Public Lecture, Wed. May 4, 3-5 p.m, JMK-salen
Professor Nick Couldry, Goldsmiths College, London, discusses differences in contemporary media cultures and how we can understand and analyze them.

In a fully internationalized media studies, what conceptual tools do we need? Couldry argues for the concept of media cultures provided these are theorised ‘transculturally’. Being open to the variety of media cultures across the world at a time of huge change in media, media use, and global complexity, also requires an analytic frame for making sense of their variety: What are the main types of media cultures and what are the significant differences between them?

Couldry is Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy at Golodsmiths College. His research and teaching interests include media rituals and anthropological approaches to media; reality TV, celebrity and fandom; media and democracy; alternative and community media; and media ethics. His most influential work includes The Place of Media Power: Pilgrims and Witnesses of the Media Age (2000), Media Rituals: A Critical Approach (2003), and most recently Media Events in a Global Age (2009, co-eds. A. Hepp and F. Krotz). His forthcoming book is Why Voice Matters: Culture and Politics After Neoliberalism (Sage June 2010).

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