Past PhD students
2011
Dencik, Lina
Global Civil Society’ and the Organisation of News: A Critique
Jordan, Wendy
The Functions of Contemporary Hollywood Film Music
Lekakis, Eleftheria
Politics in the Pocket? Coffee Activism, Political Consumerism and the Internet
Oliver, Hatty
An exploration of the conflict between art and commerce in the cultural production of British fashion magazines
Redden, Joanna
The Mediation of Poverty: The News, New Media and Politics
2010
Andersson, Jonas
Peer-to-peer-based file-sharing - a grounded, situated perspective on digitization of media content and peer-to-peer-based file-sharing technology
Film Workers as Creative Workers
Dowmunt, Tony
Me Tube: autobiographical documentary and video diary making in a 'post-documentary' context
Gerbaudo, Paolo
A pedagogy of orientation: spatial rhetorics in anti-capitalist media
James, Stephen (MPhil)
Vietnamese spaces in a London landscape: networks, media and identity formation through transmigration
Su, Cui
Ethics, Famine and Humanitarianism: unravelling exorcisms through deconstructive thinking
2009
Barassi, Veronica
Mediated Resistance: Alternative Media, Imagination and Political Action in Britain
Frabetti, Frederica
Technology Made Legible: A Cultural Study of Software as a Form of Writing in the Theories and Practices of Software Engineering
MacDonald, Richard
Film Appreciation and the Postwar Film Society Movement
Mackie, Gavin
Loading world: (re)Creating Nature, Life and Cosmos in Artificial Life Computer Games
Saini, Roopa
Crossing Boundaries: Indian Diasporic Screen Culture in the US and UK
Yu, Vinnie
Taipei Audiences’ Multi-Platform ‘Film-Viewing’ Practices: Film Industry, Generations of Audiences, and Transnationalised Local Cinema Culture
Yu, Guo-Chiang
Struggling Industry, Liberated Audiences, and the ‘Cinemagoing’: Taipei Audiences’ Consumption of Films in the Digital Era
2008
Allen, Kimberly
Jostling the demands of Neo-liberalism: Youth, Class and Gender in New Labour’s Creative Education Agend
Lee, David
Precarious Creativity: Independent television production in the UK
Wei Shi
Undoing Chineseness in contemporary Chinese cinemas
2007
Carson, Craig (MPhil)
Crashing Through: Locating Space and Power in Local Independent Music Production
Dane, Julia
Talking Girls: New Femininities, Old Moralities
Henriques, Julian
Sonic bodies, technology, culture & practice in the Reggae sound system
Rogers, Olivia
Reframing Media Violence: Discourse Analysis and the Third Person Effect
Tezuka, Yoshiharu
Internationalization, Globalization and Cosmopolitanization of Japanese Cinema and Industry
Yoon, Ae-Ri
The Inbetweeners: The Korean animation industry negotiates the global and the National
2006
Gorny, Eugene
A Creative History of the Russian Internet
Hazan, Susan
Mapping the Musesphere: Cultures of exhibition and technologies of display
Kuo, Li-Hsin
A Critical Analysis of Documentary Photography in Taiwan, 1985-1989
Li, Sen-Yin
Framing the Debate: Narratives of Risk in Press Coverage of GM Foods
Matos, Carolina
Journalism and Politcal Democracy in Brazil (1984-2002)
Saif, Anna
Discourses of Dispossession: Palestine and the Palestinians in Early Photography and Film
Sullivan, Tony
Consuming Brands
2005
Coyer, Kate
It’s Not Just Radio: Models of Community Broadcasting in Britain and the United States
Dorce, Andre
The Politics of Melodrama: The representation of politics in the telenovela ‘Nada Personal’ in the context of transition to democracy in Mexico
Iwasa, Masashi
Life is Treasure for Everyone – Actually Emerging Cosmopolitanism in the Experiences of the Okinawan Peace Movement Participants
Karaosmanoglu, Kerem
Beyond the Nation: minorities and identities in urban Turkey
2004
Chambers, Louise
Bridget Jones and the post-feminist condition: Towards a geneaology of Thirtysomething feminity
Ewenstein, Boris
Post-subculture and reflexivity: cultural learning in London and Berlin
Favilla, Andre Luis
Images of the virtual: rethinking photography in the age of biotechnologies
Lai, Carol Pui-Yee
Political Change & Journalistic Norms: The Case of the Hong Kong Press (1967-2003)
Melville, Caspar
London Underground: The Multicultural routes of London Dance Cultures
Sammut, Carmen
Pillars of polarisation: news production content and reception in the Maltese islands
Maio Dias Veloso, Maria Fernanda
Performing art: reinventing avant-garde practice and the role of the artist
2003
Park, Hyunjo
The global and the vernacular: the non-western appropriation of global pop and the reconstruction of national cultural identity in the realm of contemporary Korean popular music
2002
Frangou, Georgia Phoebe
Soap opera reception in Greece: resistance, negotiation, and viewing positions
Gant, Mike Chopra
Soldiers, civilians and celluloid: negotiating postwar anxieties in popular Hollywood films
Sim, Soek Fang
Asian Values, Asian Democracy: The Legitimation of Authority and De-Legitimation of Dissent in Everyday Popular Discourse in Singapore in the Late 1990s
2001
Alvares, Maria Claudia
Humanism after colonialism
Cornel, Christian
East German broadcasting and social unification
Dover, Caroline
British documentary television production radition, change and ‘crisis’ within a practitioner community
Patells, Korinna
The political economy of the Internet
Williamson, Millie
Women and vampire fiction: texts, fandom and the construction of identity
2000
Butler, Margot
Epistemology, Politics and Subjectivity in Artists’ Collective Projects
Davis, Aeron
Public relations, political communications and national news production in Britain 1979-1999
Michalidou, Martha
Femininity confessed: the transformation of feminine experience from postwar women's magazines to the modern talk show
Pimlot, Herbert
‘From the margins to the mainstream’: a study of the transformation of Marxism Today
1999
Brewer, Sandy
The Hope of the World: the story of Jesus and its influence in the formation of identity in working class girls in Britain 1900-1945
Hujic, Alida
MTV Europe: an analysis of the channel's attempt to design a programming strategy for a Pan-European youth audience
Nikolaidis, Aris
Mass Communications: the media under restrictive legislation: the case of the Greek press, 1989-1994
Serra, Sonia
The media, the international public sphere, and the killing of street children in Brazil
1998
Burston, Jonathan
The megamusical: new forms and relations in global cultural production
Catalbas, Dilruba
The crisis of public service broadcasting Turkish television in the 1990s
Lacey, Joanne
Seeing through happiness: class, gender and popular film: Liverpool women remember the Fifties film musical
1997
Couldry, Nick
Sites of power, journeys of discovery: Place and politics within the hierarchy of the media frame
Dinsmore-Tul, Uma
The domestication of film: Video, cinephilia and the collecting and viewing of videotapes in the home
Goffey, Andy
A Logic of Multiplicities
Pini, Maria
Other Traces: a cultural study of clubbing and new modes of femininity
1996
Chu, Shuan-Pin
Taiwan: media control, new communications technologies and people’s national and cultural identities
Hesmondhalgh, David
Independent record companies and democratisation in the popular music industry
Terranova, Tiziana
The intertextual presence of cyberpunk in cultural and subcultural accounts of science and technology
1995
Lovering, Katherine
Discourses of menstruation: girls, menarche, and psychology
Vidali, Anna
Forbidden history and/as subjectivity