CAMRI
CAMRI is a global centre for media and social change.
It has 25 researchers and 50 doctoral students, and provides expertise in media policy and economics, media history, and media audiences. CAMRI has a strong international dimension, with interests in the study of global and transnational media. The China Media Centre and Arab Media Centre provide a focus for high quality research, policy analysis and industry training. CAMRI is also developing work in Indian and African media. The Media Audiences Centre is a new initiative for research into contemporary audience transformations.
Fully funded research studentships starting October 2010
Forthcoming events
CAMRI Seminars, Semester 2, 2009/103 February - 21 April, Harrow Campus, Room A4.4
The Changing Ecology of the Media, European Media Management Association (EMMA) Conference, 5-6 February 2010, Marylebone Campus
Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa, CAMRI Africa Media Series, 25-26 March 2010, New Cavendish Campus
> Registration form
Children's TV in the Arab World, 5th Annual International Conference of the Arab Media Centre, 4 June 2010, New Cavendish Campus
Journalism's Next Top Model: Meeting the Cost of Journalism Tomorrow, event organised by the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, 8-9 June 2010, Regent Campus, 309 Regent Street
Public Service Media After the Recession, RIPE@2010 Conference, 8-11 September 2010
News
CAMRI Professor awarded prize for Best Paper on Media and Communications PolicyAt the last MeCCSA conference, held in London on 6-8 January 2010, LSE's Department of Media and Communications offered a £300 prize and publication in its Electronic Working Paper Series for the best paper addressing critical perspectives on key issues of policy relevance in a convergent media and communications industry. The prize was awarded to Steven Barnett for the paper 'What’s Wrong with Media Monopolies? A Lesson from History and a New Approach to Media Ownership Policy'.
New publications
Findings - Autumn 2009
Download the latest issue of CAMRI's newsletter Findings, edited by Caroline Dover
> Table of contents and Findings archive
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (WPCC)
November 2009, Volume 6.2
The Herman-Chomsky Propaganda Model Twenty Years On
Journal of African Media Studies
Principal Editor, Winston Mano
> Issue 1.3
also including an article by Xin Xin, Xinhua News Agency in Africa (abstract)
First issue of Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture (Intellect)
> Access the issue free of charge
Journalism, Democracy and the Public Interest: rethinking media pluralism for the Digital Age, by Steven Barnett
> Download from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism website
International Communication. A Reader, edited by Daya Thussu
> Table of contents and further information
Contact
If you are interested in conducting research with us, please contact Erica Spindler
CAMRI Research Director, Colin Sparks