PhD student Helen Jay’s essay chosen for British Academy collection on a ‘good’ digital society

Current PhD student Helen Jay has had an essay published as part of a collection from the British Academy. Her paper was one of the 13 papers chosen for commission. 

Titled, “The Possibilities of a ‘Public Service’ Intervention to Support a Good Digital Society,” Helen’s essay draws from the fields of media and communications, policy studies and critical political economy to examine what we can learn from the UK’s historical approach to media policy to support notions of a ‘good’ digital society and what a digital ‘public service’-style intervention could look like. 

Read the full paper here. 

About the collection: As part of its Digital Society programme, the British Academy has published thirteen discussion papers from a range of expert perspectives across the ‘SHAPE’ disciplines (Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts for People and the Economy) to explore the question: ‘What are the possibilities of a good digital society?’ Read the discussion papers and the accompanying introductory summary here.

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