University of Westminster

Co-Director, Communications and Media Research Institute, School of Media, Arts and Design

Professor of Media and Communications

About

Here is my current standard 'mini biog' in 120 words!:

David Gauntlett is Professor of Media and Communications at the School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, UK.

His teaching and research is in the area of media and identities, and the everyday creative use of digital media.

He is the author of several books, including Moving Experiences (1995, 2005), Web Studies (2000, 2004), Media, Gender and Identity (2002, 2008), and Creative Explorations (2007), which was shortlisted for the Times Higher Young Academic Author of the Year Award.

His next book is Making is Connecting: The social meaning of creativity, from DIY and knitting to YouTube and Web 2.0 (2011).

He has made several YouTube videos, and produces the popular website about media and identities, Theory.org.uk.

And here are some advance reviews of Making is Connecting:

'Gauntlett offers a terrific account of how creativity, craft, and community intersect in the 21st century.'
- Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody

'Making is Connecting is an inspired call to recognize the relationship between encouraging creativity and fostering an engaged citizenry. If you want to understand how emerging practices in digital participatory cultures can lead to positive transformations in our individual lives and in our societies, you need to read this book.'
- Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Denver

'Making is Connecting is a remarkably clear, convincing and engaging work. Gauntlett draws together the literature in the field of creativity and community, and makes sense of Leadbeater, Anderson, Lanier, Shirky and others, shining a light on their strengths and weaknesses in a lucid and convincing fashion.'
- Andrew Dubber, Birmingham City University

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