Colin Sparks
Director of Communications and Media Research Institute (CAMRI)
Professor Sparks founded the UK’s first degree in Media Studies at the University of Westminster, in what became its first Department of Media Studies. He also founded Media, Culture and Society, now the pre-eminent academic journal in the field. He is Director of the Communications and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), the UK’s leading media research institution based on the government’s recent Research Assessment Excercise. A specialist on institutional transition in post-Communist societies, he has long been interested in China and is Visiting Professor at China Communications University.
Publications
After Transition: A Comparative Study of Poland, Russia and China. Karol Jakubowicz and Miklos Sukosd eds. Central and eastern European media change in global perspective. Budapest: CEU Press.
Development, Globalization and the Media. London:Sage.
What’s wrong with globalization? Global Media and Communication, vol. 3, no.2.
Contradictions in capitalist media practice. Lee Artz, Steve Macek and Dana Cloud eds. Marxism and Communication Studies: The Point is to Change it. New York: Peter Lang. 111-32.
Media and the global public sphere: An evaluative approach. Wilma de Jong, Martin Shaw and Neil Stammers eds. Global Activism, Global Media. London: Pluto Press.34-49.
Civil Society as a contested concept: Media and political transformation in Eastern and Central Europe. Robert Hackett and Yuezhi Zhao eds. Democratizing Global Media: One World, Many Struggles. Lanham, MD. : Rowman and Littlefield. 37-56.
Contact
Tel: +44 (0)20 7911 5000 (ext. 7380)
Email: c.s.sparks@wmin.ac.uk
