Martin Scott

We won!

📢 Job alert!

Our school is hiring a Teaching Fellow in Global Development.

🗓️ 6-month post starting Jan 2026
💰 £38,784–£46,049
🌍 Focus: Geography & Global Development
🧭 Includes UK field course on legacies of empire

Apply by 22 Sept 2025:
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/17...

Our own @martinscott2010.bsky.social has published a new policy brief for the #G20, calling for stronger support for independent, diverse, and financially viable media.

Part of the #M20 initiative ahead of the G20 Summit in Johannesburg.

Read it here: media20.org/wp-content/u...

Artist | UEA: Freedoms of Speech in a Fractured World UEA: Freedoms of Speech in a Fractured World

🎪 Heading to #LatitudeFestival?

Catch UEA @martinscott2010.bsky.social (DEV) & Anshuman Mondal (Literature) on Sunday at 14:20 at The Listening Post.

They’ll talk Freedoms in a Fractured World—a vital convo on free speech, #media & #democracy.

Read more: www.latitudefestival.com/artists/uea-...

"Frontex collected personal data for years through covert interrogations of migrants after their arrival in Europe that lacked basic legal guarantees"

Apostolis Fotiadis, @stavinoha.bsky.social + Lola Hierro expose another scandal involving Frontex and migrants' rights

elpais.com/internaciona...

Honoured that Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: Trump and @voanews.com.web.brid.gy was a finalist for the @aejmc.bsky.social
prestigious Tankard award. @melbunce.bsky.social @martinscott2010.bsky.social and I are delighted. Our hearty congratulations to @gwynmell.bsky.social!

Only 17% of articles in the Journal of Communication (1961-2016) are qualitative! What?!

Thrilled to have received the "honourable mention" (runner up place) from the Journalism Studies division of #ICA2025, together with longstanding coauthors @martinscott2010.bsky.social + @melbunce.bsky.social. Our hearty congratulations to the overall winner @ruthmoon.bsky.social!

Not many of these posts around at the moment, so a big opportunity...

@martinscott2010.bsky.social, here is the recording of the @rodakorset.bsky.social event to which you were invited 👇🏻😌

*NEW ARTICLE*:

What do #journalists think of the international media freedom campaigns that aim to support them – like the #MediaFreedomCoalition - and how might their perspectives help us better understand the impacts of such initiatives?

We try to answer here... ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

Just found out that our book - "Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: Trump and Voice of America" has been shortlisted for the MeCCSA Monograph of the Year award. @newsprof1.bsky.social + @melbunce.bsky.social

See here for all the shortlisted articles/books www.meccsa.org.uk/meccsa-outst...

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Consider submitting a paper to our workshop “AI x Crisis: Tracing New Directions Beyond Deployment and Use,” which will take place at the Aarhus Conference (Critical Action, Theory, and Practice in Computing) on August 18-19! More information: sites.google.com/view/ai-x-cr...

Africans back the media’s right to bite ‘Media should scrutinise government’ vs ‘Media should avoid negative reporting’ 39 African countries | 2021/2023 Africans want democracy (66%), with competing political parties (64%). They want Parliament to make the laws (69%) and to monitor how the president spends taxpayers’ money (66%). Even more, they want an independent watchdog: On average across 39 countries, 72% of Africans say the media “should constantly investigate and report on government mistakes and corruption”. It’s the majority view in every surveyed country. Only a quarter (26%) of respondents say too much negative reporting is damaging for the country, though this rises above a third in Côte d’Ivoire (34%), São Tomé and Príncipe (34%), Zimbabwe (35%), Cameroon (36%), Sudan (40%), Senegal (42%), and Mozambique (43%). This year, two of the above made ugly headlines: Mozambican journalist Arlindo Chissale died after being beaten by security forces, and Zimbabwean journalist Watson Flexy Munyaka died after being thrown out of a moving vehicle. These incidents serve as chilling reminders, on this World Press Freedom Day (3 May), that even with strong public backing, too often the watchdogs have to watch their backs. #AfricanMedia #TheContinent #MediaFreedom

#WorldPressFreedomDay: Africans want a media that watches over government.

Check out @afrobarometer.bsky.social’s latest survey in this week’s issue of The Continent.

This is such a clear, compelling account of the collapse of democracy in the US. I strongly recommend listening

We are looking for a Teaching Fellow in #GlobalDevelopment with a particular focus on #Media and #Communication

Deadline: 20th May 2025. Start Date: 1 Sept 2025 for 11 months

See here for more details about the role - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT311/t...

Please share with anyone who might be interested

Conservation in a Connected World 🌍

DEV’s Rachel Carmenta recently presented her Connected Conservation model (Biological Conservation, 2024) at @zslofficial.bsky.social Science and Conservation Event, exploring how #conservation must address wealth as a root driver of #climate crises.

New #OpenAccess #BookChapter Alert! 🔓📚

Interested in intergenerational #learning and decolonising #literacy? Check out the work by DEV Anuprita Shukla exploring how Nepal & India are rewriting literacy traditions across generations.

Part of the UNESCO edited collection on family learning.

New study alert 📄

Associate Professor David Girling (DEV-UEA) & Deborah Adesina analyse 589 UK charity mail images:

• 51% depict Africa
• 59% feature Global South women/children
• Reveals gaps in family representation

Full report: charity-advertising.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Small World - International factual programming on public service channels This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the UK’s Public Service Broadcasters (PSBs) in covering global events through current affairs and other factual programmes on television channels. To a...

New Report Published!

We're happy to release Small World, written by @martinscott2010.bsky.social

Prof. Scott looked at the range of international coverage on the public service channels between 2023-24.

Some of the results were expected. Others were surprising and alarming.

Read more below 👇

I've got a new report out today - on international factual programming on UK TV in 2023-24.

Key finding: Travelogues dominate (58%) and 'male, stale and pale' presenters feature very heavily.

Covered nicely in The Times - www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...

Full report: ibt.org.uk/reports/smal...

Got views on how humanitarianism should be improved?

Contribute to this deliberative democracy tool...

Eg about the process of reform: “The existing aid system does a good job of saving lives and alleviating suffering. Whilst reform is needed now is not the time.”

“Knee-jerk reform triggered by current instabilities won't help. We need a clear future state in mind based on solid foresight work.”

pol.is report | Lydia Poole | 22 comments 📣 Have your say in the big humanitarian rethink 👇 In the spirit of cracking open the humanitarian future reform debate, we’re running an experiment in… | 22 comments on LinkedIn

Thanks! It’s using polis, a deliberative democracy survey tool. Statements, votes, data, analysis are all open. More details here: www.linkedin.com/posts/lydia-...

Join the 2500 people who have taken our free online course...

Free 4-week course: Why Media Matters for Global Development? @publicmedia.bsky.social

Content covers:
- Media representations of poverty, inequality, and development
- Participatory and community media
- Social media’s role in development campaigns

Enroll now: www.futurelearn.com/courses/medi...

Done. Interested to see the outcomes / more about the process.

Join this collaborative consultation experiment on the future of humanitarian aid: pol.is/6ar9hfisje

Motorway in Nairobi with a bus on the right hand side and a lorry on the left hand side facing the camera

Painting of a brown fist on a wall over a saying AMREF Health Centre

Female artist is signing a paper in her studio

People collecting things from a mountain of waste

🌍 FREE 5-week #FutureLearn course: "What is Global Development?"

Explore development through Nairobi's lens:

- Media & trade
- Urban challenges
- Migration & economics

Perfect prep for Global Development degrees!

futurelearn.com/courses/global-development

[Photos: Brian Otieno & David Girling]