Media, Communications & Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths
Department of Media, Communications & Cultural Studies @GoldsmithsUoL
#2 in 🇬🇧 2023 QS world rankings
Student/staff work
Free public events
- On Wednesday 4th Feb 16:00 I'll be giving a talk on Technocolonialism, based on my recent book with @politybooks.bsky.social, at the University of Manchester. If you're in town, it would be so great to see you! @mediacomgold.bsky.social Details below:
- Come hear Jess Martin talk about her first book on gender and austerity celebrity! Looking forward to chairing this one
- Wed 4th Feb: Feminisms and Domesticity in Times of Crisis: The Rise of the Austerity Celebrity 5pm - 6:30pm. LG01, PSH, all welcome @jessmartin.bsky.social will introduce her new book, Feminisms and Domesticity in Times of Crisis: The Rise of the Austerity Celebrity www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
- Wed 4th Feb: Feminisms and Domesticity in Times of Crisis: The Rise of the Austerity Celebrity 5pm - 6:30pm. LG01, PSH, all welcome @jessmartin.bsky.social will introduce her new book, Feminisms and Domesticity in Times of Crisis: The Rise of the Austerity Celebrity www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
- @mediacomgold.bsky.social #Journalism student Belle Lun samples Hong Kong cha chaan teng classics in #London and hears what thick-cut French toast dripping with syrup and silky milk tea really means. Please read thegoldstandard1.substack.com/p/hong-kong-...
- Next Tuesday 27th, I'll be visiting Bremen to give a lecture based on my book 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... - details below. If you are in town and would like to meet, let me know! @mediacomgold.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social
- Check out our community lecture series this term! We opened last week with a full house for Linton Kwesi Johnson. Today we have a screening of The Battle for Venezuela plus a panel discussion with director Saniev Johal. Lots of amazing talks throughout the term!
- @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social #journalism students Harper Mahood and Alex Burns get into the spirit and compile a seasonal list of things to do this #Christmas in east #London. thegoldstandard1.substack.com/p/east-londo...
- @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social ’s Ayesha Manzoor-Karimuddin started her #journalism studies with time-travel thegoldstandard1.substack.com/p/greenwich-...
- @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social MA Journalism student Finola Clarke reports on a #Lewisham regeneration project thegoldstandard1.substack.com/p/lewisham-s...
- @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social BA #Journalism Year 1 student visits a #Greenwich shop where less is more thegoldstandard1.substack.com/p/zero-waste...
- @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social MA #Journalism students Meena Iyer and Finola Clarke talk to members of a #Lewisham grassroots movement that's calling for houses meant 'for people not profit'. thegoldstandard1.substack.com/p/meet-the-l...
- Proud to have worked as Recording Engineer on "Notes on Revolution: Chile, Women, Utopia" documentary for @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social Centre for Feminist Research Listen here: www.mixcloud.com/CFR_Podcast/ @goldsmithsaudio.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social
- An inspirational story by a 1st year #journalism student of @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social thegoldstandard1.substack.com/p/from-cance...
- Arts reviewing: Pleasure or pain? Discuss. Join @theguardian.com 's Arifa Akbar, @variety.com 's David Benedict, Mail on Sunday's Tim de Lisle, @thenerve.news's Lisa O Kelly and @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social 's Terry Kirby. Details 👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
- @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social #journalism student reports on how #Greenwich, #England plans to tackle the trash. thegoldstandard1.substack.com/p/greenwich-...
- Gr8 discussion at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social with Jim Egan of the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social, Alex Farber of @thetimes.com & Jim Waterson of @londoncentric.media on whether there's life in #journalism in the age of #AI. Link to livestream: www.youtube.com/live/ACW4YZA...
- 'After Technocolonialism' - a book panel @mediacomgold.bsky.social to discuss 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' published by @politybooks.bsky.social with Helen Kennedy, @andreamedrado.bsky.social Nirmal Puwar & @jolittler.bsky.social November 26th, 5-7pm, all welcome! ⬇️
- @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social #journalism #local #dulwich thegoldstandard1.substack.com/p/dulwich-li...
- #journalism in the age of #AI? @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social discusses @reutersinstitute.bsky.social's Jim Egan, @thetimes.com's Alex Farber, @londoncentric.media's Jim Waterson. Details👇🏽 We’ll have a livestream too but always better in person: www.youtube.com/live/ACW4YZA...
