Join us for our next Hub event on UN media on 20 April, 5-7pm UK time! It is organised and coordinated by Dr. Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob (Department of International Studies, Dickinson College, USA and of course member of our Hub and the sub-unit RUNMAPP) who will also act as the moderator of the event.
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We are very excited to launch our new student blog. This blog is a space for students to express their views and their insights into communicative peacebuilding projects.
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Official Narratives, Protracted Conflicts: The Use of Language and Its Interpretation in...
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The Hub for the Study of Hybrid Communication in Peacebuilding (HCPB) hosted a virtual session on street art and mutrals in peacebuilding on 16 March. Our session will feature exciting presentations by two of our Hub members.
Birte Vogel, Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (UoM), will give a paper entitled ‘Money over message? A political economy perspective of street art in conflict-affected societies’ which explores in how far livelihood considerations and funding implications impact on artistic freedom and messaging.
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New research released on March 8, which marks International Women’s Day, provides the most comprehensive assessment to date of the online violence against a prominent women journalist. The research which was published by the International Centre for Journalists (ICFJ) and conducted by Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM) members Julie Posetti, Diana Maynard and Kalina Bontcheva consists of a big data analysis “of the torrent of social media attacks on internationally celebrated digital media pioneer Maria Ressa over a five-year period (2016-2021)”.
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The worrying trends of escalating violence against journalists as they battle to report on vital public interest stories during the COVID-19 pandemic is the theme of a new Pod Academy podcast by CFOM Research Fellow Rachael Jolley.
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