Media, Inequality and Representation

'What’s on?' Rethinking class in the television industry 

‘What's on? Rethinking class in the television industry’ is situated in the context of academic, media, and public discussions about social class and the TV industry. From policy concerns about working class access to the sector, through to class as a prominent point of discussion in BAFTA award winners' speeches, class is important to national conversations about TV. Funded by UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). 

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INCLUDE+ Network 

INCLUDE+ is a network exploring how social and digital environments can be built, shaped and sustained to enable all people to thrive. The five-year programme of activities (2022-2027) will build a knowledge community around in/equalities in digital society that will comprise industry, academia, the public and third sectors in response to the UKRI Equitable Digital Society theme. Funded by UKRI’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. 

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Women, Ageing and Machine Learning on Screen 

What does ageing on screen look like in UK screen cultures when AI is doing the looking? How inclusive can film and TV become if ML analyses the texts and reports back on visual ageism to industries? When ageing on screen is computed through inclusive research methods, working across disciplines of media and communication, sociology and computer sciences, how can ‘ageing on screen’ become meaningful to researchers and beneficiaries of the research? This research project offers a new exploration for media and screen industries of using machine learning to analyse texts at scale and the algorithm will be open source. Funded by the Leverhulme Trust. 

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