Travelling concepts – notes on “PUA” culture in China
Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy by Rachel O’Neill examines the industry that claims to teach men how to successfully “pick up” women. To mark the book’s new…
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Why propaganda, hate and political extremism thrive in the attention economy
Dogwhistles and Figleaves by Jennifer Mather Saul and Safe Havens for Hate by Tamar Mitts explore how extremist rhetoric thrives online and why content moderation doesn’t effectively tackle…
Too much screen time? How digital media impacts children under six
Digital Media Use in Early Childhood by Lelia Green, Leslie Haddon, Sonia Livingstone, Brian O’Neill, Kylie J. Stevenson and Donell Halloway examines how children under six interact with…
Thirty Minute Methods at TDTU – playlist
This is the playlist link for 30 Minute Methods 30 Minute Methods is a series of short talks by sociologists, anthropologists and film/media researchers where the debate about…
Digital Contention in a Divided Society – review
In Digital Contention in a Divided Society, Paul Reilly examines how social media influences political engagement in Northern Ireland, analysing digital interactions during the Union Flag Protest (201…
Refugee Voices: Performativity and the Struggle for Recognition – review
In Refugee Voices, Rob Sharp explores how refugees in the UK use creative media to express themselves and their experiences. Through detailed fieldwork in Cardiff and Tyneside, Sharp’s nuanced…
The Revolution Will Be Hilarious: Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power – review
Caty Borum‘s The Revolution Will Be Hilarious: Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power considers how comedy intersects with activism and drives social change. Borum’s accessible text draw…
New in Paperback: Theorising Media & Conflict
The edited volume Theorising Media and Conflict (Berghahn Books, 2020) is now available in paperback.The volume’s introduction by Birgit Bräuchler and me remains openly accessible. Abstract …
Book Review: Driving With Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us about Humanity by Jonathan Purkis
In Driving With Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us about Humanity, Jonathan Purkis argues that the nature of hitchhiking and its place in the world has important things to tell…
Book Review: The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power by Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou
In The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power, Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou explore how digital technologies are shaping experiences of migration today, focusing particularly on the 2015…
Book Review: Genre Publics: Popular Music, Technologies, and Class in Indonesia by Emma Baulch
In Genre Publics: Popular Music, Technologies, and Class in Indonesia, Emma Baulch explores the interconnections between the Indonesian public sphere and popular music. This is a rich contribution to…
Book Review: Tradition in the Frame: Photography, Power and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete by Konstantinos Kalantzis
In Tradition in the Frame: Photography, Power and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete, Konstantinos Kalantzis explores the experiences of Sfakians in Crete to reflect on how tradition is made meaningful…
From Amusement to Conscientization: The Purpose of Media Literacy in the Age of Misinformation
In one of my first classes in my Undergraduate program in Media Studies, our Professor displayed a prominent newspaper. The masthead and the front page borders were red…
Book Review: The Digital Disconnect by Ellen Helsper
In The Digital Disconnect, Ellen Helsper explores how digital and social inequalities are interlinked and what we might do to prevent them. Utilising an intersectional perspective and showing careful…
Book Review: The Creative Underclass: Youth, Race and the Gentrifying City by Tyler Denmead
In The Creative Underclass: Youth, Race and the Gentrifying City, Tyler Denmead reflects on his role in founding New Urban Arts, an arts and humanities programme primarily for young people…
Reviews: Theorising Media & Conflict
This post compiles extracts of published reviews of the edited volume Theorising Media & Conflict (eds. P. Budka & B. Bräuchler, Berghahn Books, 2020). Younes Saramifar (Free University…
Interview: Theorising Media & Conflict
In an interview for the University of Vienna’s Uni:view Magazin, I am talking about the edited volume Theorising Media and Conflict (Berghahn Books, 2020), its purpose, conclusions and…
Author Interview: Q and A with Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross, authors of Parenting for a Digital Future
In this author interview, we speak to Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross about their new book, Parenting for a Digital Future, which draws on interviews and a national…
Author Interview: Q and A with Dr Simidele Dosekun on Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture
In this author interview, we speak to Dr Simidele Dosekun about her new book, Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture, which reflects on ideas about postfeminist self…
Book: Theorising Media and Conflict
Budka, P., & Bräuchler, B. (Eds.). (2020). Theorising media and conflict. Anthropology of Media. New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books. Cover Theorising Media & Conflict Theorising Me…
From Hollywood to Hitler: Rethinking the Cultural Politics of Propaganda
What is propaganda? What does cinema reveal about the Third Reich and its people? What are German films about during the Third Reich? What do they reveal? And…
Infrastructure after disasters
On October 21, 1868, at approximately eight o’clock in the morning, a major earthquake on the Hayward Fault near Oakland, California shook the Bay Area. The earthquake caused…