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PhD Alumni

A list of our PhD alumni, their research areas and contact details.

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Dr Husseina Ahmed

Thesis: Northern Nigerian women in and beyond the Boko Haram conflict: complexities of media, communications, and gendered agency (2024)

Dr Tamar Ashuri

Thesis: The global vs. the national shared vs. cosmopolitan memory: the case of co-produced television documentaries (2004)

Dr Gregory Asmolov

Thesis: Subject, crowd and the governance of activity: The role of digital tools in emergency response (2016)

Dr Jessica Baines

Thesis: Democratising print? The field and practices of radical and community printshops in Britain 1968-98 (2016)

Dr Nikola Belakova

Thesis: Defamation, Privacy and Freedom of Expression. A Socio-Legal Study of the Interplay between the Slovak Personality/Goodwill Protection Regime and Journalism, 1996-2016 (2019)

Dr Amal Benaissa

Thesis: Blog.Gov: winning the digital hearts & minds - an examination of government blogging as a foreign policy communication tool in the digital era (2012)

Dr Nicholas Benequista

Thesis: The moral dilemmas of journalism in Kenya's politics of belonging (2016)

Dr Evengelia Berdou

Thesis: Managing the bazaar: Commercialization and peripheral participation in mature, community-led free/open source software projects (2007)

Dr David Brake

Thesis: 'As if nobody's reading'?: The imagined audience and  socio-technical biases in personal blogging practice in the UK (2009)

Dr Niall Brennan

Thesis: The Brazilian television mini-series: Representing the culture, values and identity of a nation (2012)

Dr Sally Broughton Micova

Thesis: Small and resistant: Europeanization in media governance in Slovenia and Macedonia (2013)

Dr Fabien Cante

Thesis: Living together in the post-conflict city: Radio and the re-making of place in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (2017)

Dr Roggang Chen

Thesis: 'Protecting our best brother China': fangirls, youth political participation and nationalism in contemporary China (2023)

Dr Vanessa Ciccone

Thesis: The agile self: how cultural imperatives in the software sector inform subjectivity (2021)

Dr Keren Darmon

Thesis: Representing SlutWalk London in mass and social media: Negotiating feminist and postfeminist sensibilities (2017)

Dr Ranjana Das

Thesis: Interpretation: From audiences to users (2011)

Dr Benjamin De la Pava

Thesis: Analyses of contemporary North American romantic films and the meanings brought to and made from them by socially and economically diverse audiences in London (2017)

Dr Brooks DeCillia

Thesis: The politicians, the press and the people: The contested dynamic of framing Canada’s Military Mission in Afghanistan (2017)

Dr Alex Free

Thesis: Workplace selves, interactive service work and outsourcing: Labour in Kenya’s call centres (2015)

Dr Iginio Gagliardone

Thesis: Development and destabilisation: The selective adoption of ICTs in semi-authoritarian regimes (2010)

Dr Ruth Garland

Thesis: Between media and politics: Can government press officers hold the line in the age of 'political spin'? The case of the UK since 1997 (2017)

Dr Marina Gerner

Thesis: Journalists with cosmopolitan skills: how do journalists at the New Yorker and Economist Group perceive themselves, their audience and their work in the age of globalisation? (2015)

Dr Kate Gilchrist

Thesis: Singledom and feminine subjectivity: fantasy, contemporary popular culture and lived experience (2021)

Dr Zoe Glatt

Thesis: The platformised creative worker: an ethnographic study of precarity and inequality in the London influencer industry (2017-2022) (2023)

Dr Maxmillian Hanska-Ahy

Thesis: Public Communication as ideal and practice: Definitions of the common good in Persian-language transnational newswork (2013)

Dr Ellen Helsper

Thesis: Internet use by teenagers (2007) 

Dr Kathryn Claire Higgins

Thesis: Realness, wrongness, justice exploring criminalization as a mediated politics of vulnerability (2022)

