2024-03-29T10:49:29Zhttp://uobrep.openrepository.com/oai/requestoai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2289412013-05-14T09:18:19Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Charles, Alec
2012-06-14T14:33:27Z
2012-06-14T14:33:27Z
2008-11
Charles, A. (2008) 'War without end? utopia, the family, and the post-9/11 world in Russell T. Davies's Doctor Who' Science Fiction Studies. 35: 3, 450-465
00917729
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/228941
Science Fiction Studies
en
Science Fiction Studies
Doctor Who
War without end? utopia, the family, and the post-9/11 world in Russell T. Davies's Doctor Who
Article
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2294712020-04-23T07:28:46Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Charles, Alec
2012-06-18T14:24:57Z
2012-06-18T14:24:57Z
2011
Charles, A. (2011) 'The crack of doom: the uncanny echoes of Steven Moffat's Doctor Who' Science Fiction Film and Television 4 (1):1-23
1754-3770
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/229471
Science Fiction Film and Television
This paper analyses Steven Moffat's contributions to the British sf series Doctor Who between 2005 and 2010, both as a screenwriter and as executive producer. This analysis is framed specifically by the Freudian notion of the uncanny, and suggests that Moffat's work on Doctor Who confronts unconscious perceptions, repressed fears and death itself through storytelling techniques which attempt to connect directly with the audience by deconstructing the distance between material reality and the series's fantasy space.
en
Liverpool University Press
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/science_fiction_film_and_television/summary/v004/4.1.charles.html
Doctor Who
storytelling
screenwriting
Steven Moffat
science fiction
television
The crack of doom: the uncanny echoes of Steven Moffat's Doctor Who
ArticleThis paper analyses Steven Moffat's contributions to the British sf series Doctor Who between 2005 and 2010, both as a screenwriter and as executive producer. This analysis is framed specifically by the Freudian notion of the uncanny, and suggests that Moffat's work on Doctor Who confronts unconscious perceptions, repressed fears and death itself through storytelling techniques which attempt to connect directly with the audience by deconstructing the distance between material reality and the series's fantasy space.oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2294552016-01-26T09:53:45Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Charles, Alec
2012-06-18T14:25:38Z
2012-06-18T14:25:38Z
2012
Charles, A. (2012) 'Deer departed: a study of the news coverage of death of the Exmoor emperor'. Journalism Education 1 (1): 48-60
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/229455
Journalism Education: the Journal of the Association for Journalism Education
en
Association for Journalism Education
http://journalism-education.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1-1-Deer-Departed.pdf
Exmoor
deer
media
journalism
journalism education
Deer departed: a study of the news coverage of the death of the death of the Exmoor emperor
Article
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2298512012-07-09T13:14:06Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Gaber, Ivor
2012-06-20T10:06:20Z
2012-06-20T10:06:20Z
2009
The slow death of the Westminster lobby: collateral damage from the MPs’ expenses scandal 2009, 4 (4):478-497. British Politics
1746-918X
1746-9198
10.1057/bp.2009.20
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/229851
British Politics
en
Palgrave MacMillan
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/doifinder/10.1057/bp.2009.20
Archived with thanks to British Politics
MPs expenses scandal
politics
Westminster Lobby
The slow death of the Westminster lobby: collateral damage from the MPs’ expenses scandal
Article
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2300202020-04-23T07:28:47Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Gaber, Ivor
Seymour, Emily
Thomas, Lisa
University of Bedfordshire
Goldsmiths, University of London
2012-06-21T10:50:05Z
2012-06-21T10:50:05Z
2009-04
Gaber, I., Seymour, E., Thomas, L. (2009) 'Review commentary: is the BBC biased?: the corporation and the coverage of the 2006 Israeli--Hezbollah war' Journalism 10 (2):239-259.
1464-8849
10.1177/1464884908100603
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/230020
Journalism
In the light of the findings of the BBC's 2006 impartiality review of their coverage of the Arab—Israeli conflict, and the fact that most of the accusations of bias against the BBC continue to come from pro-Israel lobbyists, this research sought to investigate whether their claims of anti-Israel bias during the BBC's reporting of the 2006 Israeli— Hezbollah war could be validated. Using ITV News as a control group, these claims were measured against the BBC's revised editorial guidelines for covering the Middle East. The article demonstrates that, whilst certain aspects of the coverage were problematic, BBC journalists broadly adhered to the Governors' revised editorial guidelines, and covered the conflict more or less impartially — if there was any bias it was towards, rather than against, Israel. ITV News coverage was more problematic but still achieved a significant degree of impartiality.
en
Sage Journals
http://jou.sagepub.com/cgi/doi/10.1177/1464884908100603
bias in journalism
Israel
Hezbollah
Palestine
BBC
Review commentary: is the BBC biased?: the corporation and the coverage of the 2006 Israeli--Hezbollah war
ArticleIn the light of the findings of the BBC's 2006 impartiality review of their coverage of the Arab—Israeli conflict, and the fact that most of the accusations of bias against the BBC continue to come from pro-Israel lobbyists, this research sought to investigate whether their claims of anti-Israel bias during the BBC's reporting of the 2006 Israeli— Hezbollah war could be validated. Using ITV News as a control group, these claims were measured against the BBC's revised editorial guidelines for covering the Middle East. The article demonstrates that, whilst certain aspects of the coverage were problematic, BBC journalists broadly adhered to the Governors' revised editorial guidelines, and covered the conflict more or less impartially — if there was any bias it was towards, rather than against, Israel. ITV News coverage was more problematic but still achieved a significant degree of impartiality.oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2300192012-06-21T12:05:29Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Gaber, Ivor
2012-06-21T10:48:20Z
2012-06-21T10:48:20Z
2009-01
Exploring the paradox of Liberal democracy: more political communications equals less public trust 2009, 80 (1):84-914 The Political Quarterly
00323179
10.1111/j.1467-923X.2009.01961.x
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/230019
The Political Quarterly
en
Wiley
http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/j.1467-923X.2009.01961.x
Archived with thanks to The Political Quarterly
liberal democracy
public trust
politics
Exploring the paradox of Liberal democracy: more political communications equals less public trust
Article
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2300332017-05-16T17:08:46Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Gordon, Janey
2012-06-21T10:49:23Z
2012-06-21T10:49:23Z
2009
Gordon, J. (2009) "Community radio, funding and ethics: the UK and Australian models", in: Gordon, J. (ed.) Notions of community: a collection of community media debates and dilemmas. Oxford: Lang. pp59-79
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/230033
en
Lang
http://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b1442107~S20
Community radio, funding and ethics: the UK and Australian models
Book chapter
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2300322012-07-09T11:54:40Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Gordon, Janey
2012-06-21T10:44:09Z
2012-06-21T10:44:09Z
2009
Gordon, J. (2009) "The mobile phone and the public sphere: mobile phone usage in three critical situations" , in Gordon, J. (ed) Notions of community: a collection of community media debates and dilemmas. Oxford: Lang. pp225-243
9783039113743
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/230032
en
Lang
http://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b1442107~S20
mobile phones
media
The mobile phone and the public sphere: mobile phone usage in three critical situations
Book chapter
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2300172018-03-27T09:57:31Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257col_10547_132260
Hockley, Luke
2012-06-21T10:43:11Z
2012-06-21T10:43:11Z
2011
Hockley, L. (2011) "The third image: depth psychology and the cinematic experience", in Hauke, C. and Hockley, L. (eds.) Jung and film 2. The return: further post-Jungian takes on the moving image. London: Routledge, pp.132-147.
9780415488976
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/230017
en
Routledge
http://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b1493068~S20
The third image: depth psychology and the cinematic experience
Book chapter
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2300312012-07-09T11:22:41Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Jebb, Keith
2012-06-21T10:34:59Z
2012-06-21T10:34:59Z
2010-03
Jebb, K. (2010) Review of "A matter of utterance: the poetry of J,H. Prynne" (ed.) Ian Brinton. Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, 2 (1), pp.97-100.
