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Khan, Fatma (2024) The politics of (un)feeling: violence, affect, and minoritised citizenship. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Li, Winnie M. (2024) The emotional labor of sexual violence survivors in mainstream media: a study via auto-ethnography and interviews. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ahmed, Husseina U. (2024) Northern Nigerian women in and beyond the Boko Haram conflict: complexities of media, communications, and gendered agency. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Van der Spuy, Anri (2023) Unveiling digital development risks: the uncertain outcomes of promoting digital technologies in the guise of development. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kiel, Paula (2023) The rise and fall of online immortality services and the mediation of mortality in the digital age. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Titus, Asha Susan (2023) Datafication of government: mapping data-driven practices in social service delivery. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Liu, Songyin (2023) Performative authenticity: Chinese transgender people’s digital gender practices. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Chen, Ronggang (2023) 'Protecting our best brother China': fangirls, youth political participation and nationalism in contemporary China. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Glatt, Zoë (2023) The platformised creative worker: an ethnographic study of precarity and inequality in the London influencer industry (2017-2022). PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mazzoli, Eleonora Maria (2023) The politics of content prioritisation online governing prominence and discoverability on digital media platforms. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Yu, Ssu-Han (2022) Mediating democracy: the generations of soft authoritarianism and democratic consolidation in Taiwan. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Koulaxi, Afroditi-Maria (2022) Citizen identity through the encounter: a kaleidoscopic view of Athenians’ encounters with migrants in a city of compounded crises. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lupinacci, Ludmila (2022) Live, here and now: experiences of immediate connection through habitual social media. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Sharp, Robert James Leon (2022) ‘Performative refugeeness’: voice, recognition, and participation in creative mediation. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Higgins, Kathryn Claire (2022) Realness, wrongness, justice exploring criminalization as a mediated politics of vulnerability. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Wu, Hao (2022) (Suffering) for the family: the mediated structure of feeling among the rural elderly in post-reform China. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ciccone, Vanessa (2021) The agile self: how cultural imperatives in the software sector inform subjectivity. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kong, Fuk Yin Jessica (2021) Soundscapes of feminist protests in London: collective identity construction through sonic resonance. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Rahali, Miriam A. (2021) On the genealogy of the American millennial ideal: a celebrity case study of neoliberal feminism in the 21st century. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Muñoz-González, Rodrigo (2021) Engaging with nostalgia: reception, social imaginaries, and young audiences. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lehuedé, Sebastián (2021) Governing data in modernity/coloniality: astronomy data in the Atacama Desert and the struggle for collective autonomy. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gilchrist, Kate Rosalind (2020) Singledom and feminine subjectivity: fantasy, contemporary popular culture and lived experience. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kelly, Anthony Patrick (2020) Voices of outrage: online partisan media, user-generated news commentary, and the contested boundaries of American conservatism during the 2016 US presidential election. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Papanagnou, Vaios (2020) The digital newsroom: social media and journalistic practice in The Guardian. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Maier, George Edward (2020) Valued capital(s) and devalued labour in London’s "gig economy". PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Smirnova, Svetlana (2020) What’s in a number? A multimethod study of self-quantification’s role in shaping selfhood. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Stupart, Richard (2020) Bearing witness: practices of journalistic witnessing in South Sudan. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Polizzi, Gianfranco (2020) Digital literacy in theory and practice: learning from how experts and advocates engage in civic life. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Bhat, Ramnath (2020) The politics of internet infrastructure: communication policy, governmentality and subjectivation in Chhattisgarh, India. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Wang, Ziyan (2020) Investigating the cultural practice of migrant workers in China: ideology, collective identity and resistance. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Zhou, Yang (2020) Nongmingong going online: an ethnography of the mediated work and life experience of the Chinese working-class in ‘digital China’. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Yu, Junyoung (2020) Social solidarity in the age of social media and algorithmic communication. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Stolic, Tijana (2019) Trafficked women in the media: discursive constructions of trafficked women in three media genres. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Li, Zhongwei (2019) Cut-out: music, profanity, and subcultural politics in 1990s China. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Magalhães, João Carlos Vieira (2019) Voice through silence algorithmic visibility, ordinary civic voices and bottom-up authoritarianism in the Brazilian crisis. