Dr. Bart Cammaerts
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/WhosWho/AcademicStaff/bartcammaerts.aspx
London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
Bart Cammaerts is senior lecturer and director of the PhD program in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is former chair of the Communication and Democracy Section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) and current vice-chair of the Communication Policy and Technology section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). His research focuses on the relationship between media as well as communication technologies and resistance with particular emphasis on multi-stakeholder policy processes, media strategies of activists, representations of protest, alternative cultures and issues relating to media power, resistance and public-ness. His most recent books include: Mediation and Protest Movements (eds with Alice Matoni and Patrick McCurdy, intellect, 2013), Media Agoras: Democracy, Diversity and Communication (eds with Iñaki Garcia-Blanco and Sofie Van Bauwel, Cambridge Scholars Publisher, 2009), Internet-Mediated Participation beyond the Nation State (Manchester University Press, 2008) and Understanding Alternative Media (with Olga Bailey and Nico Carpentier, Open University Press, 2008).