Ralph Negrine

BA (Kent), PhD (Leicester)

email : r.negrine@sheffield.ac.uk

tel: (+44)0114 2222508

I have researched and published extensively in the field of political communication over the last two decades. Whilst this continues to feature strongly in my work, I also have a continuing interest in both domestic and European media policy.

My most recent work has explored the theme of 'professionalization' in political communication and the extent to which the changes in the communications strategies of governments, political organisations and other political groups can be seen as part of a process of 'professionalization' or as part of other forces at play in society at large. These are themes that I have written on and they form the main connecting thread of my book on 'the transformation of political communication' (published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2008). A part of this study is devoted to changes in the nature and forms of political communication, particularly in the nature and form of party election broadcasts (PEBs) and I have spent some years constructing a website which contains examples of early British election broadcasts. My teaching incorporates the use of examples from recent and past practices in political communication.

In recent years, I have also explored the ways in which the topic of Turkey´s accession to the European Union has been covered in the French, Greek and Turkish press. This work has been carried out with the assistance of colleagues from the Universities of Ankara, Athens and Leicester. It continues to feature in my current work and this topic is being explored by one of my research students (Mr A. Paksoy) and an academic colleague, Dr Onur Oksuz from Akdeniz University in Turkey.

Research on aspects of European political communication have also been central to my work. I have collaborated on a comparative study of the coverage of the European parliament elections of 2009 (Michaela Maier, Jesper Strömbäck and Lynda Lee Kaid, Political Communication in European Parliamentary Elections, Ashgate, 2011) and very recently co-authored a book on the media in Europe (European Media, Polity, 2011) with my colleague Professor Stylianos Papathanassopoulos (University of Athens).

I am now engaged in two research projects. One is a study of the television coverage of the ‘expenses scandal’ in Britain in 2009, the other is a study of Jewish migration to Israel from Arab lands in the years 1949 to 1957.

Teaching

• JNL6070 Political Communication 1
• JNL6210 Research Methods
• JNL 305 Dissertation module
• JNL 312 Journalism and political communication
• JNL 6210 Dissertation module (MA)

PhD Research supervision

Research students in the following areas are currently being supervised:

• The representation of Turkey-EU relations in the British media
• Democratisation in Taiwan
• The television coverage of the Saudi 'parliament'
• New technology and blogging as political communication in the Philippines
• Political marketing in Ghana
• The introduction of digital technology in a South Korean broadcasting service

Books recently published

The Political Communication Reader

Edited by Ralph Negrine, James Stanyer
Routledge 2008

 

The Transformation of Political Communication

Continuities and Changes in Media and Politics
Ralph Negrine

Palgrave Macmillan 2008