Department of Media and Communications

News from EU Kids Online|

Enhancing Knowledge Regarding European Children's Use, Risk and Safety Online. New! European evidence base – now doubled in size. See here|

Professor Robin Mansell| spoke on Open Development and the Information Society at the Fourth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean|, in Montevideo, 5 April 2013. See her summary of Open Development here|

2013 is our 10th anniversary year!|

Don't forget to book your place at our conference, New Trajectories in Media and Communications Research|

Polis Conference on Trust|

Guardian journalist Nick Davies and BBC Newsroom chief Mary Hockaday made headlines at the annual Polis Conference in April. 500 people attended the all-day event with 40 speakers on the theme of 'Trust'.

Topics covered included whistleblowers, data journalism, 'churnalism', skills, newspapers, broadcasting, and social media with speakers from a range of organisations including CNBC, Sky, The Sun, The Times, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, The Independent, and Guardian.

The conference was in collaboration with the BBC and the European Broadcasting Union.

New Report On Social Media For Journalists|

Polis visting research fellow Nadja Hahn has written a report called What Use Is Twitter? which looks at how social media can enhance the public service aspect of news journalism. Nadja is a business correspondent for the Austria broadcaster ORF. Her fellowship, sponsored by the European Broadcasting Union, involved interviewing a range of pioneering UK journalists who use social media such as Facebook and Twitter for research and dissemination of their work.

Department celebrates 10 year anniversary|

"New Trajectories in Media and Communications Research"

On 16th June 2013, the Department of Media and Communications at LSE celebrates its 10th Anniversary and invites you to join a day of robust and lively debates on the four themes of its research agenda: mediated public spheres, digital literacies, governance & innovation and trans-national cultures

The Euro Crisis in the Press|

Max Hänska| and Maria Kyriakidou| invite contributions to a blog on the way the Euro crisis is covered in the news, and the way it is affecting the news media in particular, and public discourse in Europe in general.

Recent Faculty Publications|

Department of Media and Communications Electronic Working Paper Series| 

View and download a selection of working academic papers from a variety of contributors, both internal and external to the Department.

Summer School 2013

Join  us at the 25^th annual LSE Summer School:

IR140: Global Communications, Citizens and Cultural Politics|

IR245: International Journalism and Society - The Role of the Media in the Modern World|

MSc Programmes|

The Department offers several MSc degrees: MSc Media and Communications; MSc Media and Communications; MSc Media, Communication and Development; MSc Global Media and Communications (with second year in either University of Southern California or Fudan University); and MSc Politics and Communication.

The Department offers two MPhil/PhD programmes in Media and Communications and in New Media, Innovation and Literacy.

Media Representation and the Global Imagination|

Shani Orgad|, Polity Press, 2012

The book explores how images, stories and voices, on television, the Internet, and in advertisements and newspapers, invite us to relocate to distant contexts, and to relate to people who are remote from our daily lives, by developing ‘mediated intimacy’ and focusing on the self. It also explores how these representations shape our self-narratives.

The Ironic Spectator|

Lilie Chouliaraki,| Polity Press, 2012

By showing historical change in Amnesty International and Oxfam appeals, in the Live Aid and Live 8 concerts, in the advocacy of Audrey Hepburn and Angelina Jolie as well as in earthquake news on the BBC,  this far-reaching book shows how solidarity has today come to be not about conviction but choice, not vision but lifestyle, not others but ourselves – turning us into the ironic spectators of other people’s suffering.

Imagining the Internet|

Robin Mansell|, OUP, 2012

This book is an impressive survey of our collective and cumulative understanding of the evolution of digital communication systems and the Internet. Whilst the information societies of the twenty-first century will develop ever more sophisticated technologies, the Internet is now a familiar and pervasive part of the world in which we live, work, and communicate.