Media, technology and popular culture

CSR.Salford's research in Popular Culture has focused on digital culture, online privacy, video gaming, gender and IT, digital media, museums, audience research and culture, leisure studies and public attitudes to new technologies.

We work in close association with the University of Salford Digital Cluster, of which the Centre's researcher, Dr Garry Crawford is the Director.

Researchers:

• Professor Brian Longhurst - Media audiences; social and cultural dimensions of popular music
• Dr Gaynor Bagnall - Cultural consumption; audiences
• Professor Garry Crawford - Audiences; fan cultures; sport; video gaming
• Professor Paul Bellaby - Public engagement with sustainable energy; IT in health choices
• Professor Alison Adam - Gender and IT; sociology of forensic science; online-privacy
• Dr Victoria Gosling - Digital game audiences

Recent projects

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Recent publications:

• Crawford, G & Gosling, V & Light, B (eds.), Online Gaming in Context: The Social and Cultural Significance of Online Gaming, Routledge, London, UK.
• Gosling, V & Crawford, G 2011, 'Game Scenes: Theorizing Digital Game Audiences', Games and Culture, 6(2), pp.135-154.
• Bagnall, G 2011, 'Conspicuous Consumption', in: Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture, Sage Publications Inc, Los Angeles, USA
• Crawford, G 2011, Video Gamers, Routledge, London, UK.
• Crawford, G 2010, Theorising the Contemporary Sports Supporter, LAP, Saarbrücken, Germany.
• Crawford, G & Blackshaw, T 2009, Sage Dictionary of Leisure Studies, Sage, London, UK.
• Longhurst, B & Smith, G & Bagnall, G & Crawford, G & Ogborn, M 2008, Introducing Cultural Studies, Second edition, Pearson, Harlow, UK.
• Bellaby, P & Flynn, R & Ricci, M 2011, 'The Mirage of Citizen Engagement in Uncertain Science: Public attitudes towards hydrogen energy', International Journal of Science Education, Part B, 1(2), pp.97-114
• Adam, A E & Kreps, D 2009, 'Disability and Discourses of Web Accessibility, 12(7), pp.1-18. ', Information Communication and Society

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