17582733
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/230031
Journal of British and Irish innovative poetry
en
Gylphi
J.H. Prynne
poetry
Book review: "A matter of utterance: the poetry of J.H. Prynne"
Article
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2300162017-09-28T12:07:22Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Silverman, Jon
2012-06-21T10:41:48Z
2012-06-21T10:41:48Z
2012
Silverman, J. (2012) Crime, policy and the media: the shaping of criminal justice, 1989-2010. Abingdon: Routledge
9780415672320
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/230016
en
Routledge
http://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b1473161~S20
mass media
crime
criminal justice
Crime, policy and the media: the shaping of criminal justice, 1989-2010
Book
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2300152017-09-28T12:09:10Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Silverman, Jon
2012-06-21T10:40:19Z
2012-06-21T10:40:19Z
2010-12
Silverman, J. (2011) 'Addicted to getting drugs wrong' British Journalism Review 21 (4):31-36
0956-4748
1741-2668
10.1177/0956474810393603
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/230015
British Journalism Review
en
Sage Journals
http://bjr.sagepub.com/cgi/doi/10.1177/0956474810393603
drug policy
media
politics
Addicted to getting drugs wrong
Article
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2300132017-09-28T12:09:48Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Silverman, Jon
2012-06-21T10:34:10Z
2012-06-21T10:34:10Z
2010-05
Counterblast: How Tony Blair fed the feral beast of the media and savaged the criminal justice system 2010, 49 (2):166-169 The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice
02655527
14682311
10.1111/j.1468-2311.2010.00609.x
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/230013
The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice
en
Wiley
http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/j.1468-2311.2010.00609.x
criminal justice
politics
media
Tony Blair
Counterblast: how Tony Blair fed the feral beast of the media and savaged the criminal justice system
Article
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2300142017-09-28T12:08:20Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Silverman, Jon
2012-06-21T10:38:57Z
2012-06-21T10:38:57Z
2011
Silverman, J. (2011) "Youtube if you want to: New Media, investigative tele-journalism and social control." In: Charles, A. and Stewart, G. (eds.) The end of journalism: news in the twenty-first century. Oxford: Lang. pp51-61.
9783034302616
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/230014
en
Lang
Youtube
new media
journalism
Youtube if you want to: New Media, investigative tele-journalism and social control
Book chapter
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2313312020-04-18T19:33:38Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Gaber, Ivor
University of Bedfordshire
2012-06-28T14:25:51Z
2012-06-28T14:25:51Z
2009
Gaber, I. (2009) "Three cheers for subjectivity: or the crumbling of the seven pillars of journalistic wisdom", Communications Law: the Journal of computer, Media and Telecommunications Law, 14 (5), pp150-156.
1746-7616
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/231331
Communications Law: the journal of Computer, Media and Telecommunications Law
en
Bloomsbury Professional
journalism
subjectivity
bias
Three cheers for subjectivity: or the crumbling of the seven pillars of journalistic wisdom
Article
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2315552012-07-02T10:48:32Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Barnett, Steven
Ramsey, Gordon Neil
Gaber, Ivor
2012-06-29T15:47:46Z
2012-06-29T15:47:46Z
2012
Barnett, S., Ramsey, G.N., and Gaber, I. (2012) From Callaghan to credit crunch: changing trends in British television news 1975-2009. University of Westminster
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/231555
en
University of Westminster
journalism
news
From Callaghan to credit crunch: changing trends in British television news 1975-2009
Other
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2315222012-07-13T12:14:22Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132255col_10547_132257col_10547_132260
Fisher, Austin
2012-06-29T15:46:02Z
2012-06-29T15:46:02Z
2009-10
Fisher, A. (2009) "A Marxist's gotta do what a Marxist's gotta do: political violence on the Italian frontier", Scope: an online journal of film and television studies, 15 [online] . Available at : http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/cultborr/chapter.php?id=14
1465-9166
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/231522
Scope: an online journal of film and television studies
en
University of Nottingham
http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/cultborr/chapter.php?id=14
Spaghetti western
Marxism
film studies
violence
insurrection
P303 Film studies
A Marxist's gotta do what a Marxist's gotta do: political violence on the Italian frontier
Article
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2366942012-08-02T17:34:16Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Gordon, Janey
2012-07-31T16:45:36Z
2012-07-31T16:45:36Z
2012
Gordon, J. (2012) "Community radio audience research", in Mollgaard, M. (ed.) Radio and society: new thinking for an old medium. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.197-215.
1443836079
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/236694
en
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
http://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b1490960~S20
community radio
audience research
Community radio audience research
Radio and society: new thinking for an old medium
Book chapter
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2367132012-08-02T17:35:55Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Gordon, Janey
2012-07-31T16:43:40Z
2012-07-31T16:43:40Z
2012
Gordon, J. (2012) "Community radio, mobile phones and the electromagnetic spectrum" in Gordon, J. (ed.) Community radio in the twenty-first century. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp.115-129.
9783034307284
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/236713
en
Peter Lang
http://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b1490963~S20
community radio
mobile phones
electronic media
Community radio, mobile phones and the electromagnetic spectrum
Community radio in the twenty-first century
Book chapter
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2366932012-08-06T10:42:24Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Gordon, Janey
2012-07-31T16:40:41Z
2012-07-31T16:40:41Z
2012
Gordon, J. (2012) "The role of university radio in the development of community radio stations: a history", in Gordon, J. (ed.) Community radio in the twenty-first century. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp.367-384.
9783034307284
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/236693
en
Peter Lang
http://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b1490963~S20
community radio
university radio
The role of university radio in the development of community radio stations: a history
Community radio in the twenty-first century
Book chapter
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2367112012-08-06T10:43:58Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Gordon, Janey
2012-07-31T16:34:43Z
2012-07-31T16:34:43Z
2012
Gordon, J. (ed.) (2012) "Community radio in the twenty-first century". Oxford: Peter Lang.
9783034307284
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/236711
en
Peter Lang
http://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b1490963~S20
community radio
Community radio in the twenty-first century
Book chapter
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2910412020-04-23T07:29:49Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Charles, Alec
2013-05-13T14:01:56Z
2013-05-13T14:01:56Z
2013-04
Charles, A. (2013) 'Three characters in search of an archetype: Aspects of the trickster and the flâneur', The Journal of Popular Television, 1 (1),pp 83-102
20469861
10.1386/jptv.1.1.83_1
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/291041
The Journal of Popular Television
This article examines the relationship between C.G. Jung's notion of the trickster and the Baudelairean concept of the flâneur in the context of three iconic heroes of popular culture - and in doing so explores the similarities between those three figures - Sherlock Holmes (from Conan Doyle's original to Benedict Cumberbatch's contemporary interpretation of the role) and the heroes of the television series House M.D. and Doctor Who. It suggests that by applying these models to these three characters - these eccentric and brilliant and apparently emotionally stunted outcasts - we may discover in these figures greater depths than had at first met the eye.
en
Intellect
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=15006/
House M.D.
Sherlock Holmes
Doctor Who
Jungian psychoanalysis
Three characters in search of an archetype: aspects of the trickster and the flâneur
ArticleThis article examines the relationship between C.G. Jung's notion of the trickster and the Baudelairean concept of the flâneur in the context of three iconic heroes of popular culture - and in doing so explores the similarities between those three figures - Sherlock Holmes (from Conan Doyle's original to Benedict Cumberbatch's contemporary interpretation of the role) and the heroes of the television series House M.D. and Doctor Who. It suggests that by applying these models to these three characters - these eccentric and brilliant and apparently emotionally stunted outcasts - we may discover in these figures greater depths than had at first met the eye.oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2971022020-04-23T07:33:56Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Charles, Alec
Stewart, Gavin Andrew
2013-07-29T08:05:56Z
2013-07-29T08:05:56Z
2011
Charles, A. & Stewart, G. (2011) 'The End of Journalism: News in the Twenty-First Century', UK: Peter Lang
9783034302616
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/297102
This book offers an international perspective on the current - and future - state of contemporary news-making. The thirteen contributors explore how evolving conditions and technologies of production and reception are changing the practices of journalism across the world - from Britain to Latin America, from the United States to China. The essays examine the role of the journalist in the era of mobile journalism, online journalism and citizen journalism, and ask how our understanding of journalism has changed and will continue to change in response to the rise of the blog, the camera phone and new modes of broadcast and publication. Finally, the volume asks how a new kind of journalist might continue to act as the mediator between people and power in a modern democratic state.
en
Peter Lang
http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=58506&concordeid=430261
The end of journalism: news in the Twenty-First Century
EBook
BookThis book offers an international perspective on the current - and future - state of contemporary news-making. The thirteen contributors explore how evolving conditions and technologies of production and reception are changing the practices of journalism across the world - from Britain to Latin America, from the United States to China. The essays examine the role of the journalist in the era of mobile journalism, online journalism and citizen journalism, and ask how our understanding of journalism has changed and will continue to change in response to the rise of the blog, the camera phone and new modes of broadcast and publication. Finally, the volume asks how a new kind of journalist might continue to act as the mediator between people and power in a modern democratic state.oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2971232020-04-23T07:30:24Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Charles, Alec
2013-07-29T08:13:39Z
2013-07-29T08:13:39Z
2009
Charles, A. (2009) 'Editor, Media in the Enlarged Europe: Politics, Policy and Industry', UK: Intellect Publishing
9781841509983
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/297123
Media in the Enlarged Europe deals with the complexity and instability of the European Union and its relationship with the mass media, looking beyond national and cultural boundaries. This compilation also views the mass media not only in its more traditional senses, but looks at newer media technologies and their applications. The recurring theme that binds the diverse papers in this collection is the relationship between European media industries and their social, political, economic and legislative contexts. The first part of the collection offers a snapshot of media politics, policies, industries and cultures in the European Union as a whole; the second part presents comprehensive case studies of the history and current state of the mass media in specific European nations, making Media in the Enlarged Europe an essential resource for media academics and students.
en
Intellect
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4605/
Editor, media in the enlarged Europe: politics, policy and industry
EBook
BookMedia in the Enlarged Europe deals with the complexity and instability of the European Union and its relationship with the mass media, looking beyond national and cultural boundaries. This compilation also views the mass media not only in its more traditional senses, but looks at newer media technologies and their applications.
