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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

"The time has come to build a public service internet." 🌐 Last week at #IAMCR2026 in Galway, Prof #BartCammaerts delivered the opening keynote. He unpacked the push for digital sovereignty, arguing for a model that defends and strengthens #democracy rather than undermining it. #MediaStudies #IAMCR

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

How has #BigTech avoided accountability, and how do we drive real change? Join Baroness #BeebanKidron, @sonialivingstone.bsky.social & Peter Wanless for the online launch of Kidron's powerful new book, Users. 🗓️ 25 June 4-5pm 👇 Sign up: www.digital-futures-for-children.net/events/book-...

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

How did #Shenzhen become a global tech powerhouse? 🌐 Join us online for the #booklaunch of 'Dragon Innovation: Shenzhen' with Dr Grace Yuehan Wang & Prof Bingchun Meng. Chaired by Dr Wendy Willems. 🗓️ Mon 15 June 1-2.30pm (UK time) 🎟️ Register: lse.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #China

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

How does regulating digital environments change #children's lives? 📱 Join #DigitalFutures4Children on this Thursday 14 May for a dive into Steve Wood’s latest report with Steve Wood, Beeban Kidron, Orla Lynskey, Lorna Woods & chair @sonialivingstone.bsky.social www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

LSE MSc Candidate Kiara Driver highlights how #media and #softpower are being used to tell #China's story across #LatinAmerica. 🔍 Explore the specific insights shared on how soft power is being deployed through new global communication strategies: blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

How does regulating digital environments change #children's lives? 📱 Join #DigitalFutures4Children on 14 May for a dive into Steve Wood’s latest report with: Steve Wood, Beeban Kidron, Orla Lynskey, Lorna Woods & chair @sonialivingstone.bsky.social: tickettailor.com/events/digit...

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

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

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

📖 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-...

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

⏳ 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

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

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

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

🔴 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

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

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

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

⏳ 1 WEEK TO GO! Join @banaji.bsky.social to explore how media and tech shape our rights & future 🌍 📅 Mon 16 March 6.30-8pm 📍 Old Theatre + Online 🥂 Reception to follow 🎟️ Register: www.lse.ac.uk/events/infin...

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

After analysing the Government’s #GreenPaper on #BeebWatch with Roger Bolton, Prof Lee Edwards will chair a webinar Tues 5–6.30pm on the future of public service #broadcasting. 💻 Register: lse.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 🎧 Listen: podfollow.com/beebwatch/ep... #BBCCharter #MediaPolicy #BBC

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

📚 Dr Rachel O'Neill's #Seduction: #Men, #Masculinity & Mediated Intimacy @politybooks.bsky.social has been translated into Chinese! 👉 For this edition Dr O’Neill wrote a new preface on the book’s relevance in the #Chinese context with former MSc student Kedi Zhou: book.douban.com/subject/3783...

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

📢 Join us for our upcoming webinar "Promotional Culture and Society: Taking a Global Perspective" 🌍 📚We’re de-westernising the debate on media & influence with experts from the new Sage Handbook. 🗓️ Tues 10 March 5-6.30pm 🔗 Register: lse.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

📢 Upcoming Webinar 📺 #BBC #CharterReview: The Alternative Green Paper 📅 3 March 2026 | 5–6.30pm What should the future of the BBC look like? Join us for expert insights and debate on public service broadcasting in a changing media landscape. 🎟️ Register: lse.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #MediaPolicy

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

🚨 And we're live! Chair @sonialivingstone.bsky.social discussing tension between pedagogy, profit & policy in #EdTech. 📺 Watch the livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNG7... Get involved with tonight's conversation using #LSEEvents @5rightsfound.bsky.social #AI #EdTech #childrights #education

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

📢 Upcoming event 📍 Thu 19 Feb 6.30–8pm Reporting #Gaza: Coverage, Context & Consequences Join @omarghazzi.bsky.social, Des Freedman & Liliane Landor to discuss how mainstream media has covered the war on Gaza & the ongoing suffering of #Palestinians. 🎟️ Register: forms.office.com/e/EWr7xbnbA4

