Centre for Culture, Media & Regulation (CCMR)
About Us
The Centre for Culture, Media and Regulation (CCMR) is a research centre that aims to promote and organise research into developments in media and communication policy and practices. We are living in an age of rapidly changing forms of new media and of media regulation at the local, national and global levels. The rise of new media presents a fundamental challenge to the traditional capacity of states to regulate communication between citizens. This, in turn, has opened up the possibility of new forms of social protest and revolution that are able to use new media to organise their activities and evade the surveillance and control of state institutions.
At the same time these new media forms are also central to the ways in which corporations seek to promote their goods and services for an increasingly global market. These tendencies usher in a new era in how politics is practised, economies organised and societies constructed. CCMR brings together scholarship that addresses these complex and evolving developments, promoting an inter-disciplinary environment for research and debate.
Research
CCMR research focuses on a number of areas:
- Media, democracy and civil society
- New media and social change
- Media, culture and identity
- Media and social conflict
- The regulation of new media
Teaching
CCMR currently runs a highly successful MSc in Media and Communications. This well established course offers students an interdisciplinary approach to the study of new media and communications practices which addresses the following:
- How do the media shape culture and society?
- What role does the media play in people's lives?
- Is the media creating a global culture?
- Are audiences now producers?
- Do social networking sites influence personal communication?
- Are young people disconnected from traditional politics?