Dr Gyorgyi Horvath

Thesis: The mediation of suffering: domestic violence and the role of the Hungarian media as an agent for social change (2019)

Dr Yukie Hory 

Thesis: Social networks in the network society: New dynamics of networking among women's organizations in Asia (2010)

Dr Anita Howarth

Thesis: Discursive intersections of newspapers and policy elites: A case study of genetically modified food in Britain, 1996-2000 (2012)

Dr Yanning Huang

Thesis: The politics of online wordplay: on the ambivalences of Chinese internet discourse (2019)

Dr Indrek Ibrus

Thesis: Evolutionary dynamics of the media forms in the open mobile web (2010)

Dr Mehita Iqani

Thesis: Consumer magazine covers in the public realm (2009) 

Dr César Jiménez-Martínez

Thesis: Nationhood, Visibility and the Media: The Struggles for and over the Image of Brazil during the June 2013 Demonstrations (2017) 

Dr Helene Johansen

Thesis: Re-conceptualising party-centred politics in terms of market: A relationship marketing approach (2009)

Dr Jaewon Joo

Thesis: The discursive construction of discrimination: The representation of ethnic diversity in the Korean public service broadcasting news (2012)

Dr Daniel Kardefelt Winther

Thesis: Excessive internet use: Fascination or compulsion? (2014)

Dr Hao Wu

Thesis: (Suffering) for the family: the mediated structure of feeling among the rural elderly in post-reform China (2022)

Dr Anthony Kelly

Thesis: Voices of outrage: online partisan media, user-generated news commentary, and the contested boundaries of American conservatism during the 2016 US presidential election (2021)

Dr Fatma Khan

Thesis: The politics of (un)feeling: violence, affect, and minoritised citizenship (2024)

Dr Paula Kiel 

Thesis: The rise and fall of online immortality services and the mediation of mortality in the digital age (2023)

Dr Angelos Kissas

Thesis: Ideology in the age of mediatized politics: A study on the aesthetics and politics of charisma, ordinariness, and spectacle from the 2015 election advertising campaigns in the UK and Greece (2018)

Dr Joelle Kivits

Thesis: Health information on the internet: Researching information seekers and practices in a mediated health context (2005) 

Dr Daniel Knapp

Thesis: The social construction of computational surveillance: Reclaiming agency in a computed world (2016)

Dr Jessica Kong

Thesis: Soundscapes of feminist protests in London: collective identity construction through sonic resonance (2021)

Dr Afroditi-Maria Koulaxi

Thesis: Citizen identity through the encounter: a kaleidoscopic view of Athenians’ encounters with migrants in a city of compounded crises (2022)

Dr Maria Kyriakidou

Thesis: Watching the pain of others: audience discourses of distant suffering in Greece (2011)

Dr Ana Ines Langer

Thesis: The case of Tony Blair in historical perspective (2006)

Dr Sebastián Lehuedé

Thesis: Governing Data in Modernity/Coloniality: Astronomy Data in the Atacama Desert and the Struggle for Collective Autonomy (2021) 

Dr Frederik Lesage

Thesis: Networks for art work: An analysis of artistic creative engagements with new media standards (2009)

Dr Winifed Li

Thesis: The Emotional Labor of Sexual Violence Survivors in Mainstream Media: A Study via Auto-Ethonography and Interviews (2024)

Dr Zhongwei Li

Thesis: Cut-out: music, profanity, and subcultural politics in 1990s China (2019)

Dr Songyin Liu

Thesis: Performative authenticity: Chinese transgender people’s digital gender practices (2023)

Dr Ludmila Lupinacci

Thesis: Live, here and now: experiences of immediate connection through habitual social media (2022)

Dr George Maier 

Thesis: Valued capital(s) and devalued labour in London’s “Gig Economy” (2021)

 

 

Dr Dina Matar

Thesis: News, memory and identity: The Palestinians in Britain (2005)

