Writing a 21st century family Christmas musical isn’t easy. Performed at the TPS Studio, Petersfield, Operation Santa weaves together the worlds of business, political injustice, fake news and Yuletide magic into a dramatic, touching and [… read more ]
Dr Stephen Harper, media studies lecturer at the University of Portsmouth and member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB), argues that Covid-related misinformation is a product of our paranoid and resentful age of [… read more ]
T.J. Coles, postdoctoral researcher at Plymouth University’s Cognition Institute and author of a new book The War On You, reflects on the mobilisation of big data, propaganda and online chicanery in the run-up to November’s [… read more ]
Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, in an effort to avoid talking about lockdowns and social distancing, Ian and Simon look back on the last twelve [… read more ]
Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian and Simon are joined by local activist Ivy Burrows, video search engine CTO & programmer for PeteyVid, Craig Stadler, [… read more ]
Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian and Simon discuss the value of listening to whistleblowers and the value of truth when everyone is calling everyone [… read more ]
Continuing our new series of stories from our Young People’s Voices project – funded by Victorious Festival and supported by the University of Portsmouth – student at Havant and South Downs College, Joshua Moynihan voices [… read more ]
PhD candidate in the University of Portsmouth’s School of Film, Media and Communication and Editor-in-Chief of Star & Crescent, Sarah Cheverton, talks to Maia Cook about her passion for local news, the academic research process, her [… read more ]
What challenges do digital media pose to journalists and activists seeking the truth? What is the truth anyway and does anyone still care about it? Self-proclaimed ‘Facebook firebrand’ Troll-Eye Spam tries – and rather fails [… read more ]
Editor in Chief, Sarah Cheverton, revisits the last 6 weeks of election fever in a behind-the-scenes look at how S&C worked with local residents and writers to bring alternative perspectives to local mainstream news. When [… read more ]
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