David Gauntlett is Professor of Media and Communications at the School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster.
	Co-director of the Communications and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), ranked #1 in the UK for media research in RAE 2008.
	More info on interests and activities in the short biography.
	Email: d.gauntlett@wmin.ac.uk
	You can follow me on Twitter.
	View complete list of publications, and citations profile at Google Scholar.
	Feb 2012: Blog post: Using Twitter in university learning.
	Feb 2012: Blog post: Social media optimism vs pessimism.
	Feb 2012: New AHRC Digital Transformations project and blog looking at how creative and cultural organisations embrace the creativity of their users.
	Jan 2012: New video presenting key ideas from Making is Connecting in 4 minutes.
	Clay Shirky on Making is Connecting: "Gauntlett offers a terrific account of how creativity, craft, and community intersect in the 21st century."
	Media Studies 2.0, and Other Battles around the Future of Media Research published as a short Kindle book, Aug 2011
	New introduction to Media Studies 2.0 online article.
	Blog posts (occasionally) at Westminster Media Comment.
	There's also a Theory.org.uk Facebook group with over 3,000 members.
	Now online: Creativity, participation and connectedness: An interview with David Gauntlett, from the book Mashup Cultures (2010).
	Lego collaboration: Social research project in which participants build metaphorical models in Lego.
	Article in Times Higher Education on role of arts & humanities academics, innovation and communication.
	At Reboot Britain in London, 6 July, we invited people to build their ideas for a better society, in Lego, with great results. See photo gallery and video.
	Transforming Audiences: Major international conference, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013
	Participation Culture, Creativity, and Social Change - videos of the key points from inaugural lecture.
	A Drawing a Day: Discontinued project with 728 drawings.
	Video: Building models of learning in Lego (2008).
	Theory.org.uk updated with articles on Web 2.0, Wikipedia, and top tips for media students (2008).
	Online discussion and Visual Studies interview about visual methods.

Email: d.gauntlett@wmin.ac.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)

Some videos explaining my work and projects. For more, see the full list.

Making is Connecting (2011), on Web 2.0 and creativity

Participation Culture & Creativity (2008) - all my key themes

Representing Identities, pt.1 (2008), explains the Lego identity project

Lego identity and creativity projects (2005-10)

Web Studies: in Chinese (2003)

Theory Trading Cards: Published pack (2004)

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

University of Oslo collaboration: International project on mediatized stories Wikipedia contributions People complaining about TV, an old BSC study from 1995 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

Theory trading cards - knowledge you can put in your pocket 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

	My key interests are summarised in the Make and Connect Agenda.
Also:
	Studies where everyday people are invited to make things or media products, giving some insights into their relationship with media culture (see ArtLab).
	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).
	Digital media being used by everyday people -- Web 2.0.
	Work linking qualitative research on audiences with contemporary critical approaches.
	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).