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We are delighted to welcome James Curran, Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London to give the inaugural Jeremy Tunstall Lecture in memory of Professor Jeremy Tunstall, one of the founding fathers of British sociology, media and journalism studies and Professor at City, University of London.
Jeremy Tunstall
Jeremy was highly respected across the University for his interdisciplinary literature that spanned many areas and eras in public culture. His publications include the seminal Journalists at Work in 1971 and latterly Media Occupations and Professions (2001), The Media Were American: Mass Media in Decline (2007), and BBC and Television Genres in Jeopardy (2015).
The Jeremy Tunstall Global Media Centre at City, established in his name, builds on Jeremy’s work with a focus on core elements of global media, communications, digital communications and policy.
James Curran
James has written or edited over 20 books about the media, some in collaboration with others. He began as a media historian, and his first book (with Jean Seaton) is Power Without Responsibility. Its eighth edition won the 2019 International Communication Association Fellows ‘classic book’ Award, being commended for setting ‘the gold standard in media history’ and shaping ‘the landscape of both scholarship and public deliberation’. James Curran still researches in media history - his most recent publication in this area being the co-authored Culture Wars (second edition, 2019).
However, his research interests broadened to include the study of contemporary journalism. This gave rise to Media and Power (translated into five languages) and Media and Democracy (translated into Arabic, Korean and Hungarian). In 2011, he was the first winner of the Edwin C. Baker Award for his work on media, markets and democracy bestowed by the Philosophy of Communication, Law and Policy Divisions of the International Communication Association. He has initiated or taken part in four comparative studies of journalism, funded by the ESRC and other research organisations.
The study of journalism led James Curran to investigate the internet. He is the Co-Director of the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre, supported by a £1.25 million grant, and the joint author of Misunderstanding the Internet, (translated into Chinese and Korean) whose second edition appeared in 2016.
His latest book (with Joanna Redden) is Understanding Media, Pelican, 2024.
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