The recurring theme that binds the diverse papers in this collection is the relationship between European media industries and their social, political, economic and legislative contexts. The first part of the collection offers a snapshot of media politics, policies, industries and cultures in the European Union as a whole; the second part presents comprehensive case studies of the history and current state of the mass media in specific European nations, making Media in the Enlarged Europe an essential resource for media academics and students.oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2951102020-04-23T07:30:24Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Charles, Alec
2013-07-03T10:50:55Z
2013-07-03T10:50:55Z
2009
Charles, A. (2009) 'Alfred Hitchcock and the monstrous gaze',in Kerikmae, T. (eds) Developments in political, legal, societal and cultural thought. Tallinn:Institute for European Studies, International University Audentes (Proceedings of the Institute for European Studies,5), pp. 180-196.
9789985977965
1736-4949
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/295110
The films of the British-born director Alfred Hitchcock may be seen today as launching a radical and seminal exploration of many of the central existential and psychological preoccupations that came to dominate European cultural philosophy and avant-garde cinema in the second half of the twentieth century. Although often remembered (for the films he made in the United States)as a commercially successful Hollywood director, Hitchcock began his career making films in Britain and Germany,and later found his artistic genius first recognized by such French cinephiles as André Bazin, Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut.
en
Tallinn University of Technology
http://academia.edu/461751/Alfred_Hitchcock_and_the_Monstrous_Gaze
Alfred Hitchcock and the monstrous gaze
ArticleThe films of the British-born director Alfred Hitchcock may be seen today as launching a radical and seminal exploration of many of the central existential and psychological preoccupations that came to dominate European cultural philosophy and avant-garde cinema in the second half of the twentieth century. Although often remembered (for the films he made in the United States)as a commercially successful Hollywood director, Hitchcock began his career making films in Britain and Germany,and later found his artistic genius first recognized by such French cinephiles as André Bazin, Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut.oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2951412020-04-23T07:30:25Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Charles, Alec
2013-07-03T09:41:31Z
2013-07-03T09:41:31Z
2009
Charles, A. (2009) 'The electronic state: Estonia’s new media revolution', Journal of Contemporary European Research, 5(1), pp. 97-113.
1815-347X
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/295141
Journal of Contemporary European Research
This article examines the case of Estonia as one of Europe’s fastest growing informational economies, and asks whether its furious development of new media technologies, as industrial products, commercial resources and political instruments, has necessarily proven as beneficial to society at large as some domestic and international commentators have anticipated. After mapping Estonia’s unique development in embracing new technologies since the mid-1990s, the article concludes with a study of Estonia’s recent experiments in electronic voting: in 2007, Estonia was lauded as the first country in the world to afford voters at national parliamentary elections the opportunity to vote online from their homes. The article is based on a series of interviews conducted by the author with a number of prominent figures in Estonia’s IT industry, private and voluntary sectors, government service and politics. It addresses issues arising out of academic literature relating to the ethical, social and political aspects of the proliferation of new media, within the context of related surveys and reports produced by governmental and transnational organisations.
en
University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES)
http://www.jcer.net/index.php/jcer/article/view/122
new media
communication
The electronic state: Estonia’s new media revolution
ArticleThis article examines the case of Estonia as one of Europe’s fastest growing informational economies, and asks whether its furious development of new media technologies, as industrial products, commercial resources and political instruments, has necessarily proven as beneficial to society at large as some domestic and international commentators have anticipated. After mapping Estonia’s unique development in embracing new technologies since the mid-1990s, the article concludes with a study of Estonia’s recent experiments in electronic voting: in 2007, Estonia was lauded as the first country in the world to afford voters at national parliamentary elections the opportunity to vote online from their homes. The article is based on a series of interviews conducted by the author with a number of prominent figures in Estonia’s IT industry, private and voluntary sectors, government service and politics. It addresses issues arising out of academic literature relating to the ethical, social and political aspects of the proliferation of new media, within the context of related surveys and reports produced by governmental and transnational organisations.oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2971222020-04-23T07:30:25Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Charles, Alec
2013-07-29T08:03:14Z
2013-07-29T08:03:14Z
2012
Charles, A. (2012) 'Interactivity: New Media, Politics and Society', UK: Peter Lang
9783035303957
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/297122
From the Arab Spring to British summer riots, from the War on Terror to The X Factor, from social networking sites to online electioneering, the influence of new media technologies is clear. This book analyses the impact of such interactive media on contemporary politics and society. It explores how new media technologies give their users a sense of empowerment, and questions whether these technologies really directly empower their users at all.
en
Peter Lang
http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=69428&concordeid=16544
Interactivity: new media, politics and society
EBook
BookFrom the Arab Spring to British summer riots, from the War on Terror to The X Factor, from social networking sites to online electioneering, the influence of new media technologies is clear. This book analyses the impact of such interactive media on contemporary politics and society. It explores how new media technologies give their users a sense of empowerment, and questions whether these technologies really directly empower their users at all.oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2971242020-04-23T07:30:24Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Charles, Alec
2013-07-29T08:21:52Z
2013-07-29T08:21:52Z
2012
Charles, A. (2012) 'The meta-Utopian metatext: the deconstructive dreams of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake', Utopian Studies, 23 (2), pp. 472-503.
1045-991X
10.1353/utp.2012.0017
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/297124
Utopian Studies
Ulysses is a novel of immense and endless structuration, but one that resists structure itself, which eschews the closure and determinism of stereotypically Utopian mythologization. Joyce's work acknowledges that we continue to cling to our Utopian dreams, despite all the material evidence. Yet Joyce advances a mode of Utopianism that, in recognizing the tensions inherent to its relationship with the real, not only self-consciously deconstructs but also therefore sustains itself. If the Utopian breaks down upon its contact with material history, then perhaps by inscribing—and, more importantly, integrating—its antithesis and its own absurdity within itself, it might achieve a balance and a self-awareness sufficient to sustain it beyond the moment of its conception, the revolutionary or revelatory moment, and to translate its abstraction into the very materiality that had originally threatened to extinguish it. Joyce reveals Utopian literature's potential for self-deconstruction while at the same time rehearsing the hypocrisy and tyranny of literalist political interpretations of that discourse. Ulysses explores this process at a literary-political level; but it is Finnegans Wake that, in its dissolution of the dictatorship of the aesthetic, enacts the innate failure of the project of perfectibility at the level of language itself.
en
Penn State University Press
http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/utopian_studies/v023/23.2.charles.html
The meta-Utopian metatext: the deconstructive dreams of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
ArticleUlysses is a novel of immense and endless structuration, but one that resists structure itself, which eschews the closure and determinism of stereotypically Utopian mythologization. Joyce's work acknowledges that we continue to cling to our Utopian dreams, despite all the material evidence. Yet Joyce advances a mode of Utopianism that, in recognizing the tensions inherent to its relationship with the real, not only self-consciously deconstructs but also therefore sustains itself. If the Utopian breaks down upon its contact with material history, then perhaps by inscribing—and, more importantly, integrating—its antithesis and its own absurdity within itself, it might achieve a balance and a self-awareness sufficient to sustain it beyond the moment of its conception, the revolutionary or revelatory moment, and to translate its abstraction into the very materiality that had originally threatened to extinguish it. Joyce reveals Utopian literature's potential for self-deconstruction while at the same time rehearsing the hypocrisy and tyranny of literalist political interpretations of that discourse. Ulysses explores this process at a literary-political level; but it is Finnegans Wake that, in its dissolution of the dictatorship of the aesthetic, enacts the innate failure of the project of perfectibility at the level of language itself.oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2951972013-07-04T09:53:17Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Charles, Alec
2013-07-04T08:53:17Z
2013-07-04T08:53:17Z
2010
Charles, A. (2010) 'The politics of Facebook friendship: the influence of the social structuration of the SNS upon the notion of the political', CEU Political Science Journal, 5(4), pp. 575-596.
1818-7668
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/295197
CEU Political Science Journal
en
Central European University, Budapest
http://www.ceu.hu/node/15553
The politics of Facebook friendship: the influence of the social structuration of the SNS upon the notion of the political
Article
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2951782020-04-23T07:30:24Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Charles, Alec
2013-07-04T08:41:36Z
2013-07-04T08:41:36Z
2010
Charles, A. (2010) 'Extraordinary renditions: reflections of the war on terror in British and American screen science fiction', Historia Actual Online, 22, pp.117-124.
