Media@lse is a new group at the London School of Economics building on established expertise to create a major international programme in media, new media and society.

Role in the network                                                              Top

Media@lse will act as the co-ordinator of EMTEL.  This provides continuity with the first EMTEL Network (HCM 1995-8) which was co-ordinated from the University of Sussex by Professor Silverstone.  Media@lse will also take responsibility for WP5 Minority Media. 

The experience of co-ordinating the HCM Network has proved invaluable and arrangements have been made for the transfer of data bases and the web-site to the new Network. The managerial infrastructure can also be built upon in the new Network amongst partners who know and trust each other’s expertise.

Recent and relevant research                                             Top
 

• Participation as sub-contractor in the EU ACTS/FAIR (AC093) contributing expertise and research on the social and individual implications of ACTS

• Consultancy to the High level Panel of Experts on the Information Society (DGV)

• ESRC funded research on New Media and the Redefinition of the Local: Home School and Community (1996-1999)

• Representing the UK on COST 248 (1995-1998) and COST 269 (1999-2002), networks on future patterns of telecommunications use

• Comparative research on the European telephone user (1997-1998) (Telecom Italia); domestic Internet use (1998) (NCR Knowledge Lab); young people and new media (1995-2001) (Broadcasting Standards Council and BT (among others); and the individual and social aspects of cable television (1997) (Telewest Communications plc) .

• Joint authorship of a new book on Internet Economics (Die Internet-Okonomie, Springer Verlag, 1999)

• Research on minority media amongst Greek Cypriot and Jewish communities in the UK.

Structure and infrastructure                                               Top

• Media@lse has developed links with other Centres in the network, and has collaborated with many of them both in research (NCR) and in the publication of a new international journal, New Media and Society

• Media@lse  will build on its existing MSc in Media and Communications, with the launch in October 2000 of four new MSc programmes: in Global Media and Communications, New Media Information and Society, Media and Communication Regulation and Gender and the Media.  It has already established a Graduate Research Training Programme.

• Media@lse has developed links with other Centres in the network, and has collaborated with many of them both in research (NCR) and in the publication of a new international journal, New Media and Society

• Media@lse  will build on its existing MSc in Media and Communications, with the launch in October 2000 of four new MSc programmes: in Global Media and Communications, New Media Information and Society, Media and Communication Regulation and Gender and the Media.  It has already established a Graduate Research Training Programme.

Principal Researchers                                                           Top

1. Prof. Roger Silverstone 
2. Prof. Sonia Livingstone
3. Dr. Leslie Haddon 
4. Dr. Andrew Pratt