Media & Communications Research Cluster
We’re delighted to announce the first of our CDCS research clusters, Media & Communications, which will be led by Dr Kate Wright.
Media & Communications will take an innovative, interdisciplinary approach, drawing together internationally-renowned experts from across the arts and humanities, divinity, geography, informatics and law, as well as the social and political sciences. Together the cluster will address the complex and convergent nature of mediated communication around the world: developing cutting-edge approaches to studying new forms of data, social and immersive media, alongside film, journalism and photography.
The Media and Communications cluster's research has a broad, global outlook, and benefits from perspectives of researchers working on Scottish and British media, as well as those studying media in Africa, East and South Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and the Pacific.
The cluster has particular expertise in:
- media design, media production and audience reception/participation, including the accessibility of media to diverse groups
- the relationship between data, other forms of media and lived experience
- media organisations, elites and management
- the political economies of media organisations, including media regulation, funding, copyright, press diversity and freedom of speech
- the roles played by media in military conflict and peace-making
- mediated campaigning, including humanitarian and human rights advocacy, as well as the relevance of media to voter decision-making and national policy-making
- the mediated constructions of nations, communities, faith groups and genders.
Learn more about Media & Communications
We also welcome ideas for new clusters. Find out how to propose a research cluster.