For a full list of publications, see LSE Research Online.
BOOKS
Mejias, Ulises A. and Couldry, N. (2024). Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech (and How to Fight Back). London: Penguin Random House.
Couldry, N. (2019) Media, Voice, Space and Power: Essays of Refraction, London: Routledge.
Couldry, N. (2012) Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Couldry, N., Livingstone, S. and Markham, T. (2007) Media Consumption and Public Engagement: Beyond the Presumption of Attention, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Couldry, N. (2003) Media Rituals: A Critical Approach, London: Routledge.
Couldry, N. (2000) Inside Culture, London: Sage.
Couldry, N. and Mejias, Ulises A. (2019) The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Couldry, N. and Hepp, A. (2016) The Mediated Construction of Reality, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Couldry, N. (2010) Why Voice Matters: Culture and Politics after Neoliberalism. London: Sage.
Couldry, N. (2006) Listening Beyond the Echoes: Media, Ethics, and Agency in an Uncertain World, Boulder, CO: Paradigm Press.
Couldry, N. and Curran, J. (eds) (2003) Contesting Media Power: Alternative Media in a Networked World, Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield.
Couldry, N. (2019) Media: Why It Matters, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Couldry, N., Madianou, M. and Pinchevski, A. (eds) (2013) Ethics of Media, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Couldry, N., Hepp, A. and Krotz, F. (2009) Media Events in a Global Age, London: Routledge.
Couldry, N. and McCarthy, A. (eds) (2004) MediaSpace: Place, Scale and Culture in a Media Age, London: Routledge.
Couldry, N. (2000) The Place of Media Power: Pilgrims and Witnesses of the Media Age, London: Routledge.
Other Major Publications
Couldry, N. (2023) ‘On Social Media, Solidarity and the Catastrophe of Climate Change’, Social Media & Society 9(2).
Couldry, N. and Turow, J. (2022) ‘Market-driven Voice Profiling: A framework for Understanding’, Advertising and Society Quarterly 23(3).
Hurel, L. M. and Couldry, N. (2022) ‘Colonizing the Home as Data Source: Investigating the Language of Amazon Skills and Google Actions’, International Journal of Communication, 16: 5184-5203.
Couldry, N. and Mejias U. (2021) ‘The Decolonial Turn in Data and Technology Research: What is at Stake and where is it Heading?’, Information Communication & Society, 26(4): 786-802.
Magalhães, J. and Couldry, N. (2021) ‘Giving By Taking Away: Big Tech, Data Colonialism, and the Reconfiguration of the Social Good’, International Journal of Communication, 15: 343-362.
Couldry, N. (2020) ‘Recovering Critique in an Age of Datafication’, New Media & Society 22(7): 1115-1131.
Yu, J. and Couldry, N. (2020) ‘Education as a Domain of Natural Data Extraction: Analyzing Corporate Discourse About Educational Tracking’, Information Communication & Society 25(1): 127-144.
Couldry, N. & Mejias, U. A. (2019). Making data colonialism liveable: how might data’s social order be regulated?. Internet Policy Review, 8(2). DOI: 10.14763/2019.2.1411
Couldry, N., & Mejias, U. A. (2019). Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data’s Relation to the Contemporary Subject. Television & New Media, 20(4), 336–349. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476418796632 (See also the Spanish translation of the article.)
Couldry, N., and Yu, J. (2018). Deconstructing datafication’s brave new world. New Media & Society, 1461444818775968.
Couldry, N. and van Dijck, J. (2015) Researching Social Media as if the Social Mattered, Social Media and Society, 1(2): 1-7.
Couldry, N. (2014) ‘A Necessary Disenchantment: Myth, Agency and Injustice in the Digital Age’, Sociological Review, 62(4): 880-897.
Couldry, N., Stephansen, H., Fotopoulou, A., and MacDonald, R. (2014) ‘Digital citizenship? Narrative exchange and the changing terms of civic culture’, Citizenship Studies, 18 (6-7): 615-629. DOI:10.1080/13621025.2013.865903.
Couldry, N. (2014) ‘The Myth of Us: Digital Networks, Political Change and the Production of Collectivity’, Information Communication and Society. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2014.979216
Couldry, N., Macdonald, R., Stephansen, H., Clark, W., Dickens, L. and Fotopoulou, A. (2014) ‘Constructing a Digital Storycircle: Digital Infrastructure and Mutual Recognition’, International Journal of Cultural Studies. DOI: 10.1177/1367877913519313
Couldry, N. (2009) ‘Does “the Media” have a Future?’, European Journal of Communication, 24(4): 437-450. [republished in Portuguese as (2010) 'A Midia tem futuro?', MATRIZes 4(1): 51-64 [Brazilian journal]]
Couldry, N. (2008) ‘Mediatization or Mediation? Alternative Understandings of the Emergent Space of Digital Storytelling’, New Media & Society 10(3): 373-392.
Couldry, N. (2008) ‘Reality TV, or the Secret Theatre of Neoliberalism’, Review of Education Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, 30(1): 3-13. [reprinted in S. Priya (ed) (2008) Reality Television: How Real Does it Get? (Ifcai University Press, Hyderabad), 87-100 and (in Portuguese translation) published in E. Coutinho, J. Filho and R. Paiva (eds.) (2008) Midia e Poder: Ideologia, Discurso e Subjetividade, Rio de Janeiro: Mauad, 25-40.]
Couldry, N. (2006) ‘Culture and Citizenship: the Missing Link?’, European Journal of Cultural Studies, 9(3): 321-339.
Couldry, N. (2003) 'Media Meta-Capital: Extending the Range of Bourdieu's Field Theory', Theory and Society, 32(5/6): 653-677. [reprinted in D. Swartz and V. Zolberg (eds) (2004) After Bourdieu: Influence, Critique, Elaboration. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 165-189]
Couldry, N. (2002) 'Playing for Celebrity: Big Brother as Ritual Event', Television and New Media, 3(3): 283-292.
PUBLICATIONS ON THE FUTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY
Couldry, N. (2012) ‘La Universidad y la necesaria contracultura frente al neoliberalismo’, IC – Revista Científica de Información y Comunicación, 9, 61-71.
Couldry, N. (2011) 'Post-neoliberal academic values: notes from the UK Higher Education Sector', in B. Zelizer (ed) Making Universities Matter. Shaping inquiry, culture, communication and media studies. Abingdon: Rutledge, 135-143.
Couldry, N. (2010) Why Voice Matters, London: Sage.
For a full list of publications, see LSE Research Online