Karin Wahl-Jorgensen: Emotions, Media and Politics: How to make sense of the rise of Donald Trump
Emotion, this presentation will argue, is a central and systematically overlooked element of mediated politics and will look specifically at...
Events
WIAS Workshop: Academic Labour, Digital Media and Capitalism
This workshop marks the publication of the special issue "Academic Labour, Digital Media and Capitalism" in tripleC: Communication, Capitalism &...
CANCELLED: Digital Demagogue: Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO ADVERSE WEATHER Christian Fuchs will be giving an introduction to “Digital Demagogue”, a...
Racism and intimidation at Fox News: what does it mean for Rupert Murdoch’s attempted takeover of Sky?
Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox is seeking to take over the remaining 61% of Sky which he does not already...
The Legacy of Marxism-Leninism and the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Africa
Past and present African revolutionaries continue to be inspired by Marxism-Leninism as well as ideas from the Russian Bolshevik Revolution...
BBC Local Radio 50th Anniversary Symposium
Join us for a one-day symposium to mark the 50th Anniversary of the launch of BBC Local Radio, presented by...
New Geographies of Communication – David Morley
This talk will address contemporary theorisations of the new ‘teletechnologies’ and their capacities to transcend social divisions and to compress...
The Bolshevik Revolution and Media Studies – Peter Goodwin
On the centenary of the October Revolution Peter Goodwin suggests that the Bolsheviks still have some things to teach contemporary...
The Internet of Things – Mercedes Bunz & Graham Meikle
More objects and devices are connected to digital networks than ever before. Things – from your phone to your car,...
Digital Sociology or How to Have a Problem with Bias? – Noortje Marres
Digital Sociology has reinvented social research, and with this re-invention came new problems such as bias. Noortje Marres’s talk will...