Journalism, communication and democracy publications
This list includes all publications from the last three years by our academic staff who are researching Journalism, communication and democracy.
For older publications please see the profiles of individual researchers.
Publications
Books
- Public Diplomacy and Politics of Uncertainty. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan.
Journal articles
- The Struggle for News Value in the Digital Era. Journalism and Media, 3, 902-917.
- The Independent Press Standards Organisation and accuracy: A comparative study of complaints-handling procedures in four UK newspapers. Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies.
- Confronting COVID-19: constructing and contesting legitimacy through the media in Chinese contexts. Chinese Journal of Communication, 1-11.
- The civil norm building role of news journalism in post-civil war settings. Journalism.
- Between Europeanisation and corporatisation : Poland’s nation branding and soft power for public consumption. East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures, 35(4), 1090-1112.
- Dialoguing with Data and Data Reduction: An Observational, Narrowing-Down Approach to Social Media Network Analysis. Journalism and Media, 2(1), 14-29.
- The populist style and public diplomacy : kayfabe as performative agonism in Trump’s twitter posts. Public Relations Inquiry, 10(1), 5-30.
- Paradigm reinforcing: The assimilation of data journalism in the United Kingdom. Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies.
- From repression to oppression: News journalism in Turkey 2013-2018. Media, Culture and Society, 42(7-8), 1443-1460. View this article in WRRO
- From content to context: A qualitative case study of factors influencing audience perception of the trustworthiness of COVID-19 data visualisations in UK newspaper coverage. Journalism.
Chapters
- Creating capacity for peace: The power of news and civil norm building, Insights on Peace and Conflict Reporting (pp. 139-151).
- Slow journalism as ethical journalism?, The Routledge Companion to Journalism Ethics (pp. 77-84). Routledge

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