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

🎬 Upcoming film screening: We Are Making a Film About #MarkFisher 🗓 Wed 4 March 2026 6–7.40pm 📍 CLM.3.02, LSE A documentary exploring Mark Fisher’s ideas — from capitalist realism to hauntology. Screening followed by Q&A with director Simon Poulter. Sign up: forms.office.com/e/biru3N8i0K

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

📢 Upcoming event — Reporting Gaza: Coverage, Context & Consequences 🗓 Thu 19 Feb, 6.30–8pm 📍 Open to all LSE students & staff, this panel examines media portrayal of the war on #Gaza, editorial impartiality and UK #journalism standards. 🎟️ forms.office.com/e/EWr7xbnbA4

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

🌍🏳️‍🌈 Our Head of Department @myriageorgiou.bsky.social will be speaking at an upcoming @lsegender.bsky.social event on digital borders & #queermigration. 💬 Exploring how technologies shape mobility, belonging and exclusion. 🗓️ Wed 4 Feb 5.30–7pm 👉 Sign up: www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

🌍🏳️‍🌈 Our Head of Department, @myriageorgiou.bsky.social Georgiou will be speaking at an upcoming @lsegender.bsky.social event on digital borders & #queermigration. 💬 Exploring how technologies shape mobility, belonging and exclusion. 🗓️ Wed 4 Feb 5.30–7pm 👉 Sign up: www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

@sonialivingstone.bsky.social spoke at the International Meeting on children’s rights & #AI: “We must move beyond safety-by-design & privacy-by-design to embrace #ChildRights by Design.” 📜 Declaration of Intent presented to #PopeLeo XIV: lnkd.in/d__K65y7 #ChildRights #DigitalSafety #ChildDignity

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

📸 Red Alert on Democracy — a new photo exhibition on protest, media & memory in #Israel after #Oct7. 🎙️ Talk by #PaulFrosh to mark the launch. 📅 17 Nov 2025 | 6–7.30pm | Atrium Gallery, LSE - open to all: lse.ac.uk/media-and-co... #ArtAndPolitics #VisualCulture #Gaza #Londonexhibitions

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

👩‍💻 What draws women into #FarRight & #Tradwife circles? 📚 Join Lois Shearing & @emmahcasey.bsky.social for an eye-opening discussion on #Radicalisation & gender. 🗓️ Mon 10 Nov, 6:30–8pm 🎙️ Chair: @racheloneill.bsky.social 👉 Register: forms.office.com/e/twwa0D0VaR #PinkPilled #ReturnOfTheHousewife

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

📅 Tomorrow 6.30-8pm - free & open to all! 🌊 Sustainable Subsea Networks: The Environmental Impact of Internet Infrastructure Join Prof #NicoleStarosielski to explore the #sustainability of #subseacables & #globalnetworks 📍 PAN G.01, LSE 🔗 Register to attend: forms.office.com/e/is5GCYRyUy

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Thanks to director Somnath Waghmare & Meena Dhanda for an engaging Gail and Bharat screening & Q&A at LSE, chaired by @banaji.bsky.social. Wonderful to have current & alumni students join the turnout! Trailer ▶️ youtu.be/ElxmgvKgERo More ▶️ somnathwaghmare.com

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

🌍 What’s the environmental impact of the #internet’s hidden infrastructure? Join Prof #NicoleStarosielski to explore the #sustainability of #subseacables & #globalnetworks in this upcoming talk. 📅 Tues 28 Oct, 6.30-8pm 📍 PAN G.01, LSE 🔗 Free & open to all, register: forms.office.com/e/is5GCYRyUy

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

📚 The Divine Feminine: Women & the Rise of the Right Join authors Lois Shearing & @emmahcasey.bsky.social for a vital talk on women’s roles in #farright movements, radicalisation & tradwife culture. 🗓 Mon 10 Nov 6.30-8pm 🎙 Chair: Dr Rachel O'Neill ✅ Register: forms.office.com/e/twwa0D0VaR

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

📅 Save the date: Mon 17 Nov 2025, 6–7.30pm 🎞️ Event marking the launch of the exhibition Red alert on democracy at LSE's Atrium Gallery 🎙️ Prof Paul Frosh on protest, media & memory in #Israel post-#October7 🔗 www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-co... 📸: Oded Engel, Mar 2024 #ProtestPhotography #MediaStudies

