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About Nick Couldry

Nick Couldry is Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London and author (with Angela Phillips and Des Freedman) of ‘An Ethical Deficit? Accountability, Norms, and the Material Conditions of Contemporary Journalism’  in N. Fenton (ed) New Media Old News (Sage 2009).

Articles by Nick Couldry

Monday 9th January

Occupy: rediscovering the general will in hard times

Natalie Fenton and Nick Couldry, 9 January 2012
Times of economic crisis call into question our systems of democracy. Today's global occupy movement is a call to reclaim the economy as a site of decision. To do so, we will need to rethink ourselves as political subjects.
Friday 15th July

OurKingdom forum: The fall of Murdoch - What next?

James Curran, Nick Couldry, Ryan Gallagher, Suzanne Moore, and Julian Sayarer, 15 July 2011
An ongoing forum in which OurKingdom authors consider why the fall of Rupert Murdoch has taken place, what it tells us about the state of Britain and what the key lesson are for the media and government.
Tuesday 31st August

Can Labour find a voice?

Nick Couldry, 31 August 2010
The UK Labour party, on the brink of electing a new leader, needs a complete reassessment of its values and purpose. But it is just this that is difficult for those closely associated with the old regime.
Monday 17th May

No Melancholia please: Reflections after New Labour

Nick Couldry, 17 May 2010
Wednesday 20th January

Voice lite: POWER2010 fails to address the real democratic deficit

Nick Couldry, 20 January 2010
I've followed the debate that Power 2010's Deliberative Poll two weeks or so ago has generated, although I was not at the meetings myself; and I write as a great admirer of Power's earlier interventions in debates about UK democracy.
Monday 11th January

The Missing Value in British Politics

Nick Couldry, 11 January 2010
In this taster of his forthcoming book, Why Voice Matters: Culture and Politics After Neoliberalism, Nick Couldry argues for the importance of voice in challenging the dominance market values hold over political and social life.
Monday 5th November

The ethics of mediation

Nick Couldry, 5 November 2001
What we need is more debate about the ethics of both image and word, and their interrelations. openDemocracy is the place where this debate could develop.
Wednesday 3rd October

A way out of the (televised) endgame?

Nick Couldry, 3 October 2001
The acts of 11 September had a symbolic as well as political meaning, and can be seen as a violent challenge to a world where symbolic inequality parallels and reinforces other kinds of inequality. Widening the media landscape to create a real global dialogue is now essential.
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