LSE Department of Media and Communications

Tomorrow ⏳

⏳ 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...

Storytelling transcending borders | Elif Shafak 6:30pm Wed 18 Mar | Elif Shafak, Lily Jamaludin | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

📢 We are looking forward to the AFSEE Keynote Lecture on Wednesday 18 March!

In the event, Turkish-British writer Elif Shafak and AFSEE Fellow Lily Jamaludin will discuss our world today, the stories that bring us together & the silences that keep us apart.

Speaking of Bart Camnaerts:

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Travelling concepts – notes on “PUA” culture in China - LSE Review of Books Rachel O'Neill reflects on her book Seduction's Chinese translation, how “PUA” travels across borders, neoliberal masculinity & how algorithms shape intimacy

NEW: To mark the new translation of her book Seduction @politybooks.bsky.social into Chinese, Rachel O'Neill @lsemedia.bsky.social reflects on how “PUA” culture resonates in China, its roots in neoliberal ideas of masculinity, and how platform algorithms shape our intimate relationships.

Dichotomies in Media and Communication Theory This innovative textbook explores media and communication theory, and its intersections with social and political theory, through the prism of eight core dichotomies – communication/media, private/pub...

📖 Order your copy from @routledgebooks.bsky.social: www.routledge.com/Dichotomies-...

Dichotomies in Media and Communication Theory This innovative textbook explores media and communication theory, and its intersections with social and political theory, through the prism of eight core dichotomies – communication/media, private/pub...

📚 Out today! Prof #BartCammaerts’ Dichotomies in Media & Communication Theory @routledgebooks.bsky.social examines the key tensions that shape how we understand #media today.

🗓️ Join us for the book launch 31 Mar 6.30–8pm (LSE & online). Open to all: www.lse.ac.uk/events/media-1

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

📚 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...

Featuring insights from: Dr Sibo Chen, Dr Nova Gordon-Bell, Prof Mehita Iqani, Prof Burçe Çelik, Dr Clea Bourne (respondent) & Prof Lee Edwards (chair).

🎙️Discover how promotional practices shape our global environments today

#SageHandbook #PromotionalCulture
#MediaStudies

📢 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...

China Goes Global: Media & Soft Power in Latin America How does China communicate with audiences beyond the West and how is that communication received, interpreted, and reshaped in Latin America

📢 Upcoming Talk
#China Goes Global: #Media & Soft Power in #LatinAmerica
📅 Tue 10 Mar 5–6.30pm
📍 CBG.1.07, Centre Building

Dr Morales explores how #Chinesemedia influences journalism in the Global South, challenges Western narratives & shapes public discourse:
www.eventbrite.com/e/china-goes...

@mediareformuk.bsky.social

📢 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

It's been amazing working on this project with #DIORA colleagues and young people!

Staring at Landscapes - Volume 2, by Ellentrik 12 track album

🎧Professor Bart Cammaerts has released "Staring at Landscapes – Volume 2.", a collection of 12 tracks of immersive electronic and ambient soundscapes.

🔗 Listen on Bandcamp: ellentrik.bandcamp.com/album/starin...

The Epstein Files and the architecture of elite protection: what media coverage reveals about power - Media@LSE The Epstein Files exposed years of elite abuse and institutional failure. UK media turned systemic crisis into an individual scandal, argues LSE’s Dr Ruhi Khan.

With Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in custody on suspicion of misconduct, the 'architecture of elite protection' is in focus.

@ruhi-khan.bsky.social deconstructs what happens when journalism confronts elite impunity—and flinches:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...

#EpsteinFiles #LSE #journalism #Epstein

⬇️ Our department event is happening tomorrow, we look forward to welcoming everyone for an engaging discussion!

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Find out more about the Digital Futures for Children centre (#DFC) @5rightsfound.bsky.social

🔗 digital-futures-for-children.net/home

#EdTech #DigitalRights #Education

YouTube video by LSE EdTech at the crossroads of pedagogy vs profit | LSE Event

Missed last Thursday’s LSE lecture? #EdTech at the Crossroads: #Pedagogy vs. Profit" is now available.

Our panel tackled the digital shift in #schools and how commercial models impact children’s privacy.

📺 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=HNG7...

🎧 Listen: www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player/e...

YouTube video by LSE Computerized identification and data insecurity in Pakistan | LSE Research

🎥 In this new research video, Dr Asif Ali Akhtar reveals how #Pakistan’s high-tech biometric databases were actually built on colonial-era blueprints of control:
youtu.be/j_0F9UCHKHA?...

#Datafication #Cybersecurity #partofLSE #biometricdata #NADRA #surveillance #postcolonial

The UK’s AI training ambition deserves better than a course directory - LSE Impact A lack of connection to the UK government’s own assessment of AI skills requirements &a wider vision beyond work undermines the potential of the AI Skills Hub.

The UK’s AI training ambition deserves better than a course directory.

Jon Cardoso-Silva and Jeni Brown @lsedatascience.bsky.social for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social @lseir.bsky.social @lselaw.bsky.social @lseid.bsky.social @lsesu.bsky.social

⏳ 3 days to go! Join our panel on Reporting #Gaza, which examines how mainstream #media has covered the war & the ongoing dispossession & suffering of #Palestinians.

@omarghazzi.bsky.social @desfreedman.bsky.social #LilianeLandor @myriageorgiou.bsky.social

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@sonialivingstone.bsky.social said: “I’m honoured that my expertise on children’s opportunities, risks and rights in a digital world is included.”

Find out more about the panel: www.un.org/independent-...

#DigitalCooperation #ITU @unesco.org @unodet.bsky.social @lsedatascience.bsky.social

Professor Sonia Livingstone appointed to United Nations Panel on AI Professor Sonia Livingstone joins the UN’s first global scientific panel on AI, uniting 40 experts to guide evidence‑based understanding of how AI is reshaping our lives. Learn more.

👏 Delighted to announce that @sonialivingstone.bsky.social has been appointed to the UN’s Independent International Scientific Panel on AI.

🌐 The first global scientific panel on AI brings together 40 experts to study AI’s impact and guide policy with evidence:
www.lse.ac.uk/news/latest-...

What’s app got to do with it? 💘 Premium love in times of emotional capitalism.

From the archives @lsemedia.bsky.social, @lukaszszulc.bsky.social & co-authors explain how dating apps bring capitalism into the process of finding love.

Read more 👉 blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...

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Banning Palestine Action risks feeding radicalisation and distrust in democracy | LSE British Politics Proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation is part of a broader authoritarian turn and an unwillingness to tolerate protest and dissent.

The High Court has ruled that the banning of Palestine Action was unlawful.

Bart Cammaerts of @lsemedia.bsky.social previously argued that the ban risked feeding radicalisation and distrust in democracy.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Mediate the middle: moving with and beyond dichotomies | Book launch 6:30pm Tues 31 Mar | Bart Cammaerts | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

📚 Join us 31 March for the launch of his new book, Dichotomies in Media and Communication Theory — a bold exploration of key theoretical tensions shaping our media landscape.

▶️ Register (in-person or online): www.lse.ac.uk/events/media-1

🛒 Order the book: www.routledge.com/Dichotomies-...

YouTube video by LSE How to battle the normalisation of neo-fascist populism | LSE Research

🌍 Prof #BartCammaerts examines the global rise of #neofascist populism and how digital strategies like a “politics of provocation” & “flooding the zone” normalise #extremism and marginalise opposing views: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5J7...

#Media #Fascism #Democracy #BigTech #democracy