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Dr Benedetta Brevini is Associate Professor of political economy of communication at the University of Sydney. She holds Visiting Fellowships at the Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism at City University, London, at WZB in Berlin and at the Centre for Media, Data and Society at the Central European University, Budapest. Before joining academia she worked as journalist in Milan, New York and London for CNBC, RAI and the Guardian and held tenured positions at City University London and Brunel University London. She writes on The Guardian’s Comment is Free and contributes to a number of print and web publications including Index of Censorship, OpenDemocracy and the Conversation. She is the author of several books including Is AI good for the Planet ? (2021), Amazon, Understanding a Global Communication Giant (2020), Public Service Broadcasting online (2013) and editor of the volumes Beyond Wikileaks (2013), Carbon Capitalism and Communication: Confronting Climate Crisis (2017), Climate Change and the Media (2018). She is currently working on a new book project on Communication and the Climate Emergency.
Benedetta’s research is grounded in a critical political economy that investigates the relations between communications, politics, power and inequality. It has three main strands. The first explores media policies and media reforms in comparative settings and the roles of political, economic and corporate power in sustaining or thwarting the development of media systems which are functioning in the public interest. The second approaches the contradictory structure of the internet and social media as the sites of a continuous, and intensifying power struggle between openness and closure, surveillance and freedom, censorship and free speech, exclusion and access. The third examines the connections between communication, politics, economics and science in order to enhance our understanding of the relationship between communication systems and climate change.
Associate Professor Benedetta Brevini.
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