Culture, Media & Creative Industries Research

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.

+44 (0)20 7848 1595

New media and digital technologies; subjectivity, identity, embodiment and singularity; (bio)ethics; politics of borders, immigration and citizenship; continental philosophy and psychology.

020 7848 1011

Gender and sexuality; young femininities; entrepreneurial subjectivities; discourse analysis.

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.

+44 (0)20 7848 1358

British, Asian and comparative cultural policy; arts funding mechanisms; public service broadcasting; cultural marketing theory.

+44 (0)20 7848 1574

020 7848 1504

joanne,entwistle@kcl.ac.uk

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.

+44 (0)20 7848 1052

020 7848 1870

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.

+44 (0)20 7848 1357

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.

+44 (0)20 7848 1019

Cultural institutions and society; social class and cultural consumption; popular music and youth cultures; cultural regeneration.

+44 (0)20 7848 1065

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.

+44 (0)20 7848 1100