In this episode of the KCL Politics Society Podcast, Valeria speaks to Daniela Denyer, President of the KCL Women in Politics Society, about how female politicians in Latin America are framed in the media and in politics.

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In this episode, our co-hosts Penelope and Valeria speak with Simon Marks, an Emmy Award-winning journalist who has worked with LBC, The iPaper, Radio New Zealand and more, as well as having founded the world's leading broadcast agency Feature Story News (FSN).

Simon joins us to discuss the journalism industry today, US politics and US-UK relations, and a little about how emerging technologies interact with journalism and journalists.

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In this episode of the KCL Politics Society Podcast, Penelope speaks to Ava Davies about being a working class student at University, and how living costs and classism affect students both economically and socially throughout their time at University.

Read Classism and Costume Parties here!

If you're interested in being a guest on our podcast, feel free to reach out at [email protected]!

This episode was hosted by Penelope Spencer-Simpson

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Neon Metaphor by ESCP | https://www.escp.space
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In this episode of Pulse of the Politic, Charlie talks to Anna-Julia, a first-year War Studies student who wrote an article in The Dialogue entitled "2.3 Million Shackles: Understanding the Prison Industrial Complex".

If you would like to read the article, check out the latest edition of The Dialogue.

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In this episode of Politisphere, Erik talks to Professor Hillary Briffa from King's College London. Dr. Briffa is a senior lecturer on the National Security Studies course and is the founding member of the Centre for Grand Strategy.

If you are interested in learning more about SIDS (which you should be), then please check out the following material:

• https://www.undp.org/latin-america/small-island-developing-states
• https://sdgs.un.org/smallislands/about-small-island-developing-states
• https://unfccc.int/resource/docs/publications/cc_sids.pdf

More on Tuvalu's digital statehood:

• https://www.tuvalu.tv/#

If you want to check out Dr. Briffa, here is her profile and one of her papers on Small Island States:

• https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/hillary-briffa
• Briffa, Hillary. 2021. “The Integrated Review and the View from Small States: Time to Think Smaller?” In The Integrated Review in Context: A Strategy Fit for the 2020s?,edited by Joe Devanny and John Gearson, 86–92. Centre for Defence Studies. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/the-integrated-review-and-the-view-from-small-states-time-to-think-smaller

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In this episode, Charlie speaks to Olivia Standing from Make Votes Matter, a youth organisation campaigning for proportional representation in the UK. If anyone would like to learn more about Make Votes Matter and electoral reform as a whole, you can find them here:

• https://makevotesmatter.org.uk/young-mvm/
• https://makevotesmatter.org.uk/

Instagram

• @makevotesmatterofficial

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• @MakeVotesMatter

I hope everyone enjoys listening to the episode!

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In this episode of Politisphere, Erik talks to two King's College London students and members of the Politics Society Committee, Sophia Naraghi and Maria Howard, on the geopolitics of oil.

If you are interested in the topic of oil geopolitics, you can check out the following material:

Why the U.S. Can't Use the Oil it Produces. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veTbuLu7znc

Oil Sparks in the Amazon - Local Conflicts, Indigenous Populations, and Natural Resources: Tracing Oil and Gas-Related Conflicts. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/j.ctt46n84z.6.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3A9e590914f304ea7219268b36b4fdf2b7&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&initiator=search-results&acceptTC=1

Oil and Geopolitics: The Oil Crises of the 1970s and the Cold War. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/24145533.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3A9e590914f304ea7219268b36b4fdf2b7&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&initiator=search-results&acceptTC=1

Here's how Russian oil is making its way to the US. https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2024/02/19/russia-oil-india-ocean-trade-vpx.cnn

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In the first episode of Pulse of the Politic, our host Charlie Ackland speaks to Sophie Harborne, founder of DemocraFest, the UK's first Democracy festival. What is it like working in parliament? What changes need to take place to build a greater democratic environment? Sophie offers an engaging insight into these topics and many more.

If you're interested in DemocraFest, and would like to learn more about it, check out the website at https://www.democrafest.co.uk/.

Pulse of the Politic is a student podcast series aimed around getting to the beating heart of political discourse, an attempt to find answers to some of the most pressing political questions of our time.

Our first season is focused on the importance of political discussion and engagement, as we, the KCL Politics society believe that politics begins at the doorstep of conversation and debate.

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In the inaugural episode of PolitiSphere, Erik talks to Benjamin Evans, deputy editor-in-chief of Roar News, about the fundamentals of journalism, how to report accurately and efficiently, and what the consequences are if the truth is not achieved.

Recommended reading to explore:

• Ward, Stephen J. A. “‘Digital Reliance’: Public Confidence in Media in a Digital Era.” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs 18, no. 3 (2017): 3–10. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26395918.
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zwcgn9q.
• Schulman, Roy, and David Siman-Tov. “From Biological Weapons to Miracle Drugs: Fake News about the Coronavirus Pandemic.” Institute for National Security Studies, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep23529.
• Schudson, Michael. “Reluctant Stewards: Journalism in a Democratic Society.” Daedalus 142, no. 2 (2013): 159–76. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43297240.
• Young, Mary Lynn, and Candis Callison. “Data Journalism: In Whose Interests?” In The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards A Critical Data Practice, edited by Liliana Bounegru and Jonathan Gray, 379–87. Amsterdam University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1qr6smr.54.

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