Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
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The Problem with Advertising
It’s awfully easy to whine about bad marketing, but that’s a little like faulting the vodka for your hangover. Alcohol is inert; blaming it is silliness. Sometimes we just make bad choices. Marketing is a part of life, and the reason it so often fails relates to who does it and for what reasons.
Eric Karjaluoto,
smashLAB Inc, 31 October 2009
New Media, Old News: Journalism and Democracy in the Digital Age
In a thorough empirical investigation of journalistic practices in different news contexts, New Media, Old News explores how technological, economic and social changes have reconfigured news journalism, and the consequences of these transformations for a vibrant democracy in our digital age. The result is a piercing examination of why understanding news journalism matters now more than ever. It is essential reading for students and scholars of journalism and new media.
Natalie Fenton, Sage Publications,
21 October 2009
Journalism, Democracy and the Public Interest
The media industry is in the midst of a 'perfect storm', as recession, fragmented audiences and the shift of press advertising to the internet, impact upon it. Steven Barnett, Professor of Communications at the University of Westminster, analyses the effects of these changes on the industry, and how Government and regulatory intervention can best enable it to move forward in a changing world.
Steven Barnett,
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, 2009
The tyranny of expertise
Yes, rational modern societies ought to be based on reason and evidence. But experts are increasingly wheeled out to close down debate rather than provide enlightenment.
Frank Furedi,
spiked, 10 September 2009
Gaming for Glory at Greenbelt
Doubtless there will be critics who see gnostic heresy in the eternal and complex battle between dark and light in the fantasy worlds of video games. But in an era where it has become a new heresy to judge that there is any qualitative difference at all between individuals, especially children, a medium that teaches that there are indeed such things as good and bad, right and wrong, has in my view to be Good News.
Ruth Gledhill & Paul Govan,
Times Online, 13 August 2009
A delayed appetite for the facts
Why is the British left so shocked about the events in Northern Ireland portrayed in Steve McQueen's powerful film, Hunger?
Kirk Leech,
Guardian Comment is Free, 21 October 2008
Arianna Huffington
The Greek-born socialite has shaken up American political media with her website the Huffington Post. But by revolutionising news, might she also be in danger of destroying it?
Andrew Keen,
Prospect, 31 August 2008
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