Mark Thompson, President and CEO of the New York Times, gives the third Steve Hewlett lecture 2019. “A Question of Sovereignty: Brexit, digital disruption and the fate of British media” Mark Thompson – one of[...]

Emiliano Treré (Cardiff University) – (After) Hybrid Media Activism In the last talk (at least until the paperback edition is published in 2020…) about his book, Hybrid Media Activism (Routledge, 2018), Emiliano reflects on the[...]

Aaron Bastani (Novara Media) – Fully Automated Luxury Communism Deployment of the term ‘crisis’ increasingly extends beyond politics and the economy, touching areas as diverse as demographic ageing and mental wellbeing. Indeed it is now[...]

Tarik Sabry & Nisrine Mansour (University of Westminster) – Children and Screen Media in Arab Contexts: An Ethnographic Perspective Using empirical evidence from a three-year AHRC research project, exploring uses of digital media by Arab[...]

Aristea Fotopoulou (University of Brighton) – We Need to Talk About Robots: Gender, Datafication and AI This talk reviews how the acceleration of data infrastructure development and growing adoption of data practices in everyday life[...]