Westminster plays host to universities from around the world for Chinese Communication conference
The China Media Centre has hosted the International Conference on China and the Changing Geopolitics of Global Communication. The conference,...
CAMRI Staff appointed to IST/36
CAMRI Research Associate, Doug Specht, was recently appointed to British Standards Committee (IST/36) Geographic Information. IST/36 is committee of British...
New Book: Reconsidering Value and Labour in the Digital Age
This new book, edited by Christian Fuchs and Eran Fisher explores the labour theory of value is one of the...
First look — Social Media: Communication, Sharing and Visibility
Hi all. My book Social Media: Communication, Sharing and Visibility is published in February 2016 by Routledge. I’m very happy...
Geographic Information for Development
CAMRI Research Associate Doug Specht's work has been included in the Association for Geographic Information's 2020 Foresight report. The AGI...
New Book: Reading Marx in the Information Age
Publisher’s book page Renowned Marxist scholar and critical media theorist Christian Fuchs provides a thorough, chapter-by-chapter introduction to Capital Volume...
Big Questions in Creativity 2015
Edited by Mary Kay Culpepper & Cynthia Burnett Because it demands reimagining, reconsideration, and redefinition, change is an essential part...
New Book: Greece on Air
A new book by Amanda Wrigley, entitled Greece on Air: Engagements with Ancient Greece on BBC Radio, 1920s-1960s, has been...
CAMRI professors discuss UNESCO’s MacBride Report’s policy implications in the era of digitised globalisation
2015 is the 35th anniversary of the MacBride Report, a media policy report with the title “Many Voices, One World:...
Advertising on Social Media: The Reality behind the Ideology of “Free Access”: The Case of Chinese Social Media Platforms
This chapter analyses the political economy of advertising on Chinese Social media using Weibo, Youku and Renren. Using Marx's theory...