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[...]

Launch of the much-anticipated Media and Communications Study Skills Guide by Doug Specht. Doug Specht will be introducing his new book through a light-hearted and amusing look at what it means to undertake a degree[...]

Join us for the launch of Citizen Media and Practice: Currents, Connections, Challenges – edited by Hilde C. Stephansen and Emiliano Treré (Routledge, 2019). Organised by the Centre for the Study of Democracy in collaboration[...]