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Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries
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Staff interests associated with the department's research programmes and research groups
Interests:
How the cultural and creative industries are organized; what it is like to work in them; how they are governed; and what the impacts of their growth are on the rest of economy and society. Cultural and creative industries policy; internationalisation and globalisation; and the cultural economy.
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+44 (0)20 7848 1595
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020 7848 2415
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New media and digital technologies; subjectivity, identity, embodiment and singularity; (bio)ethics; politics of borders, immigration and citizenship; continental philosophy and psychology.
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020 7848 1011
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Gender and sexuality; young femininities; entrepreneurial subjectivities; discourse analysis.
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The history and business of American and British culture, especially cinema, popular music, but also the publishing industry and museums. Other interests include: the Harlem Renaissance, Duke Ellington and the cultural history of New York City.
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+44 (0)20 7848 1358
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British, Asian and comparative cultural policy; arts funding mechanisms; public service broadcasting; cultural marketing theory.
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+44 (0)20 7848 1574
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The sociology of fashion, dress and embodiment, cultural work, cultural workers and processes of cultural mediation, aesthetic labour and gender.
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020 7848 1504
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joanne,entwistle@kcl.ac.uk
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Exploring the boundaries of the creative economy, the relationship between creativity and entrepreneurship, the need for a new discipline of social creativity, and the role of multi-disciplinary learning in creativity, arts and management.
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+44 (0)20 7848 1052
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020 7848 2415
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Cultural sociology and the sociology of culture, social and cultural theory (particularly with reference to habitus, reflexivity and sociality), subcultures, the body and identity, fashion and consumption, visual methods and methodology, ethics, representation and recognition.
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020 7848 1870
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Visual and popular culture, media, Utopian cultural theory, the sociology of representation. These interests combine cultural and critical theory with the use of case studies as seemingly varied as the myth of the Titanic, celebrity photography, Navajo design and the humour of Ali G. The methodology is interpretive with a focus on close textual analysis.
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+44 (0)20 7848 1357
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The life and labour of new media workers; the media as sites for the representation or construction of intimate relationships; 'new' femininities and masculinities and the impact of 'sexualised' media.
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+44 (0)20 7848 1019
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020 7848 2415
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Cultural institutions and society; social class and cultural consumption; popular music and youth cultures; cultural regeneration.
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+44 (0)20 7848 1065
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Tim is a Senior Lecturer at King’s College London (beginning January 2011). He is the author of Hacking: digital media and technological determinism, Activism!: direct action, hacktivism and the future of society and, with Paul Taylor, of Hacktivism and Cyberwars. He is currently working (and playing) in online persistent worlds, exploring communicative practices in online and offline life. He has published work on social movements, hackers, Pokemon, the culture and politics of the Internet and social theory. He is a co-founder and until recently an editor of Social Movement Studies: journal of social, cultural and political protest.
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+44 (0)20 7848 1100
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