This review article offers a glimpse into the problems and promises of current research on world literary journalism. It discusses rise spread press cultures via colonialism, contentious nature taxonomy fact—its subjectivism, accessibility, veracity—within an inconsistent global press, how porous divide between fiction nonfiction genres is affecting production consumption journalism around worl...

While game criticism has been largely tied to the world of enthusiast press game reviews the emergence of the academic field of game studies and the maturing world of game journalism opens new opportunities to consider the future of the game critique. Today, the critical dialog around games can approach its subject from several vectors—social, psychological, historical, aesthetic, philosophical...

Epistemic games are one approach to creating educational games that give players skills that transfer beyond the game world by helping young people become fluent in valuable social practices. Epistemic games are immersive, technology-enhanced, role-playing games where players learn to become—and thus to think like—doctors, lawyers, engineers, architects, and other members of important practices...

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The media have a key role in communicating advances in medicine to the general public, yet the accuracy of medical journalism is an under-researched area. This project adapted an established monitoring instrument to analyse all identified news reports (n = 312) on a single medical research paper: a meta-analysis published in the British Journal of Cancer which showed a modest link between proce...

Data journalism can be mistaken as the new buzzword for infographics. This is true, but only to some extent. Visualizing data to tell stories started long before the Internet came into being. What makes an attractive infographics, is not the great design, but, more importantly, the insight it gives. The John Snow’s map of cholera outbreaks from nineteenth century London, is an example of refere...

The College of Communication and Information fosters among students a sense of the legal and ethical responsibilities of access to information and the exercise of expression in a democratic society. Additionally, the college serves the professional goals of preparing students for careers in communication and information. The college includes four schools – School of Advertising and Public Relat...

A free and open press is a critical piece of the civil-society infrastructure that supports both established and emerging democracies. However, as the professional activities of reporting and publishing are increasingly conducted by digital means, computer security and privacy risks threaten free and independent journalism around the globe. Through interviews with 15 practicing journalists and ...

Introduction Existing literature and the popular press have lauded the digital revolution as a force that is democratizing traditional forms of journalism and destabilizing media power hierarchies. This paper aims to refute such claims of enhanced democracy through the lens of Fashion Journalism as it responds to the digital age. Questions of democracy have heretofore been debated principally w...

This article defends journalism and press freedom as human rights on the basis of a ‘naturalistic’ approach to such rights. Three fundamental interests – in education about current affairs, legitimate authority, voice public debate are identified grounds for right, held by each every one us, that journalistic communication be engaged our sake. The journalist's role-based communicate argued them...