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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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

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