Yesterday we launched our SaferPolitics toolkit and training resources which are designed to support politicians and their staff with online safety based on research by @rosalynd.bsky.social & I. Find out more 👇 saferpolitics.org @digipol.bsky.social @commmedia.bsky.social

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

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

Here we go - looking forward to Yannis Tzioumakis inaugural professorial lecture to a packed School of the Arts library! @sotauol.bsky.social

Brilliant initiative and work from my dear colleague Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova (as well as Mark Pogson, @harm365.bsky.social, and @rosalynd.bsky.social)!

'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...

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...

Starting now! Kate Gilchrist giving the DigiPol seminar on menopause and advertising. Fascinating so far!

📢📢 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

Fab turnout for the Queer Screen Cultures Showcase for LGBTQ+ History Month! Fab work by @garyneedham.bsky.social and Hannah Spaulding for pulling this together 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

📣 New artilcle from Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova, Mark Pogson and colleagues 'Media Capture, Survival of the Corruptest and Journalistic Agency: The Case of Bulgaria' published in International Journal of Press/Politics. Available open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

After *that*, I'll be a British Academy fellow down in South Africa for a year from September, researching rural journalism in South Africa and making myself generally useful as a colleague to the South African Institute of International Affairs. 3/4

I've been lucky enough to be awarded a CODESRIA fellowship to visit the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Dar es Salaam in May/June. It's a grand full-circle meet up with Drs Mkoko and Dotto, with whom I was a baby MA student in Media at Rhodes University. 2/4

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...

Celebrate LGBTQ History Month with @commmedia.bsky.social! Enjoy queer films, videos and documentaries, curated by students from the Queer Film, Video, and Documentary module 🌈 📽️ Queer Screen Cultures Showcase 🗓️ Fri 28th Feb 1pm 📍 School Of The Arts Library 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-th...

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...

Jill Hopke and I have a new research paper (open access) out now in Environmental Communication. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our next seminar is happening this week! Join us in person or online. Details below 👇 @commmedia.bsky.social

Please join us and Dr Travis Coan for our third DigiPol (@digipol.bsky.social) research seminar talk on 12 February, 16:00-17:30 (GMT) at the University of Liverpool in the School of the Arts Library. You can also join online, free tickets are available here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-th...

This is happening this week! Join us in person or online for this on Wednesday! Full details below 👇

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

Join us for our next hybrid DigiPol research seminar 'Going beyond the State: a collaborative model' with Prof Xiaoling Zhang. 🗓️ Weds 5 February, 4.00-5.30pm 📍 School of the Arts Library All welcome! Register: www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-th...

Make sure to check out the next @digipol.bsky.social Event: "Going beyond the State: a collaborative model" with Professor Xiaoling Zhang. 📆 Weds 5th Feb 4:00-5.30pmPM 🌐SOTA Library, 19 Abercromby Square, University of Liverpool www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-th...

Be careful out there on the snow while you're enjoying how pretty campus is ❤️⛄