Balancing sharing culture and privacy: social media and the public self

In collaboration with Lisette Johnston, we asked 7 London residents to keep diaries tracking and reflecting on the things they shared on social media every day for a week.

The world’s first interactive cinema: Kinoautomat 1967 Prague

The city of Prague is beautiful and as part of the annual ECREA  (European Communication Research and Education Association) conference which brings me here, we got to visit the first interactive cinema. Kinoautomat Cinema was created in 1966-7, primarily by Radúz Činčera and his team in Czechoslovakia. The film, One Man and His House, was first shown in Montreal in 1967.

Laura Bates on the everyday sexism project, equality and diversity

Hurrah for Laura Bates! Laura, the founder of the everyday sexism project, contributing journalist to the Guardian, the Independent and author of two books, Girl Up! (2016) and Everyday Sexism (2015), spoke tonight at my alma mater and former workplace, LSE.

Some further reading on media deprivation exercises

Media helps us tell stories about our own lives in the details of other people’s stories. Media often helps us organize our time and in some ways, shape our rituals and relationships