The contemporary world is characterised by constant change, with increased levels of political upheaval, economic uncertainty and the continual threat of environmental catastrophe.  What is the role of Media, Communication and Cultural Studies in this uncertain world?  How does it shape our perceptions? How does it influence power dynamics? Why is it so vital? What role will it play in shaping our future?

 
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Mediated habits: images, networked affect and social change

Public art, affect, and radical negativity: the wall of daydreaming and man’s inhumanity to man

Cinema of social recuperation: Xenophobic violence and migrant subjectivity in contemporary South Africa

Feminist Review

Dementia, care and time in post-war Japan: The Twilight Years, Memories of Tomorrow and Pecoross’ Mother and Her Days

Colluding with neo-liberalism: post-feminist subjectivities, whiteness and expressions of entitlement

American Journal of Cultural Sociology

The battle over meaning: Digitally mediated processes of cultural trauma and repair in the wake of hurricane Katrina

The meaning of a game: Stereotypes, video game commentary and color-blind racism

Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society

Of Suture and Signifier in Michael Haneke's Caché (2005)

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