By Matt Grimes, Senior Lecturer Music Industries and Radio
So it seems that he gloves are off in the next round in the fight for streaming services and coming out of the corner with a ringside music celebrity support team is heavyweight music mogul Jay Z. Already a successful business mogul and rapper it seems that […]
By Dr Steve McCabe, Birmingham City Business School
Today’s announcement that the local bakery company Firkins has closed down with the loss of 100 jobs is, as always, a tragedy for the families affected by a sudden loss of income.
Firkins is a company that will be very familiar to those who live in the West Midlands […]
Professor Mike Jackson, Birmingham City Business School
There have been reports in the computing press last week that Microsoft will cease developing Internet Explorer as part of Windows 10. Its eventual fate will be to be replaced with software which is currently known as Project Spartan and will be renamed when Microsoft’s marketing department decide how […]
Professor Craig Jackson, Head of Psychology at Birmingham City University
In February 1996 when Take That announced their split, press reports were feverish about the prospect of fans, distraught at the news of the band’s demise, threatening to commit suicide, and being mournful. While we may look back on this with some joyful glee, it might […]
Father Oliver Coss is a Small Heath vicar who sees the effects of deprivation every day. He is speaking at a Birmingham City University debate on child poverty this Friday…
My work leads me to some of the most deprived Birmingham residents in Small Heath.
I see families in poverty for multiple reasons. They can be recently […]
Dr Steve McCabe, Birmingham City Business School
It’s a bit rich of Cameron who in the period preceding the last election goaded the then prime minister, Labour leader Gordon Brown to engage in a TV debate so that, like the USA where such events are common, the voters could see the key people who they would […]
The portrayal of Muslims in the media is feeding prejudice and encouraging discrimination, according to Faeeza Vaid, Executive Director of the National Muslim Women’s Network.
The figurehead for Muslim women was speaking at a Birmingham City University hosted Integration Roadshow, held in partnership with the Department for Communities and Local Government. The half-day conference gave […]
Dr Kerry Gough, Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Theory at Birmingham City University
As the ubiquitous Orange Wednesdays offer rolls its end credits, the end of an era in cinema exhibition concession practice is marked. Orange Wednesdays represented one of the major UK cinema-going incentives of the last 10 years. However, the end of the offer […]
Professor Mike Jackson, Birmingham City Business School
There is much to be praised in President Obama’s plan for a free and open Internet and much which might inform the polices of European Governments. On the other hand, in his interview to Recode, he makes claims which really should be challenged:
Obama said: “We have owned the Internet. Our […]
Professor Mike Jackson – Birmingham City Business School
In a recent news story, internet pioneer Vint Cerf has warned that our current use of digital technology could mean that future generations are unable to learn anything about us.
For hundreds of years we have written things down in order to make records of what we have done. […]
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