Natalie Fenton

Natalie Fenton Natalie Fenton is a Reader in the Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College, University of London where she is Co-Director of both the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre and the Goldsmiths Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy. She has also worked in the Department of Communication Studies at Liverpool University and in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. Her publications include New Media, Old News: Journalism and Democracy in the Digital Age (2009), Mediating Social Science (1998, with Alan Bryman, David Deacon and Peter Birmingham) and Trust and Civil Society (2000, with Fran Tonkiss, Andrew Passey and Les Hems). Her research is concerned to address the role the media play in the formation of identities and democracies and why and how people seek to change the world for socially progressive ends. Her work spans both cultural studies approaches and social scientific approaches to the study of media, culture and society. She has been an activist in the UCU (formerly AUT) for over 17 years including national President 2001-02. She has served on various national committees concerned with higher education employment related issues, is an experienced lobbyist, campaigner and negotiator. She has also written for the national press.

n.fenton@gold.ac.uk