David Gauntlett is Professor of Media and Communications at the School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster.
	Department ranked #1 in the UK for media research in RAE 2008.
	See short biography.
	Complete list of publications.
	Proud father of Finn, born 15 January 2008.
	You can follow me on Twitter.
	Blog posts at Westminster Media Comment.
	There's also a Theory.org.uk Facebook group with over 2,450 members.
	New video about forthcoming 'Making is Connecting' book (Jan 2010).
	Now online: Creativity, participation and connectedness: An interview with David Gauntlett, from the book Mashup Cultures (Nov 2009).
	Article in Times Higher Education on role of arts & humanities academics, innovation and communication (Aug 2009).
	At Reboot Britain in London, 6 July, we invited people to build their ideas for a better society, in Lego, with great results. See photo gallery and video (July 2009).
	Transforming Audiences 2: Major international conference , Sept 2009
	New extracts on Making is Connecting site (July 2009).
	Making is Connecting - new site (May 2009).
	New video on 'making is connecting' themes (April 2009).
	New videos of research work in progress (Feb 2009).
	The Make and Connect Agenda, a new statement of interests (Feb 2009) which in a sense was quickly superceded by Making is Connecting.
	Participation Culture, Creativity, and Social Change - videos of the key points now online (Jan 2009).
	A Drawing a Day: Now reorganised and with 728 drawings (Nov 2009).
	New video: Building models of learning in Lego (Nov 2008).
	Theory.org.uk updated with articles on Web 2.0, Wikipedia, and top tips for media students (Sept 2008).
	New book - fully revised second edition of Media, Gender and Identity (2008).
	Children in Virtual Worlds conference took place on 22 May 2008.
	Awarded AHRC grant of £188,365 to study young people's complex media environments using creative methods (started Sept 2008).
	AHRC/BBC-funded study of children's virtual worlds (2008-09).
	ArtLab site fully updated with new features (2008).
	Lego collaboration: Social research project in which participants build metaphorical models in Lego.
	Visual Methods events: ESRC funded training events in visual methods.
	Online discussion about visual methods (2007).
	Creative Explorations: Book published by Routledge (2007).
	Visual Studies interview about new creative methods.

Email: d.gauntlett@wmin.ac.uk

... but if you are a non-Westminster student with questions, please see the page for students first - it may answer your questions already!

Address:
David Gauntlett, School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, Northwick Park, Harrow HA1 3TP, UK

FORTHCOMING: Making is Connecting: new book about people creating connections with others, and the world, through making things and making media. See the website.
	Moving Experiences: Understanding Television's Influences and Effects (1995)		Video Critical: Children, the Environment, and Media Power (1997)		TV Living: Television, Culture and Everyday Life (1999)
	Web.Studies: Rewiring Media Studies for the Digital Age (2000) Edited collection		Media, Gender and Identity: An Introduction (2002)		Web.Studies 2nd edition (2004) All new and revised edited collection
	Moving Experiences 2nd edition: Media effects and beyond (2005)		Creative Explorations: New approaches to identities and audiences (2007)		Media, Gender and Identity 2nd edition (2008)

Some videos explaining my work and projects. For more, see the full list.

Making is Connecting (2010), on Web 2.0 and creativity

Participation Culture & Creativity (2008) - all my key themes

Representing Identities, pt.1 (2008), explains the Lego identity project

Lego identity and creativity projects (2005-09)

Web Studies: in Chinese (2003)

Theory Trading Cards: Published pack (2004)

	Theory.org.uk - the award-winning website on media and identities			Artlab.org.uk: new art-centred approaches to media / identity
Also . . .			Also . . .

University of Oslo collaboration: International project on mediatized stories Wikipedia contributions People complaining about TV, an old BSC study from 1995 Editorial Board Member of Visual Studies Editorial Board Member of Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies Editorial Board Member of Foucault Studies Executive board member, International Visual Sociology Association Committee member, BSA Visual Sociology group Mentor for MFA program at Transart Institute Advisory Board Member of Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies

Theory trading cards - knowledge you can put in your pocket Ten Things Wrong with the Media 'Effects' Model article How to write an essay How to survive a PhD Media, Gender and Identity - site includes interviews and extra features Send me stuff, the mail-art project that got out of hand Some things about art and cities website, rather old now New Media Studies website, in need of some work Theorists in Lego Art corner

	My key interests, in 2009, are summarised in the Make and Connect Agenda.
Also:
	Studies where everyday people are invited to make things or media products, giving some insights into their relationship with media culture (see ArtLab).
	Creative study of the ways in which individuals use media products in the construction of their own narratives of the self, and self-identity (again, see ArtLab).
	Digital media being used by everyday people -- Web 2.0.
	Work linking qualitative research on audiences with contemporary critical approaches.
	Research which tries to get to grips with the 'power' of the media on the one hand, and the agency of audiences on the other ... but not 'media effects' (see why).