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Angela Phillips is Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and author of Journalism in Context

Articles by Angela Phillips

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Digital Liberties

How to fight for digital human rights?

The backfire effect, bad objects, and changing our minds online
David Beer
"Surveillance is the business model of the internet"
Agne Pix and Bruce Schneier
Pushing together solutions to polarization and manipulation in social media
Ricardo Poppi
Internet equality is about to get Trumped – let’s build a wall to defend it
Matthew Linares
Why BigData is running roughshod over the NHS - and what to do about it
Phil Booth
Shielding data from the "five eyes": we need to stand up for encryption
Rebecca Vincent
Child safeguarding cloaks state surveillance and data exploitation
Jen Persson
Theresa May’s counter-extremism plan will create an incompetent police state
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

Beyond ‘post-truth’: confronting the new reality

Angela Phillips 6 January 2017

The term ‘post-truth’ is itself a product of seductive alarmism. It’s time we looked at the cold facts of our emerging news systems.

Which source do students trust more? BBC News vs Facebook News Feed

Angela Phillips 3 November 2015

Despite growing disenchantment with TV and the press, new research finds students continue to trust the BBC and mainstream media more than their Facebook friends.

What can and should the BBC do about local news?

Angela Phillips 13 October 2015

The Government want BBC to provide for market failure, except in the one instance where there is a clear case for it, the delivery of local news.

The future of journalism

Angela Phillips 6 April 2012

In this paper, Angela Phillips paints a picture of a media sector transforming itself in innovative and exciting ways, held back by failing business models. Will the future of our journalism rely on us giving away our private data? Or will we embrace the alternative: a simple online system that would allow us to pay for the content we want?