1696-2060
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/295178
Historia Actual Online
This article demonstrates that the 9/11 attacks have had an impact on contemporary block-buster, science fiction movies and popular television shows – just as the Cold War had an impact on the films and television shows of the day. The authors research emphasizes the multiple ways the attacks have influenced these movies and television shows. For instance, some narratives legitimate “jingoistic paranoia”, others call for more tolerance and cultural understanding.
en
Asociación de Historia Actual (AHA)
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/Digital-Library/Publications/Detail/?ots591=0c54e3b3-1e9c-be1e-2c24-a6a8c7060233&lng=en&id=123567
Extraordinary renditions: reflections of the war on terror in British and American screen science fiction
ArticleThis article demonstrates that the 9/11 attacks have had an impact on contemporary block-buster, science fiction movies and popular television shows – just as the Cold War had an impact on the films and television shows of the day. The authors research emphasizes the multiple ways the attacks have influenced these movies and television shows. For instance, some narratives legitimate “jingoistic paranoia”, others call for more tolerance and cultural understanding.oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2951962020-04-23T07:30:24Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Charles, Alec
2013-07-04T08:38:33Z
2013-07-04T08:38:33Z
2009
Charles, A. (2009) 'Playing with one’s self: notions of subjectivity and agency in digital games', Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture, 3 (2),pp.281-294.
1866-6124
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/295196
Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture
This paper explores the ways in which the experience of participation or interactivity in digital games may influence or reinvent the player’s ideological subjectivity. It offers an application to video game analysis of the theoretical perspectives of Jean Baudrillard, Roland Barthes, Louis Althusser, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin and Slavoj Žižek, and thereby suggests that the simulated realities of commercial digital games cultures offer an illusion of agency or co-authorship which, in common with similar illusions promoted by parallel manifestations of industrial mass culture, may foster a critical complacency which permits the inscription of their consumers within virtually invisible ideological perspectives.
en
Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab
http://www.eludamos.org/index.php/eludamos/article/viewArticle/vol3no2-10
Playing with one’s self: notions of subjectivity and agency in digital games
ArticleThis paper explores the ways in which the experience of participation or interactivity in digital games may influence or reinvent the player’s ideological subjectivity. It offers an application to video game analysis of the theoretical perspectives of Jean Baudrillard, Roland Barthes, Louis Althusser, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin and Slavoj Žižek, and thereby suggests that the simulated realities of commercial digital games cultures offer an illusion of agency or co-authorship which, in common with similar illusions promoted by parallel manifestations of industrial mass culture, may foster a critical complacency which permits the inscription of their consumers within virtually invisible ideological perspectives.oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2951952020-04-23T07:30:24Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Charles, Alec
2013-07-04T08:36:16Z
2013-07-04T08:36:16Z
2009
Charles, A. (2009) 'The flight from history: from H.G. Wells to Doctor Who and back again', Colloquy: Text Theory Critique, 17, pp. 16-33.
1325-9490
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/295195
Colloquy: Text Theory Critique
The article examines the symbolic exploration of utopian visions in the BBC television show "Doctor Who" after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S. as influenced by the science fiction of H. G. Wells. Discussed are other films centering on the transformation of the American society after the attacks invoking apocalyptic aspects of history that have been dormant since the Cold War. Conclusions stated that "Doctor Who" maintains the positive possibilities in the future but delineates the impossibility of a perfect state.
en
Monash University
http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/48499374/flight-from-history-from-h-g-wells-doctor-who-back-again
utopias
Doctor Who
television programs
The flight from history: from H.G. Wells to Doctor Who and back again
ArticleThe article examines the symbolic exploration of utopian visions in the BBC television show "Doctor Who" after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S. as influenced by the science fiction of H. G. Wells. Discussed are other films centering on the transformation of the American society after the attacks invoking apocalyptic aspects of history that have been dormant since the Cold War. Conclusions stated that "Doctor Who" maintains the positive possibilities in the future but delineates the impossibility of a perfect state.oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2951392013-07-03T11:40:05Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Charles, Alec
2013-07-03T09:34:14Z
2013-07-03T09:34:14Z
2009
Charles, A. (2009) 'Invisibility and insight: the unerasable trace of The Amazing Transparent Man', in Herzogenrath, B. (ed.) The Films of Edgar G. Ulmer. Maryland: Scarecrow Press, pp. 245-263.
9780810867000
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/295139
en
Scarecrow Press
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780810867369
Invisibility and insight: the unerasable trace of The Amazing Transparent Man
Book chapter
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2950192013-07-02T09:05:18Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Fisher, Austin
2013-07-01T13:14:55Z
2013-07-01T13:14:55Z
2012
Fisher, A. (2012) 'Media across borders: the 1st International Conference on the localisation of film, television and video games', Transnational Cinemas, 3(2), p.245.
2040-3526
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/295019
Transnational Cinemas
en
Intellect
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2366/
Media across borders: the 1st International Conference on the Localization of Film, Television and Video Games
Article
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/2951402013-07-03T11:39:40Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Charles, Alec
2013-07-03T09:39:53Z
2013-07-03T09:39:53Z
2011
Charles, A. (2011) 'Pictures at an atrocity exhibition: modernism and dystopian realism in David Peace’s Red Riding Quartet', in Shaw, K. (ed.) Analysing David Peace. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 61-76.
9781443829908
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/295140
en
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
http://www.c-s-p.org/flyers/Analysing-David-Peace1-4438-2990-0.htm
Pictures at an atrocity exhibition – modernism and dystopian realism in David Peace’s Red Riding Quartet
Book chapter
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5582552018-06-29T12:46:31Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Rowinski, Paul
2015-06-18T12:05:05Z
2015-06-18T12:05:05Z
2015-06-08
Rowinski, P., (2015) 'Superficial and Eurosceptic? British press coverage of the EU' European Journalism Observatory http://en.ejo.ch/media-politics/superficial-and-eurosceptic-british-press-coverage-of-the-eu
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/558255
en
European Journalism Observatory
http://en.ejo.ch/media-politics/superficial-and-eurosceptic-british-press-coverage-of-the-eu
BREXIT
EU
Europe
European Union
journalism
reporting the EU
Superficial and Eurosceptic? British press coverage of the EU
Article
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5582492020-04-23T07:32:42Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Rowinski, Paul
University of Bedfordshire
2015-06-18T12:25:47Z
2015-06-18T12:25:47Z
2014-10-14
Rowinski, P (2014) 'Euroscepticism in the Berlusconi and Murdoch press - 29 July 2014' Journalism 17 (6) 979
1464-8849
1741-3001
10.1177/1464884914552265
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/558249
Journalism
A comparative analysis of Euroscepticism explores what it means in two nations and what is then articulated in specific newspapers. The theoretical terrain, Italy’s and Britain’s post-war relationships with the European Union, the countries’ media structures and the specific context of Il Giornale (owned by Silvio Berlusconi’s family) in Italy and The Times in the United Kingdom (owned by Rupert Murdoch) are mapped out. Some 21 interviews were conducted with relevant journalists and politicians (including reporters covering Europe for the aforementioned) offering further context. A critical discourse analysis of news stories and commentaries then spans the last decade. Although there is some Euroscepticism in Il Giornale, it has historically been localised, yet now seems to be growing in intensity. In The Times, however, the Euroscepticism conveyed is more pervasive and deeper. Its fact-based news can actually be very persuasive – ironically more akin to the commentary-laden news of Il Giornale – as the debate looms ahead of the planned 2017 UK referendum on European Union membership.
en
SAGE
http://jou.sagepub.com/cgi/doi/10.1177/1464884914552265
argumentation
comparative journalism
critical discourse analysis
Euroscepticism
Euroscepticism in the Berlusconi and Murdoch press
ArticleA comparative analysis of Euroscepticism explores what it means in two nations and what is then articulated in specific newspapers. The theoretical terrain, Italy’s and Britain’s
post-war relationships with the European Union, the countries’ media structures and the specific context of Il Giornale (owned by Silvio Berlusconi’s family) in Italy and The Times in the United Kingdom (owned by Rupert Murdoch) are mapped out. Some 21 interviews were conducted with relevant journalists and politicians (including reporters covering Europe for the aforementioned) offering further context. A critical discourse
analysis of news stories and commentaries then spans the last decade. Although there is some Euroscepticism in Il Giornale, it has historically been localised, yet now seems to be growing in intensity. In The Times, however, the Euroscepticism conveyed is more pervasive and deeper. Its fact-based news can actually be very persuasive – ironically more akin to the commentary-laden news of Il Giornale – as the debate looms ahead of the planned 2017 UK referendum on European Union membership.oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5572322020-04-23T07:40:36Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Gordon, Janey
Rowinski, Paul
Stewart, Gavin Andrew
2015-06-18T11:25:49Z
2015-06-18T11:25:49Z
2013
Gordon, J., Rowinski, P., Stewart, G., (editors) (2013) 'Br(e)aking the News: Journalism, Politics and New Media', Peter Lang Ltd:Oxford.
