Communication & Media at the University of Liverpool
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Dr. Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova just published a co-authored article with Dr. Dariya Orlova entitled “Between Precarity and the War: Journalists’ Safety in Ukraine” in the Ukrainian Analytical Digest
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January 30, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Dr. Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova just published a co-authored article with Dr. Dariya Orlova entitled “Between Precarity and the War: Journalists’ Safety in Ukraine” in the Ukrainian Analytical Digest
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Franziska Mertl, a recent Bachelor’s graduate in Communications and Busness studies, is profiled in the newest issue of PSA News!
January 30, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Franziska Mertl, a recent Bachelor’s graduate in Communications and Busness studies, is profiled in the newest issue of PSA News!
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Great to see it out. I'm very happy to have two chapters in this collection, one an interview and the other co-authored with Tommaso Milani
January 26, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Great to see it out. I'm very happy to have two chapters in this collection, one an interview and the other co-authored with Tommaso Milani
The “Online Early” version of Jamie Jelinski’s article “Face the Fax: Bureaucracy and the Unrealized Potential of Wirephoto at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police” has just been published by Grey Room. It will be included in the journal’s Spring 2026 issue (no. 103)!
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January 26, 2026 at 4:48 PM
The “Online Early” version of Jamie Jelinski’s article “Face the Fax: Bureaucracy and the Unrealized Potential of Wirephoto at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police” has just been published by Grey Room. It will be included in the journal’s Spring 2026 issue (no. 103)!
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@nessjay.bsky.social has a chapter, “Roger Corman in Ireland: The Cult Auteur, the Celtic Tiger, and the Nascent Irish Cult Cinema Canon,” in the new edited collection Global Cult Cinemas: Decolonizing Cult Film Studies
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Global Cult Cinemas
Global Cult Cinemas calls for a decolonisation of cult film studies. To date, discourses of cult cinema have predominantly focused upon Anglo-American cinema an…
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January 26, 2026 at 4:07 PM
@nessjay.bsky.social has a chapter, “Roger Corman in Ireland: The Cult Auteur, the Celtic Tiger, and the Nascent Irish Cult Cinema Canon,” in the new edited collection Global Cult Cinemas: Decolonizing Cult Film Studies
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@michellehenning.bsky.social was just interviewed by the New Books Network about her new book, A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, Empire
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Michelle Henning, "A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire" (U Chicago Press, 2026) - New Books Network
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January 26, 2026 at 4:05 PM
@michellehenning.bsky.social was just interviewed by the New Books Network about her new book, A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, Empire
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@craighaslop.bsky.social was on BBC Merseyside last week discussing the proposed social media ban for under 16s!
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Helen Jones - 20/01/2026 - BBC Sounds
News, great music, fun and the local issues that matter to you.
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January 26, 2026 at 4:03 PM
@craighaslop.bsky.social was on BBC Merseyside last week discussing the proposed social media ban for under 16s!
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The submission deadline for our conference is January 30! See post and website for further details!
A single-stream 2 day International Conference hosted by the Centre for Culture and Everyday Life, School of the Arts, University of Liverpool.
Full CFP at www.ccel.uk
Full CFP at www.ccel.uk
January 14, 2026 at 11:04 AM
The submission deadline for our conference is January 30! See post and website for further details!
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If you’d like to know more about my new book A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog and Empire, I am talking about it on the New Books Network @NewBooksNetwork podcast with Dr. Miranda Melcher here - newbooksnetwork.com/a-dirty-hist...
Michelle Henning, "A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire" (U Chicago Press, 2026) - New Books Network
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January 22, 2026 at 11:48 AM
If you’d like to know more about my new book A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog and Empire, I am talking about it on the New Books Network @NewBooksNetwork podcast with Dr. Miranda Melcher here - newbooksnetwork.com/a-dirty-hist...
Dr. Jordana Blejmar is giving a virtual talk entitled “Cold War Toys in South America” for the Royal Anthropological Institute on February 10. Registration via the link below! therai.org.uk/events/anthr...
January 16, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Dr. Jordana Blejmar is giving a virtual talk entitled “Cold War Toys in South America” for the Royal Anthropological Institute on February 10. Registration via the link below! therai.org.uk/events/anthr...
New book, Colour Concepts from a Linguistic and Literary Perspective, co-authored by the department’s Dr. Suzanne McClure and published by Cambridge University Press!
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Colour Concepts from a Linguistic and Literary Perspective
Cambridge Core - Cognition - Colour Concepts from a Linguistic and Literary Perspective
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January 14, 2026 at 12:24 PM
New book, Colour Concepts from a Linguistic and Literary Perspective, co-authored by the department’s Dr. Suzanne McClure and published by Cambridge University Press!
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The submission deadline for the @cceluliverpool.bsky.social’s conference is January 30! See post and website for further details!
A single-stream 2 day International Conference hosted by the Centre for Culture and Everyday Life, School of the Arts, University of Liverpool.
Full CFP at www.ccel.uk
Full CFP at www.ccel.uk
January 14, 2026 at 11:03 AM
The submission deadline for the @cceluliverpool.bsky.social’s conference is January 30! See post and website for further details!
