BA Journalism and Media at Birkbeck

Reframing data activism: Towards a broader understanding of datafied social movements.

Reframing data activism: Towards a broader understanding of datafied social movements - Juliette Davret, Danielle Hynes, Samuel Mutter, Joan Somers Donnely, 2026 Social movements are adapting to datafication in diverse and complex ways. This paper refines existing conceptualisations of datafied social movements by analys...

Digital passing: “I died once, so I could live. Perhaps that is my real story”.

Digital passing: “I died once, so I could live. Perhaps that is my real story” - Beata Paragi, 2026 As biometric data is widely considered not only equal to biometric traits but also equivalent to identity, international actors have increasingly conditioned mo...

Vectorizing distinction: The mathematical logic of online profiling through a Bourdieusian lens.

Vectorizing distinction: The mathematical logic of online profiling through a Bourdieusian lens - Saban Contandriopoulos, Damien Contandriopoulos, 2026 This article revisits Pierre Bourdieu's seminal work La Distinction and compares it with contemporary data analysis techniques used for online user profili...

Performing identity: Repetition, emoji, and candidate indicators of amplified visibility in Jordanian–Palestinian Facebook discourse.

Performing Identity: Repetition, Emoji, and Candidate Indicators of Amplified Visibility in Jordanian–Palestinian Facebook Discourse - Alaeddin A. Banikalef, Mohammad Issa Mehawesh, 2026 This study examines how Arabic Facebook comments shape political tensions between Jordanians and Palestinians. The corpus contains 800 public comments collected...

How to make media money.

How to make media money - BJR The digital world threatened to change all we knew about making a living from media. Now it is clear that it didn’t

Moral positions creating power: how technological and social dualisms inform s*x robot constructions.

Moral positions creating power: how technological and social dualisms inform s*x robot constructions S*x robots carry significant implications for both the technology and adult entertainment industries. This paper applies moral philosophy within a critical political economy framework to evaluate p...

“Stop censoring tits”: the impact of Instagram’s content moderation on feminist artists in the UK.

“Stop censoring tits”: the impact of Instagram’s content moderation on feminist artists in the UK This article reports on a study which explored feminist artists’ perceptions and experiences of Instagram’s content moderation of their work. Using qualitative research methods, 15 individual, semi...

The Reuters Institute's Digital News Report 2026 has landed.

Digital News Report 2026 Digital News Report 2026 The most comprehensive study of news consumption worldwide Overview As the world changes at accelerating speed, news media report and update on these events around the clock, jostling for a share of the four to five hours each day that people devote to their smartphones. For...

Latent communicative figurations: mapping quasi-visible strategic relational structures on Facebook.

Latent communicative figurations: mapping quasi-visible strategic relational structures on Facebook This study conceptualises latent communicative figurations, which are quasi-visible relational structures formed through social media affordances, for example as provided by partnership advertiseme...

Mediated information grounds: living with(in) pareshani, social networks and gendered media practices among the Rohingya refugees.

Mediated information grounds: living with(in) pareshani, social networks and gendered media practices among the Rohingya refugees The rapid expansion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and social media has fundamentally transformed the production, distribution, and consumption of information, especially with...