9783034309042
303430904X
10.3726/978-3-0353-0505-0
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/557232
What is the breaking news in the world today? How did you find out this news? How do you know it is true? Was it reported ethically? What checks and balances are being put on the news media? The answers to these questions reflect the themes of this book. The chapters are by experienced journalists, academics and practitioners in the field. They unravel and clearly present the recent and on-going developments in journalism and the press around the globe, including the US, Europe, Asia and Africa. Chapters deal with the phone hacking and data thefts in the UK that provoked a major inquiry into press ethics and standards. Twitter is examined and found to be a valuable tool for reporters in the Arab world and research shows how, in Australia, readers use Twitter to pass along news topics. Chapters also explore the use of the mobile phone to access news in sub-Saharan Nigeria, the role of media magnates in presenting political views in Europe, and Wikipedia’s representation of conflict. This collection of fourteen chapters by leading authors examines journalism as practised today and what we might expect from it in the future.
en
Peter Lang
https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/35550
journalism
new media
Br(e)aking the news: journalism, politics and new media
BookWhat is the breaking news in the world today? How did you find out this news? How do you know it is true? Was it reported ethically? What checks and balances are being put on the news media?
The answers to these questions reflect the themes of this book. The chapters are by experienced journalists, academics and practitioners in the field. They unravel and clearly present the recent and on-going developments in journalism and the press around the globe, including the US, Europe, Asia and Africa. Chapters deal with the phone hacking and data thefts in the UK that provoked a major inquiry into press ethics and standards. Twitter is examined and found to be a valuable tool for reporters in the Arab world and research shows how, in Australia, readers use Twitter to pass along news topics. Chapters also explore the use of the mobile phone to access news in sub-Saharan Nigeria, the role of media magnates in presenting political views in Europe, and Wikipedia’s representation of conflict. This collection of fourteen chapters by leading authors examines journalism as practised today and what we might expect from it in the future.oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5572332015-06-18T12:42:21Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Gordon, Janey
2015-06-18T11:42:21Z
2015-06-18T11:42:21Z
2000
Gordon, J., (2000), "The RSL: ultra local radio' Luton:ULP
9781860205781
186020578X
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/557233
en
University of Luton Press
The RSL: ultra local radio
Book
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5582432015-06-18T12:44:05Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Gordon, Janey
2015-06-18T11:44:05Z
2015-06-18T11:44:05Z
2005-06-01
Gordon, J., (2005) 'Editorial: Mobile Phones', Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 11( 2) pp5-12.
1354-8565
10.1177/135485650501100201
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/558243
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
en
SAGE
http://con.sagepub.com/cgi/doi/10.1177/135485650501100201
Archived with thanks to Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
mobile phones
Editorial: mobile phones
Article
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5582462016-05-10T23:31:05Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Gordon, Janey
Maradun, Umar Lawal
2015-06-18T11:56:55Z
2015-06-18T11:56:55Z
2013
Gordon, Janey, Maradun, Umar Lawal, “Mobile news and radio audiences: crossing the digital divide in Sub Saharan Africa”, in Gordon, Janey; Rowinski, Paul; Stewart, Gavin (editors) (2013) Br(e)aking the News: Journalism, Politics and New Media, Peter Lang Ltd:Oxford.
9783034309042
303430904X
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/558246
en
Peter Lang
Mobile news and radio audiences: crossing the digital divide in Sub Saharan Africa
Book chapter
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5582562015-06-18T13:07:30Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Gordon, Janey
2015-06-18T12:07:30Z
2015-06-18T12:07:30Z
2006
Gordon, J., (2006), “The Cell Phone: An Artifact of Popular Culture and a Tool of the Public Sphere”, in Kavoori, A., Arceneaux, N., (editors) (2006) 'The Cell Phone Reader, Essays in Social Transformation', New York: Peter Lang Publishing
0820479195
9780820479194
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/558256
en
Peter Lang
The cell phone: an artifact of popular culture and a tool of the public sphere
Book chapter
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5582572020-04-23T07:32:33Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Gordon, Janey
University of Bedfordshire
2015-06-18T12:23:17Z
2015-06-18T12:23:17Z
2007
Gordon, Janey (2007) 'The Mobile Phone and the Public Sphere: Mobile Phone Usage in Three Critical Situations' Convergence, Vol13 (3) pp307-319.
10.1177/1354856507079181
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/558257
Convergence
This article seeks to explore the influence of the mobile phone on the public sphere, in particular with regard to its effect on news agendas, gatekeepers and primary definers. Using the examples of the Chinese SARS outbreak (2003), the south-east Asian tsunami (December 2004) and the London bombings (July 2005), the author questions the extent to which the mobile phone is challenging conventional and official sources of information. At times of national and personal calamity, the mobile phone is used to document and report events from eyewitnesses and those closely involved. Using multimedia messages (MMS) or text messages (SMS) to communities of friends and families, as well as audio phone calls, mobile phone users may precede and scoop official sources and thwart censorship and news blackouts. They can also provide valuable evidence of what actually occurred. Users are able to take pictures and short films and transmit these rapidly to others along with reports of what is happening where they are; they are also able to access other media broadcasts and the internet. They are what have become known as `citizen journalists'. The evidence suggests that mobile phone usage is contributing to the public sphere and in some instances is circumventing official repression or inadequate information. There is also an indication that the `mobcam' is capturing images that would otherwise be lost. However, the mainstream media has been quick to take advantage of this citizen journalism and mediate it within its own parameters.
en
SAGE
http://con.sagepub.com/content/13/3/307.abstract
cell phone
citizen journalism
public sphere
mobile phones
The mobile phone and the public sphere: mobile phone usage in three critical situations
ArticleThis article seeks to explore the influence of the mobile phone on the public sphere, in particular with regard to its effect on news agendas, gatekeepers and primary definers. Using the examples of the Chinese SARS outbreak (2003), the south-east Asian tsunami (December 2004) and the London bombings (July 2005), the author questions the extent to which the mobile phone is challenging conventional and official sources of information. At times of national and personal calamity, the mobile phone is used to document and report events from eyewitnesses and those closely involved. Using multimedia messages (MMS) or text messages (SMS) to communities of friends and families, as well as audio phone calls, mobile phone users may precede and scoop official sources and thwart censorship and news blackouts. They can also provide valuable evidence of what actually occurred. Users are able to take pictures and short films and transmit these rapidly to others along with reports of what is happening where they are; they are also able to access other media broadcasts and the internet. They are what have become known as `citizen journalists'. The evidence suggests that mobile phone usage is contributing to the public sphere and in some instances is circumventing official repression or inadequate information. There is also an indication that the `mobcam' is capturing images that would otherwise be lost. However, the mainstream media has been quick to take advantage of this citizen journalism and mediate it within its own parameters.oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5768622020-04-23T07:35:39Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Silverman, Jon
Sutherland, Alex
Thompson, Alex
Shepherd, Jonathan
Pease, Ken
Morrison-Coulthard, Lisa
Ross, Nick
Buch, Prateek
Wortley, Richard
Brown, Tracey
2015-09-07T11:01:39Z
2015-09-07T11:01:39Z
2015-04-30
Sutherland, A., Thompson, A., Shepherd, J., Silverman, J., Pease, K., Morrison-Coulthard, L., Ross, N., Buch, P., Wortley, R., Brown, T. (2015) 'Sense About Science - Making Sense of Crime'. Available at: http://www.senseaboutscience.org/data/files/resources/182/SAS012_MSOC_LR-2.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/576862
Booklet 'Making Sense of Crime' published by registered charity 'Sense About Science'
There’s always heated debate about crime in the media and a lot of political argument about how we should respond to it. But these arguments rarely provide insight into what actually causes crime, what lies behind trends over time and in different places, and how best to go about reducing it. Values inform how a society decides to deal with crime. We may decide that rehabilitation is a better principle than punishment, and this will influence how we decide what is most effective. However, we also expect these choices to be disciplined by sound evidence, because if crime policy ignores what works and what doesn’t, there are likely to be bad social consequences. And with over £10bn spent annually on tackling crime through the police, prisons, probation and courts, unless we look at evidence we can’t see how effective any of it is. Crime policy usually has twin aims – to prevent crime, and to seek justice by punishing those who commit offences. Research shows there’s only a loose link, if any, between the way offenders are punished and the number of offences committed. There is no reliable evidence for example, that capital punishment reduces serious crimes as its supporters claim. Yet politicians and commentators regularly claim that more punishments are a way to cut crime. Academic, government and community organisations have all said crime policies need to be based more on evidence, but much of the evidence available at the moment is poor or unclear. Debates about crime rarely reflect how strong the evidence behind opposing policies is, and even when politicians honestly believe they’re following the evidence, they tend to select evidence that supports their political views. This guide looks at some of the key things we do know and why it has been so difficult to make sense of crime policy. An important point throughout is that policymakers sometimes have to make decisions when things are not clear-cut. They have a better chance of making effective policies if they admit to this uncertainty – and conduct robust research to find out more. In the following pages we have shared insights from experts in violent crime, policing, crime science, psychology and the media’s influence on the crime debate. They don’t have all the answers, but we hope they leave you better-placed to hold policymakers and commentators to account and promote a more useful discussion about crime.
