LSE Department of Media and Communications

04/06/2026

You’re invited! Join us for our Alumni Summer Reception this June.
We’re hosting a relaxed evening for you to connect with fellow alumni, faculty, and current students.
📍Senior Dining Room, 5th Floor, Old Building
🗓️Thursday 18 June 2026
🕕6.00-8.30pm
Sign up to join us via the link in our bio!
See you there!

03/06/2026

🎟️ Tickets are available for the upcoming LSE Festival: How to save the planet, taking place 15-20 June.

🎪 The festival aims to explore the impact of global challenges and how individuals, communities, organisations, corporations, and those with political power should tackle them.

⬇️ Department contributions include:

🌬️ Mindfulness and connection in a time of climate, migration and technology challenges
(A mindfulness session co-facilitated by Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan)
Thursday 18 June 2026 11.30am-1.30pm
Marshall Building

🌍 What's it going to take us to save the planet
(Panel discussion featuring Professor Nick Couldry)
Saturday 20 June 2026 6.30-7.30pm
Great Hall, Marshall Building

⬇️ Find out more:

What can we be doing to save the Earth, its people and environment? A programme of free events from Monday 15 to Saturday 20 June. Tickets released on 18 May.

03/06/2026

How did Shenzhen become a global tech powerhouse, and what can the world learn from it? 🌐

Join us online for the launch of Dragon Innovation: Shenzhen by Dr Grace Yuehan Wang, exploring its unique model of digital growth and public-private innovation.

🗓️ Monday 15 June 2026 1-2.30pm (UK time)

🎙️ Dr Grace Yuehan Wang will be joined by Prof Bingchun Meng, chaired by Dr Wendy Willems, to discuss Shenzhen's transformation into a world-class technology hub and its lessons for the West and the Global South.

🎟️ Register: https://lse.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xEkgz-_-SfytD-sC-TA4Tg #/registration

03/06/2026

🎉LSE has been ranked as the top university in London for the fifteenth year in a row by the Complete University Guide 2027!

Our School was also ranked third overall among UK universities, maintaining its place among the country's leading higher education institutions.

Find out more: https://ow.ly/BuVf50Z6zfH

03/06/2026

03/06/2026

At a time when the foundations of democratic life feel increasingly unstable, what does justice truly mean?

LSE MSc Candidate Kiara Driver reviews the key arguments from Professor Shakuntala Banaji's recent inaugural public lecture, ‘Infinite justice: political cosmologies that protect our future’. Drawing on three decades of research and a six-year global study with young adults, the piece explores a framework of justice that stretches beyond human politics to honor past legacies of resistance and the non-human world.

📖 Read the blog reflection: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2026/06/01/rethinking-justice-in-an-age-of-exhaustion/

Missed the live event? You can catch up on the full discussion here:
📺 Watch the lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM7wUqZARIg

🎙️ Listen to the podcast: https://www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player/infinite-justice-political-cosmologies-that-protect-our-future

In her inaugural lecture, Shakuntala Banaji explores how our ethical and political imaginations of love, justice and rights—shaped by education systems, media and technologies under savage capitalism—differ between individuals, communities and geopolitical entities. Drawing on three decades of r...

28/05/2026

Upcoming Roundtable: Feminist Politics in the Age of Backlash

Next week, Lilie Chouliaraki and our former Head of Department, Sarah Banet-Weiser, will be speaking on an international roundtable panel titled “After : Feminist politics in the age of backlash” at the University of Athens. The discussion will analyze critical contemporary shifts and challenges in global feminist politics.

🗓️ Tuesday, 2 June 4pm (BST) / 6pm (EEST)
📍 Venue: University of Athens
📺 Access the live-stream: https://www.youtube.com/live/cSCKQ8BHVF8

28/05/2026

Important new research co-authored by world-leading child rights expert Professor Sonia Livingstone shows that 1 in 6 internet-using children across Africa and Asia experience technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and abuse.

As Director of the Digital Futures for Children centre (DFC), Professor Livingstone highlights the critical need for global solutions: "The platforms operate across borders, the problem is global, and so must be the solutions. Hopefully, our transnational evidence will mobilise the international agencies who can take action and provide urgently-needed support."

📖 Read more: https://www.lse.ac.uk/news/new-study-on-technology-facilitated-child-sexual-exploitation-and-abuse

How is technology shaping child sexual exploitation and abuse in Africa and Asia? New research examines digital risks, online harms and responses across regions.

28/05/2026

Should governments have the power to ban social media platforms? 📱🤔

Join Aspen Institute UK tonight for a timely panel event: "What's in a Ban? Debating Social Media Access in an Age of Online Threats."

📢 Speakers:
• Clare Rewcastle Brown (Sarawak Report)
• Damian Collins OBE (Former Minister for Tech & the Digital Economy)
• Thomas Barton (Council for Countering Online Disinformation)
• Charlton Brown (Shout Out UK)

🎙️ Chaired by Professor Charlie Beckett (Director of Polis at LSE).

🗓️ Today 6.30-8pm (drinks reception to follow)
📍 LSE Lecture Theatre, Centre Building

🔗 Details and final registration here: https://www.aspenuk.org/events/whats-in-a-ban-debating-social-media-access-in-an-age-of-online-threats/

As governments across the globe move to restrict under-16s’ access to social media, the debate over where to draw the line has never been more urgent. Australia has already legislated. The UK is weighing its options following the “Growing Up in the Online World” consultation. But will blanket ...

21/05/2026

Next month, Professor Ellen Helsper will be delivering a keynote at the CEPAL / ECLAC 2026 seminar on Inequality and Digital Inclusion in Santiago, Chile (16-18 June)!

She joins fellow keynote Francisco Ferreira (LSE III), alongside Sonia Livingstone and Matias Dodel (DFC) speaking on the digital technologies and childhood panel.

🌍 Join our researchers in person or online!
📝 Register: https://www.cepal.org/en/events/sixth-regional-seminar-social-development-latin-america-and-caribbean-inequality-and-digital