Andrew White joined King’s College as a Senior Lecturer in Culture, Media & Creative Industries in 2022. He has previously worked at Queen’s University Belfast, Ulster University and Oxford Brookes University. From 2007 to 2020, he worked at the University of Nottingham’s China campus, serving as the head of the School of International Communications from 2016 to 2019.

Andrew has published his research primarily in the form of journal articles, book chapters and newspaper articles. His first single-authored monograph was released in 2014 by Palgrave Macmillan and was entitled Digital Media & Society: transforming economics, politics and social practices; a Portuguese translation of this book, Midia Digital e Sociedade, was published in 2016. His second single-authored book, Inequality in the digital economy: the case for a universal basic income, was released by Palgrave Macmillan in October 2024.

Before becoming an academic, Andrew worked as an archivist at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, and on digitisation projects at Queen’s University Belfast and the Linen Hall Library Belfast. The latter produced the Troubled Images CD-ROM, a compendium of Northern Irish political posters which was the recipient of the 17th annual Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize in 2003.

Research interests and PhD supervision

• Cultural policy
• Creative industries
• Universal basic income
• UK music streaming industry
• Critical approaches to political podcasting

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Selected publications

• White, A. (2024) Inequality in the digital economy: the case for a universal basic income. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
• White, A. (2023) The DCMS Committee’s inquiry on the economics of music streaming and its implication for artists. Cultural Trends, 32(3): 325-339.
• Gilardi, F., White, A., Chen, ZT, Cheng, S., Song, W. & Zhao, Y. (2023) From copycat to copyright: intellectual property amendments and the development of Chinese online video industries. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 29(2): 152-168.
• White, A. (2022) Overcoming ‘confirmation bias’ and the persistence of conspiratorial types of thinking. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 36(3): 364-376.
• Gilardi, F., White, A., Cheng, S., Sheng, J., Song, W. & Zhao, Y. (2020) How online video platforms could support China’s independent microfilm (short film) makers and enhance the Chinese film industry. Cultural Trends, 29(1): 35-49.

Teaching

• Cultural policy
• BA and MA dissertation
• PGR

Expertise and public engagement

Andrew has written newspaper articles on the creative industries and digital media which have appeared in the China Daily, Washington Post and The Guardian. In 2024, he was quoted in an article on Irish views on the Israel-Palestine conflict in Canadian newspaper The Globe & Mail, 9 February 2024.

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