Communication & Media at the University of Liverpool

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Through the Aperture of the Parochial: Embodied Videography and Everyday (Circum)ambulation One of the legacies of the COVID-19 pandemic is a reorientation towards the parochial as an everyday space of intimacy and affective hyperlocality. Robert Macfarlane observes how the parochial, stripp...

Dr. Les Roberts has a new chapter, “Through the Aperture of the Parochial: Embodied Videography and Everyday (Circum)ambulation,” in the recent edited collection Geography’s Media Turn!

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Dr. Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova just published a co-authored article with Dr. Dariya Orlova entitled “Between Precarity and the War: Journalists’ Safety in Ukraine” in the Ukrainian Analytical Digest

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Franziska Mertl, a recent Bachelor’s graduate in Communications and Busness studies, is profiled in the newest issue of PSA News!

Great to see it out. I'm very happy to have two chapters in this collection, one an interview and the other co-authored with Tommaso Milani

The “Online Early” version of Jamie Jelinski’s article “Face the Fax: Bureaucracy and the Unrealized Potential of Wirephoto at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police” has just been published by Grey Room. It will be included in the journal’s Spring 2026 issue (no. 103)!

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Global Cult Cinemas Global Cult Cinemas calls for a decolonisation of cult film studies. To date, discourses of cult cinema have predominantly focused upon Anglo-American cinema an…

@nessjay.bsky.social has a chapter, “Roger Corman in Ireland: The Cult Auteur, the Celtic Tiger, and the Nascent Irish Cult Cinema Canon,” in the new edited collection Global Cult Cinemas: Decolonizing Cult Film Studies

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@michellehenning.bsky.social was just interviewed by the New Books Network about her new book, A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, Empire

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Helen Jones - 20/01/2026 - BBC Sounds News, great music, fun and the local issues that matter to you.

@craighaslop.bsky.social was on BBC Merseyside last week discussing the proposed social media ban for under 16s!
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The submission deadline for our conference is January 30! See post and website for further details!

If you’d like to know more about my new book A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog and Empire, I am talking about it on the New Books Network @NewBooksNetwork podcast with Dr. Miranda Melcher here - newbooksnetwork.com/a-dirty-hist...

Dr. Jordana Blejmar is giving a virtual talk entitled “Cold War Toys in South America” for the Royal Anthropological Institute on February 10. Registration via the link below! therai.org.uk/events/anthr...

Colour Concepts from a Linguistic and Literary Perspective Cambridge Core - Cognition - Colour Concepts from a Linguistic and Literary Perspective

New book, Colour Concepts from a Linguistic and Literary Perspective, co-authored by the department’s Dr. Suzanne McClure and published by Cambridge University Press!

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The submission deadline for the @cceluliverpool.bsky.social’s conference is January 30! See post and website for further details!

PhD student Emily Horn’s first article, “A Hard Distinction: Applying the Science of Sex to Art History’s Pornography Problem,” was just published in in Debates in Aesthetics. debatesinaesthetics.org/debates-in-a...

A picture of a pile of my books which have just arrived, complementary copies destined for copyright holders and kind friends.

They’ve arrived! It’s out!

Jamie Jelinski is giving an online talk on February 5 via the Photography Network entitled “Not So Fast Fax: Wirephoto at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.” Join the Photography Network and register to attend at the link below. www.photographynetwork.net/news/not-so-...

A Dirty History of Photography An environmental history of chemical photography through the lens of its deep connections to empire and industry.   Dependent on the extractive practices of fossil-fueled industrial capitalism, chemic...

Prof. Michelle Henning’s book, A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire, is now out! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Developing corpora through data mining for qualitative argumentation r In the networked society, a key challenge in argumentation research is the collection and selection of suitable corpora to investigate phenomena through

New chapter co-authored by Dr. Elena Musi!
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Cutting through the noise: The legitimacy of the European Convention on Human Rights in the British press - Ekaterina Balabanova, Gemma Horton, 2025 This article presents the first systematic analysis of British press coverage regarding the legitimacy of the European Convention on Human Rights and European C...

New paper in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations co-authored by @katiabalabanova.bsky.social

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Brand new issue of Journal of Anthropological Films co-edited by Dr. Alyssa Grossman!

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Professor Yannis Tzioumakis was on television again to speak about Netflix’s takeover of Warner Brothers, this time on ABC News Australia!

Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication This Encyclopedia covers the vast field of political communication, presenting an authoritative overview of its key foundational theories and empirical methodologies. Authored by nearly 600 experts fr...

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Two new publications from Dr. Lyndon Way! One in the Journal of Language & Politics and another in the Encyclopedia of Political Communication

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Great conference coming up in June from our friends at @cceluliverpool.bsky.social

Dr Ricardo Ribeiro Ferreira

Numbers mean nothing now, but next up for our #AcademicAdvent is Dr Ricardo Ribeiro Ferreira, a @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellow from @commmedia.bsky.social, whose work explore how journalism can aid or resist authoritarianism www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...

The department’s Dr. Richard Stupart presented at a symposium today at the Annenberg Center at the University of Pennsylvania!

Our department’s Professor Yannis Tzioumakis discussed Netflix’s $72B takeover of Warner Bros. and HBO on BBC News today! www.liverpool.ac.uk/communicatio...