Resonance, Not Scalability
LSE’s Department of Media and Communications celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, and is marking the occasion with the upcoming Media Futures Conference on 15-16 June. Here Nick Couldry, Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory at the LSE, reflects on how the study of media and communications has evolved in the 20 years since the Department was founded.
Twenty Years of Media and Communications Research: from Media Studies to Media Ecology
LSE’s Department of Media and Communications celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, and is marking the occasion with the upcoming Media Futures Conference on 15-16 June. Here Nick Couldry, Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory at the LSE, reflects on how the study of media and communications has evolved in the 20 years since the Department was founded.
It’s time to stop trusting Facebook to engineer our social world
As a recent US Senate hearing hears that Facebook prioritises its profits over safety online, Nick Couldry, Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, argues that a public scrutiny and a tighter regulatory framework are required to keep the social media giant in check and limit the social harms that its business model perpetuates.
Regulation of online platforms needs a complete reset
How to regulate social media companies and other large digital platforms is a pressing question for governments around the world. In this post, Nick Couldry, Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory at the LSE and Dipayan Ghosh, Co-director of the Digital Platforms & Democracy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School, argue that a much broader approach is required to understand what they call the “consumer internet” business model of today’s large digital platforms and press the need for a “new digital realignment”.
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