Facebook, the Media and Democracy: Big Tech, Small State?, by Leighton Andrews Ivor Gaber is left wanting more in this account of how Facebook became a linchpin of today’s ‘surveillance capitalism’ By Ivor Gaber 24 October
Sultan of Swing: The Life of David Butler, by Michael Crick Ivor Gaber enjoys a biography of an Oxford don who became the UK’s first on-screen pollster By Ivor Gaber 10 January
The BBC: The Myth of a Public Service, by Tom Mills Has the corporation acted as an arm of the state in the past, and might it in the future? Ivor Gaber wonders By Ivor Gaber 17 November
Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism, by Lucas Graves Having newshounds verify assertions does not in itself untangle complicated issues, Ivor Gaber says By Ivor Gaber 15 September
Reporting Dangerously: Journalist Killings, Intimidation and Security, by Simon Cottle, Richard Sambrook and Nick Mosdell Ivor Gaber welcomes a work that gives overdue attention to the risks that members of the press and those who help them too often face By Ivor Gaber 30 June
Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shape Collective Action, by Helen Margetts, Peter John, Scott Hale and Taha Yasseri Organising and agitating online can be a powerful mover of change, Ivor Gaber finds By Ivor Gaber 21 January
