read


Welcome to the Big Top: How celebrities, the media, and unbridled corruption have impacted Brazil
Flordelis dos Santos de Souza’s life sounds like something out of a daytime soap opera. The Brazilian gospel singer, who first rose to...
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Apr 16, 20214 min read


The History and Return of Press Briefings
Many administrations have entered and exited the White House in the last 100 years. However, what has remained constant over time is how...
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Mar 11, 20215 min read


To the Moon and the Media
Diamond hands. Rocket emojis. Stock memes and parodied clips from movies plastered all over social media. Otherwise divided American...
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Mar 2, 20215 min read


From a Lack of Funding to a Local News Drought: How News is Essential to Democracy
Per a 2018 survey, 71 percent of US adults believe their local news outlets are doing well financially, even though only 14 percent of...
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Dec 7, 20204 min read


Beyond Rain Main: Diversifying Autism On Screen
While there is still a long way to go in terms of positive representation of autism in entertainment media, a select few fictional...
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Apr 30, 20193 min read


Singapore’s Fake News Bill: Is This The Real Deal?
The growing presence of ‘fake news’ has drastically changed political discussions, with many fearing the larger ramifications of its...
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Apr 29, 20193 min read


Conspiracy Culture in an Age of Turmoil
On October 26, 2017, the Trump administration began the latest wave of declassifying documents relating to the Kennedy assassination....
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Dec 27, 20176 min read


Stephen Colbert and the Pitfalls of Modern Political Satire
The state of American political discourse is no laughing matter. Yet, the entire sub-genre of television constituting late-night comedy,...
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Nov 4, 20178 min read


Where Hollywood Meets Washington
A line delivered at the 69th annual Emmys this year had viewers questioning if they were watching an awards show or the dystopian Black...
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Nov 4, 20174 min read


The Politics of Impartiality: How Media Frames the Climate Change Debate
There are certain scientific principles that we, as a society, take for granted: that an object in motion will stay in motion; that atoms...
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Nov 4, 20175 min read


K-Pop: A Political Weapon
Early last year, the South Korean government blared K-pop – Korean pop music – across its border with North Korea in what seemed to be a...
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Feb 8, 20176 min read


Know Thyself, America: Introspection and Reflection in a Post-Election United States
To many Americans, it might have felt as if the world ground to a halt after the 2016 elections. A constant bombardment of breaking news...
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Dec 23, 20166 min read


Helmet Heroism: How the White Helmets’ heroism can’t escape politics
In 2016, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos for his efforts in negotiating a peace deal that...
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Dec 14, 20166 min read


Off The Rack: The fraught history between women’s fashion and women’s politics
Few Americans remember Amelia Bloomer, the fabled feminist who introduced women to the phenomenon of pants. In the 1850s, coinciding with...
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Nov 1, 20163 min read


The Unspoken Bias in Western Media
Mainstream American mass media tends to suggest that the rise of ISIL in the Middle East has been predominantly countered by the efforts...
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Oct 19, 20166 min read
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