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
- What's the Point of News? A study in ethical journalism. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
Journal articles
- Confronting COVID-19: constructing and contesting legitimacy through the media in Chinese contexts. Chinese Journal of Communication, 1-11.
- Dialoguing with Data and Data Reduction: An Observational, Narrowing-Down Approach to Social Media Network Analysis. Journalism and Media, 2(1), 14-29.
- Paradigm reinforcing: The assimilation of data journalism in the United Kingdom. Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies.
- The populist style and public diplomacy : kayfabe as performative agonism in Trump’s twitter posts. Public Relations Inquiry. View this article in WRRO
- From repression to oppression: News journalism in Turkey 2013-2018. Media, Culture and Society, 42(7-8), 1443-1460. View this article in WRRO
- Between Europeanisation and Corporatisation : Poland’s nation branding and soft power for public consumption. East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures. View this article in WRRO
- Mainstreaming populism through the Twitter practices of politicians and the news media: A case study of the 2016 Brexit referendum debates. Information Polity, 1-15.
- Hybridity and soft power statecraft: The 'GREAT' campaign. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 31(1), 168-195. View this article in WRRO
- Strengthening the monitoring of violations against journalists through an events-based methodology. Media and Communication, 8(1), 89-100. View this article in WRRO
- Introduction : media and illiberal democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. East European Politics. View this article in WRRO
- Othering the European Union through constructing moral panics over ‘im/migrant(s)’ in the coverage of migration in three British newspapers, 2011–2016. International Communication Gazette, 81(5), 445-469.
- Single-issue Ratifiers or Political Deliberators? The strategic interpretation and application of the participatory norm and the creation of publics by the European Commission
(1992-2009). International Review of Public Policy, 1(1), 88-103. View this article in WRRO
- The civil norm building role of news journalism in post-civil war settings. Journalism, 146488492110729-146488492110729.
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
- News Values and News Selection, The Handbook of Journalism Studies (pp. 213-228). Routledge
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