We’re hiring! Join us as an LSE Fellow in Media and Communications 💼

Ideal for early-career scholars to join our world-leading department. 🎓

⏰ Deadline: 27 April 2026 (23:59 UK time)

🔗 Apply here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

#AcademicJobs #LSE #MediaStudies #ECR

Does #onlineregulation work for children? 📱

#DFC presents new research on how regulation reshapes #platformdesign & accountability.

🗓️ Thu 14 May | 6.30pm 📍 LSE & Online
With Beeban Kidron, Steve Wood & @sonialivingstone.bsky.social

🔗 Register: www.digital-futures-for-children.net/events/child...

Veri Sömürgeciliği, Medya Gücü ve Demokrasi - Prof. Dr. Nick Couldry YouTube video by İletişim Çalışmaları

🖥️ @couldrynick.bsky.social explores data colonialism, media power, and democracy in this session.

📊 Moderated by Burak Toraman, the talk examines how data extraction reshapes social life.

🎥 Watch live from 6pm: www.youtube.com/live/LML6sRB...

Protecting children in the age of AI Sonia Livingstone, member of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, shares how AI is transforming children's lives.

“#Children are curious & excited, & want to experiment & explore what #AI can do” @sonialivingstone.bsky.social member of the UN Independent International Scientific Panel on #ArtificialIntelligence discusses how she will ensure #childrensrights are heard in the age of AI 👇 unric.org/en/protectin...

More evidence doesn’t mean more justice – The limits of visual technologies in human rights cases - LSE Impact Digital technologies have democratised the collection of visual evidence, but its use in courts is circumscribed. Could we draw on a wider range of expertise?

💥New: More evidence doesn’t mean more justice – The limits of visual technologies in human rights cases

✍️ Maxine Clarke, Jennifer Burrell & @sarakendall.bsky.social

#LawSky #HumanRights #Evidence (@lsesociology.bsky.social)

Delighted to announce a new book! THE NEED TO RENAME TECH is about words that fool us into thinking that digital technologies are benign and consequence-free. They are not. It was a joy to work with our contributors who propose an alternative vocabulary, drawing attention to harms. lnkd.in/eCXag3cC

Infinite justice: political cosmologies that protect our future | LSE Event YouTube video by LSE

My public lecture from March 16th: www.youtube.com/live/jM7wUqZ...

I'm off the Shanghai next week to talk at Fudan University on April 7th about lessons from the LSE JournalismAI project: research, educate and innovate. I'm looking forward to seeing what's changed in China since I was last there more than a decade ago.

INCA an EU-based project has just launched a terrific documentary on data (I'm pleased to be part of it - thanks to Niccolo Cuppini). The film is called “Data Revolution!” Please circulate to students, friends . .
Trailer: lnkd.in/e2ewHcnP
Full video: lnkd.in/ePzbnVEr
Project page: lnkd.in/eZkpUWnh

Alternative or mainstream? The shifting media of the internet - LSE Review of Books An extract from Dichotomies in Media and Communication Theory by Bart Cammaerts explores how the internet fostered subcultures before enabling capitalist models

📝 Read an edited excerpt recently published by @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social: blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

#LSEMedia #ProfessorBartCammaerts #MediaTheory #NewBook #Routledge

📖 Copies of Professor Bart Cammaerts’ new book, Dichotomies in Media and Communication Theory, are now widely available online!

✨ For a special offer, use code SMA11 for 20% off when ordering directly from Routledge: www.routledge.com/Dichotomies-...

⬇️ Tomorrow ⬇️
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ICYMI. LSE Department of Media and Communications. @sonialivingstone.bsky.social is featured in The Guardian as part of the expert group drafting the UK’s first national #screentime guidance.

She warns against content designed to "maximise hold and attention" through addictive algorithms:

What does new guidance in the UK say about screen time for children? Experts recommend extremely limited use for children under-two amid ‘mounting evidence’ of harmful impact

@sonialivingstone.bsky.social is featured in The Guardian as part of the expert group drafting the UK’s first national #screentime guidance.

She warns against content designed to "maximise hold and attention" through addictive algorithms: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

#Digital #Parenting

QS Subject Rankings | LSE | Social Science and Management LSE has been ranked among the world’s leading universities in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026, with multiple subjects placed in the global top five and top ten.

🎉 @lsemedia.bsky.social is #1 in the UK and #6 in the world!

This #1 UK ranking in the 2026 #QSWorldUniversityRanking by Subject highlights our leadership in research & teaching excellence. We are immensely proud of our community’s outstanding work & global impact: ow.ly/MhbI50YyB2P

⏳ 6 days to go!

Does our understanding of "media" still hold up? Join Bart Cammaerts for his book launch at LSE.

