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Reading the information age

Media and journalism study how information and stories are made, spread and consumed — and, increasingly, how to tell truth from noise in a polluted information ecosystem. It may be the most practically urgent literacy of the age.

Learn it well and you become much harder to fool. Set your level below.

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A map of Media & Journalism

How information is made and moved

From theory to the daily craft.

Media theory & audiences — how media shapes us, and how we use it.
Journalism practice & ethics — reporting, verification and the rules of the trade.
Broadcast & digital production — making media across formats.
Advertising & PR — the business of persuasion.
Social media & platform studies — the systems that now shape public conversation.
Misinformation — the health of the whole information ecosystem.

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The canon

The thinkers who read the media

Real figures and works.

Walter Lippmann — Public Opinion (1922), on how media shapes the "pictures in our heads."
Marshall McLuhan — "the medium is the message": the form of media matters as much as the content.
Herman & Chomsky — Manufacturing Consent, a sharp critique of how media serves power.
Neil Postman — Amusing Ourselves to Death, on entertainment swallowing serious discourse.
The investigative tradition — the journalism that holds power to account.

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The live debates

The debates that shape the news

Real, live arguments.

Is objectivity possible — or even desirable? The core tension in journalism.
Social media and democracy. Whether the platforms inform or corrode public life.
Free speech vs moderation. Where the line falls, and who gets to draw it.
Who pays for journalism? The collapse of the old business model, and what replaces it.
Filter bubbles and AI content. Polarisation, and a coming flood of synthetic media.

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Where to start

A route in

A route in — everything runs from the panel above.

Run Orientation on media theory, or on journalism ethics.
Use Great Debates on social media and democracy.
Connect to the Information Integrity node for the frontier of the problem.
Read McLuhan or Postman — then read the news more sceptically.

The goal is a working filter: always ask who made this, how, and why they want you to see it.