Recent Publications

Campbell, V. (2013) ‘Playing with Controversial Images in Videogames: The Terrorist Mission Controversy in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’, in Atwood, F., Campbell, V., Hunter, I.Q. and Lockyer, S. (eds.) Controversial Images: Media Representations on the Edge, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.: 254-268.

Das, R. Ed. (2013). Audiences: A cross-generational dialogue. A special issue of The Communication Review 16 (1). Introduction to the special issue.

Das, R (2013). “To be number one in someone’s eyes…” Children’s introspections about close relationships in reading Harry Potter. European Journal of Communication 28 (5) (1) 

Dickinson, R., Matthews, J., and Saltzis, K. (2013) Special Issue: New(s) Media Technologies and New(s) Work: Changing Journalistic Practices across Europe. International Communication Gazette. 75 (1). 

Dickinson, R., Matthews,J., and Saltzis, K. (2013). 'Studying journalists in changing times: Understanding news work as socially situated practice'. International Communication Gazette.75(1): 3-18

Tong, J. (2013) ‘The importance of place: an analysis of changes in investigative journalism in two Chinese provincial newspapers’, Journalism Practice. 7:1, 1-16.

Das, R. (2012).'Children reading an online genre: Heterogeneity in interpretive work'. Popular Communication 10 (4)

Das, R (2012). 'The task of interpretation'.  Participations: The international journal of audience and reception studies. 9 (1) 

Dickinson, R. and Memon, B. (2012) 'Press clubs, the journalistic field and the practice of journalism in Pakistan'. Journalism Studies, 14. 

Hansen, A., & Gunter, B. (2012). 'Alcohol, Advertising, Media and Consumption among Children, Teenagers and Young Adults'. In C. T. Salmon (Ed.), Communication Yearbook 36 (pp. 276-315). New York: Taylor & Francis/Routledge

Koteyko, N. (2012) 'Managing carbon emissions: A discursive presentation of ‘market-driven sustainability’ in the British media'. Language and Communication.  

Koteyko, N., Jaspal, R. and Nerlich. B (2012). 'Climate change and ‘climategate’ in online reader comments: A mixed methods study'. The Geographical Journal. 

Matthews, J. and  Brown, A.R. (2012) 'Negatively shaping the asylum agenda? The representational strategy and impact of a tabloid news campaign', Journalism Criticism, Theory and Practice, first published on January 10, 2012 as doi:10.1177/1464884911431386 

Madianou, M. (2012) ‘Humanitarian Campaigns in Social Media: network architectures and polymedia events’, Journalism Studies. iFirst, 17 September 2012, DOI:10.1080/1461670X.2012.718558

Madianou, M. (2012) ‘Migration and the accentuated ambivalence of motherhood: the role of ICTs in Filipino Transnational Families’. Global Networks, vol. 12 (3): 277-295. DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0374.2012.00352.x, 

Madianou, M. (2012) ‘News as a looking glass: shame and the symbolic power of mediation’. International Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 15(1): 3-16, DOI: 10.1177/1367877911411795 

Madianou, M. and Miller, D. (2012) ‘Polymedia: towards a new theory of digital media in interpersonal communication’. International Journal of Cultural Studies, Published online before print August 22, 2012, DOI:10.1177/1367877912452486

Madianou, M. and Miller, D. (2012) Migration and New Media: Transnational families and polymedia. London: Routledge.

Moylan, K. (2012) ‘ “Nothing is what it appears to be”: Event Fidelity and Critique in Battlestar Galactica and Dollhouse’, Science Fiction Film and Television Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1: 67 - 84. 

Smith Maguire, J. & Matthews, J. (2012) 'Are we all cultural intermediaries now? An introduction to cultural intermediaries in context'. Special issue of European Journal of Cultural Studies. 15(5): 551-562.

Smith Maguire, J. (2012) 'Provenance as a Filtering and Framing Device in the Qualification of Wine' Consumption, Markets and Culture, iFirst Article: 1-24. (paper forthcoming) DOI: 10.1080/10253866.2012.662829

Tong, J. and Mackay, H. (2012) ‘An analysis of discussions in the BBC Chinese ‘Have Your Say’ forum: international broadcasting in the new media age’, in Diasporas and Diplomacy: Cosmopolitan Contact Zones at the BBC World Service (1932-2012), ed. by M. Gillespie and A. Webb, London and New York: Routledge.

