BA, PhD (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Pathway Leader, Communication Studies
Co-Director: Anglia Research Centre in Digital Culture (ARCDigital)

Room: Hel 267

Email: Joss.Hands@anglia.ac.uk
Personal Website: www.josshands.com

Telephone: 0845 196 2254
International: +44 1223 363271 ext 2254

Joss Hands' research activity page

Joss teaches in the Communication, Film and Media programme, leading the modules: communication and the public sphere; communication and political economy; communication and technology; technoculture; globalization and communication.

His research interests are broadly located at the intersection of technology, new media in particular, with politics and critical theory. His focus has been in two main areas, firstly, the role of technology in providing an arena for the expression of dissent and the organisation of resistance movements, secondly in the role of technology in more formal democratic procedures, specifically the role of the Internet in contributing towards the development of deliberative democracy. He has published articles, review essays and reviews in journals such as Philosophy and Social Criticism, Cultural Politics, First Monday and Information, Communication and Society. He co-edited (with Eugenia Siapera) and contributed to the book, At The Interface: Continuity and Transformation in Culture and Politics (New York & Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004).

Joss has recently completed work on a book on digital activism, @ is for Activism: Dissent, Resistance and Rebellion in a Digital Culture, which will be published by Pluto Press in November 2010.

Joss is interested in supervising students in the following areas:

• The Internet, politics and democracy
• Cyberculture/Cybersociety
• Critical theory and philosophy of technology
• The media and the public sphere

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