Produced with support from UCL Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science, the British Psychological Society and the University of Bedfordshire
en
Sense About Science
http://www.senseaboutscience.org/data/files/resources/182/SAS012_MSOC_LR-2.pdf
L400 Social Policy
crime
evidence-based practice
politics
media
statistics
criminal justice
Sense about science - making sense of crime
OtherThere’s always heated debate about crime in the media and a lot of political argument about how we should respond to it. But these arguments rarely provide insight into what actually causes crime, what lies behind trends over time and in different places, and how best to go about reducing it. Values inform how a society decides to deal with crime. We may decide that rehabilitation is a better principle than punishment, and this will influence how we decide what is most effective. However, we also expect these choices to be disciplined by sound evidence, because if crime policy ignores what works and what doesn’t, there are likely to be bad social consequences. And with over £10bn spent annually on tackling crime through the police, prisons, probation and courts, unless we look at evidence we can’t see how effective any of it is. Crime policy usually has twin aims – to prevent crime, and to seek justice by punishing those who commit offences. Research shows there’s only a loose link, if any, between the way offenders are punished and the number of offences committed. There is no reliable evidence for example, that capital punishment reduces serious crimes as its supporters claim. Yet politicians and commentators regularly claim that more punishments are a way to cut crime. Academic, government and community organisations have all said crime policies need to be based more on evidence, but much of the evidence available at the moment is poor or unclear. Debates about crime rarely reflect how strong the evidence behind opposing policies is, and even when politicians honestly believe they’re following the evidence, they tend to select evidence that supports their political views.
This guide looks at some of the key things we do know and why it has been so difficult to make sense of crime policy. An important point throughout is that policymakers sometimes have to make decisions when things are not clear-cut. They have a better chance of making effective policies if they admit to this uncertainty – and conduct robust research to find out more. In the following pages we have shared insights from experts in violent crime, policing, crime science, psychology and the media’s influence on the crime debate. They don’t have all the answers, but we hope they leave you better-placed to hold policymakers and commentators to account and promote a more useful discussion about crime.oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5582442020-04-23T07:32:33Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Gordon, Janey
2015-06-18T11:53:22Z
2015-06-18T11:53:22Z
2015
9780415644044
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/558244
Gordon, Janey (2015) "The economic tensions faced by community radio broadcasters", in Atton, Chris (ed) The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media, Routledge:London
en
Routledge
The economic tensions faced by community radio broadcasters
Book chapterGordon, Janey (2015) "The economic tensions faced by community radio broadcasters", in Atton, Chris (ed) The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media, Routledge:Londonoai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5948362017-10-31T12:11:43Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Mellor, Noha
2016-01-26T09:40:13Z
2016-01-26T09:40:13Z
2011
Mellor, Noha (2011) 'Arab journalists in transnational media'. New York, U.S. : Hampton Press.
9781612890197
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/594836
en
Hampton Press
Arab journalists in transnational media
Book
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5948402016-10-20T10:32:27Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Brake, David R.
2016-01-26T10:08:32Z
2016-01-26T10:08:32Z
2013
Brake, D.R. (2013) 'Journalists, user generated content and digital divides' in Gordon, J., Rowinski, P., Stewart, G. (eds) 'Br(e)aking the News: Journalism, Politics and New Media'. Peter Lang.
9783034309042
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/594840
en
Peter Lang
http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=69598&cid=538
Journalists, user generated content and digital divides
Book chapter
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5948452020-04-23T07:33:29Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Birkenstein, Jeff
Froula, Anna
Randell, Karen
2016-01-26T10:50:35Z
2016-01-26T10:50:35Z
2010-05-13
Birkenstein, J., Froula, A., Randell, K. (eds) (2010) 'Reframing 9/11 : film, popular culture and the "war on terror"'. Continuum.
9781441119056
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/594845
September 11th, 2001 remains a focal point of American consciousness, a site demanding ongoing excavation, a site at which to mark before and after "everything" changed. In ways both real and intangible the entire sequence of events of that day continues to resonate in an endlessly proliferating aftermath of meanings that continue to evolve. Presenting a collection of analyses by an international body of scholars that examines America's recent history, this book focuses on popular culture as a profound discursive site of anxiety and discussion about 9/11 and demystifies the day's events in order to contextualize them into a historically grounded series of narratives that recognizes the complex relations of a globalized world. Essays in Reframing 9/11 share a collective drive to encourage new and original approaches for understanding the issues both within and beyond the official political rhetoric of the events of the "The Global War on Terror" and issues of national security.
en
Continuum International Publishing Group
http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/reframing-911-9781441119056/
Reframing 9/11 : film, popular culture and the "war on terror"
BookSeptember 11th, 2001 remains a focal point of American consciousness, a site demanding ongoing excavation, a site at which to mark before and after "everything" changed. In ways both real and intangible the entire sequence of events of that day continues to resonate in an endlessly proliferating aftermath of meanings that continue to evolve. Presenting a collection of analyses by an international body of scholars that examines America's recent history, this book focuses on popular culture as a profound discursive site of anxiety and discussion about 9/11 and demystifies the day's events in order to contextualize them into a historically grounded series of narratives that recognizes the complex relations of a globalized world. Essays in Reframing 9/11 share a collective drive to encourage new and original approaches for understanding the issues both within and beyond the official political rhetoric of the events of the "The Global War on Terror" and issues of national security.oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5948392020-04-23T07:33:26Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Mellor, Noha
2016-01-26T10:04:37Z
2016-01-26T10:04:37Z
2013-03
Mellor, N. (2013) 'Gender boundaries inside pan-Arab newsrooms'. Journal of Gender Studies 22 (1):79
0958-9236
1465-3869
10.1080/09589236.2012.730814
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/594839
Journal of Gender Studies
The focus of this article is on Arab women journalists and how they negotiate their position in news and current affairs programmes. The main aim is to illustrate how gender identity can be appropriated and contested. Drawing on a recent piece of field-work among a large sample of Arab men and women journalists in transnational media, I aim to show how women interpret the boundaries inside the newsroom, and their strategies to overcome these boundaries. Also, drawing on post-feminist debates, I argue that Arab female journalists like to see themselves as free agents responsible for their career routes to consolidate their journalistic experience and professionalism; the reality, however, is that they end up reproducing the dominant structure.
en
Taylor & Francis
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09589236.2012.730814
Archived with thanks to Journal of Gender Studies
agency
empowerment
female journalists
pan-Arab media
post-feminism
Gender boundaries inside pan-Arab newsrooms
ArticleThe focus of this article is on Arab women journalists and how they negotiate their position in news and current affairs programmes. The main aim is to illustrate how gender identity can be appropriated and contested. Drawing on a recent piece of field-work among a large sample of Arab men and women journalists in transnational media, I aim to show how women interpret the boundaries inside the newsroom, and their strategies to overcome these boundaries. Also, drawing on post-feminist debates, I argue that Arab female journalists like to see themselves as free agents responsible for their career routes to consolidate their journalistic experience and professionalism; the reality, however, is that they end up reproducing the dominant structure.oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5948742020-04-23T07:33:29Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Gaber, Ivor
2016-01-26T12:13:08Z
2016-01-26T12:13:08Z
2013-04
Gaber, I. (2013) 'The “Hollowed-Out Election,” or Where Did All the Policy Go?' Journal of Political Marketing 12 (2-3):211
1537-7857
1537-7865
10.1080/15377857.2013.781449
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/594874
Journal of Political Marketing
An increasing emphasis on personalities, at the expense of party policies, is a trend that has been apparent in UK General Elections for the past two decades. However, the 2010 election saw that trend reach new heights in what is here described as a “hollowed out” election. This article, based on research that investigates the news agendas of the parties and contrasts these with those of the media and the public, seeks to demonstrate the extent to which, with the exception of generalized debate about the state of the economy, there was an almost total absence of policy discussion by the parties and the media during the 2010 campaign. This is attributed to three factors: the impact of the first-ever leaders' televised debates, ideological convergence between the parties, and the fact that the two issues of greatest concern to the public—government spending cuts and immigration—were issues that the parties felt were “too hot to handle.”
en
Taylor & Francis
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15377857.2013.781449
elections
political campaigning
news agendas
policy debates
leaders
The “hollowed-out election,” or where did all the policy go?