PhD student Emily Horn’s first article, “A Hard Distinction: Applying the Science of Sex to Art History’s Pornography Problem,” was just published in in Debates in Aesthetics. debatesinaesthetics.org/debates-in-a...
Debates in Aesthetics, Vol. 20, No. 1 – Debates in Aesthetics
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January 13, 2026 at 7:45 PM
PhD student Emily Horn’s first article, “A Hard Distinction: Applying the Science of Sex to Art History’s Pornography Problem,” was just published in in Debates in Aesthetics. debatesinaesthetics.org/debates-in-a...
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They’ve arrived! It’s out!
January 7, 2026 at 8:08 PM
They’ve arrived! It’s out!
Jamie Jelinski is giving an online talk on February 5 via the Photography Network entitled “Not So Fast Fax: Wirephoto at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.” Join the Photography Network and register to attend at the link below. www.photographynetwork.net/news/not-so-...
January 12, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Jamie Jelinski is giving an online talk on February 5 via the Photography Network entitled “Not So Fast Fax: Wirephoto at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.” Join the Photography Network and register to attend at the link below. www.photographynetwork.net/news/not-so-...
Prof. Michelle Henning’s book, A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire, is now out! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
A Dirty History of Photography
An environmental history of chemical photography through the lens of its deep connections to empire and industry. Dependent on the extractive practices of fossil-fueled industrial capitalism, chemic...
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January 9, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Prof. Michelle Henning’s book, A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire, is now out! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
New chapter co-authored by Dr. Elena Musi!
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Developing corpora through data mining for qualitative argumentation r
In the networked society, a key challenge in argumentation research is the collection and selection of suitable corpora to investigate phenomena through
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January 8, 2026 at 8:15 AM
New chapter co-authored by Dr. Elena Musi!
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New paper in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations co-authored by @katiabalabanova.bsky.social
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Cutting through the noise: The legitimacy of the European Convention on Human Rights in the British press - Ekaterina Balabanova, Gemma Horton, 2025
This article presents the first systematic analysis of British press coverage regarding the legitimacy of the European Convention on Human Rights and European C...
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January 5, 2026 at 4:17 PM
New paper in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations co-authored by @katiabalabanova.bsky.social
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Brand new issue of Journal of Anthropological Films co-edited by Dr. Alyssa Grossman!
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Vol. 9 No. 02 (2025)
| Journal of Anthropological Films
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December 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Brand new issue of Journal of Anthropological Films co-edited by Dr. Alyssa Grossman!
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Professor Yannis Tzioumakis was on television again to speak about Netflix’s takeover of Warner Brothers, this time on ABC News Australia!
December 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Professor Yannis Tzioumakis was on television again to speak about Netflix’s takeover of Warner Brothers, this time on ABC News Australia!
Two new publications from Dr. Lyndon Way! One in the Journal of Language & Politics and another in the Encyclopedia of Political Communication
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Fighting authoritarian populism with populism in polarised Turkey | John Benjamins
Abstract
Globally, populism is on the rise. Studies demonstrate how populism is a ‘thin’ ideology that is articulated with
ideologies ranging from authoritarianism to its challenges. Here, we examine ...
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December 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Two new publications from Dr. Lyndon Way! One in the Journal of Language & Politics and another in the Encyclopedia of Political Communication
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Great conference coming up in June from our friends at @cceluliverpool.bsky.social
A single-stream 2 day International Conference hosted by the Centre for Culture and Everyday Life, School of the Arts, University of Liverpool.
Full CFP at www.ccel.uk
Full CFP at www.ccel.uk
December 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Great conference coming up in June from our friends at @cceluliverpool.bsky.social
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Numbers mean nothing now, but next up for our #AcademicAdvent is Dr Ricardo Ribeiro Ferreira, a @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellow from @commmedia.bsky.social, whose work explore how journalism can aid or resist authoritarianism www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...
December 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Numbers mean nothing now, but next up for our #AcademicAdvent is Dr Ricardo Ribeiro Ferreira, a @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellow from @commmedia.bsky.social, whose work explore how journalism can aid or resist authoritarianism www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...
The department’s Dr. Richard Stupart presented at a symposium today at the Annenberg Center at the University of Pennsylvania!
The first panel on witnessing is happening now 🚨! This morning's panelists include J. Siguru Wahutu, Richard Stupart, and Sandra Ristovska. #BeyondEndurance. @asc.upenn.edu
December 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The department’s Dr. Richard Stupart presented at a symposium today at the Annenberg Center at the University of Pennsylvania!
Our department’s Professor Yannis Tzioumakis discussed Netflix’s $72B takeover of Warner Bros. and HBO on BBC News today! www.liverpool.ac.uk/communicatio...
Professor Yannis Tzioumakis Discusses Netflix’s $72B Takeover of Warner Bros. and HBO on BBC News | Stories | Department of Communication and Media | University of Liverpool
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December 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Our department’s Professor Yannis Tzioumakis discussed Netflix’s $72B takeover of Warner Bros. and HBO on BBC News today! www.liverpool.ac.uk/communicatio...