Dear All, The Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths have the pleasure of inviting you to the launch of our book, The Future of Media, co-edited by us and Joanna Zylinska, and published by Goldsmiths Press. The event takes place at 5pm on Thursday 27 October and will start with a roundtable discussion on the future of media, featuring many of the contributors to the book, who include Daisy Asquith, Lisa Blackman, Clea Bourne, NG Bristow, James Burton, Sarah Cefai, Sue Clayton, Sean Cubitt, James Curran, Natalie Fenton, Des Freedman, Gholam Khiabany, Sandra van Lente, Richard MacDonald, Mirca Madianou, Mathapelo Mofokeng, David Morley, Anamik Saha, Richard Shannon, Daniel Strutt, Milly Williamson and the book’s co-editor Joanna Zylinska. The roundtable will be followed by a Q&A and drinks. The event will take place on the Goldsmiths campus in LG02 of the Professor Stuart Hall building. We hope to see many friends, collaborators and students past and present there! Best wishes Goldsmiths Media More details at https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=14029 *** Here is a description of the book’s content: How do we combat post-truth in the news? Are social media influencers the journalists of today? What is it like to live in a smart city? Does AI really change ‘everything’? The Future of Media investigates the future of media industries and technologies (journalism, TV, film, photography, radio, publishing, social media), while exploring how media shape our future – on a political, economic, cultural and individual level. Issues of diversity, media reform, labour, activism and art take the discussion into a wider social context. Through this, the book celebrates the importance and vitality of media in the modern world. The Future of Media is also an experiment in collaborative modes of thinking and working. Co-authored by theorists and practitioners from one of the world’s most established media departments and their collaborators, it offers a radical, creative and critical take on media industries – and on world affairs. An open-access version of the book can be downloaded from the GRO repository [click on the download button]: https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/31658/ If you like the book, we hope you will be able to support Goldsmiths Press by ordering a paper copy for yourself and/or your library, via their distributor, MIT Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/future-media The book also has a companion website, featuring practice works engaging with the future of media: https://www.golddust.org.uk/futureofmedia -- Joanna Zylinska Professor of Media Philosophy + Critical Digital Practice King's College London Department of Digital Humanities http://www.joannazylinska.net