- "How smart became the new hot online" - includes quotes from our MCCS Prof @jolittler.bsky.social www.newsweek.com/social-media...
- Don't miss @markcurtis30.bsky.social, co-founder of the brilliant investigative news site @declassifieduk.org, speak on "How the UK News Cover Up Foreign Policy". 5pm Wednesday 19 November at Goldsmiths in SE London @mediacomgold.bsky.social www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
- Inspired by Michelle Williams' Golden Globes speech, I'm #nowreading "The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism" by Catherine Rottenberg tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/095…
- The Migrant Futures Institute is delighted to host @profdanhicks.bsky.social this Friday to talk about his latest book, Every Monument Will Fall: a story of remembering and forgetting. www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
- Ulrike Ottinger: Film, Art and the Ethnographic Imagination edited by Angela McRobbie is the first English language scholarly collection of articles on the leading Berlin based German artist and film-maker Ulrike Ottinger. Read an excerpt featured on the Metrograph website👉ow.ly/jEQi50XfsRn
- Don't miss this bilingual exhibition - in S'gaw Karen and English-with drawings and poems by Karen refugees from the Thailand-Myanmar border. Through the artwork the artists document their experiences and imagine alternative futures. Until 27 November, www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
- The exhibition Reimagining Digital ID with artwork by Karen refugees is now open @mediacomgold.bsky.social @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social Through drawings & poems Karen refugees express their experiences with biometric systems and imagine alternative futures www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
- I was interviewed by @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social about the exhibition 'Reimagining Digital ID' with drawings by Karen refugees from the Thailand-Myanmar border. Exhibition will officially open during conference on November 8th and will run until Nov 27th, details ⬇️ @mediacomgold.bsky.social
- Last chance to register for the 'Reimagining Digital ID' event @mediacomgold.bsky.social @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social Join the www.redid.net team and other researchers, designers, digital human rights and migrant rights groups to discuss implications of digital ID systems. All welcome, details below ⬇️
- We are presenting the most cited articles in the International Journal of Cultural Studies in the last three years. This week's article is “An anatomy of carewashing: Corporate branding and the commodification of care during Covid-19”, authored by Andreas Chatzidakis and Jo Littler.
- 📅 Save the Date: 🎥 POWER, REPRESENTATION, RESISTANCE. Feminist Media Studies at 50: A Workshop with Leading Scholars Hannah Curran-Troop, Rosalind Gill, @jolittler.bsky.social & @lennartspion.bsky.social 🗓 Nov 7, 2025 | 🕙 10:00–12:00 📍 JFKI, Room 203 registration: f.mtr.cool/frmeigfsqh
- 📣 Registration is open for our event Reimagining Digital ID @mediacomgold.bsky.social @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social w/ findings from our www.redid.net project and talks by colleagues working on implications of Digital ID in Global South, migrant & refugee contexts explore.gold/digital-id All welcome! ⬇️
- Truly insightful discussion on #UK family courts, the single justice system with two campaigning journalists @sanchia7.bsky.social & @kirkkorner.bsky.social @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social
- Great to see ✨3 ✨ @mediacomgold.bsky.social books at the @politybooks.bsky.social stand at #aoir2025 ‘Democratic Delusions’ by Natalie Fenton, @kat-hig.bsky.social’ ‘Believability’ and my own ‘Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful’
- How is #menopause currently being framed in public discussions? Is its negative biomedical framing being contested? Professors Catherine Rottenberg @mediacomgold.bsky.social & Shani Orgad's interdisciplinary project has sought to address these urgent questions. media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/meno...
- Fantastic discussion on #local #journalism at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social with @bbcnews.bsky.social's Jason Gibbins, @davidfloydnews.bsky.social & @localauthority.news's @edjennings.bsky.social. Please join us for the next one, Oct 21.Details👇 www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
- Stoked about this, written with my partner in fish skin, Alison Winch and published today... 'Creating Beauty': Collagen's speculative processes from waste to wellness: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Our wonderful PhD students are organising the MECCSA PGN conference this year @mediacomgold.bsky.social on Friday September 12th - if in London join us! www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
- Info Wars: How DO we regain trust? Join @rebelhack.bsky.social , Dorothy Stein of @salamandernews.org and me, from @mediacomgold.bsky.social , to discuss, debate and hash out a solution (or not 🙃 ) Sept 15 Details to book 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/info-wars-...
- We at Goldsmiths, in the @mediacomgold.bsky.social department, are looking for a talented Technical Tutor for Digital Media and Animation - please share or apply here! Come and work with us and our amazing students jobs.gold.ac.uk/vacancy/tech...
- “Attentiveness is a way to retrain the ‘sociological gaze’ away from the unusual to the unnoticed elements of everyday lives and objects.” @sophierwoodward.bsky.social reflects in a new Special Section on the legacy of Live Methods by @academicdiary.bsky.social & Nirmal Puwar. buff.ly/UvuBDtU
- Love this from Alison Winch in the latest Poetry Review
- A 2022 report shared a stark finding about women experiencing #menopause: 1 in 10 have left work due to menopausal symptoms. But is it accurate? Shani Orgad @lsemedia.bsky.social Gillian Paull @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social & Catherine Rottenberg @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social on @lsebr.bsky.social.
- Still buzzing from our redid.net event & exhibition @ Chiang Mai U - but the project moves to #IAMCR2025 #IAMCR25 conference with *2 talks* on Monday 13 July: 08:30 on Visual Participatory Research & 16:00 on Reimagining Digital ID in refugee camps. If in Singapore, join us @mediacomgold.bsky.social
- Our ‘Reimagining Digital ID’ exhibition & conference are happening this Saturday 12 July @ Chiang Mai Univ. So proud to showcase the artwork of our refugee participants as they reimagine digital systems. Full schedule: www.redid.net/events-1/cmu... @mediacomgold.bsky.social
- My friend and colleague at @mediacomgold.bsky.social Sam is making a community film in his hometown, and his funding fell through. Its called POLAR, set in Sleaford, Lincs. If this appeals to get please donate at @kickstarter.com follow this link: www.kickstarter.com/projects/pol...
- Our Audio, Radio & Podcasting courses get a shout out in this interview with ARP Tech Tutor Quentin! @mediacomgold.bsky.social @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social
- What a wonderful degree show opening yesterday...! It's on all weekend and open to all, so come and see the fantastic student work in film, documentary, sreen fiction, audio, animation, journalism, promotional media, scriptwriting, creative writing, photography... www.goldsmithsmediashow.com
- ‘Hang on, why am I editing my photos?’ Disrupting the virtual gaze through selfie-editing workshops - Julia Coffey, Akane Kanai, Amy S Dobson, Rosalind Gill, Niamh White, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- Congratulations to @linadencik.bsky.social on her @erc.europa.eu project investigating the uses of AI and data-driven technologies by public bodies across welfare states in Europe. Prof Dencik is our University Research Leader in AI Justice @mediacomgold.bsky.social. www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/er...
- Audio degrees Lecturers @bbcbob.bsky.social Bridget Harney, and tutors @hackista.bsky.social @quentinnield.bsky.social at the Audio Lounge, our graduates display at the ANTE/POST launch event at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social
- ANTE/POST, our degree show, launches tomorrow night with a party - we spent the day getting our Audio Lounge ready with a video showreel and listening station for all our graduates final pieces for the @mediacomgold.bsky.social degree
- Come and see what young minds do when they explore old ideas...and subvert them, with creative purpose and intent! @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social Degree Show is on. Details 👇🏽https://www.instagram.com/p/DKjuRnWCrs0/?img_index=1
- 4 days left to apply for this RA job in @mediacomgold.bsky.social - details below ⬇️
- 📣 Job alert: I'm looking for a PT Research Assistant to join our British Academy project 'Reimagining Digital ID practices'. Deadline to apply 23 June, start date: 1 September. Details about the job and how to apply ⬇️ @mediacomgold.bsky.social Please share widely!
- Looking forward to attending #CIJSummer here @mediacomgold.bsky.social next week! If you’re attending and interested in our MSc in Digital Journalism that includes modules in data, coding, OSInt and critical AI please talk to me or @mirandamjourno.bsky.social for more information 🔎🔎🔎🔎
- This @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social #journalism student knew he was in for a treat when he found fusion food in two bold flavours from the Americas – the United States and the Caribbean – in southeast #London thegoldstandard1.substack.com/p/lewisham-a...
- Further to the @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social event organised with David Floyd & Tabitha Stapely, interesting public discussion with @greenwichwire.bsky.social 's Darryl Chamberlain and @salamandernews.org's Dorothy Stein during @publicinterestnews.org.uk's Indie News Week 2025
