Featured Titles
Fake News – What’s the harm?
Peter Cunliffe-Jones
Former news reporter and founder of Africa’s first fact-checking organisation Peter Cunliffe-Jones argues that since concern about ‘information disorder’ soared in 2016, we have laboured under flawed assumptions about the nature and effects of ‘fake news’ and misinformation. Based on a four-year review of 250 case studies, Cunliffe-Jones sets out four ideas for fact-checkers, policymakers and platforms to curb harmful consequences and protect wider freedom of speech.
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Digital and Social Media in Africa
Henri-Count Evans, Ruth Teer-Tomaselli and Tinashe Mawere
This book provides case studies on the strategies used by African governments in monitoring and controlling digital and social media, as well as the implications of such actions for claims about media freedom and freedom of expression.
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The Entertainment and Sports Law Journal
A refereed online, open access journal, it is located within a dynamic and rapidly expanding area of legal theory and practice. Whilst focused within legal study, the areas it encompasses are necessarily interdisciplinary -- Entertainment Law, Media Law, Sports Law, IP Law, and Licensing Law.
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Active Travel Studies
Active Travel Studies is a new, peer-reviewed, open-access journal intended to provide a source of authoritative research on walking, cycling and other forms of active travel.
Read free onlineUniversity of Westminster Press (UWP) is a digital-first open access publisher of peer reviewed academic books, policy briefs and journals. UWP exists to provide global public access to academic work in multiple formats.
News and Events
WPCC JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS
WPCC invites submissions for its next special issue, which explores communication as a force of change. We are looking to shape the field and bring new knowledge with the most recent theoretical interventions, reflections on practice-based research or empirical research.
Published May 20th, 2025
Forum for Uzbek and Silk Road Studies Symposium: Lightning Talks
Research Symposium on 14 May, 3-5pm BST at University of Westminster, UG04, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW
Published May 6th, 2025
Lay summaries in five languages
Lay summaries of key Active Travel Studies articles are now available to download in English, French, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic
Published April 17th, 2025