Seminar tomorrow: ‘Witnessing political upheaval: media, protest and the Arab spring’ - Tim Markham

Department of Politics and IR Seminar

Tuesday 11 February 2014

5.15 pm in FW101

‘Witnessing political upheaval: media, protest and the Arab spring’

Tim Markham

(Birkbeck, University of London)

Tim Markham is Reader in Journalism and Media as well as Head of the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. He is a political sociologist whose work has focused on war reporting and issues of authority, authenticity and morality in journalism. His most recent book ‘The Politics of War Reporting: Authority, Authenticity and Morality’ (Manchester University Press, 2011) draws on interviews with war correspondents and the political phenomenology of Pierre Bourdieu to explore journalistic identity, experience and instinct. Other work of his appears in Celebrity Studies, Journalism Practice, Review of Contemporary Philosophy, and The British Journal of Sociology. Tim’s ongoing research questions the democratising potential of new media practices, asks what audiences are doing when they participate in media, and assesses emerging discourses of journalism in the Middle East.