Event overview
The Department of Media and Communications invites you to hear about recently published books by our academic staff.
Each speaker will talk briefly about their research and recently published book, and answer questions from the audience.
Professor David Morley:
Communications and Mobility: The Mobile Phone, the Migrant and the Container Box (Wiley, 2017)
Communications and Mobility is a unique, interdisciplinary look at mobility, territory, communication, and transport in the 21st century with extended case studies of three icons of this era: the mobile phone, the migrant, and the container box.
Professor James Curran:
Power Without Responsibility: The Press and Broadcasting in Britain (co-authored with Jean Seaton, 8th Edition, Routledge, 2018)
Originally published in 1981, Power Without Responsibility is a classic introduction to the history, sociology, theory and politics of the media in Britain. Hailed by the Times Higher as the 'seminal media text', and translated into Arabic, Chinese and other foreign languages, it is an essential guide for media students and critical media consumers alike.
Dr Josephine Berry:
Art and (Bare) Life (Sternberg Press, 2018)
Art and (Bare) Life connects modern and contemporary art’s drive to blur with life to the democratic state’s biologised control of life, analysing the interaction of these two tendencies. Why, it asks, is autonomous art such an effective tool of biopolitical government?
Professor Angela Phillips:
Misunderstanding News Audiences: Seven Myths of the Social Media Age (co-authored with Eiri Elvestad, Routledge, 2018)
Misunderstanding News Audiences interrogates the prevailing myths around the impact of the Internet and social media on news consumption and democracy. The book draws on a broad range of comparative research into audience engagement with news, across different geographic regions, to provide insight into the experience of news audiences in the twenty-first century.
Professor Aeron Davis:
Reckless Opportunists: Elites at the End of the Establishment (Routledge, 2018)
Aeron Davis takes a close look at the state of elites today. He argues that the Brexit vote and 2017 election outcome are signs of a deeper leadership crisis that has been developing over decades. The great transformations of the 1980s onwards have not only upended societies, they have reshaped elite rule itself. This book, based on interviews with over 350 elite figures, asks: how did we end up producing the leaders that got us here and what can we do about it?
Professor Joanna Zylinska
The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse (University of Minnesota Press, 2018)
The End of Man rethinks the prophecy of the end of humans, interrogating the rise in populism around the world and offering an ethical vision of a “feminist counterapocalypse,” which challenges many of the masculinist and technicist solutions to our planetary crises.
The launch will be followed by drinks in The Rose Pub and Kitchen.
Dates & times
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27 Jun 2018 | 4:00pm - 6:30pm |
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