With digital media offering new affordances for documentation as well as new vulnerabilities, how can we capture the social lives of protest? In her talk, Red Chidgey will introduce the notion of ‘protest memory ecologies’[...]

Book edited by Jacob Johanssen and Diana Garrisi (Communication and Media Research Institute, University of Westminster) Following on from the conference ‘Different Bodies: (Self-) Representation, Disability and the Media’ which was held at the University[...]

How does Scandinavia manage to delivered a notably high quality of life? In his talk introducing his most recent book, ‘Viking Economies’, Lakey combines historical analysis, economic data and interviews to find out that Norway[...]

Digital Sociology has reinvented social research, and with this re-invention came new problems such as bias. Noortje Marres’s talk will discusses the distinctive ways in which problems of bias arise in online environments, and introduce[...]

On the centenary of the October Revolution Peter Goodwin suggests that the Bolsheviks still have some things to teach contemporary media studies about the dynamics of political communication. Biography Peter Goodwin is a principal research[...]