Des Freedman is Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London and co-editor (with Michael Bailey) of openDemocracy's Capitalism and the University strand that ran in 2011/12 as well as the collection of essays, The Assault on Universities (2011). He is the author of The Contradictions of Media Power (2014) and The Politics of Media Policy (2008) and secretary of Goldsmiths UCU branch.
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Публикация находится в разделе: openDemocracyUKThe Augar Review – an “all out ideological assault” hidden behind progressive figleavesNew proposals for post-18 education will reduce access for many poorer students, and show an incredibly narrow view...
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Публикация находится в разделе: openDemocracyUKIn defence of (some) conspiracy theoryOf course powerful people organise together. Dismissing everyone who challenges them as "conspiracy theorists" is dangerous
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Публикация находится в разделе: openDemocracyUK'Fake news’ and Facebook: symptoms not causes of democratic declineWestminster's Fake News Inquiry has some good recommendations, but provides too many scapegoats for our failing politics.
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Публикация находится в разделе: openDemocracyUKBig media and big money in 2017 - from Disney/Murdoch to Net NeutralityThis week’s events have shown that the new digital media landscape is every bit as monopolistic as the old one. And...
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Публикация находится в разделе: HomeMedia and twenty first century fake democracyThe ‘real’ fake news is not an exception to but the logical result of a market economy that privileges short-term...
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Публикация находится в разделе: openDemocracyUKWhat Corbyn’s debate victory tells us about bias in the British mediaWhat are the lessons to be learned from Corbyn’s performance on Monday night?