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Brand new issue of Journal of Anthropological Films co-edited by Dr. Alyssa Grossman!
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Vol. 9 No. 02 (2025)
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December 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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!
December 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Professor Yannis Tzioumakis was on television again to speak about Netflix’s takeover of Warner Brothers, this time on ABC News Australia!
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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Fighting authoritarian populism with populism in polarised Turkey | John Benjamins
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Globally, populism is on the rise. Studies demonstrate how populism is a ‘thin’ ideology that is articulated with
ideologies ranging from authoritarianism to its challenges. Here, we examine ...
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December 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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
A single-stream 2 day International Conference hosted by the Centre for Culture and Everyday Life, School of the Arts, University of Liverpool.
Full CFP at www.ccel.uk
Full CFP at www.ccel.uk
December 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Great conference coming up in June from our friends at @cceluliverpool.bsky.social
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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...
December 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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!
The first panel on witnessing is happening now 🚨! This morning's panelists include J. Siguru Wahutu, Richard Stupart, and Sandra Ristovska. #BeyondEndurance. @asc.upenn.edu
December 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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...
Professor Yannis Tzioumakis Discusses Netflix’s $72B Takeover of Warner Bros. and HBO on BBC News | Stories | Department of Communication and Media | University of Liverpool
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December 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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...
Ash Booth, Sustainability Manager for Picture Zero presenting about Sustainability in the Film and TV Industry for the biannual COSME Industry Seminar. Did you know that the most unsustainable area of the film and TV industry is transportation?
December 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Ash Booth, Sustainability Manager for Picture Zero presenting about Sustainability in the Film and TV Industry for the biannual COSME Industry Seminar. Did you know that the most unsustainable area of the film and TV industry is transportation?
The department’s Dr Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova has been appointed as a new Non-Executive Director at the UK National Commission for UNESCO (UKNC)! news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/12/04/c...
Communication and Media researcher appointed as UNESCO Non-Executive Director - University of Liverpool News
Communication and Media researcher appointed as UNESCO Non-Executive Director
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December 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The department’s Dr Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova has been appointed as a new Non-Executive Director at the UK National Commission for UNESCO (UKNC)! news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/12/04/c...
New publication in Social Media + Society co-authored by Aliaksandr Herasimenka journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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December 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
New publication in Social Media + Society co-authored by Aliaksandr Herasimenka journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
The Centre for Converged Screen Media and Entertainment (COSME) is delighted to invite you to our latest Industry Seminar on Sustainability in the Film and TV Industry happen on Thursday, the 4th of December, 11:00-12:30 in the SOTA Library, 19 Abercromby Square. Register at Ticketsource link.
December 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The Centre for Converged Screen Media and Entertainment (COSME) is delighted to invite you to our latest Industry Seminar on Sustainability in the Film and TV Industry happen on Thursday, the 4th of December, 11:00-12:30 in the SOTA Library, 19 Abercromby Square. Register at Ticketsource link.
Brand new publication from Dr. Lyndon way in Lingue e Linguaaggi! siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/li...
Oppositional Music Mash Ups: Populist Manifestations in Online Criticism to UK Conservative Government Actions | Way | Lingue e Linguaggi
Oppositional Music Mash Ups: Populist Manifestations in Online Criticism to UK Conservative Government Actions
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December 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Brand new publication from Dr. Lyndon way in Lingue e Linguaaggi! siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/li...
New publication in The Geographical Journal co-authored by @antalwozniak.bsky.social!! rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Risks to soil health from increased flooding and drought due to climate change are a priority risk area for the UK government, but our analysis of two years of UK newspaper coverage on this issue rev...
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December 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
New publication in The Geographical Journal co-authored by @antalwozniak.bsky.social!! rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Dr. Antje Glück, together with Dan Jackson and An Nguyen, won the Meccsa 2025 Best Journal article of the year award. It was awarded at Meccsa conference.
November 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Dr. Antje Glück, together with Dan Jackson and An Nguyen, won the Meccsa 2025 Best Journal article of the year award. It was awarded at Meccsa conference.
Event this Friday organized by faculty member Gary Needham! COSME presents "Paris is Burning at 35" in conversation with a legend: Dinah Bons Xtravaganza from NYC's House of Xtravaganza. Limited seating, please reserve a spot using the link below. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/paris-is-b...
