Nick Couldry

Couldry is Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy at the University of London. Couldry’s research is concerned with media power and its ethical consequences; research interests include social and cultural theory, media rituals and anthropological approaches to media, media and democracy, and the methodology and history of cultural studies.

He is the author of The Place of Media Power: Pilgrims and witnesses of the Media Age (Routledge, 2000), Media Rituals: A Critical Approach (Routledge, 2003), Media Events in a Global Age (Routledge 2009, co-edited with Andreas Hepp and Friedrich Krotz), and Why Voice Matters: Culture and Politics After Neoliberalism (2010).