The Department has a long-standing reputation for interesting and innovative research which puts different modes of media and communication under critical scrutiny, and explore their various roles in the mediation of political and social values and meanings.
Contexts of media production and contexts of media reception have been as important as textual analysis in many of its ventures as has been the wider notions of space and culture which nest mediated social practices.
The interest in contemporary communications is at the heart of our enterprise, though always with a focus on how media from print journalism, online and social communication to film, radio and TV deploy their affordances to communicative and social effect.
NEW: The University of Liverpool’s Digital Media & Society Institute (DMSI) brings together researchers from a range of disciplines to explore the role and impact of digital media in society today.
