“I don’t think there is anything more important than the freedom to think, the freedom to generate new knowledge, the freedom to distribute that knowledge wherever it takes us.”

The author of 12 books on media, communications and journalism, Rutgers Professor John V. Pavlik not only gives us his take on working in higher education, but shares fascinating insights from decades of research into technology’s effects on media, journalism and society, plus the prospects for people interested in pursuing the field. Highlights include his outlook for journalism and media in the modern age, implications of ‘deep fake videos’, difficulty in detecting modern propaganda, research experiences in the Middle East, and the use of immersive technologies like AR and VR (augmented reality and virtual reality) in journalism and storytelling.