Current PhD students
A.S.M. Asaduzzaman
ICT, Gender and Empowerment: Community Information Centre in the Lives of Three Rural Communities in Bangladesh
Bader Al Saud
The Reporting of Wars in the Middle East: Negotiating the Journalistic Ethos of Aljazeera and Alarabiya
Anat Balint
'Branded Discourse', Commercialization of media content: reality shows as a case study
Loubna Bijdiguen
Veil, Secularism and the ‘Headscarf affair’ in France
Tara Blake Wilson
Necromancing the Wistrand Family Film Collection: Archive, Aura, Assemblage and Auto-ethnography
Pola Bousiou
Constantly displaced from my own? My own self (a quest for auto-methodology)
Dhanveer Brar
Masculinity, Blackness and Performance in mid to late C20th African-American Popular Music
Kenzie Burchell
The Barriers that Bind: Everyday Conventions of Presence and Privacy
Davide Cazzaro
Self-Circulating Cinema: Kuala Lumpur’s Alternative Screen Culture
Victoria Chalklin
Performing Queer Selves: Intersubjectivity and the Affective Publics of Queer Performance
Sabine El Chamaa
The manufacture of the war narrative
Stefania Charitou
Cinematic representations of immigration in the new global city
Pin-Chuan Chen
The Critical History of Taiwanese Independent documentary
Shih-Yun Cheng
The development of media convergence and its influence on consumption--the study of the formation of audience behaviour in Taiwan
Chen-Chun Chiu
I Man the Extension of Media? The Dialectic among the Self, Blog-Writing and the Demarcation of Publicity/Privacy
Apple Changeun Cho
Educational migration of Korean young women in a MA course
Eun Jin Choi
Reconfiguration of the internet- Korean identities and practices are being continued
Ben Craggs
Creating Life and Taking Lives: Identifying the Bios in Bioart
Virginia Crisp
Film Distribution in the Age of the Internet: East Asian Cinema in the U.K.
Kirsten Forkert
Working conditions of artists in post-industrial society
Kathryn Geraghty
Silent, Eloquent or Appropriated? What is happening to women’s online spaces and how does this affect the women who inhabit them?
Seung-Woo Ha
National Cinema after Globalization in Korea
Adnan Hadzi
The author vs. the collective
Lei Hao
Understanding Ethnic Minority identity In China: A case study on the Ethnic minority internet communities
Judy Harris
Howdy, Cinema! Text, Image and America in the work of Vachel Lindsay
Hsiu-Chin Hung
The role of Japanese and Korean trendy dramas (soap operas) in the formation of the national/cultural preferences of the youth in Taiwan
Celia Jameson
Women, brainwashing and the “turn to affect”
Mine Kaylan
Poetics and politics of live interaction/exchange; the poetic present and its documents in time
Daniel Knapp
Everyday life under conditions of pervasive surveillance
Jung Koo Kim
Cinema of Paradox – The Individual and the Crowd in Jia Zhangke’s films
Onur Suzan Kömürcü Nobrega
Racialised and precarious artistic labour – An ethnographic study of the Ballhaus Naunynstrasse in Berlin
Zlatan Krajina
Media and Privacy: Negotiating ‘Self’ on Mediated Public Places
Institutionalisation: the (civic) struggle for (political) influence
Eyal Lavi
Transnational perspectives on national identity and mediated place
Bong Lee
The Financial Market and the Media
Hong Real Lee
The Pusan International Film Festival and its communicative potential to pave the way for the unification of the Korean Peninsula as a cultural public sphere
Jowan Mahmod
Renegotiating Kurdishness and Performing Belongingness: The Online Offline Nexus
Mireya Marquez Ramirez
Change or continuity? Journalism culture and political transition in Mexico
Gabriel Menotti
Movie/Cinema – Rearrangements of the Apparatus in Contemporary Movie Circulation
James Morrison
Anatomising Britain’s rolling juvenile moral panic(s): an investigation into the influence of the UK news media on contemporary attitudes and behaviours towards children
Catarina Pereira
Object of Collective Remembering in Postcoloniality among Portuguese Muslims of Indian and Mozambican origins
Zoe Pilger
Free Love: Six Female Artists and Writers
Mark Plaice
Gangland Poetics: The Production of Space in South Korean Gangster Films 1961-2011
Paolo Ruffino
What is at stake in gamers’ games? Narratives of opposition, independence and engagement in video game culture
Justin Schlosberg
Covering Crimes of the Establishment: Media spectacles of accountability
Corey H. Kai Nelson Schultz
Class & Social Stratification in the Films of Jia Zhangke
Sina Shamsavari
Queer alternative comics of the 1990s
Phaedra Shanbaum
The Changing Role of the Interface in New Media Art
Leonidas Skoutas
Cinema as Myth: the construction of a cinematic myth of the Left in Greek cinema from 1974 to 1989 and its reception
Donghyun Song
The Influence of Transnational Culture: The impact of American Television Serial Drama on Korean Media Culture
Daniel Strutt
Affect and Digital Synthesis: Digitality’s Passive Grammatisation of Reality
Tom Tlalim
Resounding Conflicts: Sound, body, space and data in artistic representations of political conflict
Elena Trivelli
Inside and outside: Affect, embodied experience, and subjectivity formation in the work of Franco Basaglia
Catherine Walsh
Financialization and the UK State, 1976-2012
Katherine Wright
Who is reporting Africa now?
Su-Anne Yeo
Transnational Screens and Asia Pacific Public Cultures: Vancouver, Toronto, and Hong Kong, 1997-2007