Mediate the middle: moving with and beyond dichotomies

调和中间:超越二元对立的行进

LSE: Public lectures and events

2026-03-31

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Join us in celebrating the launch of Bart Cammaerts’ latest textbook, Dichotomies in Media and Communication Theory — a bold and original exploration of the key theoretical tensions that shape our media landscape.
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  • Welcome to the LSE Events Podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.

  • Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.

  • Okay, I will welcome everybody to the LSE, both online and in person.

  • We have an audience I would like to, this is a hybrid event,

  • so of the book, and I'm going to read all my notes out so that I do n't make a single mistake,

  • mediate the middle, moving with and beyond dichotomies.

  • My name is Ellen Halsper, and I'm a professor of social and digital inequalities here at the LSE

  • in the media communications department.

  • And I am of course very pleased to welcome.

  • Professor Bart Kamertz and Professor Meritan Robin Mansell, who will be given comments after Bart presents the book.

  • So Bart Kamertz probably does n't need any introduction,

  • but is the professor of politics and communication in the Department of Media and Communications and at the LSE,

  • of course.

  • He 's also the former chair of the Communication and Democracy section

  • of the European Communication and Research Association.

  • And of course, he is here today to present the book that I'm hoping you are all here for.

  • Robin Mansell is Professor Merita in the Department of Media and Communications at the LSE,

  • and her research focuses on media and communications regulation and policy,

  • digital governance, privacy and surveillance.

  • Her most recent books are Information Ecosystems and Troubled Democracy and The Need to Rename Tech.