Fake News is a term making headlines more often than not in the 21st century. They can be defined as false or misleading information which has the aim to accumulate news that isn’t fully true or even completely made up. Social media channels are often used to spread such Fake News with willing readers and it gets harder to differentiate Fake News from Real News every day.
Dear readers, it seems like the bad news never stop coming. First, we read them in the newspapers, then on the radio and television, on our computer screens, and in recent years on the display of tiny devices that were promised to bring us so much joy and which should …
Dear readers, I wanted to see if I could find one coherent, up-to-date, interesting, and relevant article/podcast/essay that delves into my topic of choice: fake news/misinformation/digital overload. I didn’t find *one*. Just published in the last month, I found: 3,900,000 results for the term “misinformation” 3,810,000 results for the term …
Dear readers, I’m an experienced broadcast journalist and now a Communications Specialist in the development sector, but never before have I had to invest so much of my identity to produce such brief content as for my 13-second video for this blog (go on, watch and have a giggle). One …
Image Source Dear readers, humans are social animals. If you’ve ever read/studied anything psychology/sociology related, you will no doubt have come across this phrase before. It follows, then, that we as a species have developed a bunch of mechanisms that allow us to interact with another socially to learn from …
Dear readers, earlier this week I found myself awkwardly perched at the foot of my bed, on the floor, bent close to a PowerPoint to charge my tiring mobile phone so I could record myself making strange hand signals in time to the music in what was to become my …
