City Sociology

ESS Conference: Call for Papers now open

Leading academics can now submit their research using our data to be considered for inclusion at the 4th International European Social Survey (ESS) Conference being held in Germany during April 2019.

New article by Stephanie Baker and Michael Walsh published in New Media & Society

Social networking sites are important platforms for visual self-presentation online. This article investigates how content producers present their gender identities on the social networking site, Instagram. We draw upon and develop Goffman’s analytic framework to understand the self-presentation techniques and styles users employ online. Conducting a visual content analysis of clean eating–related top posts, we…

Trump, Brexit and Corbyn: Social Media, Authenticity and Post-Truth Politics

On the 4th of May, City, University of London, hosted the following event, organised by Professor Petros Iosifidis (City, University of London) & Professor Mark Wheeler (London Metropolitan University). During the first two decades of the Twenty-First Century, the Internet emerged from being an add-on to the television based campaigns in western liberal democracies to becoming…

The Rosemary Crompton Memorial Lecture took place on the 25th of April 2018

Work and Exploitation On the 25th of April 2018, the Rosemary Crompton Annual Memorial Lecture series continued at City, University of London, with Professor Julia O’Connell Davidson, Professor in Social Research, University of Bristol and Professor Bridget Anderson, Professor of Migration, Mobilities and Citizenship, University of Bristol. Julia O’Connell Davidson is Professor in Social Research at the…

Dr Liza Schuster Presents on Migration policy making in and about Afghanistan at Kabul University

Research conference on Migration Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University in cooperation with City, University of London on 10 April hosted a one day research conference presenting findings from the research project which will shortly conclude. The ACKU research team presented three papers, each based on a different part of the research project. The first…

Sir Roger Jowell Memorial Lecture 2018

The fifth annual lecture in honour of European Social Survey co-founder, Sir Roger Jowell, will be held at the British Academy in London on Monday 21 May 2018.