📅 Tuesday 31 March 2026 6.30–8.00pm (Reception to follow)
📍 Old Theatre, LSE + Online

✨ Last week to register for the in-person book signing!

🔗 www.lse.ac.uk/events/media-1

Feminist financial influencers – a new “marriage” of feminism and capitalism - LSE Business Review Feminist financial influencers promise women empowerment through financial self-help. This may sound liberating but there are hidden costs to their advice.

Feminist financial influencers promise women empowerment through financial self-help. This may sound liberating but there are hidden costs to their advice.

Rachel O’Neill @lsemedia.bsky.social and Simidele Dosekun for @lsebr.bsky.social

Silence that speaks – how media fails Gaza - Media@LSE LSE MSc candidate Kiara Driver explains the key arguments made during a recent LSE event on ‘Reporting Gaza: Coverage, Context and Consequences.‘

🌍 What does it mean when the media fails to speak?

MSc candidate Kiara Driver explores the "silence" in # Gaza's media coverage in her summary of the recent LSE Media and Communications panel. A must-read for those interested in #journalismethics #conflictreporting: blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...

The LSE Africa Summit 2026 is happening soon!

We warmly invite everyone to attend in person and be part of the conversation shaping Africa’s future.

📅 Date: 28–29 March 2026
📍 Location: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE, London
Register here: eshop.lse.ac.uk/product-cata...

Do traditional media theories still hold up in a digital world? 🌐

Join #BartCammaerts at for his book launch, Dichotomies in Media and Communication Theory.

🗓️ Tues 31 March 6.30-8pm
📍 LSE + Online
🎟️ Register: www.lse.ac.uk/events/media-1

#LSEMedia #MediaTheory #London @routledgebooks.bsky.social

Mediate the middle: moving with and beyond dichotomies | Book launch 6:30pm Tues 31 Mar | Bart Cammaerts, Professor Robin Mansell, Professor Ellen Helsper | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

Join the book launch on Tuesday 31 March, 6.30-8pm at LSE or online.

Open to all with drinks reception to follow

Register here:
www.lse.ac.uk/events/media-1 🎟️

Alternative or mainstream? The shifting media of the internet - LSE Review of Books An extract from Dichotomies in Media and Communication Theory by Bart Cammaerts explores how the internet fostered subcultures before enabling capitalist models

"The idea of a ‘free’ internet... has paradoxically fuelled a mainstream business model based on the commodification of users' sociality."

#BartCammaerts explores how subcultures were captured by surveillance #capitalism.

@lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social book extract:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

🔴 We are live! Join Professor #ShakuntalaBanaji now for her professorial lecture, "Infinite Justice: Political Cosmologies That Protect Our Future."

🌍 Watch live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM7w...

@banaji.bsky.social #socialjustice #capitalism #mediastudies #AI #neoliberalism #genocide

Celine Sciamma on the power of walking away, and of using our work to embody love - Media@LSE LSE's Professor Shakuntala Banaji, Alinaswe Lusengo and Jason Wang reflect on film director Celine Sciamma 's recent talks at LSE, on the power of walking away.

Our friends at @lsemedia.bsky.social have written a blog post about the amazing Céline Sciamma’s visit to the department.

Read it here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...

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Music, queerness, and selfhood UCT student Fumani Jwara has created an extended play for his master’s degree in global media and communications, a joint programme between UCT and the London School of Economics.

Is music the future of #storytelling? 🎧

Proud to celebrate Fumani Jwara #UCT alum, who produced the programme’s first music EP, Patches. This groundbreaking project earned a distinction and was featured on UCT news: news.uct.ac.za/article/-202...

#LSEMedia #partofLSE

How to battle the normalisation of neo-fascist populism | LSE Research YouTube video by LSE

How do #neofascist discourses go mainstream? 🌐

In this new video, Prof #BartCammaerts breaks down the digital strategies—from "flooding the zone" to the "politics of provocation"—used to normalize #extremism and weaponize the "woke" label.

Watch here: youtu.be/Z5J7J1mvYtc?...

Travelling concepts – notes on “PUA” culture in China - LSE Review of Books Rachel O'Neill reflects on her book Seduction's Chinese translation, how “PUA” travels across borders, neoliberal masculinity & how algorithms shape intimacy

Rachel O'Neill @lsemedia.bsky.social reflects on how “PUA” culture (where men learn how to successfully "pick up" women) resonates in China to mark the new Chinese translation of her book Seduction @politybooks.bsky.social @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social

Last few days to register ⬇️

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Join the #DigitalFuturesforChildren centre tomorrow for Research Insights Day 2026!

A mini-conference on #childrights #education #mentalhealth & #regulation.

🗓️ Fri 13 March, 10am-4pm
📍 Online or In-person
🎓 Open to all
🔗 Register: www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...

#RID2026 #London

this was great fun to record. Thanks the DDTU project and team for having us!