Media and Communications at LSE

Department of Media and Communications London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom www.lse.ac.uk/Media@LSE www.twitter.com/MediaLSE

About the Department

Degree Programmes

The Department of Media and Communications is a leading centre in the field of media and communications. Established in 2003, the department is renowned nationally and internationally for its high quality original research and award-winning teaching excellence.

MSc Global Media & Communications (with Year 2 in either

The research work of the Department was ranked #1 in the most recent UK research evaluation, with 91% of research outputs ranked world-leading or internationally excellent. The Department encompasses diverse social scientific approaches to media and communications, offering interdisciplinary graduate teaching to an international body of students through the delivery of a range of specialist programmes at Master's level and doctoral research training.

Research and teaching in the Department address crucial issues in the emerging digital world around knowledge construction, political agency, cultures, identities, and governance of the media and communications environment. The Department’s work is strongly comparative and transnational, with an engaged and critical approach committed to strengthening interdisciplinary scholarship.

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MSc Media & Communications (including Research track) MSc Media & Communications (Data & Society) MSc Media & Communications (Governance) MSc Media, Communication & Development MSc Politics & Communication MSc Gender, Media & Culture (co-taught with LSE’s Gender Institute) MPhil/PhD Media & Communications MPhil/PhD New Media, Innovation & Literacy We also offer the following Summer School courses: International Journalism and Society - The Role of the Media in the Modern World Global Communications, Citizens & Cultural Politics Managing Modern Media (Executive Summer School)

Top Ranked! The Department of Media and Communications was delighted to have been ranked first in the UK in Unit of Assessment 36: Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF). 91% of research outputs were ranked world-leading or internationally excellent as were both impact case studies, our impact environment and our general research environment. Read more about our cutting-edge research at www.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/research.

Books by Departmental Faculty

Blogs run from the Department Polis, directed by Charlie Beckett (@CharlieBeckett) is LSE's media think-tank focusing on journalism and society, aimed at working journalists, people in public life and students in the UK and around the world.

Get in touch: blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis or tweet @PolisLSE.

The Media Policy Project, directed by Damian Tambini (@DamianTambini) promotes media policy communication between academics, civil society, media professionals and policy makers. Get in touch: blogs.lse.ac.uk/mediapolicyproject or tweet @LSEmediapolicy.

Parenting for a Digital Future, directed by Sonia Livingstone (@Livingstone_S) explores the task of parenting for a digital future, both in the UK and internationally. Get in touch: blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture or tweet #P4DF.

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Department of Media and Communications London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom www.lse.ac.uk/Media@LSE www.twitter.com/MediaLSE

Permanent Faculty and Areas of Research Dr Nick Anstead New political communication; Electoral and campaigning politics; The changing form of participation, engagement and citizenship; The evolution of political institutions and their relationship with technology.

Dr Shakuntala Banaji Children, young people, political contexts and the media; South Asian media, Hindi cinema, audiences and texts; Social and civic uses of the internet and youth participation; Media education, media literacy and creativity.

Professor Charlie Beckett Media change, social media and networked journalism; Journalism and politics in the UK and internationally in the digital age; Journalism and the promotion of transparency, governance, economic and social development.

Dr Bart Cammaerts Media, power and social change; Communication and resistance; Activism and mediation; Alternative media and community radio.

Professor Lilie Chouliaraki Mediation and ethics: suffering, violence and war in the media; Public life and citizenship; Corporate communication; Text- and discourse-based research methods.

Professor Nick Couldry Everyday media practices; Digital platforms and possibilities for voice; Mediatization of government and other spheres of life; Ethics of media and of life with media; Social theory perspectives on media and communications.

Dr Seeta Pe単a Gangadharan Data profiling, privacy, surveillance, and historically marginalized communities; Media justice, communication rights, digital inclusion; Technology, civil society, communication policy; Public participation in policy-making.

Dr Myria Georgiou Diaspora, migration and transnationalism; Media, the city and cosmopolitanism; Identity, community and the media; Media consumption and identity construction.

Dr Ellen Helsper Links between social and digital exclusion; Mediated interpersonal and social relationships; social identity, intimacy and psychological wellbeing; Cross-cultural comparisons of media in everyday life; Quantitative methods in media and communications research.

Professor Sonia Livingstone Children and young people's online opportunities and risks; Media literacy, public engagement and critical audiences; Social and domestic contexts for the use of ICT; Television audiences, audience reception, media effects.

Professor Robin Mansell Social and organisational transformation and new technologies; Knowledge networks and innovation systems; Information and communication technologies, development and inequality; Information and communication policy & regulation.

Dr Bingchun Meng Political economy of media and communication industries; Communication governance; Mediated politics in China; Comparative research of media culture.

Dr Shani Orgad Media representations; Media and globalisation; Narrative and media; Health and new media; Methodological aspects of doing internet research.

Dr Jean-Christophe Plantin Digital maps, public participation and activism; Digital methods in social sciences and humanities; Big data, scientific infrastructures and interdisciplinarity; Politics of data science.

Dr Alison Powell Digital activism and digital advocacy; Democratic communication spaces; New media, participation, and publics; Internet governance; Qualitative methods in and for policy research.

Professor Terhi Rantanen Global media; Global news; Post-communist media; Media history and history of media studies.

Dr Damian Tambini Changing relations among states, governments, law and media; Public service broadcasting, freedom of speech, intellectual property, the 'commons'; Media, ethics, self-regulation and global institutions; Media, democracy, civil society and the public sphere.

Dr Wendy Willems Critical approaches to media, communication and development; New media and social change; Popular culture, performance and politics in Africa; Media and nationalism.

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