School of Media and Communication

Audiences and users have always been targeted by marketers but have only recently become important for journalism. Irene Costera Meijer aims to improve our understanding of news audiences.

What does it feel like to be featured, quoted, or just named in a news story?

The talk will explore Labour’s ambiguous positions regarding the UK’s departure from the EU and argues that Corbyn’s political success is largely conventional and in line with the rise of populist campaigning strategies.

Limor Shifman will analyse the communicative values embedded in memes to reveal unexpected similarities between memes as seemingly disparate as Pepe the Frog and #MeToo.