Professor Nick Couldry FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2025
- Honours
- FBA
- Subjects
- Media, performance and communications
- Website
- https://www.nickcouldry.org/
Summary
Nick Couldry is Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory Emeritus at the London School of Economics. Born in London, he was educated at the Universities of Oxford and London.
Before his academic career, he worked as a lawyer and a musician, co-founding the art event promoter, London’s Secret Spaces.
He served as Head of the Department of Media and Communications both at LSE and at Goldsmiths, University of London.
His books include 'The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What if it Can’t?' and (with Ulises Mejias) 'Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back'.
He has been Visiting Professor at universities in Australia, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and the USA, and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, receiving honorary doctorates from Tampere University (Finland) and Södertörn University (Sweden).
Between 2015 and 2017, he served as one of the Coordinating Lead Authors for the International Panel on Social Progress’s report on Rethinking Society for the 21st Century.
In 2020 he co-founded the international network of activists and researchers Tierra Comun whose main focus is on challenging data colonialism in the majority world, especially Latin America.
In 2025 he received the Dallas Smythe Award from the Union for Democratic Communications.