There’s an intriguing argument in The Mediated Construction of Social Reality, by Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp, concerning our dependence upon digital media and how we respond to its failure. From loc 5527: We feel the costs viscerally: when ‘our’… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘media’
How Corbyn hacked the media
It’s conventional wisdom that Corbyn’s leadership campaign was the target of brutal coverage by the media. I was interested to learn in The Candidate, by Alex Nunns, that this wasn’t quite how the campaign itself saw the situation. Understanding why… Read More ›
The Neoliberal Masculine Logic: Skilled Migration, International Students, and the Indian ‘Other’ in Australia
By Michiel Baas This chapter analyses how a neoliberal masculine logic permeates discussion of Australia’s “education industry” and associated skilled migration program. Indian students play a key role in this. It is generally agreed that the initial phenomenal growth in… Read More ›
The causal powers of media
In The Mediated Construction of Social Reality, Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp take issue with the primacy of face-to-face interaction that has so often been assumed within social thought. Our embodied interaction is taken to be primary, often assumed to be… Read More ›
“now listen you queer!”: the origins of contemporary political punditry
I just watched Best of Enemies, a great film about the rivalry between William Buckley and Gore Vidal that was most famously captured in this scene: A subsequent exchange of words in high brow magazines then led to an exchange of… Read More ›
New research network: Media and Nostalgia
This group is designed as an academic research community for students, scholars and practitioners with an interest in questions of nostalgia and the media. We hope to offer a space fostering discussion and collaboration across fields, disciplines and research contexts…. Read More ›
Media & Politics 101
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Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology
(HT Pat Lockley) Call for papers: Open issue Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology | adanewmedia.org Issue 9, April 2016 Editors: Radhika Gajjala (Bowling Green State University) and Nina Huntemann (Suffolk University) We invite contributions to a… Read More ›
Book Reviews: ‘Sleepwalking to segregation’? and ‘Lived Diversities’
Recently I have been catching up on publications about diversity, ethnicity and multiculturalism. The following books, written or edited by academics from a range of backgrounds including the Social Sciences, Geography, Population Studies have provided a broad and engaging insight… Read More ›
For those who think Islamophobia is not an issue…
Please read this report by the anti-racism educational organisation Show Racism the Red Card. “To what extent do young people share potentially damaging attitudes with far right groups and where do these ideas come from? What are the opportunities and… Read More ›
Book Review: Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society
This review was originally posted on the LSE Review of Books Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society is an impressively cohesive collection that seeks to map the intersections between Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Communication and Media… Read More ›
The price of modernity: Disentangling the source of modern terror
By Ralf Wetzel The bloody advent of Al-Qaeda and, more recently, the so-called Islamic State has incited much and heated debate about the sources that evoke and feed modern terror. The main suspect so far has been religion, especially a… Read More ›
Translating the Social Sciences
This episode of the Office Hour’s podcast interviews Emily Bazelon about the challenges of translating the social sciences: In this episode we speak to Emily Bazelon. Emily is former senior editor at Slate, a New York Times Magazine staff writer, and… Read More ›
Improving the relationship between academics and journalists
Having spent a lot of time working with journalists, I’m very aware of the difficult questions contrasting world views can pose and the lack of support for negotiating them in many areas of higher education. At various points in the last few years, I’ve… Read More ›
Not the Nine O’Clock News: Where do you get your News from?
Beyond the BBC: Social Media Sharing News Stories on Palestine News items shared by those we follow on social media sites will perhaps be our first point of contact with breaking news items. Many of us no longer sit… Read More ›
(Re)Producing Pistorius: Patriarchy, Prosecution and the Problematics of Disability
Introduction Reeva Steenkamp was a South African model. She grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, and began modelling at 14 after she was “spotted” while out shopping. Steenkamp, a law graduate, advocated on “women’s issues” such as rape and… Read More ›
Call for Papers: Media Sociology Preconference, ASA 2014
Call for Papers: Media Sociology Preconference, ASA 2014 Venue: Mills College (Oakland, CA) Date: August 15, 2014 We invite submissions for a second preconference on media sociology to be held at Mills College (Oakland, CA) on Friday, August 15, 2014. (This is… Read More ›
Getting your research noticed by journalists
Interested in getting your research noticed by journalists? The LSE Impact Blog recently published an article by a politics PhD student which reflected on this process. Engaging with the media is something which PhD students are rarely encouraged to do but… Read More ›
Public Sociology and Writing For The Media
We’ve posted a few times this month about what public sociology means in practice. If we agree that it’s a worthwhile thing then how should we set about doing it? One obvious way to do this is to try and get… Read More ›
SI SPORT WEEK #3-3: Gender in sport magazines
Brilliant short analysis of the differences in representation of sportsmen and sportswomen in magazines. Read here Sportsman (Source: Mirror.co.uk) P.S. The same seems to apply to google image searches for “sports men” and “sports women”… those people writing the magazines are… Read More ›
The future of online art? YouTube, the Kaiser Chiefs and Imogen Heap redefine the meaning of ‘audience’
Two new exciting pieces of music-related news which seem somehow connected. On 2 June, YouTube introduced the option for uploaders and remixers to use the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY). Read more on Boingboing who says: At launch, YouTube… Read More ›
Research Seminar at UCLan on November 19th
White is the New Black? The 2010 ‘Football Frenzy’ and the New Zealand Imagination Mark Falcous University of Otago/Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo In the context of the contested ‘sports space’ of Aotearoa/New Zealand, this seminar contributes to ongoing critiques… Read More ›
Jon Snow, Revolting Student turned Blogger
In a climate of far reaching cuts in every sector the government can get its hands on, Higher Education in Britain is in for a battering over the coming years. Decreased research funding, decreased teaching budgets, and a lifting of… Read More ›