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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.

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Forthcoming events

CAMRI Seminars, Semester 2, 2009/10
3 February - 21 April, Harrow Campus, Room A4.4

Public Service in the Digital Age, a ConnectionFactory network event supported by the BBC, the AHRC, and the EPSRC Digital Economy programme, 25 March 2010, Regent Campus, 309 Regent Street

Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa, CAMRI Africa Media Series, 25-26 March 2010, New Cavendish Campus
> Registration form

China’s Soft Power, a Conference organised by the China Media Centre, 8-9 April 2010, Regent Campus, 309 Regent Street

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

Global Media and the ‘War on Terror’: an international conference
13 -14 September 2010 

News

CAMRI Professor awarded prize for Best Paper on Media and Communications Policy

At 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

Creating Preschool Television: A Story of Commerce, Creativity and Curriculum by Jeanette Steemers

First chapter and further details


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

Co-edited by Katharina Nötzold and Andrew Mullen, including an interview to Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky by Andrew Mullen, articles by Alison Edgley, Jeffery Klaehn, Des Freedman, Peter A. Thompson, Florian Zollmann, Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman, Matthew Alford, and a book review by Lawrie Hallett.

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