Check out our community lecture series this term! We opened last week with a full house for Linton Kwesi Johnson. Today we have a screening of The Battle for Venezuela plus a panel discussion with director Saniev Johal. Lots of amazing talks throughout the term!

1/ 5 Today is the first of @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social Media Forum series, laid on by @mediacomgold.bsky.social. #journalism #media #communications Everyone welcome. Details 👇🏽

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Hi @knowyourmeme.bsky.social! So not only is your page happy spreading race hate misinformation, you're also OK with rape threats! Nice to know. Would be cute if you could actually moderate your posts and perhaps remove the references to my sexual assault? Thanks awfully!

Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.

1/Thought provoking & persuasive piece by @drjengunter.bsky.social that the term HRT should be replaced by HT (hormone therapy) or MHT (menopause hormone therapy), shedding 'replacement' and with it the suggestion menopause is a disease. UK very attached to HRT vajenda.substack.com/p/menopause-...

Symposium: Transmedia True Crime in the Algorithmic Era 11th June 5-7:30pm @tanyah.bsky.social on Luigi Mangione @memorieschild.bsky.social on AI true crime & Dr Michael Goddard on true crime on YouTube READ MORE: www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

RIP Costa Gazidis (Dr Gazi). My dad, who wrote this obituary, was in a cell next to him when they were both arrested in 1964 (it might have been at the time this sketch was done by a cellmate, Paul Trewhela). www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Join us for a guest lecture by Jo Littler @jolittler.bsky.social on Authoritarian Feminism, the Broligarchy & Left Feminist Alternatives! This Thursday, hosted by the Gender & Sexuality Research Cluster @camsociology.bsky.social 📆 6 March, 5-6pm 📍Seminar Room, Department of Sociology, Cambridge

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

A new paper co-authored by Goldsmiths' @kat-hig.bsky.social explores our preoccupation with stories about women who lie, scam and cheat. As Netflix's Apple Cider Vinegar hits our screens, she talks to British Vogue about why we can't get enough of con women www.vogue.co.uk/article/why-...

What does #sociology have to say about #gender & #class in 2025? Join renowned feminist sociologists Bev Skeggs, @jolittler.bsky.social & @michaelacbenson.bsky.social in the first of the Foundation’s new Conversation series. 📅 12 March 18.30–20.00 UTC #online #IWD2025 🎟️ https://buff.ly/4gOe3TB

This great film on Sylvia Wynter is by my brilliant @mediacomgold.bsky.social colleague Marcela Pizzaro - do also check out the films on Fanon and Du Bois.

#Trump’s actions on #USAID – whimsical, petulant, cruel – were unsurprising. What was a surprise is his sudden interest in racial justice, or at least his attempt to champion the cause of anyone other than himself. www.rashmee.com/musk-y-odour...

MA Audio, Radio and Podcasting students graduating recently. @mediacomgold.bsky.social graduates specialising in Audio are well regarded by industry and have roles at production houses like @bbcstudios.bsky.social, @bbcsounds.bsky.social & Goalhanger! Want to join them? Head to gold.ac.uk.

Join us on Thursday 30 Jan at 6pm in the Students Union Lounge for TRUMP: HOW DID WE GET HERE AND WHERE DO WE GO? MA Political Communications students, Dr Jacob Mukherjee, Professor Catherine Rottenberg and Guardian US editor Chris Michael will be speaking as part of this participatory discussion.

Corbyn and McDonnell agree to police interview after pro-Palestine march

The Rio Cinema, Dalston is screening 🎥 BABYMOTHER on 13 Feb. This classic film was the 1st ever Black British musical, + directed by Prof Julian Henriques, who'll be there live for a Q&A! www.riocinema.org.uk/checkout/sho... Julian convenes our MA in Cultural Studies: www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-cultur...

Cloning Adorno and torturing him with Jazz

While we’re banning books… Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar. Be. Like. Finland.

