Communications
Alternative labels
Mass communication
Communications media
Communications policy
Report
Understanding digital poverty and inequality in the UK
In 2022, the British Academy commissioned six projects that examined different aspects of digital poverty in the United Kingdom. This report highlights the central themes and findings that emerge across the evidence base of outputs produced by the commissioned projects, and uses these findings to identify six lessons to shape policy thinking on how to...
Report
What works to prevent online violence against children?
This report presents ways to address the growing worldwide concern of keeping children safe online, with a specific focus on two forms of online violence: child sexual abuse including grooming and sexual image abuse; and cyber aggression and harassment in the form of cyberbullying, cyberstalking, hacking and identity theft.
Report
Information disorder: lessons from Australia
This report seeks to provide definitions that explain the nuances of a 'polluted information space', because precise language is crucial to help us understand the problems we are facing, particularly as technology and social media evolve.
Report
Who gets to tell Australian stories? 2.0
This report examines the Indigenous and cultural diversity of Australian news and current affairs television media. Overall, the findings show that Australian news and current affairs programs fail to represent the society they serve.
Discussion paper
The case for truth in political advertising reform in Tasmania
This paper addresses the Tasmanian government’s objections to legislating truth in political advertising laws, as part of the review of the Electoral Act currently underway.