NICK COULDRY is Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London where he is Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy.  His interests include media power, ritual dimensions of media, audience research, media ethics, the methodology of cultural studies and voice.

He is the author or editor of eight books, including Media Rituals: A Critical Approach (Routledge 2003), and (with Sonia Livingstone and Tim Markham) Media Consumption and Public Engagement: Beyond the Presumption of Attention (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 with new paperback edition February 2010) and Media Events in a Global Age co-edited with Andreas Hepp and Friedrich Krotz (Routledge, 2009). His forthcoming book is Why Voice Matters: Culture and Politics After Neoliberalism (Sage, June 2010).

He has run doctoral workshops in Australia and Denmark and is a faculty member of Richard Sennett and Craig Calhoun’s NYLON doctoral network (http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nylon/membership.html)

Nick Couldry will be in Sydney from Monday 15 February – Thursday 18 February 2010. His program includes for The Listening Project includes the following:

Monday 15 Feb, 12 noon – 4.00pm:  PG Workshop – “Methodologies for Researching Media as Practice”

Tuesday 16 Feb, 9.00 – 5.00pm: Colloquium – Listening for Media Justice

Wednesday 17 Feb, 6.00 for 6.30pm: Public lecture, ‘Voice: Culture and politics beyond the horizon of neoliberalism’

Thursday 18 Feb, 10.30am – 12.30pm: ECR/MCR Workshop – “Methodologies for Researching Media as Practice”

Thursday 18 Feb, 2.00 – 4.00pm: Public lecture, “Towards an Ethics of Global Media — Truthfulness, Hospitality, Care”