Celebrating the publication of our very own @sophiebishop.bsky.social's first book, 'Influencer Creep'!
🎉 We are hosting a book launch on the 19th November (followed by a drinks reception), and everyone is welcome: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/media/events...
📚 Order the book: www.ucpress.edu/books/influe...

Research Seminar: ‘Slashing the Sisterhood? Women’s Authorship and the Postfeminist Politics of Early Teen Slasher’ This seminar unearths a history of women’s authorship in North American slasher film production, and examines the role women have played in the overarching politics and ideology of the slasher film

If you're in Leeds, consider joining us for our first research seminar of the term! Daniel Sheppard (Birmingham City University) will be speaking about the role women have played in the politics and ideology of slasher film.
🗓️ TODAY, 3.45pm, Clothworkers North G.12
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

Media Frontiers: Creative Industries and AI, Some Big Questions Join us for the inaugural 'Media Frontiers' event in The School of Media and Communication.

Media Frontiers - join us for Creative Industries and AI, Some Big Questions. With industry experts Hannah Britt, Hell Raymond-Hayling, Jennifer Estaris and Janay M. - hosted by Sophie Helen Bishop and Anamik Saha - 26 November 15.45-17.00 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/media-fron...

Doctoral Focal Award Manager - Creative Bridges at University of Leeds Explore professional service vacancies, like the Doctoral Focal Award Manager - Creative Bridges role, on jobs.ac.uk. Apply today and learn more about the position.

📢 Job Opportunity- join us as the Doctoral Focal Award Manager of the @ukri.org AHRC - Creative Bridges in the @leedsunimedia.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social with ‪@ccmpswarwick.bsky.social and
@cimethods.bsky.social. Deadline 8 Sept. More here www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOJ060/d...

Race and Media Conference A major international conference exploring how race is constructed, represented and contested in media today, bringing together leading scholars across disciplines and methodologies

New CfP! 🚨📣 Excited to announce colleagues @leedsunimedia.bsky.social are organising a Race and Media conference on 22-23 April 2026. We're currently accepting proposals for papers/panels, including ones centred on creative practice. More details here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Universities of Leeds and Warwick secure prestigious national award for new joint PhD programme focused on screen industries The programme, Creative Bridges, draws on the established screen media clusters in Yorkshire and the Midlands to connect academic and industry expertise

Really delighted to be working with Anamik Saha
@davwright.bsky.social Sanjay Sharma on this initiative. If you're a UK researcher interested in a
@ukri.org
funded PhD on diversity and sustainability, then 👀 ⬇️
#ScreenIndustries #CreativeBridges #PhDTraining
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/media/news/a...

Joins us this Friday for our Critical Dialogues on AI event, featuring @joannegh.bsky.social , Tanaya Guha, Sanjay Sharma, Sebastián Lehuedé, @bheravi.bsky.social and our own @carolinabandinelli.bsky.social 👇

2025 Jay Blumler Lecture with Guest Speaker Professor Shani Orgad In search for ambivalence in contemporary media culture

Join us at the annual Jay Blumler Lecture, Professor Shani Orgad ‘In Search for Ambivalence in Contemporary Media Culture’ Wednesday 14 May 2025, 5:30- 7pm, Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall. This is a free public event. ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

UK Journalists in the 2020s: Regional launch of major new report on the state of journalism in the UK Join the School’s researchers and a panel of local journalists and experts to hear about the main findings from the report and for a discussion on the implications for the future of local journalism

Interested in the state of journalism in the UK? Especially keen to hear about local UK journalism?

Save the date - 1st May 6pm - when @leedsunimedia.bsky.social will host the regional launch for our new @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report.

Registration open here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

CreaTech: A lever for growth? - Arts Professional A new report on the intersection of creativity and technology – CreaTech – is published this week. Its findings, according to lead researcher Eliza Easton, reveal an unparalleled opportunity for…

A new report on the intersection of creativity and technology – CreaTech – is published this week. Its findings, according to lead researcher Eliza Easton of Erskine Analysis reveal an unparalleled opportunity for economic growth, innovation and global leadership.

$HARE Living on a winter campsite, Lena Corbyn inherits shares of ...

Donate here m.olyn.com/51cc3f8cd58c...

‘The industry is broken’: TV writer funds pilot after being told to cut female lead’s age by 20 years Katja Meier was told to make the protagonist of her television series 20 years younger … so she decided to find funding and film the pilot herself

£7.24 - because she’s worth it. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Protest memory and media in action!

