CRCC welcomes visiting professor Dr Innocent E. Chiluwa

Professor Chiluwa will be visiting Loughborough University for the next six months and collaborating with members of the Language Social Interaction and Political Communication themes at the CRCC.  Innocent Chiluwa is a Professor in Applied Linguistics (Discourse Studies), Media & Communication. He was the head of the Department of Languages (and later) Dean of the […]

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CRCC member Jilly Kay speaks at the international symposium ‘Log Out!’ at the University of Toronto

Jilly Kay – the co-lead of our Media, Memory and History theme and Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media at Loughborough University – was an invited speaker at the University of Toronto on March 6th, 2024. The symposium, hosted by the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (ICCIT), was entitled ‘Log Out! The Technopolitics […]

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Visual depictions of the Rohingya crisis: Exodus, cultural othering, genocidal aggression—and audience aversion to graphic portrayals  

Talk by Professor Erik Bucy – US-UK Fulbright Scholar in Communication and Media, Loughborough University  Respondent, Dr Ronan Lee – Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, Loughborough University London  26th March 2024, at 2-4pm, in U1.22 Brockington Building at Loughborough University and on MS Teams  The Centre for Research in Communication and Culture (CRCC) and the […]

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CRCC Member Natalie-Anne Hall publishes book on Brexit, Facebook, and Transnational Right-Wing Populism

The 2016 “Brexit” referendum heralded an age in which disinformation and divisive messaging spread on social media play a significant role in politics. The world is still grappling with how to deal with the impact of this on the health of democracy and society. While the majority of research in this area has focused on […]

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Europe Votes: CRCC hosted a high-profile event on European Elections

The CRCC’s Political Communication strand recently hosted a two-day event at the Houses of Parliament and Loughborough London. The event formed part of a European Union funded European Elections Monitoring Center (EEMC) project devoted to creating the first ever continental wide archive of electoral advertising covering all 28 member states and currently holding nearly 15000 […]

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Sportswashing: Manging state relations and reputations through associations with sport  

A one-day symposium hosted by the Centre for Research in Communication & Culture, Loughborough University   Wednesday 29th May, 2024: 0900-1700  Loughborough University, London Campus, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, The Broadcast Centre Here East, Lesney Ave, London E20 3BS  Sportswashing is a neologism that has become a mainstay of Western media reporting in the last few […]

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CRCC Member Awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant for studying social care in the UK

Dr. Anthony Kevins, a CRCC member and Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at Loughborough University, has been awarded a prestigious British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant to study social care preferences in the UK. Dr. Naomi Lightman, Associate Professor of Sociology at Toronto Metropolitan University, is the co-investigator on the project.  Ageing populations, limited infrastructure […]

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CRCC scholar publishes book “Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire-A Critical History”

While there is a wealth of studies that attempted to de-westernise and de-colonise media and communication studies, their impact on historical thinking and writing has been minimal. However, the core of West-centrism is historical; its normative assumptions rely on a history that is written with the Global South in absentia. To overcome the West-centric imperial […]

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CRCC supports research to improve evidence-gathering when reporting domestic and sexual violence to the police

In our latest post, Dr Emma Richardson discusses how research using conversation analysis (CA) helps us understand ‘evidential difficulties’ in crime reporting of gender-based violence. According to official data, the impact of violence against women and girls in the UK and beyond is pervasive. For example, in the year ending March 2020, 78% of investigations […]

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