Digital media and cultures

Our research in this area is leading on innovative ways to develop knowledge on how digital media are transforming people’s lives and the communities in which they live.

This cutting-edge work has focused on: participatory design and open data platforms; data literacy; cross-disciplinary approaches in digital methodologies, datamining and sentiment analysis; digital health communications and human information behaviour; and interactive media and cognition. Our approaches to digital communications research aim to address key global questions of social change influenced by the digital environment.

This approach is cut through by critical concerns for the migrant crisis, health information, gender politics, digital labour, democracy, international security and climate change. The vibrant debates around digital culture enables interdisciplinary working with researchers in other areas, notably research on early digital publishing.

Related staff

Dr Chiara Bernardi

Professor Steven Buchanan

Dr Victoria Esteves

Professor Adrian Hadland

Dr Steven Harkins

Professor Iain MacRury

Dr Simon Rowberry

Dr Greg Singh

Dr Polina Zioga

Related outputs

The complex information needs of disadvantaged young first-time mothers: insights into multiplicity of needs.

Buchanan S & Jardine C (2020) The complex information needs of disadvantaged young first-time mothers: insights into multiplicity of needs.. Journal of Documentation. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-07-2019-0142

The Death of Web 2.0: Ethics, Connectivity and Recognition in the Twenty-First Century

Singh G (2019) The Death of Web 2.0: Ethics, Connectivity and Recognition in the Twenty-First Century. Abingdon: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Death-of-Web-20-Ethics-Connectivity-and-Recognition-in-the-Twenty-First/Singh/p/book/9780415703802

The limits of Big Data for analyzing reading

Rowberry S (2019) The limits of Big Data for analyzing reading. Participations, 16 (1), pp. 237-257. http://www.participations.org/Volume%2016/Issue%201/12.pdf

Mobile phones and the news: How UK mainstream news broadcasting is stalling the video revolution

Hadland A, Borges Rey E & Cameron J (2019) Mobile phones and the news: How UK mainstream news broadcasting is stalling the video revolution. Convergence, 25 (3), pp. 428-448. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856517703964

Why is climate change still not top of the news agenda?

Harkins S (2019) Why is climate change still not top of the news agenda?. The Conversation. 19.09.2019. https://theconversation.com/why-is-climate-change-still-not-top-of-the-news-agenda-123800

Women and the digitally mediated revolution in the Middle East: Applying digital methods

Bernardi C (2018) Women and the digitally mediated revolution in the Middle East: Applying digital methods. London: Routledge.

Live Brain-Computer Cinema Performance: Performer and Audience Participation, Cognition and Emotional Engagement Using Multi-Brain BCI Interaction

Zioga P, Pollick F, Ma M, Chapman P & Stafanov K (2018) "Enheduanna - A Manifesto of Falling" Live Brain-Computer Cinema Performance: Performer and Audience Participation, Cognition and Emotional Engagement Using Multi-Brain BCI Interaction. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12, Art. No.: 191. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2018.00191