The UO’s libraries offer a variety of services beyond quiet study spaces, academic journals, and scholarly tomes. During your time as a student, scholar, instructor or teacher’s assistant, you will find the UO’s library services as essential to many tasks. The Gradhouse team view these as some of the key resources for exploration and familiarization for GTFs [...]

The folks at Freakonomics drew this recent study to our attention. Economists at Berkley studied years of movie reviews (half million in their dataset) published by subsidiary media of Time Warner and News Corp. The study attempts to draw out the potential bias of media concentration by examining the tone of reviews of films released by the [...]

Harvard’s Berkman Center recently hosted a symposium celebrating former FCC chairman Newton Minnow’s “Vast Wasteland” speech in 1961. The event featured addresses from the 85-year-old Minnow as well as policymakers and scholars. Video from the event has been posted.

Conference in association with London African Film Festival and BAFTA Indaba on 50 Years of Film in Independent Africa, African Media Centre, University of Westminster, London, UK / LONDON AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL 27 November 2010 10.00am – 28 November 2010 Venue University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LS (Directions: http://www.westminster.ac.uk/about/how-to-find-us/marylebone) Keynote Speakers Professor [...]