We offer intensive, interdisciplinary graduate teaching to a body of international students through our Master's and Doctoral programmes. We undertake research at the interface between social and technological change, seeking a critical and contextual understanding of the dynamics of the emerging digital world. Our expertise is developed and communicated through dialogue with academic, industrial and governmental audiences.

2011 MSc Dissertation Series

14 top-quality MSc dissertations from our 2011 graduates now available online in the MSc Dissertation Series as part of our Electonic Working Papers Series|.

Summer School
What role do media play in individual and collective processes of cultural change? IR140 Global Communications, Citizens and Cultural Politics explores this question in relation to identity, urbanisation, culture and politics.

Social Imaginaries of Communication Technology|

Professor Robin Mansell lectures on 'Social Imaginaries of Communication Technology' and Professor Cees Hamelink on 'Communication and the Escalation of Evil', both at Roskilde University, Denmark, 27 January 2012.

Demonstrations, Riots, and Uprisings: mediated dissent in a changing communication environment

6.30-8pm, Wednesday 29 February 2012
New Theatre, East Building
Speaker: Professor Simon Cottle, Chair: Dr Bart Cammaerts

Polis LSE Literary Festival Event|

'Censorship in an Age of Freedom'

6.30pm, Wednesday 29 February 2012
Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Heather Brooke and Nick Cohen
Chair: Charlie Beckett

2012 PhD Symposium|

Cosmopolitanism, New Media and Protests

Friday 15 June 2012, 09.30am - 05.30pm
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE

Self-Mediation: New Media, Citizenship and Civil Selves

Lilie Chouliaraki (ed), Routledge, 2012

Blogs, YouTube, citizen journalism, social networking sites and museum interactivity are today hailed as a new, playful form of citizenship that enhances democratic participation and cosmopolitan solidarity. But is this celebration of self-mediation justified or premature?

Media Regulation: Governance and the Interests of Citizens and Consumers|

Peter Lunt and Sonia Livingstone, Sage, 2012

Lunt and Livingstone incisively lay bare shifts in governance and the new role of the public sphere which implicate self-regulation, the public interest, the role of civil society and the changing risks and opportunities for citizens and consumers.

WikiLeaks: News in the Networked Era|
Charlie Beckett with James Ball, Polity, 2012

This is the first book to examine WikiLeaks fully and critically and its place in the contemporary news environment, combinining inside knowledge with the latest media research to argue that the significance of Wikileaks is as part of the shift in the news to a network system that is contestable and unstable.

Study at LSE

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

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.

MPhil/PhD Programmes

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

POLIS|

Working Papers

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