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I read zines to escape surveillance and clickbait. It's the new teen rebellion | Jonno Revanche | Opinion | The Guardian

These products of teen rebellion stand in direct opposition to what older generations assume about millennials. Just years ago, people were saying that print was dead – that as a medium it would not be able to find

How The Jinx and Serial Strain the Blurry Ethical Lines of Crime Reporting | TIME

My issue with this type of storytelling is that as it is unfolding, it isn’t clear how much the storyteller knows. Are they saving something they already know for the big conclusion?' asks Jane Kirtley, professor of media

Making A Murderer and the cult of factuality

Factuality can be defined as fact-based content which has much in common with investigative and other forms of journalism, but strongly features elements of narrative drama, soap opera, and other fictional formats such as cliff-hanging endings, unexpected plot

'Making a Murderer' and True Crime in the Binge-Viewing Era - Rolling Stone

Making a Murderer's runaway success has brought the series attention well outside the small circle of dedicated documentary viewers, and with it questions about whether Ricciardi and Demos are filmmakers or advocates, documentarians or journalists. 'Documentary filmmaking is

Beyond hashtags: how a new wave of digital activists is changing society

Digital activism has transformed political protest in the last two decades. Smartphones and the internet have changed the way political events, protests and movements are organised, helping to mobilise thousands of new supporters to a diverse range of