March | 2018 | CCCI@City

CCCI@City

The news feed from the Centre for Culture and the Creative Industries at City, University of London

Andy in the media

Andy was interviewed as part of a package that The Observer ran (a half-page spread, 25 Feb) on training in the creative industries. Focusing on music it featured interviews with colleagues and students in the Music Department at City; Andy’s comments related to the implications for social representation of workers in the music industry as…

Laura Thompson on the Future of Dating

Last Friday saw Laura Thompson in a packed auditorium at the V&A Museum for a Friday Late event on ‘The Future of Dating’. She spoke on the panel titled ‘The Male Gaze Reimagined’. Her talk argued the market optics and logic of dating apps place women’s bodies under intensified scrutiny, which can manifest in misogynistic…