Ben Light

Manchester, United Kingdom United Kingdom

Professor of Digital Society, University of Salford

Education

My research concerns people’s everyday experiences of digital media with a focus on (non)consumption, gender and sexuality, digital methods, and digital media engagement for arts, culture, health and wellbeing. My book, Disconnecting with Social Networking Sites (Palgrave MacMillan) was published in 2014. In 2011, (with Garry Crawford and Victoria Gosling) Online Gaming in Context: The Social and Cultural Significance of Online Games, was published by Routledge. I have published in journals such as New Media and Society, Information Communication and Society, Cultural Sociology, Information Technology and People and Continuum: the Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. I am a Senior E...