Category: Notes on News
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How does social media impact our relationship with the political sphere? The alternative nature of social media compared to manufactured and regulated broadsheets/tabloids gives it a higher range of motion. It’s accessible yet more polarised online than ever. Despite being considered an alternative media source, it has become mainstream: Ofcom reported that “Social media is…
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Lucy Maggs begins to pry into the source of our guilty pleasures and asks: what makes them guilty in the first place?
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Reece Beckett reflects on streaming services and cinemas, reflecting on the impact they have on eachother.
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Jess Woodley-Stewart reflects on James Corden’s gay character in The Prom and asks an important question: is it ever okay for a cis-het person to play the role of someone in the LGBTQ+ community?
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Louise Chase asks some important questions while evaluating the abysmal nominations of the 2021 awards season.
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Callum Nelmes talks about the rumours of Disney’s supposed plans to halt the release of new physical media while addressing the credibility of these claims.
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In an investors call that announced upcoming projects for the Star Wars franchise, one of those was the Obi-Wan Kenobi series.
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Digital Culture Editor, Harry Geeves, talks about Spotify seeking a pattern for plagiarism AI and the issues this causes for the music industry.
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While COVID-19 may have caused a boom in streaming and gaming, Elizabeth Sorrell asks an important question: Will the entertainment industry recover?
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After Covid-19 shook the entertainment industry as a whole, musicians have looked to new ways to continue to offer live music, causing an increase in streamed concerts.
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Announced at the PS5 Showcase, Hogwarts Legacy has only stirred up controversy since by being tied to notorious transphobe J.K.Rowling.
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Alice Fortt discuses the lack of female headliners at Reading 2021 and the festivals lack of gender equality.
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Back last year in March 2019, the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by the ever-growing multi-media conglomerate The Walt Disney Company (Disney) occurred, adding to the company’s expanding empire in the media world. By engulfing 21st Century Fox into their increasingly monopolising company structure, Disney now owns not only the 21st Century Fox brand but…
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Rina Sawayama has recently been denied entry to major UK music awards including The Mercury Prize and The BRITs. Despite having lived in the UK for most of her life (25 years), Sawayama is not defined as British by these awards and therefore cannot enter. The news came when the recent Mercury Prize nominations were…