Our new Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Ricardo Ferreira Ribeiro is featured in the most recent Leverhulme Trust newsletter www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...

New publication from our Head of Department, Dr. Kay O’Halloran www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to Dr Antje Glück and her co-authors for winning Journal Article of the Year at MeCCSA 2025 for their Journalism Studies article 'Fighting Against the Machine: Inside a Solutions Journalism Campaign in UK Local Newsrooms'. www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-ant...

🎉 Congratulations to our two colleagues who have been recognised in the highly prestigious National Teaching Fellowship (NTF) awards, including the Faculty's Dr Kerry Traynor from Communication and Media (@commmedia.bsky.social) news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/09/01/c... #AcademicSky

Stephanie Thomson, from the Department of Communication and Media, has been crowned winner of the 2025 University of Liverpool ‘Three Minute Thesis’ (3MT®) competition for her presentation “Femtech fertility ads: selling the illusion of reproductive control”. news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/06/30/t...

Next up: workshop on "Oracy, local dialect and language teaching: the case of Liverpool English" at Global Voices 2025 by @sofialampro.bsky.social, Victorina González Díaz & David Clay @sotauol.bsky.social @uolhsspgr.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social

@instantlinguist.bsky.social in action (!) on how we talk about multilingualism and why it matters at Global Voices 2025 @livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social

Looking forward to delivering the afternoon plenary at 'Global Voices: An exploration and celebration of language 2025'. I'll be exploring how we talk about bi/multilingualism - and why it matters. @sotauol.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social

Still energized by last week's wonderful workshop on CDS, organised at @commmedia.bsky.social by myself and @sofialampro.bsky.social This slide from my talk with Tommaso Milani was received particularly well 😆

📶 What does it take to be digitally included in 2025? A new national benchmark, with research led by Professor Simeon Yates from @commmedia.bsky.social reveals the digital access, skills and support UK households need 📱 Full story 👇 news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/06/12/n... @livunihss.bsky.social

It’s that time! 🎓 Graduation reception bookings are officially open🍾 🧱 Architecture 📅 15 July | tinyurl.com/4a3a9rx4 🎙️ Communication & Media 🎶 Music 📅 16 July | tinyurl.com/7cy3j6jn 📚 English 🧠 Philosophy 📅 17 July | tinyurl.com/58sn7c6r @commmedia.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social

#Dreamteam 😍 Yesterday @digipol.bsky.social hosted the launch of the Online Safety Toolkit - a training resource for all those working in politics and how to stay safe online. Make sure to check it out here: saferpolitics.org

NEWS I Launched today in the @sotauol.bsky.social library, a vital new online safety resource for political parties and their communications teams. Read more ⬇️ news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/06/09/u... @digipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social @jocoxfoundation.bsky.social @local.gov.uk

Great to be able to speak at the launch of @commmedia.bsky.social’s fantastic new saferpolitics.org website, a really practical resource for politicians and candidates who are dealing with the impact of online harassment and intimidation. And also to come second in the safer politics quiz.

I'm excited to attend the launch event of the Safer Politics Online Safety Tool Kit, headed up by my brilliant colleagues in @commmedia.bsky.social @harm365.bsky.social @rosalynd.bsky.social

🚨🚨Job Alert🚨🚨 Our dept has an opening for a 12-month full-time fixed term contact for a Lecturer in Media and Politics. The role will cover teaching in areas of global news media & war, research methods, & digital media. Deadline 30th June 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI734/l... (pls share) #commsky

⭐Safer Politics project launch⭐ 📆9th June 📍SOTA Library/Online 💸Free @digipol.bsky.social's launch of the Safer Politics project which includes online safety toolkits & training to support political parties, politicians & staff in using social media [...]🧵 www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/liv...

We got some great pubs for you from our department! (No, not those ones 🍻, these ones 📃). First up @hanachronism.bsky.social asks "How do you argue with a science denial meme? Memed responses may be counter-productive for responding to science denial online" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We are absolutely thrilled to welcome Prof Diane Negra to give the Keynote address at our COSME PGR conference. @commmedia.bsky.social

Check out this for 5pm - Rachel Carberry, alongside Lyndon Way and @antalwozniak.bsky.social have a new publication out! 'Muddying the waters on climate change: conflicting positions articulated in Instagram posts about Greta Thunberg’s 2023 arrest' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to Professor Yannis Tzioumakis from @commmedia.bsky.social on his inaugural lecture as a Professor 🎉👏

Our Dept in the news 📰: Dr Jamie Jelinski spoke to #cbcnews about their attempts to FOI the use of Clearview AI by Toronto police. "To me it suggests they don't respect the legislation that they're supposed to be operating within, they don't respect public transparency" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Check out this just released chapter on Virtual Production called 'This is the Way’: ILM’s Stagecraft, Disney’s Star Wars: The Mandalorian and constructing the rhetoric of virtual production’ by @sarah-thomas.bsky.social! 🎥 Can we agree that this title is 😍? www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Researchers from @liverpooluni.bsky.social have this week launched a new global index measuring safety for journalists as part of UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day events in Brussels 📰 📺 📻 Read more: news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/05/08/u... @livunihss.bsky.social @commmedia.bsky.social

📸 From Portugal to Pakistan, a new global index ranking journalists' safety has been launched, led by UoL academic Dr Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova. The index will help protect journalists' lives and press freedom around the world news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/05/08/u... @commmedia.bsky.social #AcademicSky

This week, as part of World Press Freedom Day, DigiPol director Dr Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova and team launched the Global Index on Journalists' Safety based on data from the Worlds of Journalism Study and Unesco Data on journalist killings. Read more here- news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/05/08/u...

