Francesca's consulting, public speaking, and writing focuses on:

• Digital culture and new media

• Creative and cultural work and histories

• Visual arts and popular culture

• Music and the internet

• Cultural memory and nostalgia

• Screen industries and storytelling

• Subcultures and archives

• Organisations and structural inequalities

• Reflexive research methods and poetics

• Marketplace trends and power dynamics

Consulting and commissioning enquiries can be made here.

Excerpts from interviews with Francesca feature in a wide range of TV, radio, online media, and industry pieces:

• Dazed on “The pushback against wokeness – and what it’s cost us”.

• i-D on “The ultra-rich will never have class consciousness”.

• Canvas8 on “The age of instinct”.

• Esquire on “The murky noughties phenomenon of auto-tuning the news”.

• Input on “A surveillance artist shows how Instagram magic is made”.

• Vodafone on “Does our kids’ digital activism actually work?”.

• The Washington Post on “The lucrative, complicated world of TikTok's interracial couples”.

• New Scientist on “Artificially intelligent robot perpetuates racist and sexist prejudice”.

• CNN on “After five seasons, 'Insecure' leaves behind a long-lasting legacy”.

• The Guardian on “Bossing it: why the women of big tech are taking over the small screen”.

• Quartz on “If everybody hates wokewashing, why do companies still do it?”.

• ABC News on “Bill calls for study of new law's impact on safety of sex workers”.

• The Guardian on “Why horror always creeps into black drama?”.

• The Independent on “Calls to end social media anonymity give platforms more power without actually fixing the problem, experts say”.

• Hot Press on “IDing the problem of racial abuse on social media”.

• The Face on “The case for online anonymity”.