http://interjunction.org media meets academia: site on media-related issues: journalism, media ethics, history and responsibilities, media effects and globalisation, and journalism education Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:11:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en OUR SERIES ON ACADEMIC BLOGS continues. In this second instalment, Rohit Chopra identifies some blogs that traverse the contested terrain of economics, globalization, and policy, the politics of higher education in the US, and the past and present of journalism. The world of academic blogs on economics spans a range of political positions, with the ... http://interjunction.org/pointer/global-economics-to-university-politics-more-on-academic-blogs/ SIX OUT OF 10 Britons feel the BBC is the most trustworthy news source. Still. Despite the Crowngate and Blue Peter scandals earlier this year, 61 per cent of respondents to a March 2008 online survey said they trusted Beeb journalists "a great deal or a fair amount", ahead of ITV, ... http://interjunction.org/news/in-these-terrible-times-britons-trust-beeb-best/ Stephen Merriman is a jazz pianist and composer based in San Francisco. Part of the exciting music scene of the 60s and 70s, Stephen worked as a studio pianist and arranger in Boston and New York, taught piano, and played the club and college concert circuits, both as solo pianist and as part ... http://interjunction.org/interview/as-in-life-so-on-keyboard/ THERE'S A BLACK cloud hanging over the head of the fourth estate and it is smothering journalism. Surely, and not slowly. It's PR that Nick Davies, award-winning investigative reporter and author of Flat Earth News, is talking about here. He believes public relation officials have an alarming degree of control over media ... http://interjunction.org/news/good-journalism-isn%e2%80%99t-dead-it%e2%80%99s-terribly-ill/ The idea of using literary texts to illuminate film is not new. But there remains a stubborn Leavisite tendency that implicitly values literary writings as superior on the grounds of being the more established art form. Mark Browning examines David Cronenberg's works in this context.  FOR MORE THAN 25 years, Canadian director David Cronenberg ... http://interjunction.org/article/the-cronenberg-approach/ Sudeep Chakravarti is a writer, practicing futurist, and media consultant based in Goa, India. A former career journalist, Sudeep was Executive Editor with the India Today Group, and Consultant Editor for the Hindustan Times. Widely published in journals on economic policy, geopolitical affairs, and human interest issues, Sudeep is the ... http://interjunction.org/interview/maoist-rebels-are-mirrors-of-our-own-failings-as-a-nation/ Professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory Law School, Atlanta, USA and former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch/Africa. He is the author of Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari`a.  In an email interview with Rohit Chopra, he addresses the relationship ... http://interjunction.org/interview/media-must-uphold-human-rights-and-social-justice-principles/ At the heart of a YouTube-led controversy stands Oprah Winfrey, one of the world's most popular media figures, charged with threatening Christianity. In this article, republished with the permission of ReligionDispatches, Gary Laderman says there's every reason to be concerned about the Church of Oprah. Because it's part of a ... http://interjunction.org/article/the-church-and-oprah/ Beyond the Green Zone Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq By Dahr Jamail \ New York: Haymarket \ 314 pages \ $20 Dahr Jamail rejects the fetters of embedded reporting to seek the truth about Iraq. What he finds squarely contradicts the mainstream media picture of insurgency and everyday life there, writes Amy Blyth. DAHR JAMAIL'S Beyond the Green Zone offers a ... http://interjunction.org/review/the-unembedded-truth/ SINCE THE INVENTION of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s, the internet has garnered significant academic attention from a number of disciplinary and interdisciplinary areas of inquiry. In parallel, many academics started using the medium to complement their teaching and scholarship, to engage with a range of communities ... http://interjunction.org/pointer/from-napoleon-to-heavy-metal-academic-blogs/