Previous Visiting Speaker Seminars
January- June 2012
Ralph Schroeder (Oxford Internet Institute): Digital Transformations of Research: How distributed collaboration is changing the sciences and humanities
Mirca Madianou: Mediating migration: polymedia and transnational family communication
Anna Claydon: The Detective and his Nemesis: Mr Monk and the case of the Neurotic Expert
Vincent Campbell: Citizen Journalism and the Big Society
Farida Vis: Policing the crisis communication: reading the riots on Twitter and beyond
Tracy Simmons and Palitha Edirisingha (Beyond Distance Research Alliance): Participatory Cultures: A Pilot Study on HE Students Digital Literacy
November 2010 - December 2011
Dr Henrik Ornebring, (Department of Politics and International Relations, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford): Media and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe
Professor Brigitte Nerlich, (Nottingham University): Moderation: Impossible on Science, Media and Expertise
Professor Peter King, (School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester): Newspaper reporting of crime and its impact in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century London
Dr Simon Faulkner, Manchester Metropolitan University: In Bilin, we are banging, we are screaming': Thoughts on protest, the media, and the Israeli occupation
Dr Ruth Page (School of English, University of Leicester): Celebrity Stories in Twitter
Dr Maura Conway (MA Programme Director, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University): Violent Online Radicalisation: Weighing the Role of the Internet in Contemporary Terrorism
Dr Cristina Archetti (Lecturer in Politics and Media, University of Salford): The impact of advances in communication technologies on the practice of foreign diplomats in London
Dr Normaliza Abd Rahim (Department of Media and Communication Visiting Research Fellow from Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication Universiti Putra Malaysia): Awareness Raising through Multiracial Media Programs in Malaysia
Laura Dudulich and -att Thomas Wall (Dept of Political Science University of Amsterdam): Cyberspace oddity: Candidate and Parties' campaigns online in the Republic of Ireland'
