Media, Communications and Cultural Studies

Struck by how @GreenPartyHan's brilliant victory speech is a broadside against neoliberal meritocracy – like so many other (esp female w-class) voices right now. This is exactly what Bev Skeggs & I discuss in our new article, 'Social Mobility is a Joke': journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

@GoldsmithsUoL @MediaComGold #journalism student Declan Miele-Howell reports on a significant planning decision in southeast #London thegoldstandard1.substack.com/p/lewisham-app…

@GoldsmithsUoL @MediaComGold #journalism student Declan Miele-Howell reports on a big planning decision in southeast #London thegoldstandard1.substack.com/p/lewisham-app…

New article: In 'Social Mobility is a Joke: Working-class women & British TV comedy on the social floor’ Bev Skeggs & I analyse female TV writers who reject bourgeoise narratives of respectability & meritocracy: @EJCS_Journal journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

@GoldsmithsUoL @MediaComGold #journalism student Mahad Yaqub reports on a rewilding plan in south #London thegoldstandard1.substack.com/p/croydon-beav…

@GoldsmithsUoL @MediaComGold #journalism student Yassmine Tabka interviewed pro-#Palestine activist Lubna Speitan of @GreenwichA66783 for a deeper look at the issue of divestment across southeast London @LewishamforPal @LewishamPSC thegoldstandard1.substack.com/p/greenwich-ca…

@GoldsmithsUoL @MediaComGold journalism student Yassmine Tabka interviewed pro-#Palestine activist Lubna Speitan of @GreenwichA66783 for a deeper look at the issue of divestment across southeast London @LewishamforPal @LewishamPSC thegoldstandard1.substack.com/p/greenwich-ca…

Future of #journalism in the age of #AI? @GoldsmithsUoL @mediacomgold discusses with @jimegan1 of @risj_oxford, @thetimes Alex Farber and London Centric's @jimwaterson . Details 👇🏽 We’ll have a livestream too but it’s always better in person: youtube.com/live/ACW4YZA6t…

How Smart Became The New Hot Online - Newsweek - Jo Littler, a Professor of Cultural, Media and Social Analysis at Goldsmiths, University of London, England, told Newsweek, "Social media rewards us ... - ift.tt/NVnwc6F

Truly insightful discussion on #UK family courts, the single justice system with two campaigning journalists @Sanchia7 & @kirkkorner @GoldsmithsUoL @MediaComGold. Vignettes here + slightly wonky recording: youtube.com/watch?v=DavOiY…. Come to next one Nov 18👇🏽 gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=1…

Why local #journalism matters. Join @BBCNews 's @Jgibbins , Social Spider's @davidsocialsp news.bsky & Local Authority's Ed Jennings at @MediaComGold @GoldsmithsUoL Everyone welcome. Details 👇🏽 gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=1…

Be part of the conversation @MediaComGold @GoldsmithsUoL . Great start to our Media Forum series. Join us for the next one on Oct 14. Everyone welcome. Details 👇🏽 Oct 14: Why Local Journalism Matters gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=1…

We've got a great line-up of Media Forum discussions at @MediaComGold @GoldsmithsUoL this autumn. Join us if you can. Everyone is welcome.

In a new review of a 2022 report about menopause in the workplace, @MediaComGold's Professor Catherine Rottenberg and colleagues @LSEnews call into question the report's stand-out statistic👇

“We couldn’t believe it. We were looking at each other going ‘No!’.” Quentin Nield, Senior Technical Tutor @MediaComGold, tells The Reengineer about his experiences of ‘sporadic E’ - where radio signals travel much further due to changes in the atmosphere. thereengineer.pro/p/hot-air-the-…

Congratulations to @MediaComGold graduate Sylvie Carlos, who has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright scholarship. The award will enable her to continue her research in the US, exploring the US media reception of the Black British experience. gold.ac.uk/news/2025/grad…

@GoldsmithsUoL s’ #Media & #Communications students @MediaComGold created a magazine that lives in the past…no really. Read on to find out why thegoldstandard1.substack.com/p/magazine-nos…

“This is a backlash and a rejection of feminism." Professor Catherine Rottenberg @mediacomgold spoke to @Newsweek about the wider cultural shift surrounding the rise of right-wing female influencers who promote a return to gender traditionalism. newsweek.com/conservative-f…

Our course convener @DrMukhers is quoted in this @AJEnglish piece on artists and protest politics in the G*za conflict (link below)