Goldsmiths - University of London

Nick Couldry

Nick joined the Department in September 2006 from the London School of Economics, where he had been teaching since 2001, after undertaking his MA, PhD and first teaching post at Goldsmiths. He is a participant in the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre and is the author or editor of nine books including The Place of Media Power: Pilgrims and Witnesses of the Media Age (Routledge 2000), Inside Culture (Sage 2000), Media Rituals: A Critical Approach (Routledge, 2003), Contesting Media Power: Alternative Media in a Networked World (Rowman and Littlefield 2003, coedited with James Curran) and most recently Media Events in a Global Age (Routledge 2009, co-edited with Andreas Hepp and Friedrich Krotz). His forthcoming book is Why Voice Matters:  Culture and Politics After Neoliberalism (Sage June 2010).

Research interests

His research and teaching interests are very wide and include:

• Media rituals and anthropological approaches to media
• Reality TV, celebrity and fandom
• Media and democracy
• Alternative and community media
• Media ethics
• Social and cultural theory
• The methodology and history of cultural studies

Professional activities

Nick Couldry is Director of the new Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy. New projects include a book for Polity on After the Media: Media, Society, Power and leading with Janet Harbord the work package on 'social impacts' within the FIRM Consortium funded by the EPSRC to research the Media City development in Manchester (other consortium members include Cambridge, MIT, the Universities of Salford and Lancaster, and the BBC).
During 2003-6 he led an ESRC/AHRC funded project called ‘Media Consumption and the Future of Public Connection' (co-researchers, Sonia Livingstone and Tim Markham, LSE): for more details, see the book-length report of the project, Media Consumption and Public Engagement: Beyond the Presumption of Attention (Palgrave Macmillan 2007,revised paperback edition February 2010) and see www.publicconnection.org.uk.

Nick is Chair of the Philosophy of Communication Division of the international Communication Association. In July 2007 he was a joint organizer of an international conference on Media Events, Globalization and Cultural Change at University of Bremen, Germany and has co-organised conferences on media ethics at University of Cambridge The Ethics of Media: Philosophical Foundations and Practical Imperatives (April 2008) and in Chicago as part of ICA 2009 (May 2009).

Nick Couldry was Visiting Scholar at The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USA, for autumn term 2008, and in 2009 Visiting Professor at University of Toulouse (Sciences-Po) and the Department of Communication, Roskilde University, Denmark. In February 2010 he will be Visiting Professor at University of Technology Sydney. Nick has for 6 years been a faculty member of the NYLON doctoral network, led by Richard Sennett and Craig Calhoun.