🎉

Awesome, well done Journalism graduates @leedsunimedia.bsky.social 🥳

From actor to mayor: Banging the drum for culture - Arts Professional Following a thirty-year career as an actor and writer before entering politics in 2016, West Yorkshire’s Mayor Tracy Brabin shares the journey of her career and her work to build a stronger future for...

Following a thirty-year career as an actor and writer before entering politics in 2016, West Yorkshire’s Mayor Tracy Brabin shares the journey of her career and her work to build a stronger future for her region’s creative industries.

Landmark Media Studies textbook features new chapter by AHC academic First published in 1997, Representation has long been a cornerstone text for students and scholars of cultural and media studies

If you're a scholar/student interested in media and culture, this one is for you: The 3rd edition of the influential textbook Representation is out, and it features a new chapter by our very own @nancyt.bsky.social, on 'Politics in and the Politics of Representation':
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

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The Sound of Politics Podcast · Professor Stephen Coleman · Politicians speaking – on the news; in parliament; surrounded by whatever scenes might make them look like real people. How many of us are really listening to the...

🎧 For understanding all the 'Alchemists of Communication' from politics, to strategy and planning, to public sector, to business. Stephen Coleman hosts 'The Sound of Politics’ and the sound of this podcast is awesome because of @carlhartley.co.uk ➡️➡️ open.spotify.com/show/7kjQ9fV...

‘The sores on the fish are nasty’: what’s behind the changes in the River Severn? Faced with a dearth of data on the impact of local mega farms, volunteers have shown sewage pollution has soared

The River Wye is dying—& the River Severn is going the same way.
Blistered fish, algal blooms, sewage fungus sludging the riverbed.
The only good news is the response: a “volunteer army” of citizen scientists & activists rising up to protect & heal the river.
👇💪
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Great paper. Thanks for sharing. Really helps our UK research ahc.leeds.ac.uk/directories1...

Hooray great to see more research on this from @dbamman.bsky.social. Connects so well with ahc.leeds.ac.uk/directories1... with @imsanjay.bsky.social and Tanaya Guha #MLgaze

The University of Leeds Winter Tent can be seen at night time, with fairy lights on. A banner is in view, which says, "World Unite Festival".

🌍🎉 World Unite Festival is here! 🎉🌍

Join us on campus this week as we host multiple events to celebrate the diversity we have here at Leeds. From singing and dancing, to sharing food together, to art workshops and more, everyone is welcome🫂

Here's a thread of some event highlights 👇

📢 ICYMI No viewer or listener left behind! Prof Catherine Johnson joins UK government efforts as 1.5 million people will continue to rely on traditional linear broadcasting by 2040 - 📺 Read all about it here: www.leeds.ac.uk/main-index/n...

THE FORGETTING ECOLOGY

'The UNREMEMBERED SELF is perpetually open to disruption and discovery, enmeshed in the data we have scattered... but it is also forged by a past made from us that we cannot recognise, an alienation of memory.'

In The Remaking of Memory
tinyurl.com/2xvz6zu6

Amazon.com: The Remaking of Memory in the Age of the Internet and Social Media: 9780197661260: Hoskins, Andrew, Wang, Qi: Books Amazon.com: The Remaking of Memory in the Age of the Internet and Social Media: 9780197661260: Hoskins, Andrew, Wang, Qi: Books

NEW BOOK!!
co-edited with the great Qi Wang:

THE REMAKING OF MEMORY
IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA

Just published by OUP in US!!
www.amazon.com/Remaking-Mem...

Congratulations to the University of Leeds students Olivia Davies and Emma Jackson, who were part of the broadcast. It's great to see theirs and other students' hard work, being rewarded in this way.

School of Media and Communication researchers co-edit and contribute to the 2024 UK Election Analysis Report Two academics from the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures are among the editorial team behind this year’s UK 2024 Election Report

ICYMI 📣UK Election Analysis 2024:
Media, Voters and the Campaign report. Out Now!📣 While all eyes are still on the recent US election this report features 101 contributions of thoughts, reflections and early research insights on the 2024 UK General Election.
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

The Anti-Racist Media Manifesto Poster

📣 Join us for the launch of The Anti-Racist Media Manifesto, where the authors explore transforming media systems to confront racism and offer key strategies for an anti-racist media future with Anamik Saha @gavant.bsky.social @francescasobande.bsky.social. More here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

@universityofleeds.bsky.social #academicsky