Stories
Our stories examine the ways that race, religion, class, dis/ability, age, gender and sexual identity issues intersect with major topics in the media, and aim to bring new perspectives to light.
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The AIDS Epidemic Stigmatized Black Communities For Years. Now, Corona...
When Donald Trump insisted on calling the novel Coronavirus the “Chinese Virus” it was frighteningly reminiscent of the way that language around the AIDS epidemic stigmatized Black communities for generations.
Mental Health: How To Combat Stigmatisation and Normalisation
Caroline Flack’s suicide sent shockwaves across the UK, reigniting a debate about how the covers suicide and mental health. Does the media examine these issues with sensitivity? Or does it further the stigma of mental illness, complicating the media’s potential...
Coronavirus: Keeping the “Infodemic” in Check
The Coronavirus is at the top of the news agenda around the world.
Is Hate Speech Driving Celebrities Off Twitter?
By: Mikhail Yakovlev What does this mean for the platform’s role in artistic creation and freedom of expression? Earlier this …
Rough Sleepers, Faceless Statistics and Misperceptions: How the Media ...
If the media reframed homelessness, could the readers who have been lucky enough not to have a personal connection to homelessness be more sympathetic?
Religion in the Balkan Media Landscape: Forgotten Nuance
By Jelena Jorgačević Kisić As Serbian journalist Borivoj Erdeljan mentioned in the recent debate about the Churches under Communism in former Yugoslavia, …
MLADI: “Youth in the Media Mirror”
By: Ivana Jelača In Serbia, youth portals are the most likely to report about marginalised communities, and include more women …
Disability in the Media: Mirroring Perceptions
People with disabilities are consistently pushed to the back of the media agenda in North Macedonia. In the rare occasion that …
Bringing Media and Information Literacy to Public Schools in Jordan
Do you speak MIL? The Support to Media and Information Literacy in Public Schools project (lead by Media Diversity Institute, …
Dear “Woke” Celebrities: How to Respond to Criticism, and ...
by: Jeremy Ullmann Recently, the publishing world has been abuzz with Jeanine Cumming’s novel American Dirt—a novel that follows the story …
