This article examines how the UK political organization Momentum uses social media within its campaigning. Drawing on a mixed-method research design, combining interviews with activists in Portsmouth and discourse analysis of content posted on Facebook and Twitter, this article tests whether the leadership provides meaningful influence for members. 

By the time Rodrigo Duterte stepped down as President of the Philippines on June 30, 2022, his regime stood accused of undermining the nation’s constitution and destroying press freedom, as well as the arbitrary detention, persecution, and murder of tens of thousands of political adversaries and petty criminals. In their coverage of these events, journalists working for the Western legacy media have often reached for the clichés of orientalism and Western mass-culture. 

The English seaside has long been seductive. Recently, many seaside towns have been pummelled by poverty and underinvestment – with predictable results. Brexit, COVID and the climate crisis have heightened tensions. Writer Tom Sykes and illustrator Louis Netter take you on a wild tour of 21 English coastal communities.

This collaborative project examined how online abuse is experienced and tackled by journalists in Portugal. The project explored how the deeply embedded structural and cultural mechanisms that generate and perpetuate inequality enable online harassment. The research addressed the prevalence of online harassment and violence against women journalists, self-reported incidents, effects, trust in safety mechanisms, and individual coping strategies.

This book examines British and American writing on the city of Manila, situating these representations within scholarship on empire, orientalism and US, Asian and European political history.

This project encompasses environment and conservation activities and training with journalists in Guinea-Bissau. This research project is supported by several organisations, including the Born Free Foundation, Chester Zoo and FCT.

This special issue examines the intricacies of journalism practices, policies and media regulation in contemporary Africa.

Against a backdrop of austerity, Brexit, and growing fears surrounding the spread of misinformation and polarisation on social media, this project analyses how young people in England who experience social inequality in their daily lives use social platforms to consume news.

This article presents an innovative methodology for investigating everyday nationhood at one of the nation’s key spatial edges – its international border. We created a social media dataset comprising of 1,083 ‘tweeted’ reflections made during UK airport border crossings, where nationhood might be expected to be particularly salient, especially during a sampling period that corresponded to frenzied political activity surrounding the post-referendum Brexit negotiations.

This article analyses two digital-native news organisations, BuzzFeed News UK and Vice News (UK), and explores how they use emotional forms of storytelling in their election reporting. 

This article examines how online abuse is experienced and tackled by journalists in Portugal, and addresses the prevalence of online harassment and violence against women journalists and their perceptions of the issue.