ICTs and Society Conference: Digital Objects, Digital Subjects
An Interdisciplinary Symposium hosted by the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies. The journal, tripleC: Communication, Capitalism Critique supports and helps organising...
Events
Different Bodies: (Self-)Representation, Disability and the Media
This one-day conference seeks to explore representations of the body as strange, shameful, wrong, impaired, wounded, scarred, disabled, lacking, different...
State of Exchange: Migrant NGOs and the Chinese Government seminar
Despite the authoritarian nature of the Chinese state, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have increased dramatically since the 1970s. With labourers migrating...
David O’Brien [Goldsmiths]: What does class mean for the ‘creative’ class?
Despite numerous attempts by academic, media and policy to highlight issues associated with class in contemporary culture, progress in tackling...
Simone Natale [Loughborough]: There are no old media – rethinking technological change in public debates from Amazon to the BBC
Simone Natale from Loughborough University presents: There Are No Old Media: Rethinking the Representation of Technological Change in Public Debates...
Aswin Punathambekar [University of Michigan]: Raging Soundbytes: Listening for the Political in the Digital Age
Aswin Punathambekar from the University of Michigan presents ‘Raging Soundbytes: Listening for the Political in the Digital Age’. Shouting, chanting, murmuring,...
Book launch: Hate Spin and screening and talks: Harun Farocki and the Question of Cognitive Labour
This is a double event jointly hosted by Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies and the Communication and Media Research Institute....
Lilie Chouliaraki [LSE]: Refugees and the crisis of responsibility
This lecture focuses on the dominant visual culture around the recent 'refugees crisis' in Europe. Drawing on a typology of...
Red Chidgey (King’s): Capturing the social lives of protest – the 2017 Women’s March
With digital media offering new affordances for documentation as well as new vulnerabilities, how can we capture the social lives...
George Lakey: Combining media diversity with a revolutionary impulse – the Nordic model
Progressive radical politics often face a tension between supporting a free, liberatory culture and fighting for political correctness in the...