I’m interested in the nature and concentrations of media power, especially those that are obscured by the complex relations between platform monopolies, content producers and the state. I have a career background as a touring musician and both my research and creative work has fuelled my teaching as well as activism on a range of issues including media ownership and disinformation. I was a former Chair of the Media Reform Coalition, a co-founder of the Institute for Journalism and Social Change, and the author or co-author of several books about the media. I have given oral testimonies to a number of public inquiries and presented findings of my research to government departments in the UK, US and Europe. My research outputs have also been covered by a range of news media including BBC (Newsnight and Today Programme) and Al Jazeera.

My most recent book examines disinformation from a critical perspective and how the dominant discourse may be considered itself, in many ways, a disinformation paradigm. My current research is concerned with the increasing and often unseen ways in which the state is intervening in efforts to shape public discourse.