Professor Kevin Robins

Biography

Professor Kevin Robins (Department of Sociology, City University, London) has been involved in a number of research programs, including most recently ‘Negotiating Spaces,’ concerned with Turkish migration and media use in Europe; and an EU Framework project entitled ‘Changing City Spaces: New Challenges to Cultural Policy in Europe.’ He has also been working with the Council of Europe, particularly within its DG IV project on Cultural Policy and Cultural Diversity in Europe. His current research interests include transnational cultural studies and media policy, European culture and identity, migration and migrant cultures in Europe, Turkey and the Balkans and urban cultures. He is the author of a number of books on new technologies and new media, including Times of the Technoculture (Routledge, 1999) and The Virtual University? (Oxford, 2002), both with Frank Webster.