Discover Society

Graham Murdock (Loughborough University) The current struggle over the future of the BBC is part of a wider battle for the [...]

Des Freedman (Goldsmiths, University of London) The government’s green paper on the future of the BBC was widely seen as an [...]

Máire Messenger Davies (Ulster University) In a piece for The Conversation, ‘Inside the bizarre logic of the BBC Review’ (July 2015) [...]

Jeanette Steemers (University of Westminster) After the BBC’s shock funding deal with the DCMS and the Treasury just after the election, [...]

Neil Blain (University of Stirling) The Green Paper has arrived at a time when it’s harder than ever to know how [...]

Tom Mills (University of Bath) The figure of Rupert Murdoch looms large in defences of the BBC, and whilst we should [...]

Ivor Gaber (University of Sussex) My entry for the prize for the most unsurprising allegation of the year was the uncannily [...]

Casey Brienza (City University London) During the British coal miner’s strike in 1984-85, a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists [...]

Katherine Robinson (Goldsmiths, University of London) Since 2010, 337 public libraries have closed, and others have been turned over to volunteers [...]

Michael R.M. Ward, Brigid Featherstone, Martin Robb and Sandy Ruxton (The Open University) There is increasing anxiety in the global north [...]