Posted by Munira in Media and Communication on November 19, 2015
The Media and Communication department are holding two industry seminar series, an opportunity to meet and interact with industry experts. The seminars will offer students an insight into their experience working in journalism and television production. The first talk will be by Dan Parry, a TV producer working on factual dramas. Dan Parry is also […]
Posted in Career, News, Studying | Tagged Journalism, seminar, TV production
Posted by Nia in Media and Communication on May 24, 2015
Under the new conservative government, David Cameron is introducing a counter-terrorism bill which is set to include plans for ‘extremism disruption orders designed to restrict those trying to radicalise young people’ – Wintour, 2015. What this means is that any behaviour that is considered to be deemed as including ‘a risk of public disorder, a […]
Posted in News | Tagged extreme behaviour, extremist views, freedom of speech, media and communications, news, press, the counter-terrorism bill, the media
Posted by Nia in Media and Communication on May 24, 2015
This morning, as I lay in bed staring out of a window that gloomily presented the day’s grey and miserable forecast before me; I came across a news story that encouraged me to smile from ear to ear. A soaking wet homeless man with a sleeping bag drenched over his shoulders, was instructed to leave […]
Posted in News | Tagged artistic, Beethoven, fundraising, Media, news story, piano player, power of social media, Social Media, the news, today
Posted by Nia in Media and Communication on April 30, 2015
With the general election creeping around the corner (7 may is voting day remember!), myself and my friends have been discussing politics like nobody’s business. It’s great to be able to have intellectually stimulating conversations about a topic that really matters and truly effects each and every one of our lives. Being young individuals, we […]
Posted in News | Tagged General Election 2015, interest, news, politics in Britain, the media, the youth apathy of politics, youth politics
Posted by Nia in Media and Communication on February 15, 2015
I know I’m a Media and Comms blogger, but due to the fact that I have a split degree, every now and then I like to give my neglected topic Sociology, some overdue TLC. Last semester, I took a Sociology module known as ‘Drugs and Society’ which covered the concept of ‘doping’ in sport (using […]
Posted in Health, News
Posted by Nia in Media and Communication on January 21, 2015
On 7th of January, the world watched in horror as an Islamist terrorist attack against French satirical magazine Charlie Hedebo unfolded, claiming the lives of 12 innocent people. The magazine was reportedly attacked after producing an image of the prophet Mohammad who in Islam, is considered to be sacred. In the eyes of the devout […]
Posted in News | Tagged Boko Haram attacks, Charlie Hebedo attacks, terrorism, the media, the news, Western culture, western world
Posted by Nia in Media and Communication on December 2, 2014
One of my media modules this semester is Media and the Body. This has definitely been the most relevant and critical to society today and I would thoroughly recommend it. The subject of body image tends to crop up on a regular basis as you can imagine in the module. In Western society, implicit and […]
Posted in Health, News | Tagged barbie doll, body, body image, children, health, healthy, media and communications, natural, pressure, realistic, the media, the media and society
Posted by Nia in Media and Communication on November 21, 2014
This morning, the papers online seemed to plaster Nigel Farage’s happy face across as much as they could, presenting some kind of ‘success’ story after another UKIP member gained a seat and became the second UKIP MP. According to Farage, the General Election just blew wide open folks – I’m skeptical. I remember a few […]
Posted in News | Tagged apathetic, Communications, Conservative, Media, Nigel Farage, politics, UKIP, voting
Posted by Nia in Media and Communication on October 23, 2014
As I’m in my third year of study, I was given some module options and one of the modules that I chose was ‘Media and the Body’. So far over the whole module, one thing that has become apparent is the constant mention of the human body in popular culture. I decided to look at […]
Posted in News | Tagged Advertising, critically looking at newspapers, education, looking at the human body, Media, Media and Sociology, the body in the press, the media, the press, the University of Leicester
Posted by Nia in Media and Communication on September 2, 2014
Recently, a rather unique story promptly surfaced thanks to the perseverance and subtle manipulation of the British media. Endless headlines informed the British public about a severely ill child that had been taken by his parents from a hospital in Southampton, without the permission of the doctors at the hospital. Ashya King was reported as […]
Posted in News, Uncategorized | Tagged Ashya King, don't be fooled by the media, news stories, the British media, the power of the media, University of Leicester
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