Dr Patrick McCurdy

Thesis: 'I predict a riot' - mediation and political contention: Dissent!'s media practices at the 2005 Gleneagles G8 summit (2009)

Dr João Carlos Magalhães

Thesis: Civic voice and imaginaries of algorithmic visibility during the Brazilian political crisis (2019)

Dr Eleonora Maria Mazzoli 

ThesisThe politics of content prioritisation online governing prominence and discoverability on digital media platforms (2023)

Dr Shani Orgad

Thesis: The use of the internet in the lives of women with breast cancer: Narrating and storytelling online and offline (2003)

Dr Svenja Ottovordemgentschenfelde 

Thesis: Beyond 140 characters: The underlying forces that shape political journalists' Twitter engagement (2018)

Dr Vaios Papanagnou

Thesis:Social media and the transformation of journalism. (2021)

Dr Josephine Perry

Thesis: Whose news: Who is the political gatekeeper in the early 21st century? (2007)

Dr Gianfranco Polizzi

Thesis: Critical digital literacy and civic, political participation: IT/media specialists’ and activists’ utopian/dystopian imaginaries of the Internet (2020)

Dr Miriam Rahali

ThesisOn the genealogy of the American millennial ideal: A celebrity case study of neoliberal feminism in the 21st century (2021)

Dr Ulla Rannikko

Thesis: Going beyond the mainstream? An international study on online citizen journalism (2010)

Dr Cornelia Reyes Acosta

Thesis: The implications of using social network sites (SNS) on the social capital of European youth (2016) 

Dr Philippe Ross

Thesis: Mediation in new media production: Representation and involvement of audiences/users at NESTA Futurelab (2006)

Dr Marco Scalvini

Thesis: Muslims must embrace our values: A critical analysis of the debate on Muslim integration in France, Germany, and the UK (2013)

Dr Rob Sharp

Thesis: Cultural citizenship and participatory creative practice as alternative media (2022)

Dr Michael Skey

Thesis: Flagging nations? Examining discourses of national identity in contemporary England (2008)

Dr Anri Van der Spuy

Thesis: Unveiling digital development risks: the uncertain outcomes of promoting digital technologies in the guise of development (2023)

Dr Tijana Stolic

Thesis: Media depictions of trafficked women (2020)

Dr Richard Stupart

Thesis: Bearing witness: The practice and discourse of journalist witnessing in South Sudan (2020)

Dr Zoetanya Sujon 

Thesis: Technological citizenship? Questioning new media, cultural politics and emergent citizen territories (2010)

Dr Vivi Theodoropoulou

Thesis: The introduction of digital television in the UK: A study of its early audience (2012) 

Dr Nancy Thumim

Thesis: Mediating self-representations: Tensions surrounding 'ordinary' participation in public sector projects (2007)

Dr Asha Titus

Thesis: Datafication of government: mapping data-driven practices in social service delivery (2023)

Dr Sebastian Ureta Icaza

Thesis: Machines for living in (2006)

Dr Shenja van der Graaf

Thesis: Designing for mod development: User creativity as product development strategy on the firm-hosted 3D software platform (2009)

Dr Yinhan Wang

Thesis: "Photographing myself into being". Structure, agency and identity in Taiwanese adolescent girls' self-representation online (2013)

Dr Hao Wu

Thesis: Mediated structure of feeling: An ethnography on the rural elderly’s emotional world in post-reform China (2022)

Dr Jun Yu

Thesis: Social solidarity in the age of social media and algorithmic communication (2020)

Dr Ssu-Han Yu

Thesis: Mediating democracy: the generations of soft authoritarianism and democratic consolidation in Taiwan  (2022)

Dr Rafal Zaborowski

Thesis: Audible audiences: Engaging with music in Japan (2015)

Dr Hong Zhang

Thesis: The globalisation of Chinese television: Internationalisation, transnationalisaton and renationalisation (2009)

Dr Floyd Zhou

Thesis: Second-generation factory Nongmingong’s use of ICTs in Post-Mao China (2020)

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