Dr Joe Jackson

Biography

Dr Joe Jackson is Senior Lecturer in Communications and Media: Multimedia Production at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. His debut book – Kahlil Joseph and the Audiovisual Atlantic: Music, Modernity, Transmedia Art (2024) – is out now with Bloomsbury Academic.

This book was awarded Best First Monograph: Runner Up 2025 by BAFTSS - British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies. The book has recently been reviewed by The Thinker: A Pan-African Quarterly For Thought Leaders. You can learn more about LCC's broader success at BAFTSS 2025 here.

Joe's current research focuses on the intercultural and transmedia flows of contemporary music videos (especially where music video, film, advertising, installation and other 'unstable' media forms overlap and interact across an array of digital and offline environments).

Joe has presented work at a range of academic institutions, including: Birkbeck, UCL, SOAS and Goldsmiths. Attempting to bridge the gap(s) between academia, industry and the general public, he has also spoken at a variety of public-facing events and industry-orientated spaces, such as: Ars Electronica Festival, Bertha DocHouse and FOCUS - The Meeting Place for International Production.

Joe is a member of LCC's Digital Economies and Cultures Research Hub, exploring how transcultural digital media forms flow between and oscillate across otherwise fixed geographic borders and spatiotemporal configurations, as well as the institution's Sonic Screen Lab, working with an inspiring group of researchers through experiments and events across sound and image. Since 2019, he has also been a member of the Screen Worlds collective (a project funded by the European Research Council, hosted at SOAS, University of London).

He wrote about global media production as Web Editor for The Location Guide, and previously created educational resources at the Institution of Civil Engineers. Joe studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies (PhD, MA) and University College London (BA), winning the SOAS Postgraduate Thesis Prize and passing his PhD viva voce examination with no revisions or corrections.

His teaching and research activities both explore the intersections between media theory and creative practice, examining overlaps and tensions across academic paradigms, different practical skills and audio(di)visual modes of expression. He loves working in LCC’s inspiring and creative educational environment, empowering emerging voices and nurturing new talent while, at the same time, channelling his own passions for academia, creativity and the arts.

He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

www.josephowenjackson.com
www.screenworlds.org
www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/london-college-of-communication/people/joe-jackson