Myria Georgiou, LSE, and Marek Troszyński, Collegium Civitas, Warsaw recently travelled across the routes followed by many Ukrainian refugees: from the Poland-Ukraine borders to Polish cities and towns. Here, they recount their observations and findings about the nature of the border in…
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The communicative architecture of the wartime border: Control, hope and solidarity
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Russia-Ukraine War: Who is winning the Info-War?
LSE’s Professor Bart Cammaerts discusses the contrast between the Ukrainian and Russian approaches to the information war that has emerged alongside the physical acts of war taking place.
The idea that “in war, truth is the first casualty” is regularly evoked during conflict, with noted…
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Russia: the west underestimates the power of state media
Stephen Cushion, Professor at Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Culture, at Cardiff University, explains just how different the media landscape is in Russia in comparison to that of many western countries, and the implications of this.
Many western countries have a wide range of…
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Britain’s post-humanitarian response to Ukraine: Preserving a racist migration regime
Lee Edwards, Professor of Strategic Communications and Public Engagement in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE, writes that even though the media coverage constructs Ukraine as an exceptional case of conflict and horror, Britain’s post-humanitarian response clearly…
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Why Zelenskyy’s ‘selfie videos’ are helping Ukraine win the PR war against Russia
Anjana Susarla, Professor of Information Systems at Michigan State University, explains how and why the Ukrainian president’s unusual communication tactics are succeeding in rallying support for his cause.
It seems straight out of an action movie: As the capital city becomes a war…
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NASA is launching the DART spacecraft to crash into an asteroid. Could it save us from armageddon?
NASA is launching a spacecraft the size of a golf cart to crash into an asteroid, which could tell us what to do if one ever did hit Earth.
NASA is launching an extraordinary mission on Wednesday to knock an asteroid slightly off course.
While it may sound like the plot…
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Spotify, Snapchat and Google Cloud report outages
Google Cloud said they “are aware of an issue” on its platform, as did the Spotify Status Twitter account, which added they “are checking them (the issues) out.”
Several internet service providers including Spotify, Snapchat and Google Cloud reported being down on…
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NASA Artemis Moon landing delayed by ‘several years’ as costs go ‘underreported’
The mission to put humans back on the Moon is running late, a new report has found. The NASA report also said the agency was “underreporting” the mission’s $93 billion cost.
NASA’s Artemis mission to put astronauts back on the Moon by 2024 is running late and…
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Europe’s space sector seeks to boost commercialisation
As Europe’s space leaders meet virtually in Brussels at the new European Space Forum, Euronews explores how the sector is making a big push to become more business-minded.
**As Europe’s space leaders meet virtually in Brussels at the new European Space Forum, Euronews…
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Astronomers may have discovered the first planet outside of our galaxy
A Saturn-sized exoplanet might have been discovered by astronomers using Nasa’s Chandra X-Ray Telescope.
Located some 28 million light-years away from the Milky Way, astronomers may have just discovered the first planet outside of our galaxy.
The Saturn-sized exoplanet…
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