About
Dr. Francesca Sobande is a Lecturer in Digital Media Studies/Director of the BA Media, Journalism and Culture programme (Cardiff University). Her work focuses on Black women's media experiences, digital remix culture, creative work, brand "woke-washing", and the politics of popular culture and power. She has commented on such topics for ABC News, Al Jazeera, BBC News, The Guardian, Quartz, and at events at the Wellcome Collection, ICA, and FACT. Francesca’s research features in international journals including European Journal of Cultural Studies, Marketing Theory, Consumption Markets & Culture, Communication, Culture & Critique, and Television & New Media. She is author of The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and co-editor with Prof. Akwugo Emejulu of To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe (Pluto Press, 2019). Francesca is also co-author with layla-roxanne hill of Black Oot Here: Black Lives in Scotland (Bloomsbury/Zed Books, forthcoming).