"In the nearly seven years since the Snowden revelations, information security concerns for news organizations and members of the press have only intensified worldwide. In the United States, a record-breaking number of whistleblower prosecutions under the Obama administration ha…
A study of bias among television reporters and film or movie producers. Lists reporters who have formerly worked for politicians and stories considered unnewsworthy (holocaust in Cambodia, flight of the boat people).
"This book documents the journalistic career of Mohandas K. Gandhi. Known as the Mahatma and the Father of India, Gandhi was also a journalist. However, he was not the kind of journalist one would think of when we think of someone who works for the New York Times or the BBC. Rat…
"This book documents the journalistic career of Mohandas K. Gandhi. Known as the Mahatma and the Father of India, Gandhi was also a journalist. However, he was not the kind of journalist one would think of when we think of someone who works for the New York Times or the BBC. Rat…
"In The Paradox of Democracy: New Media and the Eternal Problem of Politics, Sean Illing and Zac Gershberg argue that, although free speech and media has always been a necessary condition of democracy, that very freedom also is its greatest threat. Free speech gives those who wo…
A thought-provoking history of communications that challenges ideas about freedom of speech and democracy. At the heart of democracy lies a contradiction that cannot be resolved, one that has affected free societies since their advent: Though freedom of speech and media has alwa…
"Peycam looks at how the journalism that came out of colonial Saigon became a powerful tool for political activism, and a vehicle for mobilizing and unleashing popular forces. The manuscript covers the evolution of Vietnamese journalism in colonial Saigon from its inception (bef…
Philippe M. F. Peycam completes the first ever English-language study of Vietnam's emerging political press and its resistance to colonialism. Published in the decade that preceded the Communist Party's founding, this journalistic phenomenon established a space for public, polit…
"Peycam looks at how the journalism that came out of colonial Saigon became a powerful tool for political activism, and a vehicle for mobilizing and unleashing popular forces. The manuscript covers the evolution of Vietnamese journalism in colonial Saigon from its inception (bef…