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Zhu, Xiaoxi (2019) A neoliberalizing Chinese cinema: political economy of the Chinese film industry in post-WTO China. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Horvath, Gyorgyi (2018) Making domestic violence. The discursive emergence of domestic violence in the Hungarian media, 2002-2013. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Belakova, Nikola (2018) Defamation, privacy and freedom of expression. A socio-legal study of the interplay between the Slovak personality/goodwill protection regime and journalism, 1996- 2016. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Cante, Fabien (2018) Living together in the post-conflict city: radio and the re-Making of place in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Huang, Yanning (2018) The politics of online wordplay: on the ambivalences of Chinese internet discourse. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kissas, Angelos (2018) Ideology in the age of mediatized politics: a study on the aesthetics and politics of charisma, ordinariness, and spectacle from the 2015 election advertising campaigns in the UK and Greece. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

DeCillia, C. Brooks (2017) The politicians, the press and the people: the contested dynamic of framing Canada’s military mission in Afghanistan. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Darmon, Keren (2017) Representing SlutWalk London in mass and social media: negotiating feminist and postfeminist sensibilities. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ottovordemgentschenfelde, Svenja (2017) The story behind the tweet: factors that shape political journalists’ engagement with Twitter. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Jiménez-Martínez, César (2017) Nationhood, visibility and the media: the struggles for and over the image of Brazil during the June 2013 demonstrations. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

de la Pava Velez, Benjamin (2017) Celluloid love: audiences and representations of romantic love in late capitalism. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Knapp, Daniel (2016) The social construction of computational surveillance: reclaiming agency in a computed world. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Baines, Jessica (2016) Democratising print? The field and practices of radical and community printshops in Britain 1968-98. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Zurn, Meagan (2016) Framing the financial crisis: television news, civic discussions, and maintaining consent in a time of crisis. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Asmolov, Gregory (2016) Subject, crowd and the governance of activity: the role of digital tools in emergency response. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Benequista, Nicholas (2016) The moral dilemmas of journalism in Kenya’s politics of belonging. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Masrani, Rahoul (2016) The reel city: London, symbolic power and cinema. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Garland, Ruth (2016) Between media and politics: can government press officers hold the line in the age of ‘political spin’? The case of the UK after 1997. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Reyes Acosta, Cornelia (2016) Digitally mediated social ties and achieving recognition in the field of creative and cultural production: unravelling the online social networking mystery. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gerner, Marina (2015) Journalists with cosmopolitan skills: how do journalists at the New Yorker and Economist Group perceive themselves, their audience and their work in the age of globalisation? PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Zaborowski, Rafal (2015) Audible audiences: engaging with music in Japan. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Free, Alex (2015) Workplace selves, interactive service work and outsourcing: labour in Kenya’s call centres. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Morse, Tal (2014) Post mortem: death-related media rituals. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kardefelt Winther, Daniel (2014) Excessive internet use: fascination or compulsion? PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Vaca Baqueiro, Maira (2014) Do old habits die hard? Change and continuity in the political-media complex at the outset of the Mexican democracy. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Pavez-Andonaegui, Maria (2014) The Latinas' internet: meanings and practices in the everyday lives of disadvantaged migrant women in London. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Blackett, Nina Jane (2013) Mediated transparency: truth, truthfulness, and rightness in digital healthcare discourse. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Bigalke, Nina (2013) Al Jazeera English: margins of difference in international English-language news broadcasting. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Jacob, May (2013) Apna Britain: negotiating identity through television consumption among British Pakistani Muslim women in Bradford. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Schimmel, Noam (2013) Presidential rhetoric justifying healthcare reform: continuity, change & the contested American moral order and social imaginary from Truman to Obama. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Broughton Micova, Sarah E. (Sally) (2013) Small and resistant: Europeanization in media governance in Slovenia and Macedonia. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Scalvini, Marco (2013) Muslims must embrace our values: a critical analysis of the debate on Muslim integration in France, Germany, and the UK. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Hänska-Ahy, Maximillian (2012) Public communication as ideal and practice: Definitions of the common good in Persian-language transnational newswork. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Knoll, Eva (2012) The public value notion in UK public service broadcasting: an analysis of the ideological justification of public service broadcasting in the context of evolving media policy paradigms. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Brennan, Niall (2012) The Brazilian television mini-series: representing the culture, values and identity of a nation. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Wang, Yin-Han (2012) Taiwanese girls’ self-portraiture on a social networking site. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Howarth, Anita (2012) Discursive intersections of newspapers and policy elites: a case study of genetically modified food in Britain, 1996-2000. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Joo, Jaewon (2012) The discursive construction of discrimination: the representation of ethnic diversity in the Korean public service broadcasting news. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Theodoropoulou, Paraskevi-Vivi (2011) The introduction of digital television in the UK: a study of its early audience. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Elsayed, Heba (2011) A tale of three cities?: mediated imagination, class and the many young cosmopolitans of Cairo. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Benaissa, Amal (2011) BLOG.GOV: winning digital hearts and minds?: professionalization, personalization and ideology in foreign policy communication. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Das, Ranjana (2011) Interpretation: from audiences to user. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kyriakidou, Maria (2011) Watching the pain of others: audience discourses of distant suffering in Greece. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Rannikko, Ulla J. (2010) Going beyond the mainstream?: online participatory journalism as a mode of civic engagement. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gagliardone, Iginio (2010) Development and destabilization. The selective adoption of ICTs in Ethiopia. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ibrus, Indrek (2010) Evolutionary dynamics of new media forms: the case of the open mobile web. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Sujon, Zoetanya (2010) New technologies and the idea of citizenship: patterns of public participation in two cases. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Van Couvering, Elizabeth (2010) Search engine bias: the structuration of traffic on the World-Wide Web. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Brake, David R. (2009) ‘As if nobody’s reading’?: the imagined audience and socio-technical biases in personal blogging practice in the UK. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

McCurdy, Patrick (2009) ‘I Predict a Riot’ – mediation and political contention: Dissent!’s media practices at the 2005 Gleneagles G8 Summit. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Iqani, Mehitabel (2009) Consumer magazine covers in the public realm. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Van Der Graaf, Shenja (2009) Designing for mod development: user creativity as product development strategy on the firm-hosted 3D software platform. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lesage, Frederik (2009) Networks for art work: an analysis of artistic creative engagements with new media standards. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Johansen, Helene P.M (2009) Re-conceptualising party-centred politics in terms of "market." A relationship marketing approach. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Skey, Michael (2008) Flagging nations? Exploring the banality of national discourse through a study of everyday talk and media texts in England. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Berdou, Evangelia (2007) Managing the bazaar: commercialization and peripheral participation in mature, community-led free/open source software projects. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Helsper, Ellen (2007) Internet use by teenagers: social inclusion, self-confidence and group identity. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Thumim, Nancy (2007) Mediating self-representations: tensions surrounding 'ordinary' participation in public sector projects. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Perry, Josephine Rosa (2007) Whose news: Who is the political gatekeeper in the early 21st century. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ureta Icaza, Sebastian (2006) Machines for living in: communication technologies and everyday life in times of urban transformation. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ross, Philippe (2005) Mediation in new media production: representation and involvement of audiences/users at NESTA Futurelab. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kivits, Joelle M. P (2005) Health information on the internet: Researching information seekers and practices in a mediated health context. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Orgad, Shani (2003) The use of the internet in the lives of women with breast cancer: narrating and storytelling online and offline. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Takahashi, Toshie (2002) Media, audience activity and everyday life: the case of Japanese engagement with media and ICT. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Madianou, Maria-Mirca (2002) Mediating the nation: news, audiences and identities in contemporary Greece. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Silverstone, Roger (1980) The television message as social object: a comparative study of the structure and content of television programmes in Britain. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Schlesinger, Philip (1975) The social organisation of news production: a case study of BBC radio and television news. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Downing, John D. H. (1974) Some aspects of the presentation of industrial relations and race relations in some major British news media. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.