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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?

Global connectivity and personal disconnect: filter bubbles and the collapse of public discourse
Richard Raber and Francesco Fanti Rovetta
Is language as we know it still relevant for the digital age?
Pavlo Shopin
The quiet revolution that could transform lives
Rachael Mpashi-Marx
Commons-sense? Contemporary challenges and prospects of community shared resources
Antonis Broumas, David Bollier and Yavor Tarinski
The debate the media won't have: government snooping made NHS hacking easier
Sunny Hundal
Changing the world without taking power? Bitcoin and the challenges of consensus
Nozomi Hayase
The curious rise of the ‘white left’ as a Chinese internet insult
Chenchen Zhang
Pokéwalking while black: Pokémon GO and America’s ‘e-quality’ of life
Anna Everett and Corrigan E. Vaughan

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?