ArticleAn increasing emphasis on personalities, at the expense of party policies, is a trend that has been apparent in UK General Elections for the past two decades. However, the 2010 election saw that trend reach new heights in what is here described as a “hollowed out” election. This article, based on research that investigates the news agendas of the parties and contrasts these with those of the media and the public, seeks to demonstrate the extent to which, with the exception of generalized debate about the state of the economy, there was an almost total absence of policy discussion by the parties and the media during the 2010 campaign. This is attributed to three factors: the impact of the first-ever leaders' televised debates, ideological convergence between the parties, and the fact that the two issues of greatest concern to the public—government spending cuts and immigration—were issues that the parties felt were “too hot to handle.”oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5948802020-04-23T07:33:26Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Mellor, Noha
2016-01-26T12:56:10Z
2016-01-26T12:56:10Z
2012-05
Mellor, N. (2012) 'The culture of witnessing: war correspondents rewriting the history of the Iraq War' Language and Intercultural Communication 12 (2):103
1470-8477
1747-759X
10.1080/14708477.2012.671605
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/594880
Language and Intercultural Communication
Building on Zelizer's framework of analyzing journalism and memory, this article aims to analyze Arab journalists' narratives of the Iraq War. Through scrutinizing four selected narratives, published by four pan-Arab journalists from three different transnational satellite channels (Abu Dhabi TV, Al Jazeera and Al Manar), I aim to show how their narratives help consolidate the professional status of pan-Arab journalists vis-à-vis local and western media. I argue that Arab journalists seek to establish their authority as historians through rewriting the history of certain battles, such as the battle of Fallujah, or through reflecting on their news-gathering efforts. Thus, their narratives also help consolidate their status as ‘watchdog’ and analysts while implicitly consolidating their cultural authority as reliable historians.
en
Taylor & Francis
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14708477.2012.671605
Archived with thanks to Language and Intercultural Communication
cultural authority
Iraq War
narrative
war correspondents
witnessing
The culture of witnessing: war correspondents rewriting the history of the Iraq War
ArticleBuilding on Zelizer's framework of analyzing journalism and memory, this article aims to analyze Arab journalists' narratives of the Iraq War. Through scrutinizing four selected narratives, published by four pan-Arab journalists from three different transnational satellite channels (Abu Dhabi TV, Al Jazeera and Al Manar), I aim to show how their narratives help consolidate the professional status of pan-Arab journalists vis-à-vis local and western media. I argue that Arab journalists seek to establish their authority as historians through rewriting the history of certain battles, such as the battle of Fallujah, or through reflecting on their news-gathering efforts. Thus, their narratives also help consolidate their status as ‘watchdog’ and analysts while implicitly consolidating their cultural authority as reliable historians.oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5948672020-04-23T07:33:29Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Gaber, Ivor
2016-01-26T13:20:42Z
2016-01-26T13:20:42Z
2013-02
Gaber, I. (2013) 'The lobby in transition: what the 2009 MPs' expenses scandal revealed about the changing relationship between politicians and the Westminster Lobby' Media History 19 (1):45
1368-8804
1469-9729
10.1080/13688804.2012.752962
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/594867
Media History
The 2009 MPs' expenses scandal was one of the most significant political stories of modern times. It raised questions, not just about the ethics and behaviour of MPs but also about the relationship between politicians at Westminster and the political correspondents who follow them on a daily basis, known as ‘the lobby’. For the significance of this scandal, in media terms, was that the story was not broken by members of the lobby but came from outside the traditional Westminster news gathering process. This paper examines why this was the case and it compares the lobby today with that which was described and analysed by Jeremy Tunstall and Colin Seymour-Ure in their respective studies more than 40 years ago. The article concludes that the lobby missed the story partly because of the nature of the lobby itself and partly as a result of a number of specific changes which have taken place in the media and the political systems over the past 40 years.
en
Taylor & Francis
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13688804.2012.752962
Archived with thanks to Media History
journalists
political correspondents
Westminster
parliament
politicians
MPs' expenses
the lobby
The lobby in transition: what the 2009 MPs' expenses scandal revealed about the changing relationship between politicians and the Westminster Lobby
ArticleThe 2009 MPs' expenses scandal was one of the most significant political stories of modern times. It raised questions, not just about the ethics and behaviour of MPs but also about the relationship between politicians at Westminster and the political correspondents who follow them on a daily basis, known as ‘the lobby’. For the significance of this scandal, in media terms, was that the story was not broken by members of the lobby but came from outside the traditional Westminster news gathering process. This paper examines why this was the case and it compares the lobby today with that which was described and analysed by Jeremy Tunstall and Colin Seymour-Ure in their respective studies more than 40 years ago. The article concludes that the lobby missed the story partly because of the nature of the lobby itself and partly as a result of a number of specific changes which have taken place in the media and the political systems over the past 40 years.oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5948832020-04-23T07:35:39Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Cole, Bernadette
Silverman, Jon
University of Sierra Leone
University of Bedfordshire
2016-01-26T13:24:57Z
2016-01-26T13:24:57Z
2013-03-01
Cole, B., Silverman, J. (2013) 'The media’s reporting of war crimes trials and its impact on post-conflict democracy in Sierra Leone and Liberia' Journal of African Media Studies 5 (1):53
2040-199X
1751-7974
10.1386/jams.5.1.53_1
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/594883
Journal of African Media Studies
The application of international humanitarian law (IHL) to conflicts in Africa has been the subject of some scholarly and much journalistic discourse about the ending of ‘impunity’ and an extension of the normative principles of transitional justice. The trials conducted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) were brought to audiences in both countries by a media that has had scant experience in grap - pling with such weighty jurisprudential concepts. A research project is examining attitudes towards the reporting of two of those trials. This article discusses prelimi - nary findings from the research and argues that the media is performing a wider role in legitimizing post-conflict governance by providing a platform for civil society organizations.
en
Intellect
http://openurl.ingenta.com/content/xref?genre=article&issn=2040-199X&volume=5&issue=1&spage=53
Archived with thanks to Journal of African Media Studies
media
post-conflict
civil society
democracy
legitimacy
Sierra Leone
Liberia
The media’s reporting of war crimes trials and its impact on post-conflict democracy in Sierra Leone and Liberia
ArticleThe application of international humanitarian law (IHL) to conflicts in Africa has
been the subject of some scholarly and much journalistic discourse about the ending
of ‘impunity’ and an extension of the normative principles of transitional justice.
The trials conducted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) were brought
to audiences in both countries by a media that has had scant experience in grap
-
pling with such weighty jurisprudential concepts. A research project is examining
attitudes towards the reporting of two of those trials. This article discusses prelimi
-
nary findings from the research and argues that the media is performing a wider
role in legitimizing post-conflict governance by providing a platform for civil society
organizations.oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5948702020-04-23T07:33:29Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Gaber, Ivor
2016-01-26T13:29:23Z
2016-01-26T13:29:23Z
2011
Gaber, I. (2011) 'The transformation of campaign reporting: the 2010 UK General Election, revolution or evolution?' in Wring, D., Mortimore, R., Atkinson, S. (eds) 'Political Communication in Britain: The Leader Debates, the Campaign and the Media in the 2010 General Election'. Springer.
9780230301467
9780230305045
10.1057/9780230305045_17
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/594870
This chapter argues that the 2010 election represented a transformative moment in the reporting of British general election campaigns. Some of the changes were incremental — going back over several previous elections — but some were dramatic and specific to the 2010 campaign. The single most important reason why 2010 was a totally different campaign to report was because of the advent of the leaders’ televised debates. The debates not only had a dramatic impact themselves but also, by their intensification of attention on the leadership issue, played an important part in making 2010 a virtually policy-free campaign. However, there were other major developments — more incremental — that also had an important impact on the daily business of election campaign reporting in 2010.
en
Springer
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230305045_17
The transformation of campaign reporting: the 2010 UK General Election, revolution or evolution?
Book chapterThis chapter argues that the 2010 election represented a transformative moment in the reporting of British general election campaigns. Some of the changes were incremental — going back over several previous elections — but some were dramatic and specific to the 2010 campaign. The single most important reason why 2010 was a totally different campaign to report was because of the advent of the leaders’ televised debates. The debates not only had a dramatic impact themselves but also, by their intensification of attention on the leadership issue, played an important part in making 2010 a virtually policy-free campaign. However, there were other major developments — more incremental — that also had an important impact on the daily business of election campaign reporting in 2010.oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5948712020-04-23T07:33:30Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Philips, Deborah
Whannel, Garry
2016-01-26T13:32:44Z
2016-01-26T13:32:44Z
2013-08-15
Philips, D., Whannel, G. (2013) 'The Trojan horse: the growth of commercial sponsorship'. Bloomsbury.
