Current Projects and Themes
The Department of Media and Communication (DMC) is staffed by academics from a number of disciplines and backgrounds, including cultural studies, film and cinema, linguistics, political science, psychology, and sociology. The Department therefore actively embraces a multi-disciplinary orientation to research that includes critical and empirical analysis of media and communications, their structures, policy and legal frameworks, audiences and effects. Research at DMC is both theoretical and applied, designed to enhance theory and method and to feed into thinking about policy and commerce.
Current topics and themes
Current topics and themes (not an exhaustive list) in which staff have common and particular interests in relating to media are:
- Advertising and Consumerism
- Celebrity
- Child Audiences
- Crime, Justice and Security
- Disability
- Environment/Science (including climate change)
- Ethics/Regulation
- Health
- Media Audiences
- Memory
- Minority Groups
- News
- Politics
- Research Methods
- Young People's Use of the Media
