Prof. Nick Couldry

Prof. Nick Couldry
Nick Couldry is Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Nick Couldry is Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE. As a sociologist of media and culture, he approaches media and communications from the perspective of the symbolic power that has been historically concentrated in media institutions. He is interested in how media and communications institutions and infrastructures contribute to various types of order (social, political, cultural, economic, ethical). His work has drawn on, and contributed to, social, spatial, democratic and cultural theory, anthropology, and media and communications ethics. His analysis of media as ‘practice’ has been widely influential. In the past 7 years, his work has increasingly focussed on data questions, and ethics, politics and deep social implications of Big Data and small data practices. He is the author or editor of 15 books and many journal articles and book chapters.

He has recently co-founded the Tierra Comun dual language website to encourage networking with and among Latin American scholars and activists interested in data colonialism.