Vicari, S.(2012) 'Twitter and Public Reasoning Around Social Contention: The Case of #15ott in Italy', pp. 277-292 in From Social to Political. New Forms of Mobilization and Democratization, edited by Benjamin Tejerina and Ignacia Perugorria. Bilbao: Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del Pais Vasco. 

Vicari, S. (2012) 'Quantitative Narrative Analysis. Software Options Compared: PC-ACE and CAQDAS (ATLAS.ti, MAXqda, and NVIVO)'. Quality and Quantity (joint author with Roberto Franzosi, Sophie Doyle, Laura McClelland, and Caddie Putnam Rankin) (Published online 27 April 2012, DOI 10.1007/s11135-012-9714-3).  

Vicari, S. (2012) 'Ways of Measuring Agency: An Application of Quantitative Narrative Analysis to Lynching in Georgia (1875-1930)' Sociological Methodology 42(1): 1-41. (author with Roberto Franzosi and Gianluca De Fazio) (DOI 10.1177/0081175012462370) 

Whiteman, N. (2012) Undoing Ethics: Rethinking Practice in Online Research, New York: Springer. 

Young, G., & Whitty, M. T. (2012). Transcending Taboos: A moral and psychological examination of cyberspace. Routledge.

Whitty, M. T. & Buchanan, T. (2012). 'The Online Dating Romance Scam: A Serious Crime'. CyberPsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 15(3),181-183. 

Whitty, M. T., Buchanan, T., Joinson, A.N., & Meredith, A. (2012). 'Not all lies are spontaneous: An examination of deception across different modes of communication'. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63(1), 208-216.

Wright, S. (2012) “Assessing (e-)Democratic Innovations: “democratic goods” and Downing Street E-petitions”, Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 9(4), pp. 453-470. 

Wright, S. (2012) “From ‘third place’ to ‘Third Space’: everyday political talk in non-political online spaces”, Javnost: The Public, 19(3), pp. 5-20.

Claydon, E.A (2011) 'Film Music, Musicology and Semiotics: Analysing The Draughtsman's Contract (Peter Greenaway, 1982)'. Journal of British Cinema and Television, Vol. 8. No. 1: 62-80. ISSN 1743-4521

Couvering, E. van (2011). 'Navigational Media: The Political Economy of Online Traffic', Media Political Economies: Hierachies, Markets and Finance in the Global Media Industries. Eds. Winseck, D and Yin, J. London: Bloomsbury.

Gies, L (2011) ‘The Hard Sell: Promoting Human Rights’, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 24: 405-422

Gies, L (2011)'A Villains’ Charter? The Press and the Human Rights Act’, Crime, Media, Culture, 7 (2): 1-17

Gies, L (2011) 'Stars Behaving Badly: Inequality and Transgression in Celebrity Culture', Feminist Media Studies 11(3) 

Gies, L (2011). 'The Damp Rag and the Traffic Stopper: The Fame Factor in Appointing the First EU Presidence', Celebrity Studies. Vol. 2. No. 1: 88-90.

Hansen, A (2011) ‘Communication, media and environment: Towards reconnecting research on the production, content and social implications of environmental communication’. International Communication Gazette, 73(1-2), 7–25.

Madianou, M (2011) ‘News as a looking glass: shame and the symbolic power of mediation’. International Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 15 (2) (online first: 11 August DOI: 10.1177/1367877911411795)

Madianou, M. and Miller, D (2011) ‘Mobile Phone Parenting? Reconfiguring relationships between migrant Filipina mothers and their left behind children’. New Media and Society, vol. 13 (3): 457- 470. First published March 23, 2011 as doi:10.1177/1461444810393903 (Online First).

Matthews, J. and Cottle, S. (2011) 'Television news ecology in the United Kingdom: A study of communicative architecture, its production and meanings', Television and New Media, April 13, 2011

Newsinger, J. (2011) 'The politics of regional audio-visual policy in England: or, how we learnt to stop worrying and get "creative" ', International Journal of Cultural Policy, April 2011.

Reilly, P. (2011). The Troubles Online: Northern Irish Political Groups and Website Strategy. Manchester: MUP.

Tong, J. (2011) Investigative Journalism in China: Journalism, Power, and Society. New York and London: Continuum.

Mackay, H. & Tong, J (2011) 'Interactivity, the global conversation and World Service research: Digital China'. in Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Analysis 8(1)

Whitty, M.T., Young, G., & Goodings, L. (2011). 'What I won't do in pixels: Examining the limits of taboo violation in MMORPGs'. Computers in Human Behavior, 27, 268-275.