Reading about how communist east Berlin made unbreakable drinking glasses that were discontinued under capitalism because unbreakable glass doesn’t make money. And now the remaining unbreakable glasses are very expensive because there’s only a few left and they are fetishised by hipsters

How can the documentary process be a helping one - rather than harmful? Christina is an award-winning freelance audio producer & artist working creatively in the field of documentary. An online masterclass from multitrack.uk Friday 13th Dec 4pm-5.30pm. Pay what you can shorturl.at/osjCf

From Absolutely Fabulous to Little Voice and Life is Sweet: Jane Horrocks recently shared fascinating insights into her 40-year career in film, TV, music & theatre with us in MCCS @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social 🎭🎬 Here's her two cents for graduates stepping into an adventurous career! 🌟

📣 Find your voice. Unleash the power of journalism! Become a BA Journalism student @GoldsmithsUoL & learn the skills you need for exciting journalism careers, just like our alumni Apply now! Check out our programme ⤵️ www.gold.ac.uk/ug/ba-journa...

Check out @haydenvernon.bsky.social 's new piece on @novaramedia.com Hayden teaches on our Journalism BA: www.gold.ac.uk/ug/ba-journa...

Professor Julian Henriques spoke at this special @britishacademy.bsky.social event on Stuart Hall last week. Julian convenes our radically interdisciplinary MA Cultural Studies @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social (from the Professor Stuart Hall building). Read more here! www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-cultur...

📣 thrilled to share that we're establishing the Migrant Futures Institute @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social The MFI is dedicated to addressing the challenges faced by migrants through research, partnerships and engagement w/ migrant communities. Watch this space for 2025 launch! @mediacomgold.bsky.social

This brilliant new short animated film about #Fanon made by MCCS's Marcela Pizzaro, now up on @aljazeera.com: www.aljazeera.com/amp/program/...

Coming your way on 4 February 2025 www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

Hey, it's happening this evening, Nov 21. Please join us at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social Department of Media, Communications & Cultural Studies & our author Terry Kirby & Ian Burrell to discuss how #tabloids changed #journalism, politics, society, culture. All welcome 👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

This is exactly why Shortcuts is needed. Ben is an alum of @mediacomgold.bsky.social

UK Scholars, who's out there doing work that builds empathy, drives social change, and builds public knowledge and resilience around subjects that are often too nuanced to be easily understood? This kind of work is my passion. Let's connect and talk about how we can collaborate in the future!

My first post! Spent the day helping 3rd year audio students direct and record short drama scenes. We had foxes discussing pizza, ads on a car radio bringing a couple back together and friends gossiping about intersectional feminism! And that’s only half of them! @mediacomgold.bsky.social

Beware, this "BBC Breaking News" account is fake. It's not an official BBC News account. If BBC News ever joins this platform, it'll be publicised via official BBC platforms.

Some great work here by @mediacomgold.bsky.social MA digital journalism alumnus Tom Prater and his colleagues at Carbon Brief.

Join us at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies and senior lecturer Terry Kirby & Ian Burrell to discuss how #tabloids changed #journalism, politics, society, culture. Thurs, Nov 21. Reception to follow. Details www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

Celebrating Mirca Madianou's latest, 'Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good is Harmful' at #AoIR2024 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... #booklaunch #technocolonialism #technology @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social @aoir.bsky.social

👉 The Media & Communication starter pack of starter packs 📺 🎞️ 📱 💬 Internet Studies: go.bsky.app/LVrPemK Internet Studies 2: go.bsky.app/KHmxfWf Internet Studies 3: go.bsky.app/9uYafGv Media Theory: go.bsky.app/RGLr16b Audience Studies: go.bsky.app/2CKVP4u

Students and alumni from our Filmmaking course worked with BBC Creative on this new Music Support awareness campaign on mental health and substance abuse. Read about it here: shorturl.at/mUpdn More about our film programmes ➡️ www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-filmma... @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social

Turn Left Media is a fantastic source of independent journalism & commentary challenging the right-wing dominance across most of the UK's press, broadcasting & online news media. Follow them and subscribe to the wider UK indie media & media reform movement: go.bsky.app/SkW8cw4

Listen to MRC co-founder Natalie Fenton on @impressorg.bsky.social's fantastic podcast Dis/Mis, discussing how unaccountable & unregulated corporate news outlets have harmed and distorted UK democracy.