[Air-L] Goldsmiths Media: 'The Future of Media' book launch, 5pm Thursday 27 October

[Joanna Zylinska]

Dear All,

The Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at 
Goldsmiths have the pleasure of inviting you to the launch of our book, 
The Future of Media, co-edited by us and Joanna Zylinska, and published 
by Goldsmiths Press. The event takes place at 5pm on Thursday 27 October 
and will start with a roundtable discussion on the future of media, 
featuring many of the contributors to the book, who include Daisy 
Asquith, Lisa Blackman, Clea Bourne, NG Bristow, James Burton, Sarah 
Cefai, Sue Clayton, Sean Cubitt, James Curran, Natalie Fenton, Des 
Freedman, Gholam Khiabany, Sandra van Lente, Richard MacDonald, Mirca 
Madianou, Mathapelo Mofokeng, David Morley, Anamik Saha, Richard 
Shannon, Daniel Strutt, Milly Williamson and the book’s co-editor Joanna 
Zylinska.

The roundtable will be followed by a Q&A and drinks.

The event will take place on the Goldsmiths campus in LG02 of the 
Professor Stuart Hall building.

We hope to see many friends, collaborators and students past and present 
there!

Best wishes

Goldsmiths Media

More details at https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=14029

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Here is a description of the book’s content:

How do we combat post-truth in the news? Are social media influencers 
the journalists of today? What is it like to live in a smart city? Does 
AI really change ‘everything’? The Future of Media investigates the 
future of media industries and technologies (journalism, TV, film, 
photography, radio, publishing, social media), while exploring how media 
shape our future – on a political, economic, cultural and individual 
level. Issues of diversity, media reform, labour, activism and art take 
the discussion into a wider social context. Through this, the book 
celebrates the importance and vitality of media in the modern world. The 
Future of Media is also an experiment in collaborative modes of thinking 
and working. Co-authored by theorists and practitioners from one of the 
world’s most established media departments and their collaborators, it 
offers a radical, creative and critical take on media industries – and 
on world affairs.

An open-access version of the book can be downloaded from the GRO 
repository [click on the download button]:
https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/31658/

If you like the book, we hope you will be able to support Goldsmiths 
Press by ordering a paper copy for yourself and/or your library, via 
their distributor, MIT Press:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/future-media

The book also has a companion website, featuring practice works engaging 
with the future of media:
https://www.golddust.org.uk/futureofmedia

-- 
Joanna Zylinska
Professor of Media Philosophy + Critical Digital Practice
King's College London
Department of Digital Humanities

http://www.joannazylinska.net