Rate My Professor Des Freedman

Professor Des Freedman is Professor of Media and Communication Studies in the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His research interests centre on the relationship between media and power together with the political and economic contexts of media policymaking, regulation and reform.

He is currently Head of Department and Co-Director of the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre. He was a founding member and recent chair of the Media Reform Coalition and served as project lead for the Inquiry into the Future of Public Service Television chaired by Lord Puttnam. He is a former editor of the Sage journal Global Media and Communication and has edited several strands for openDemocracy. His books include The Contradictions of Media Power (Bloomsbury, 2014) and, as co-author, Misunderstanding the Internet (Routledge, 2nd edition, 2016, with James Curran and Natalie Fenton). Edited collections include Capitalism's Conscience: 200 Years of the Guardian (Pluto Press, 2021) and A Future for Public Service Television (Goldsmiths Press, 2018, with Vana Goblot). He convenes and teaches on Media, Modernity and Social Thought and the PhD methods course Researching Media and Culture.