9781472507389
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/594871
The Trojan Horse traces the growth of commercial sponsorship in the public sphere since the 1960s, its growing importance for the arts since 1980 and its spread into areas such as education and health. The authors' central argument is that the image of sponsorship as corporate benevolence has served to routinize and legitimate the presence of commerce within the public sector. The central metaphor is of such sponsorship as a Trojan Horse helping to facilitate the hollowing out of the public sector by private agencies and private finance. The authors place the study in the context of the more general colonization of the state by private capital and the challenge posed to the dominance of neo-liberal economics by the recent global financial crisis. After considering the passage from patronage to sponsorship and outlining the context of the post-war public sector since 1945, it analyses sponsorship in relation to Thatcherism, enterprise culture and the restructuring of public provision during the 1980s. It goes on to examine the New Labour years, and the ways in which sponsorship has paved the way for the increased use of private-public partnerships and private finance initiatives within the public sector in the UK.
en
Bloomsbury
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-trojan-horse-9781472507389/
The Trojan horse: the growth of commercial sponsorship
BookThe Trojan Horse traces the growth of commercial sponsorship in the public sphere since the 1960s, its growing importance for the arts since 1980 and its spread into areas such as education and health. The authors' central argument is that the image of sponsorship as corporate benevolence has served to routinize and legitimate the presence of commerce within the public sector. The central metaphor is of such sponsorship as a Trojan Horse helping to facilitate the hollowing out of the public sector by private agencies and private finance.
The authors place the study in the context of the more general colonization of the state by private capital and the challenge posed to the dominance of neo-liberal economics by the recent global financial crisis. After considering the passage from patronage to sponsorship and outlining the context of the post-war public sector since 1945, it analyses sponsorship in relation to Thatcherism, enterprise culture and the restructuring of public provision during the 1980s. It goes on to examine the New Labour years, and the ways in which sponsorship has paved the way for the increased use of private-public partnerships and private finance initiatives within the public sector in the UK.oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5948722020-04-23T07:33:32Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Mellor, Noha
Kingston University
2016-01-26T13:37:14Z
2016-01-26T13:37:14Z
2009-07-06
Mellor, N. (2009) 'War as a Moral Discourse' International Communication Gazette 71 (5):409
1748-0485
10.1177/1748048509104989
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/594872
International Communication Gazette
The debate surrounding the coverage of the Iraq War in Arab and western news media has pinpointed the ethical role of the news media in the mediation of suffering. This article analyses the mechanism of mediating war in the front-page articles from four pan-Arab newspapers, printed during the war in 2003. The article draws on Boltanski's discussion of emotional politics or what he terms politics of pity, the aim of which is to trigger sympathy for the Other. The news texts included here are analysed according to their rhetorical strategies and to whether they aim at consolidating a certain ethical stance towards the war. Finally, the article attempts to answer the question of whether this coverage has contributed with rational arguments to the general public debate about the war, thereby fulfilling its role as mediator to the pan-Arab polity.
en
SAGE
http://gaz.sagepub.com/cgi/doi/10.1177/1748048509104989
war
war correspondents
journalism
War as a moral discourse
ArticleThe debate surrounding the coverage of the Iraq War in Arab and western news media has pinpointed the ethical role of the news media in the mediation of suffering. This article analyses the mechanism of mediating war in the front-page articles from four pan-Arab newspapers, printed during the war in 2003. The article draws on Boltanski's discussion of emotional politics or what he terms politics of pity, the aim of which is to trigger sympathy for the Other. The news texts included here are analysed according to their rhetorical strategies and to whether they aim at consolidating a certain ethical stance towards the war. Finally, the article attempts to answer the question of whether this coverage has contributed with rational arguments to the general public debate about the war, thereby fulfilling its role as mediator to the pan-Arab polity.oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/6011042020-04-23T07:33:44Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Rowinski, Paul
University of Bedfordshire
2016-03-10T11:05:05Z
2016-03-10T11:05:05Z
2014
Rowinski, P. (2014) "Comic Beppe Grillo, his Eurosceptic message and the mobilising of the Italian public, online". Political Studies Association Media and Politics Group
Annual Conference, Media, Persuasion and Human Rights. Bangor University, Bangor, 10-11 November 2014.
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/601104
Conference abstract
The power of the net and the persuasive force of the language used, have contributed to a massive power shift in Italy. In a country where patronage discredits mainstream politicians, a comic and his political movement have stopped the established figures laughing, by finding a new freedom of speech on-line. Beppe Grillo and his Five Star Movement (FSM) gave a voice to the previously disenfranchised. Through his website, young mothers and unemployed engineers were selected in on-line primaries - and now hold the balance of power in Italy’s centre-left coalition government. Yet Grillo, advocate of participatory democracy, has paradoxically shunned the country’s political journalists who seek responses - instead directing them to his website. Is that funny? Despite Britain’s apparent pervasive Euroscepticism, it is in traditionally Europhile Italy that it has gained a foothold. On-line, Grillo and his fellow grillini persuade Italians almost daily over Europe. Today it was a video posted with Grillo and UKIP leader, Nigel Farage. FSM want a referendum allowing Italians to withdraw from the Euro – part of its emancipatory online battle. The Grillini, have replaced the old powerbroker, the secessionist, right-wing and anti-EU Northern League, which kept Silvio Berlusconi and the right in power for several decades. This paper couples an analysis of the political communication achieved by Grillo on-line over Europe (comparing and contrasting with the Northern League); with a discourse historical analysis of the persuasive language used and the historical and political terrain informing Grillo’s populist response. The paper will address the issues of mobilising on the net; giving a voice to the disenfranchised (as perceived by Grillo); and creating a possible forum for freedom of speech, creating a very different and often more humorous Eurosceptic message than the ones thus far subjected to analysis, but one that now needs rigorous critical evaluation.
en
https://www.bangor.ac.uk/creative_industries/media-persuasion/documents/ConferenceAbstracts.pdf
Italy
Beppe Grillo
politics
online communication
Comic Beppe Grillo, his Eurosceptic message and the mobilising of the Italian public, online
Conference papers, meetings and proceedingsThe power of the net and the persuasive force of the language used, have contributed to a massive power shift in Italy. In a country where patronage discredits mainstream politicians, a comic and his political movement have stopped the established figures laughing, by finding a new freedom of speech on-line. Beppe Grillo and his Five Star Movement (FSM) gave a voice to the previously disenfranchised. Through his website, young mothers and unemployed
engineers were selected in on-line primaries - and now hold the balance of power in Italy’s centre-left coalition government. Yet Grillo, advocate of participatory democracy, has paradoxically shunned the country’s political journalists who seek responses - instead directing them to his website. Is that funny?
Despite Britain’s apparent pervasive Euroscepticism, it is in traditionally Europhile Italy that it has gained a foothold. On-line, Grillo and his fellow grillini persuade Italians almost daily over Europe. Today it was a video posted with Grillo and UKIP leader, Nigel Farage. FSM want a referendum allowing Italians to withdraw from the Euro – part of its
emancipatory online battle. The Grillini, have replaced the old powerbroker, the secessionist, right-wing and anti-EU Northern League, which kept Silvio Berlusconi and the right in power for several decades. This paper couples an analysis of the political communication achieved by Grillo on-line over Europe (comparing and contrasting with the Northern League); with a discourse historical analysis of the persuasive language used and the historical and political terrain informing Grillo’s populist response. The paper will address the issues of mobilising on the net; giving a voice to the disenfranchised (as perceived by Grillo); and creating a possible forum for freedom of speech, creating a very different and often more humorous Eurosceptic message than the ones thus far subjected to analysis, but one that now needs rigorous critical evaluation.oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/6010912020-04-23T08:37:25Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_132257
Cola, Marta
Rowinski, Paul
University of Bedfordshire
2016-03-10T11:39:11Z
2016-03-10T11:39:11Z
2015-11
Cola, M., Rowinski, P. (2015) 'The press, persuasion and prejudice: the challenging and re-enforcing of mechanisms of cultural inclusion and exclusion of migrants in Italy and Britain in recent newspaper coverage'. ECREA’s DMM Section Conference, Rotterdam, 19-20 November 2015.
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/601091
en
journalism
cultural inclusion
cultural exclusion
prejudice
persuasion
migrant
migration
P500 Journalism
The press, persuasion and prejudice: the challenging and re-enforcing of mechanisms of cultural inclusion and exclusion of migrants in Italy and Britain in recent newspaper coverage
Presentation2020-04-23T08:37:25Z