Tabe Bergman

Tabe Bergman is an Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies at Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. With Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman he recently published the edited volume Media, Dissidence and the War in Ukraine with Routledge.

Recent articles by Tabe Bergman

Confronting censorship: on media bias and the war in Ukraine

Confronting censorship: on media bias and the war in Ukraine

Editing a book about the media and the war in Ukraine taught me first-hand lessons about censorship. It also confirmed that the Western media’s pro-elite bias is as strong as ever. At an academic conference in Europe in the summer of 2023, I witnessed how several audience members shouted at one of the speakers. That’s not how such meetings are supposed to go. They should be much less eventful.

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