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Biographical note
James Curran is Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK He is the author or editor of 21 books about the media, including Media and Power (2002), Media and Democracy (2011) and Misunderstanding the Internet (with Natalie Fenton and Des Freedman) (2016, 2nd ed.), all translated into multiple foreign languages, and Power Without Responsibility (with Jean Seaton) (2018, 8th ed.). Also widely translated, this book was described by the Times Higher as having ‘cracked the canon’, and by the Irish Times as a ‘classic of media history and analysis’.
David Hesmondhalgh is Professor of Media, Music and Culture in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. He is the author of Why Music Matters (2013); Creative Labour: Media Work in Three Cultural Industries (2011, co-written with Sarah Baker); Culture, Economy and Politics: The Case of New Labour (2015, co-written with Kate Oakley, David Lee and Melissa Nisbett); and The Cultural Industries, now in its fourth edition (2019). He is also editor or co-editor of six other books on media, music and culture.