Paris is Burning at 35 with Dinah Bons, House of Xtravaganza NYC
COSME presents "Paris is Burning at 35" in conversation with a legend: Dinah Bons Xtravaganza from NYC's House of Xtravaganza
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November 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Event this Friday organized by faculty member Gary Needham! COSME presents "Paris is Burning at 35" in conversation with a legend: Dinah Bons Xtravaganza from NYC's House of Xtravaganza. Limited seating, please reserve a spot using the link below. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/paris-is-b...
New publication co-authored by department member Dr. Hannah Little in Public Understands of Science! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
‘A fiction author can do anything, we’re bound by the facts’: The risks and opportunities of taking advantage of cognitive biases in storytelling for science communication - Hannah Little, Juliet Duns...
Storytelling is a growing topic in science communication research, highlighting the importance of learning from existing storytelling research from other discip...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
New publication co-authored by department member Dr. Hannah Little in Public Understands of Science! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New publication in Political Communication by department members Dr. Emily Harmer and Dr. Rosalynd Southern!
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“Twitter to Yell at Them, Facebook to Ask Questions and Instagram to Show Support?” Exploring Platform Effects in Responses to Women Politicians On Social Media
Previous research has shown that women politicians are often subject to more incivility, hate speech, and sexualized abuse on social media. Until now, studies tend to analyze one platform, and ther...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
New publication in Political Communication by department members Dr. Emily Harmer and Dr. Rosalynd Southern!
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The Centre for Culture & Everyday Life, which counts several of our faculty as members, is now on Bluesky!
The Centre for Culture & Everyday Life, which counts several of our faculty as members, is now on Bluesky!
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November 20, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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The Centre for Culture & Everyday Life, which counts several of our faculty as members, is now on Bluesky!
The Centre for Culture & Everyday Life, which counts several of our faculty as members, is now on Bluesky!
New publication in Learning, Media, and Technology from Dr. Simeon Yates, Dr. Jeanette D’Arcy, and Rebecca Harris of the department’s Digital Media and Society Institute!
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Media literacy provision from the perspective of policymakers and civil society organisations in five areas of the UK: a case study approach
Despite efforts to promote media literacy provision (i.e., the support provided to develop people’s media literacy within and outside formal education) in the UK, this provision remains fragmented,...
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November 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
New publication in Learning, Media, and Technology from Dr. Simeon Yates, Dr. Jeanette D’Arcy, and Rebecca Harris of the department’s Digital Media and Society Institute!
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October 31, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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New publication in Gender and Education co-authored by the department’s Dr. Craig Haslop alongside Dr. Jessica Ringrose of University College London. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Post-Tate, post-truth, post-digital: researching and mitigating the misogyny influencers
In this critical commentary, we map out some of the key priorities for researchers interested in mitigating the rise of ‘misogyny influencers’. We conceptualize this through the lens of three resea...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
New publication in Gender and Education co-authored by the department’s Dr. Craig Haslop alongside Dr. Jessica Ringrose of University College London. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
'Surveillance society': Will you be signing up for a digital ID?
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October 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
New book chapter by Dr. Richard Stupart in Navigating Trauma in African Journalism, Volume 1
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Journalism, Obligation, and Moral Injury
Since the Vietnam War, moral injury has been recognised as a form of psychopathology with symptoms substantially similar to post-traumatic stress disorder. Yet unlike post-traumatic stress disorder, t...
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October 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
New book chapter by Dr. Richard Stupart in Navigating Trauma in African Journalism, Volume 1
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New publication from faculty members Dr. Rudi Palmieri and Dr. Ekaterina Balabanova!
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Framing and Argumentative Strategies in Modern Slavery Statements: Debating Sustainability or Avoiding Responsibility?
This chapter develops an analysis of the linguistic content of modern slavery statements by UK-based businesses, which represent a genre of sustainability communication that has emerged in recent year...
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October 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
New publication from faculty members Dr. Rudi Palmieri and Dr. Ekaterina Balabanova!
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New piece in @theconversation.com by Alex Hardy theconversation.com/as-the-uk-pl...
As the UK plans to introduce digital IDs, what can it learn from pioneer Estonia?
Estonia has more than 20 years experience of digital IDs.
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October 1, 2025 at 11:17 AM
New piece in @theconversation.com by Alex Hardy theconversation.com/as-the-uk-pl...