Media and Communication

Research areas

• Critical Approaches to Media and Communication
  Our research strength, Critical Approaches to Media and Communication, focuses on interpretivist and philosophical approaches to communication. Staff and postgraduates undertake research on the historical and theoretical aspects of contemporary communication and media, tackling a broad set of issues.
• Media and Culture Technologies
  Our research uses a range of methodological and analytical approaches to explore digital, screen, gaming and networked technologies, and investigate their role in re-imagining the political, social and educational spheres.
• Politics of Public Communication/Communication and Media Ethics
  Representation, surveillance and control, sexuality and gender, social activism, political rhetoric and participation are just some of the topics explored by staff and postgraduate students in this research strength. This includes research into social movements, strategic communication and the use of new and emerging technologies in public relations and governance strategies. Research also includes professional media ethics as articulated by media workers, different visions of media power and responsibility, and contemporary forms of ethical critique.