Dr Clea Bourne
Clea’s main research interest is in financial markets and how they are mediated in global and local discourses.
Staff details
Position
Senior Lecturer, convenor of the MA in Promotional Media: Public Relations, Advertising and Marketing
Department
Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
c.bourne (@gold.ac.uk)
I am the convenor of the MA Promotional Media: Public Relations, Advertising & Marketing. I also convene the Heretical Finance Reading Group, which meets first Mondays of the month at Goldsmiths’ Political Economy Research Centre.
Research Interests
My broad research interests lie in the different ways that 21st century economies are strategically communicated and mediatised through various actors, practices and discourses. This research interest has translated into the following themes:
- Naturalising Artificial Intelligence in everyday life: Situating Artificial Intelligence as a ‘re-boot’ to neoliberal narratives, naturalised as ‘common sense’ through visuals and texts.
- Communicating Trust in Financial Markets: Locating wholesale, retail and state financial markets in the context of globalisation and critical discourse.
- Promotional professions as discursive boundary work: Applying sociological approaches to explore professional identity and boundary work at the intersection of the PR, Advertising and Marketing professions.
Areas of supervision
I am interested in supervising doctoral work which explores strategic efforts to communicate economic, financial and market developments. I am also interested in supervising research exploring the effect of media convergence and digital technologies on the PR, advertising and marketing sectors.