🚀 New Report Alert! 🚀 The Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity is proud to launch its new report UK Media Diversity Reporting 2021–2024: An Evaluation Report. Access the report at www.bcu.ac.uk/research/med... #MediaDiversity #SirLennyHenryCentre #RepresentationMatters @mybcu.bsky.social

🚀 BCMCR 2025 Conference: "Transgressive Identities and Subjectivities"🎭 📅 Dates: 17–18 June 2025 📍 Venue: Birmingham City University (& online) 🎟 Fees: £15 online; £15/£30 in-person (incl. lunch). 📌 Register at eventbrite.co.uk/e/transgress... @mybcu.bsky.social @bcmcr.bsky.social

🌟 New Report Alert 🌟 The Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity's 2025 report on post-production sound workforce in the UK is now out! The report is authored by @emmabuttsound.bsky.social, @ellietomsett.bsky.social Read the full report here: bcuassets.blob.core.windows.net/docs/csu2025...

📢 Exciting News Alert! 📢 🌟 The 7th Edition of Representology: The Journal of Media & Diversity @representology.bsky.social is now LIVE! 📚 Access all issues for FREE here: www.bcu.ac.uk/media/resear... Let's continue the conversation #MediaDiversity #Representology

Do please register for this report launch 15 Jan - I was honoured to serve as scientific director www.linkedin.com/posts/forum-...

Join the Inclusive Communication and People with Disabilities Working Group in the webinar "What is Inclusive Communication? International Perspectives" 🗓️ When: Friday, 17 January 2025 at 13h00 UTC 🌐 Where: Zoom (pre-registration required by 15 January) Details at iamcr.org/webinars/inc...

IAMCR is now on Bluesky and letting you all know that we are receiving proposals for our 2025 conference in Singapore. See the conference website at singapore2025.iamcr.org and submit your abstract before 7 February.

@iamcr.org Webinar Series What is inclusive communication? International perspectives Friday 17 January 2025 @13h00 UTC Register by 15 January 2025 @merylalper.bsky.social is one of the speakers and @paula-saukko.bsky.social is the webinar moderator. For more info, see iamcr.org/webinars/inc...

Join us for this next @iamcr.org webinars. Non-members just need to complete an easy form. Thanks! iamcr.org/webinars/dig...

The REF 2029 main and sub-panel recruitment is now open. ▶️ Sub-panel chair + deputy chair – deadline 6 February 2025 ▶️ Sub-panel member and other roles – deadline 28 April 2025 📝 One single form & self nomination. Full details and context on MeCCSA website: www.meccsa.org.uk/news/ref-202...

✨Feel honored to receive the Vilas Early-Career Award. Very grateful to my students, colleagues and communities that inspire my work all the time! Excited for the next journey! 🥰

INCLUSIVE COMMUNICATION WEBINAR IAMCR Webinar Series What is inclusive communication? International perspectives For more and to register, click here iamcr.org/webinars/inc...

1️⃣ Have you seen our new programme? 🔔 Grown up? Transitions to Adulthood will investigate the challenges and opportunities young people face, ensure their voices are heard and strengthen the evidence base that underpins policy decisions affecting their lives. Curious? Keep reading for more 🧵

thrilled about the cover of our forthcoming book! ready for pre-order :-) bit.ly/wiredwisdom

Wow, I’m humbled! Wronged is indispensable. It opens up new ways of thinking about the centrality and ambivalence of pain in political life, while inviting us to meet the challenge of reclaiming vulnerability for building a more just, less painful world @kat-hig.bsky.social 🙏❤️ @lsemedia.bsky.social

My thesis is available open access online! This was the product of years of blood, sweat and tears and I'm very proud of it. I hope others, especially current PhD students, will find it useful! ✨💖 READ HERE: etheses.lse.ac.uk/4577/1/Glatt...

Here in Amsterdam, #UnfairID meets #COVID19 from the margins with Stefania Milan and @emilianotrere.bsky.social. Sister books with love for #BigDataSur!

My review of 'Algorithms of Resistance' by @tbonini.bsky.social and @emilianotrere.bsky.social is now live at Work, Employment and Society. The long and short is that you should all read this timely and persuasive book (which is OA, so there's really no excuse) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

TOMORROW! London friends, come to this LSE talk / book launch for #Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful, chaired by @abpowell.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social For those further afield you can join remotely, details below ⬇️ Book details here: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

"WHERE is the photographic image?" Let's move beyond the obsession with photography's identity and see where photography is happening instead!Submit to this open call for Der Greif magazine I'm co-curating. site.picter.com/der-greif-gu...

Erika Jones and Ellie Tomsett are the authors of the new research report from the Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity! titled ‘‘UNMUTED: Experiences of deaf film and TV professionals in the UK media industry’’. Download the report here bcuassets.blob.core.windows.net/docs/unmuted...

To ever have a chance of succeeding, anything that is called (or has the pretension to be called) "Human-Centric #AI" would first need to respond to the critique of human(ist) centered thinking that was initiated in late-20th century critical theory. Begin with Donna Haraway:

The Promise of IndyMedia Twenty-five years after its founding, an early community journalism experiment may still offer a model for the future. www.cjr.org/business_of_...

So *many* concerns here, but I don't understand why would a qualitative researcher even want this? Why not use a survey instead?The whole point of qualitative interviews is that we co-produce knowledge with our interlocutors through participation in the research process.

I look forward to reading this.

Check out the video of @haymarketbooks.org's "Where Do We Go From Here? A Post-Election Assessment" event w/ @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social, and @naomiaklein.bsky.social. Tough lessons, but really valuable, actionable insight from this group:

With @lawrennd.bsky.social backstage at Cambridge Literary Festival talking about AI and humanity.

Want to know what’s really been happening in #Gaza? Investigative watchdog @airwars.bsky.social tells us how they made The Killings They Tweeted, the largest public analysis of Israeli military strike footage. @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...