Parkside – P424

Dr. Bridget Conor (Kings College London) | Britain’s Hardest Workers: Developing a cultural political economy of the low wage economy Britain’s Hardest Workers screened for five consecutive nights in August 2016 on BBC2. This was after a groundswell of critical reportage about this programme which was dubbed variously as ‘Hunger-Games-style’ TV, ‘poverty porn’ and ‘exploitative’ […]

Dr. Tao Zhang (Nottingham Trent University) | The ‘illusionary hope’ of public intellectuals: The rise of online revolutionists discourse in China Despite its remarkable economic growth and rising international influence in the past three decades, China remains an authoritarian state and has thus far failed to make any significant moves towards constitutional democracy. Since the […]

Dr. Michael Goddard (University of Westminster) | Guerrilla Television Revisited: US Public Access Televison in the 1970s as an Amateur Media Ecology The term ‘guerrilla’ in proximity to a range of media has come to mean nothing more than low budget or DIY practices in a range of creative industries. However, in the US, in […]

Dr. Lina Dencik (Cardiff University) | From privacy to power: rethinking the datafication debate The technical ability to turn vast amounts of activity and human behaviour into data points that can be tracked and profiled has led to significant changes across government, business and civil society. Whilst the documents revealed by Edward Snowden led to […]

The Brilliant Club offers a unique paid opportunity for current and completed PhD researchers! Tutors deliver programmes of university-style teaching based on their research to small groups of high-performing pupils in schools that serve disadvantaged communities based on their research to help them secure places at top universities. Hear from Joe Loudon, Regional Director of The Brilliant Club about what […]