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Nicholas Garnham (born 1937) isEmeritus Professor at theUniversity of Westminster in the academic field ofMedia Studies.

Garnham attendedWinchester College from 1950 to 1955 where the major influence on his thinking was British socialist historianR. H. Tawney. His main interests wereBritish history, architecture and cinema, the last of which has remained a lifelong passion and research focus. Garnham served in theRoyal Navy from 1956 to 1958. He was in one of the last drafts to the service under compulsory conscription. He studied briefly at theSorbonne in Paris in 1958, before moving to studyEnglish literature atTrinity College, Cambridge that same year.^[1]

From 1962 until 1970 he was a director and film editor at theBBC. He left to enter academia at thePolytechnic of Central London to teach film making and film theory. Garnham was central in establishing first Media Studies degree at the University, a Bachelor of Arts course in 1975. He also became part of the university's newly established Communication Studies Department. He was Governor of theBritish Film Institute (BFI) from 1973 to 1977. He was founding editor of, and has remained a senior editor of, the journal Media, Culture and Society since it was first published in 1979.

• The New Priesthood: British Television Today (1970) withJoan Bakewell
• Samuel Fuller (1971)
• Structures of Television (1972)
• The Economics of Television (1988) withRichard Collins andGareth Locksley
• Capitalism and Communication: Global Culture and the Economics of Information (1990) editorFred Inglis
• Emancipation, The Media, And Modernity: Arguments about the Media and Social Theory (2000)
• The Information Society is also a Class Society – The Impact of the New Information Technologies on Cultural Production and Consumption, Information Technology: Impact on the Way of Life (L. Bannion et al., eds). Dublin: Tycooly International (1981)
• The Economics of Television, (1987) with R. Collins and G. Locksley
• The Media and the Public Sphere (Ed. Calhoun) (1992)
• The Role of the Public Sphere in the Information Society, in Regulating the Global Information Society (C.T. Marsden, ed.), London: Routledge. (2000)
• Information Society as Theory or Ideology: A Critical Perspective on Technology, Education and Employment in the Information Age Digital Academe (W. Dutton and B. Loader, eds), pp. 253–67. London: Routledge. (2002)

• Ellis Cashmore and Chris Rojek (1999),Dictionary of Cultural Theorists, pp. 179–181
• Cook, D. (1996).The culture industry revisited. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Gandy, O. H. (1999).Community pluralism and the 'tipping point': Editorial responses to race and related structural change. In D. Demers & K. Viswanath (Eds.), Mass Media, Social Control and Social Change (pp. 159–181). Ames, Iowa.: Iowa State University Press.
• Garnham, N. (2005).A personal intellectual memoir. Media, Culture & Society, 27(4), 469–493.
• Durham, M. G., & Kellner, D. M. (eds) (2001).Media and cultural studies (pp 197–229). Malden, Mass.: Blackwell.

• Biographical page
• Paper
• Paper,The Information Society, Myth or Reality? (PDF)
• Garnham and Habermas, reagle.org
• Paper by Brian Winston (PDF)

• 1937 births
• Living people
• University of Paris alumni
• British mass media scholars
• British Marxists
• Marxist theorists
• Royal Navy sailors
• Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
• People educated at Winchester College
• Academics of the University of Westminster
• Governors of the British Film Institute

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