PhD Researchers
Current PhD Researchers in the Department of Media and Communications
Alex Birintzis
Project: 'Reclaiming Greekness and resolving cognitive dissonance': queer responses to ethno-religious constructions of Greek national identity in public discourse
Vashan Brown
Project: Profit, Power and the News Industry: Analysing News Production Culture in Jamaica
Lewis Bush
Project: The implications of automation and artificial intelligence for visual journalism
Joe-Ann Chavry
Project: (Re)constructing a black creole female subjectivity through online self-representation in Mauritius.
Yu Chen
Project: PhD in Media and Communications and Journalism in China
Louise Marie Hurel Silva Dias
Project: Shifting Infrastructures of Power: repurposing knowledge and configuring maintenance in cybersecurity governance
Nan Ding
Project: An inquiry into the entanglement between algorithms and urban society: The case of local life information platforms in China
Min Gao
Project: Telephone Girls Moving Towards Innovation: Revisiting the Socialist Gendered Technoculture in Maoist China (1949-1960)
Abel Guerra
Project: Platformisation from the South: mapping the infrastructures, epistemologies and imaginations of Uber’s infiltration in Brazil
Mengyun He
Project: Digital Body Production of Underprivileged Women in Contemporary China
Johanne Lahlum Hortman
Project: Subjectivity and Space: an affective cartography of translocal subjectivities
Runze Hu
Project:The Cultural Dynamics and Use of Immersive Virtual Environment Technologies in Users' Everyday Life
Zichen (Jess) Hu
Project: Dynamic networks and emergent publics of Covid-19 vaccine conspiracy theories: starting from (not just fringe) communities on 4chan, 8kun and Reddit
Solomon Katachie
Project: Social-Mediated Afrobeats Culture and Identity Construction/Expression among Diasporan and Homeland West African Youth
Asher Kessler
Project: Space, Time & Systems: An Intellectual History of Facebook/Meta, 2004-2021
Ruhi Khan
Project: Feminism 3.0 and the Black Box Society: Encountering gendered violence in the age of artificial intelligence
Hatty Liu
Project: Reporting Dystopia: Techno-Orientalism and Speculative Fiction in Representations of China in Journalism
Saumyadeep Mandal
Project: Screens of Othering, Screens of Resistance: Caste, Cinema, Audiences, and Affect
Kristeena Monteith
Project: Digital inequalities reflected and contested in Caribbean feminists online organising
Limichi Okamoto
Project: To "Go Up and Down Together": Participants and Non-Participants’ Legitimisation of Violence as Active Citizenship
Diana Olaleye
Project: Producing and Consuming Black Women’s Self-Help in Britain
Anna Osterberg
Project: Platforms Against the System: Historicising Technologies of Transparency and Transgression
Sindhoora Pemmaraju
Project: South Korean Masculinity and Victimhood
Shivani Rao
Project: Optimisation Within and Without: Work and Subjectivity in the Smart City
Stephanie Rodriguez
Project: Filipino American Youth Civic Becoming and Instagram Stories
Subhajit Sikder
Project: The shaping of hegemonic masculine culture on the Indian public sphere through the triadic relationship between visual ephemeras, content creators and ordinary user-consumer-audiences.
Ziwei Tang
Project: Imagined Intimacy in Chinese celebrity fandoms
David Threlfall
Project: Tracing the evolution of "rhetorical political economy" in major political party rhetoric in the UK and USA, 1945-2024: a multi-method comparative conceptual and ideological analysis
Melissa Vincent
Project: Amplifying the Stakes of "Data Loss Grief": The Emotional and Material Impact on Users' Personal Information Sovereignty Following Digital Platform and ICT Infrastructure Collapse
Anran Wang
Project: The Resilience of Local Herbal Knowledge in a Mediated Society
Hao Wang
Project: Time starts: the politics of China speed and the embodied experience of working temporalities
Lili Wang
Project: The Floating Diaspora: Transnational Habitus of the Chinese Migrants
Cong Xu
Project: Exploring the Correlation between Motivational Drivers, Critical Digital Literacy, and Educational Outcomes in Digital Inequalities: A Case Study of Chinese Education