Hybrid Lecture – Saving Our Digital World
Saturday 20 June 2026, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm BST, online and London, UK
Is there a way to eliminate the inequalities and harms of commercial social media and the online world, and foster differently the human power to connect and communicate?
Meet your speaker and chair:
Adele Zeynep Walton is a British-Turkish journalist reporting on the human impacts of digital technology and social media and the author of Logging Off: The Human Cost of Our Digital World. Having channelled a personal loss into campaigning for a safe digital future, Adele is an online safety campaigner with Families and Survivors to Prevent Online Suicide Harm and Bereaved Families for Online Safety. She regularly works with parliamentarians and policy-makers, bereaved families and parents to campaign for tech accountability and suicide prevention.
Adele has been interviewed by Radio 4, The Times, BBC News, Channel 4, 5Live, CBC, Al Jazeera, LBC, Sky News, The Guardian and many more. Adele has also featured in the documentary Error 404: The Internet In Crisis. She is also a member of the Online Safety Act Network , a Founding Member of EU youth movement Ctrl + Alt + Reclaim and recently spoke at Davos. She is also the co-founder of Logging Off Club, a global movement promoting community and connection through their phone-free events.
Nick Couldry is Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory Emeritus and Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE. As a sociologist of media and culture, he approaches media and communications from the perspective of the symbolic power that has been historically concentrated in media institutions. He is interested in how media and communications institutions and infrastructures contribute to various types of order (social, political, cultural, economic, ethical). His work has drawn on, and contributed to, social, spatial, democratic and cultural theory, anthropology, and media and communications ethics. His analysis of media as ‘practice’ has been widely influential. In the past 10 years, his work has increasingly focussed on data questions, and ethics, politics and deep social implications of Big Data and small data practices.
Find more information and book your free place here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/lse-festival/2026/saving-our-digital-world
This event will be held online and at Marshall Building, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London, UK.