'Beyond the Manosphere: Exploring the Wider Phenomenon of Male-Centred Online Communities' 3rd June 4-6pm (Online) Our @craighaslop.bsky.social will be on this exciting panel exploring the ‘manosphere’. It's free and online! www.eventsforce.net/cugroup/fron...

Can't wait to present my paper exploring online reading communities and emotion-based literary critique at this conference!

The registration for our second Annual COSME PGR Conference - 'Disruption, Resistance & Change in Screen Media Industries'🎥 is now open! With 4 panels, a keynote by Prof. Diane Negra, & a film screening, it's quite the day! 📆Mon 19th May 2025 💸£Free Signup: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cosmepgrconf...

It's Publication Friday! 🚨 And we've got some cracking eggs from 🐣 from our team! We've had so many recently, it's going to be a 🧵, but take a look if you're interested in some of the work we do! Abstracts and links below 👇 (Sorry to the co-authors I've cut for the word count) #commsky

Last month, the Centre for Converged Screen Media and Entertainment (COSME) hosted Liverpool Football Club media directors Nina Berry and Mark Volante, who shared insights into how media runs at a top football club ⚽🎥 Read more 👇 www.liverpool.ac.uk/communicatio... @commmedia.bsky.social

After some Easter podcasts listens? Check out @richardstupart.com on Jay Thakkar show talking about journalism ethics. They talk about the principles that underpin responsible reporting; Emotional Dynamics in Reporting; and Ethical Dilemmas in Conflict Zones creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

📢📢📢 CALLING ALL PGRS 📢📢📢 Check out the #CFP for our forthcoming conference: 'Disruption, Resistance and Change in Screen Media Industries' with Keynote speaker Prof. Diane Negra! Abstracts and bio to [email protected]. Deadline Friday 18th April.

Big news from our COSME PGR centre who are launching the CFP for their Conference "Disruption, Resistance and Change in Screen Media Industries"! 🎥 May 19th, UoL Campus. Please re-share and forward to relevant people. #commsky #AcademicSky #FilmSky www.liverpool.ac.uk/communicatio... 🧵🧵🧵

As part of the Homotopia takeover of Museum of Liverpool and the Holly Johnson exhibition (Sat 5th April), @mbpearl.bsky.social and myself will be talking "Don't Relax! Culture, Protest, and Music during the AIDS Crisis" event info here: www.homotopia.net/events/homot...

Come join Hannah watch the most amazing and biggest science communication competition in the world! 💰Free entry 🏭Science and Industry Museum, Manchester, M3 4JP 📆Thursday 3rd April 2025

Exciting event! COSME hosts Nina Berry & Mark Volante from Liverpool FC for a deep dive into how elite football clubs run TV channels ⚽❤️ 📅 Friday 28th March, 2:00PM 📍 Lecture Theatre 8, Rendall Building 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-th... @commmedia.bsky.social

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The Centre for Converged Screen Media and Entertainment (COSME) is hosting a screening and discussion of Blackboard Jungle (Richard Brooks, 1955) to mark its 70-year anniversary 🎬 📅 Monday 24 March, 4-7pm 📍 SOTA Library 🎟️ FREE 👇 www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/liv... @commmedia.bsky.social

Come join COSME's latest film screening & discussion of the seminal youth film Blackboard Jungle (1955) to mark its 70-year anniversary 📽️ ⏰ Mon 24 March, 4-7pm SOTA Library, 19 Abercromby Square Free - but registration required. www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-th...

📢📢 WE ARE RECRUITING PARTICIPANTS📢📢 If you are interested in Dungeons and Dragons or TTRPGs more generally and would like to be involved in research seeking to create accessible and inclusive games and resources for players and GMs then check out this #CFP @commmedia.bsky.social

Join us for the launch of Tangents, the new SotA Literary Magazine ✨😍 📅 Wednesday 5th March 4-6pm 📍 School of the Arts Library 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-th... The anthology spans poetry, politics, football & more @livunienglish.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social @commmedia.bsky.social

It's Publication FRIDAY. You may ask yourself, is that a thing? Well no. But it should be. We'll start with a new publication by our staff Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova & Mark Pogson (with Christopher Karadjov), which is out today. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Happening TODAY. The Media & the War In Ukraine 2.30-4.30pm - School of Law & Social Justice Multi-purpose Space & online. How has the war in Ukraine affected the work and structure of the media? with a panel of journalists, scholars, & media professionals. www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-th...

This post is for your eyes only. 👀 Prof Yannis Tzioumakis reflects on what might happen now Amazon is in control of the classic franchise.

Reminder: The Global Opportunities application deadline for Year Abroad, Semester Abroad and Year in China is this Sunday (23 Feb)‼️ 😍 🌍✈️See where your degree could take you: www.liverpool.ac.uk/global-oppor... @commmedia.bsky.social @livuniabroad.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social

We're having a fantastic (hybrid!) panel on media and the war in Ukraine here at Liverpool next Thursday (27 Feb) with a screening of "1% of war" and Q&A with director Denys Khrystov afterwards. Registration is at: bit.ly/liverpoolmed...

Grab the popcorn 🍿 For LGBTQ history month our Department is hosting a showcase to celebrates Queer Screen Cultures! 🎥 📆 Friday 28th Feb 1-5pm 💸 Free Sign-up req. In show will be a range of queer films, videos, and documentaries curated by our students! www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-th...

It's our ⭐Discovery day⭐ We hosted a series of talks for prospective students and offer holders, giving them an insight into the type of research they'll engage with in their undergraduate studies. We really hope you enjoyed, and can't wait to see you in sept 😍. @livunihss.bsky.social

Don't forget to sign up for our DigiPol Seminar next week! Info below 👇