Blue Election, Election Blues: Stuart Hall on ideology and 'conservative Britain'

"[We] live in a world where decisions are both complex and remote, and the big bureaucracies of state and market control a great deal of social life. So people are quite 'rational' to believe that they can't intervene with much hope of success, in detail, into policy matters, nor can they affect the fine tuning of the economic or policy machines."

Next On “Black Mirror”

This satirical takedown of the science fiction show Black Mirror is most famous for the quotable put-down 'what if phones but too much', but it successfully draws attention to the often facile ways in which the series explores issues of media convergence 

bell hooks and Laverne Cox Discuss "What is Feminism?"

Feminism is for Everybody - Laverne Cox on bell hooks

The construction of postcolonial racial hierarchies in Britain

Paul Gilroy - There Ain't No Black In The Union Jack (Routledge, 2002)

Othering and black British identity

Paul Gilroy - There Ain't No Black In The Union Jack (Routledge, 2002)

The stereotyping and othering of black British people

Paul Gilroy - There Ain't No Black In The Union Jack (Routledge, 2002)

Audience negotiation of Doctor Who

John Tulloch & Henry Jenkins - Science Fiction Audiences: Watching Doctor Who and Star Trek (Routledge, 1995)

Types of convergence

David Hesmondhalgh - The Cultural Industries (second edition) - Routledge (2009)

The deregulation of the cultural industries

 David Hesmondhalgh - The Cultural Industries (second edition) - Routledge (2009)