Jun 1, 2022Time for a Story: My Experience with MultimodalityHow important is visual communication in a social media-driven world? The photo-sharing social media app Instagram was launched in 2010 and has since accumulated 1.28 billion users worldwide. In 2016, the popular app launched Instagram Stories — a feature where users can use images, videos, gifs, polls, and music to…Multimodality6 min readMultimodality6 min read
May 31, 2022From Hashtag Activism to Investigative Journalism: The Power of #MeTooWhat factors helped drive the social movement into a global phenomenon? TRIGGER WARNING: This blog post contains mentions of sexual harassment and assault. As a social movement still striving for social change today, #MeToo fights against sexual harassment and assault by encouraging people to speak up and publicise their experiences. …Investigative Journalism6 min readInvestigative Journalism6 min read
May 26, 2022‘And Nothing But The Truth’: The Law and Ethics of Court ReportingHow do the public get an accurate insight into the court room? Most UK journalists are obliged to follow the Independent Press Standards Organisation (that’s IPSO, for short) Editors’ code of practice. What is this code of practice, you ask? Well, IPSO themselves state: “The Editors’ Code is a set…Court Reporting6 min readCourt Reporting6 min read
May 23, 2022Making 280 Characters Count: My Experience with MicrobloggingA little bit of advice when it comes to pressing tweet… As one of the world’s most popular social media platforms, Twitter was released in 2006 as an app to share updates with friends by texting a message to the number 40404. To me, that seems like an alien thing…Microblogging6 min readMicroblogging6 min read
May 10, 2022Citizen Journalism in Crime Reporting: Is it a Benefit or a Drawback?The dissemination of user-generated content is ever-growing… As Pippa Norris puts it in Critical Citizens: Global Support for Democratic Government, in the realm of news, “citizens use their own, self-managed media to become politically involved on their own terms”. Immersing themselves into many of the fundamental roles of a journalist…Citizen Journalism5 min readCitizen Journalism5 min read
May 5, 2022A Distorted View: Ethnic Minorities as ‘Undeserving Victims’ in Crime ReportingWhy are ethnic minorities so undeserving of victimhood? The social world is reliant upon the media, specifically news media, to obtain information about the world around us; topics of discourse that ultimately inform and educate us and our view of society. Crime is reported on every single day, making up…Crime8 min readCrime8 min read
Apr 26, 2022Introduction: No Justice, No PeaceMy name is Ahone Lane and I am a final year BA English student at Bournemouth University, currently delving into all things news, journalism and equality. Currently my microblog will be focused on the area of crime journalism, looking specifically at discourse surrounding injustice and political framing. This will involve…Introduction1 min readIntroduction1 min read
