PG/ECR Workshop on Methodologies
with Prof Nick Couldry
Monday 15 February 2010, 12 noon – 4pm
University of Technology, Sydney

The event will start with an informal workshop exchanging ideas on research methodologies and discussing the various challenges of researching the huge range of things people now do with and through media. The suggested reading is Nick Couldry (2004) ‘Theorising Media as Practice’, Social Semiotics 14(2). This will be followed by a sessions of informal research mentoring based on participants’ suggested questions and responses to Prof Couldry’s work.

Professor 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 (www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/global-media-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.

Colloquium booklet