Dr Lukasz Szulc
PhD
Department of Sociological Studies
Lecturer in Digital Media and Society
+44 114 222 6416
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- Profile
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Lukasz joined the Department in 2018 as a Lecturer in Digital Media and Society. He defended his PhD on nationalism and transnationalism in queer digital cultures in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Antwerp in 2015.
He is a recipient of European Commission’s Marie Curie Individual Fellowship for the project on queer migrant identities and social media profiles, which he has conducted in the Media and Communications Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Lukasz has been actively involved in the International Communication Association.
He currently acts as the association’s board member and co-chair of the LGBTQ Interest Group (2017-2021), after serving as the group’s Student and Early Career Representative between 2016 and 2017.
- Research interests
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Lukasz’s work is dedicated to cultural and critical media studies which investigate the role of media in everyday life. He has been particularly interested in the intersections of queer, national and transnational identities in the context of globalisation and digital media.
He usually discusses those topics from the perspective of Central and Eastern European countries, particularly Poland, advocating internationalisation and de-westernisation of media studies.
His current research project looks into the transformations of identity in the digital media landscape of the early XXI century, examining self-presentation practices of Polish LGBTQs in the UK.
Research areas:
- Cultural and critical media studies
- Digital media and identity
- Queer theory and LGBTQ studies
- Nationalism and transnationalism
- Central and Eastern Europe, particularly Poland
- Qualitative research methods
- Publications
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Books
- Transnational Homosexuals in Communist Poland. Springer International Publishing.
- LGBTQs, Media and Culture in Europe. Routledge.
Journal articles
- Profiles, Identities, Data: Making Abundant and Anchored Selves in a Platform Society. Communication Theory. View this article in WRRO
- Book review : Feeling Normal: Sexuality and Media Criticism in the Digital Age by F. Hollis Griffin. Television & New Media. View this article in WRRO
- Navigating online selves : social, cultural, and material contexts of social media use by diasporic gay men. Social Media + Society, 2(4). View this article in WRRO
- Domesticating the nation online: Banal nationalism on LGBTQ websites in Poland and Turkey. Sexualities, 19(3), 304-327.
- Krzysztof Tomasik, Gejerel: Mniejszości Seksualne w PRL-u. Sexualities, 18(8), 1018-1019.
- Homonationalism and Western progressive narrative: locating ‘conservative heartlands’ withZenne Dancer(2012) and its Western reviews. Asian Journal of Communication, 25(6), 551-566.
- Banal nationalism and queers online: Enforcing and resisting cultural meanings of .tr. New Media & Society, 17(9), 1530-1546.
- Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia. International Journal of Communication, 8, 2927-2931.
- Queer Online: Media, Technology & Sexuality. International Journal of Communication, 8, 2927-2931.
- LGBT Identity and Online New Media. International Journal of Communication, 8, 2927-2931.
- The internet and sexual identity formation: Comparing Internet use before and after coming out. Communications, 38(4).
Chapters
- Queer Migrants and Digital
Culture, The SAGE Handbook of Media and Migration (pp. 220-232). SAGE Publications Ltd
- Banal Nationalism in the Internet Age: Rethinking the Relationship Between Nations, Nationalisms and the Media, Everyday Nationhood (pp. 53-74). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Queer in Poland: Under construction In Downing L & Gillett R (Ed.), Queer in Europe: Contemporary Case Studies (pp. 159-172).
- Queer Globalization and the Media (pp. 1-9). Wiley
- Pink Press (pp. 1-12). Wiley
- Queer Migration and Digital Media Oxford University Press
Reports
- LGBTQ #PolesinUK: Tożsamość, Migracja i Media Społecznościowe View this article in WRRO
- Queer #PolesinUK: Identity, Migration and Social Media View this article in WRRO
Other
- Queer and over here: Polish migrants stay on despite Brexit, LSE Blogs.
- How LGBT rights became a key battleground in Poland’s election, LSE Blogs.
- Our Profile(d) Selves: How social media platforms use data to tell us who we should be, LSE Blogs.
- Was Homosexuality Illegal in Communist Europe?, Notches Blog.
- How underground magazines helped liberate gay men in the Cold War, PinkNews.
- The Intimate (Self-)Regulation of Big Tech, LSE Blogs.
- The New Polish Government and ‘Gender Ideology’, Notches Blog.
- Operation Hyacinth and Poland’s Pink Files, Notches Blog.
- Histories of Sexualities in Central and Eastern Europe, Notches Blog.
- Conchita’s Europe: Eurovision, homonationalism and the politics of sexuality, Notches Blog.
- What will .GAY stand for?, Notches Blog.
- Making the Polish Stonewall, Notches Blog.
- Transnational Homosexuals in Communist Poland. Springer International Publishing.
- Teaching activities
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Lukasz currently teaches modules for BA and MA programmes in Digital Media and Society.
He is a module leader for:
- ‘Perspective on Digital Society’ (MA)
- ‘Queer Theory and the Media’ (BA)
He is a seminar leader for:
- ‘Social Media, Data and Society’ (MA)
Previously, Lukasz also taught ‘Digital Identities’ in the department as well as ‘The Audience in Media and Communications’ and ‘Media, Technology and Everyday Life’ in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
He was awarded a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education at LSE and he is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA).