Events
Feb
5
Fri
5:00 pm
The Arab uprisings a decade on: ...
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The Arab uprisings a decade on: ...
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Feb 5 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

A decade ago on 14th January 2011, after weeks of historic protests, Tunisians deposed their decades-long dictator Ben Ali. Inspired by this revolutionary development, Egyptians embarked on an equally inspiring revolt which in barely 18[...]
Feb
11
Thu
5:00 pm
South-to-South Communications
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South-to-South Communications
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Feb 11 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

South-to-South Communications: The Role of Mediactivism, Art-ivism and Visibility to Fight Marginalisation In this presentation, Andrea Medrado analyses a South-to-South connection between media-activists and art-ivists – artists who are activists – in the Global South.[...]
Feb
15
Mon
4:00 pm
Public Service Media in Challeng...
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Public Service Media in Challeng...
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Feb 15 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

A talk by Graham Murdock, hosted and organised by InnoPSM: AHRC Research Network on Innovation in Public Service Media Policies. Respondents: Alessandro d’Arma, University of Westminster; Minna Aslama Horowitz, University of Helsinki; Klaus Unterberger, Austrian Broadcasting Corporation[...]
Feb
24
Wed
5:00 pm
Decolonising the Curriculum? Whi...
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Decolonising the Curriculum? Whi...
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Feb 24 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm

The epistemological underpinnings of knowledge in today’s world were shaped during colonial times for purposes of social control. For the majority of people in the world, particularly those in the global South, what is learnt,[...]
Mar
4
Thu
5:00 pm
Peace on Facebook?
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Peace on Facebook?
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Mar 4 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Peace on Facebook? Problematising Social Media as Spaces for Intergroup Contact in Divided Societies As far back as the late sixties, renowned peace theorist Johann Galtung (1967) predicted that the rapid growth of new media[...]
Research
Cornel West and Marxist Humanism
Public service media in the age of SVoDs: A comparative study of PSM strategic responses in Flanders, Italy and the UK
Engels@200: Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism
Charles Wheeler Award (2020)
Recording of the online 2020 presentation of BJR’s Charles Wheeler Award for Outstanding Contribution to …The BBC: Guardian of Public Understanding
The Battle for Understanding: the pandemic of disinformation, and the role of the BBC
In February 2020 Birkbeck marked 100 years since the College officially became part of the …The way we use data is a life or death matter – from the refugee crisis to COVID-19
Latest News
CAMRI Alumnus, Peter Block, publishes ‘Accessing databases in the UK broadcast industry: implications for improving the diversity of the workforce’
Steven Barnett interviewed by CNN about impartiality and the news
New episode of Christian Fuchs’ “Critical Theory Rocks” podcast, the podcast where critical theory rocks society and rock music becomes a tool of social critique.
Sally-Anne Gross recognised in the Alternative Power 100 Music List 2020
Paul Dwyer joins editorial board of Reprezentology: The Journal of Media and Diversity
Andrea Medrado gives speech at the 2020 ALAIC (Asociacion Latinoamericana de Investigadores de la Comunicacion)
Annual Historical Materialism Conference goes online
Doug Specht speaks to the New Books Network about Mapping Crisis
Ed Bracho-Polanco interviewed about Parler and the right-wing exodus from Twitter
CAMRI Alumna signs contract for new book on Fairouz and the Arab Diaspora
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