Media and Communication
The mobile phone: a tool for sousveillance?
The mobile phone - ubiquitous and everyday but can it help to provide power to the powerless? Dr Paul Reilly from the University of Leicester's Department of Media and Communication examines the use of mobile phones to bypass media censorship and raise questions about the conduct of authority figures.
The video game: a legitimate art form?
Dr Vincent Campbell from the University of Leicester’s Department of Media and Communication examines the violence inherent in modern video games. He questions whether they are vulgar and tasteless or in fact evolving into a provocative and authentic form of media.
The newspaper: the rise and fall of a cultural form?
Once our primary source of daily news, the printed word now competes with the internet, social media and television in an increasingly digital world. Roger Dickinson, from the University of Leicester’s Department of Media and Communication, charts the rise and fall of the newspaper.