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

NEW! #ScreenDeep Host Kris Perry sits down with @sonialivingstone.bsky.social to explore the intersection of children’s rights, online safety, parenting around child media use, #AI design, and public #policy in the digital world. Listen now: bit.ly/4fnvefI

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Catch up on the latest entry in our Researcher Q&As series: LSE Department of Media and Communications PhD candidate Diana Desola Olaleye answers our questions on her research into racialised and feminised self-help books, written by and for black women in Britain. 📖 Read more: ow.ly/9gQI50WwIta

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Huge congratulations to @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social on receiving the ‪@icahdq.bsky.social‬'s Outstanding Book Award for her timely book Wronged: The Weaponization of #Victimhood @ #ICA25 this past weekend. Find out more about her research: www.lse.ac.uk/research/res... #socialmedia #populism

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

🆕 How can we make sure that emerging technologies are inclusive? 🎥 In this film @abpowell.bsky.social discusses her research on how digital innovation can be designed & implemented to serve diverse communities equitably: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCOV...

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

What drives the logic and culture of digitisation in pan-#Arab news? A new paper by @omarghazzi.bsky.social & Abeer Al-Najjar shows the prevalence of a top-down techno-centric approach in the #panArab news industry. Read more: eprints.lse.ac.uk/122859/

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

'...what [#confidenceculture] tells us is “fix the woman, don't fix the world” and that's the precise problem.' Prof #ShaniOrgad explores the themes of #ConfidenceCulture challenging popular mantras like #LoveYourBody & #BelieveInYourself 🎬 Watch more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zC3...

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

🚸 It's not about slowing AI innovation but making it respect the rights & needs of children. Hear from leading voices, experts behind the Code & Youth Ambassadors at the virtual launch of 5Rights Foundation's Children & AI Design Code: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d61aba...

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

📣 We're hiring for two LSE Fellows - one in Media & #Communications & another in #GlobalMedia & Communications. ⌛ Apply by 25 April 2025 (23.59 UK time) 💻 Media & Comms: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... 🌎 Global Media: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #earlycareer #researchfellow #ukjobs #partofLSE

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

📣 We're hiring for two LSE Fellows - one in Media and #Communications and another in #GlobalMedia & Communications. ⌛ Find out more & apply by 25 April 2025 (23.59 UK time) 💻 Media & Comms: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... 🌎 Global Media: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #earlycareerjobs #partofLSE

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

To mark the publication of her new book Taming EdTech, LSE Visiting Fellow @velislavahill.bsky.social explains why we need more oversight of AI in classrooms: blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

⬇️ Upcoming hybrid event 🌐 Information Ecosystems and Troubled Democracy: The state of knowledge on news media, AI & data governance 📅 Thursday 20 March 2025, 6.30-8pm, LSE 🎫 Register: forms.office.com/e/9gEvCFn5yF 📄 Read the report: observatory.informationdemocracy.org/report/infor...

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Open to all, no ticket required for in-person attendance. Register to attend online: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/... Copies of the book will be available at the event, or order directly from the publisher with a discount code: cup.columbia.edu/book/wronged...

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

What is the appeal of AI in this personal, clinical human space? @allisonpugh.bsky.social on the relationship between AI and interpersonal work. Stay up to date with our event hashtag #LSEEvents Watch live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5jD... #socialhealth #connectivelabour #empathicwitnessing

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Save the date for the upcoming launch event Information Ecosystems and Troubled Democracy: The state of knowledge on news media, AI & data governance Thursday 20 March 2025, 6.30-8pm, LSE Register to attend in-person or online: forms.office.com/e/9gEvCFn5yF

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Later this month we're excited to welcome @allisonpugh.bsky.social as she'll discuss her latest book 'The last human job: AI, depersonalisation and the industrial clock'. 🗓️ Wed 19 Feb 2025 6.30pm-8pm 🔵 Chair: @sonialivingstone.bsky.social 🎟 Hybrid event, open to all www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

📺 And we're live, watch the livestream now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3lK... 🌍 Professor Anamik Saha University of Leeds discusses the crisis of diversity in media and popular culture 💬 Join the conversation using the hashtag #LSEEvents or #LSEMedia

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