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Department of Media & Communication
Bankfield House    
University of Leicester
132 New Walk

Leicester
LE1 7JA

United Kingdom

Campus courses
T: +44(0)116 252 3863
E: mediacom@le.ac.uk

Distance learning courses
T: +44(0)116 252 5275
E: mediacom-dl@le.ac.uk
Fax: +44(0)116 252 5276 (all)

 

Recent Publications

Staff with the department regularly publish in many forms; selected recent publications can be found below. This page will be updated with new publications periodically.

Dickinson, R. and Memon, B. (2012) 'Press clubs, the journalistic field and the practice of journalism in Pakistan'. Journalism Studies, 14. Available online from 8 November 2011: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1461670X.2011.629109

Koteyko, N. (2012) 'Managing carbon emissions: A discursive presentation of ‘market-driven sustainability’ in the British media'. Language and Communication.  Available online 21 December 2011: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0271530911000632

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 

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. 

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

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 StrategyManchester: 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)

Thelwall, M., Sud, P. and Vis, F., (2011), ‘Commenting on YouTube videos: From Guatemalan rock to El Big Bang’, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. DOI: 10.1002/asi.21679

Mihelj, S., Van Zoonen, L., and Vis, F., (2011), ‘Cosmopolitan communication online: YouTube responses to the anti-Islam film Fitna. British Journal of Sociology, 62(4): 613-632

Campbell, V (2010) with Gunter, B., Touri, M. And Gibson, R. ‘News Blogs, Mainstream News and News Agendas’, in Tunney, S. and Monaghan, G. (eds.), Web Journalism:// A New Form of Citizenship?, Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, pp: 29-45.

Claydon, E. A (2010) ‘Socio-cultural engagements with Landscape: Why do we visit locations?’. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. Vol. 5. No. 8: 179-191.

Dickinson, R (2010) 'Making up the news. Journalists, deviance and social control in news production'. In Allan, S (ed) The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism. London: Routledge, pp 223-233.

Gunter, B.; Hansen, A.; and Touri, M (2010) Alcohol Advertising and Young People's Drinking: Representations, Reception and Regulation. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 

Gunter, B (2010). Television versus the Internet: Will TV Prosper or Perish as the World Moves Online? Oxford, UK; Chandos.

Hansen, A (2010). Environment, Media and Communication. London: Routledge

Koteyko, N (2010). 'Mining the Internet for Linguistic and Social Data: An analysis of 'carbon compounds' in web feeds'  Discourse and Society. Vol 21. No. 6: 1-20.

Matthews, J and Smith Maguire, J (2010) 'Cultural Intermediaries and the Media', Sociology Compass. Vol. 4. No. 7: 405-416.

Matthews, J (2010)  Producing Serious News for Citizen Children: A Study of the BBC’s Children’s Programme Newsround. New York: Edwin Mellen Press

Smith Maguire, J (2010) 'Provenance and the Liminality of Production and Consumption: The Case of Wine Promoters'. Marketing Theory, Vol. 10. No. 3: 269-82.

Tong, J (2010) 'The Crisis in the Centralized Media Control Theory: How Local Power Controls Media in China' in Media, Culture and SocietyVol. 32. No. 6: 925-942.

Vicari, S (2010) 'Measuring collective action frames: A linguistic approach to frame analysis'. Poetics Vol. 38. No.5:  504-525. 

Whiteman, N (2010) 'Control and Contingency: Maintaining Ethical Stances in Research'  International Journal of Internet Research Ethics, Issue 3 (1), 6-22.

Whitty, M. T and Buchanan, T (2010) '"What's in a 'Screen Name'?" Attractiveness of Different Types of Screen Names Used by Online Daters'. International Journal of Internet Science. Vol. 5. No. 1: 5-19.

Bain, J., Kelly, S and Chaban, N. (2009) 'European Commission Delegatios and EU Public Policy Stakeholders' Perceptions from the Asia-Pacific'. European Foreign Affairs Review.  Vol. 2 No. 1.

Newsinger, J. (2009) ‘The interface of documentary and fiction: the Amber film workshop and regional documentary practice’. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 6(3): 387-406

Moylan, K (2009) ‘Towards Accented Radio: Migrant Produced Programming in Dublin’, in J. Gordon (ed),  Notions of Community: A Collection of Community Media Debates and Dilemmas. Oxford: Peter Lang, 109 – 126.

Vis, F (2009) ‘Wikinews reporting of Huricane Katrina’, in S. Allan and E. Thorsen (eds) Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives. New York: Peter Lang

Whiteman, N (2009) ‘The De/stabilisation of Identity in Online Fan Communities’ Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Vol. 15,  No. 4, 391-410.

Saltzis K. & Dickinson R (2008) 'Inside the changing newsroom: journalists’ responses to media convergence', Aslib Proceedings, 60 (3), pp.216-228

Simmons, T (2008) 'Sexuality and immigration: UK family reunion policy and the regulation of sexual citizens in the European Union', Political Geography 27 (2) 213-230

Taylor, I (2008) ‘Surveying the Battlefield: Mapping the different arguments and positions of the Iraq War debate through Frame Analysis’, Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, Vol.5, No.3, September 2008 (pp.69-90).