David Gauntlett, Professor of Media and Communications, University of Westminster

	David Gauntlett is Professor of Media and Communications at the School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster.

	Shortlisted for Times Higher Award 2007: Young Academic Author of the Year.

	Proud father of Finn James Gauntlett, born 15 January 2008.

	Participation Culture, Creativity, and Social Change - Inaugural lecture on 12 November 2008 - book now!

	New book - fully revised second edition of Media, Gender and Identity (2008).

	Children in Virtual Worlds conference took place on 22 May 2008.

	New videos about research and projects posted on YouTube (2008).

	Awarded AHRC grant of £188,365 to study young people's complex media environments using creative methods (starts Sept 2008).

	AHRC/BBC-funded study of children's virtual worlds (ongoing, 2008).

	ArtLab site fully updated with new features (2008).

	A Drawing a Day: Now reorganised and with 600+ drawings (2008).

	New! Facebook group for Theory.org.uk interactions - over 1,700 joined it in the first few months.

	Online discussion about visual methods (2007).

	Creative Explorations: Book published by Routledge (2007).

	Media Studies 2.0: Online article on the future of the subject (2007).

	Lego collaboration: Social research project in which participants build metaphorical models in Lego.

	Transforming Audiences: Major international conference which was held in Sept 2007.

	Visual Methods events: ESRC funded training events in visual methods.

	Visual Studies interview about new creative methods.

	ArtLab - Visual approaches to media and identity

Email: david@theory.org.uk

... but if you are a non-Westminster student with questions, please see the page for students first - it may answer your questions already!

Address:
David Gauntlett, School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, Northwick Park, Harrow HA1 3TP, UK

Moving Experiences: Understanding Television's Influences and Effects (1995)	Video Critical: Children, the Environment, and Media Power (1997)	TV Living: Television, Culture and Everyday Life (1999)

Web.Studies: Rewiring Media Studies for the Digital Age (2000) Edited collection	Media, Gender and Identity: An Introduction (2002)	Web.Studies 2nd edition (2004) All new and revised edited collection

Moving Experiences 2nd edition: Media effects and beyond (2005)	Creative Explorations: New approaches to identities and audiences (2007)	Media, Gender and Identity 2nd edition (2008)

Web Studies: in Chinese (2003)

Theory Trading Cards: Published pack (2004)

Videos: some lectures and research explained (2008)

	Theory.org.uk - the award-winning website on media and identities		Artlab.org.uk: new art-centred approaches to media / identity

	Lego research - Building metaphors of identities		Theory trading cards - knowledge you can put in your pocket
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	University of Oslo collaboration: International project on mediatized stories

	Wikipedia contributions

	People complaining about TV, an old BSC study from 1995

	Complete list of publications

	Editorial Board Member of Visual Studies

	Editorial Board Member of Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies

	Editorial Board Member of Foucault Studies

	Executive board member, International Visual Sociology Association

	Committee member, BSA Visual Sociology group

	Mentor for MFA program at Transart Institute

	Advisory Board Member of Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies

	Ten Things Wrong with the Media 'Effects' Model article

	How to write an essay

	How to survive a PhD

	Media, Gender and Identity - site includes interviews and extra features

	Send me stuff, the mail-art project that got out of hand

	Some things about art and cities website, rather old now

	New Media Studies website, in need of some work

	Theorists in Lego

	Art corner

	Studies where everyday people are invited to make media products, giving some insights into their relationship with media culture (see ArtLab). This includes interests in neuroscience and consciousness (creative hands-on activity vs language production) and the use of metaphors (see Lego study).

	Creative study of the ways in which individuals use media products in the construction of their own narratives of the self, and self-identity (again, see ArtLab).

	Self-help and therapeutic discourses in popular culture.

	Work linking qualitative research on audiences with contemporary critical approaches (especially Giddens, Beck, Foucault, Butler, and recent feminisms).

	Research which tries to get to grips with the 'power' of the media on the one hand, and the agency of audiences on the other ... but not 'media effects' (see why).