Digital Publics

John Michael Roberts is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Communications at Brunel University. He has taught the sociology of new media at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at Brunel for ten years. His publications include New Media and Public Activism: Neoliberalism, the State and Radical Protest in the Public Sphere (Policy Press, 2014), The Competent Public Sphere: Global Political Economy, Dialogue, and the Contemporary Workplace (Palgrave, 2009) and The Aesthetics of Free Speech: Rethinking the Public Sphere (Palgrave, 2003). His research interests include cultural and social theory, new media activism, the public sphere, free speech, state theory and global political economy.