A5103051184- Social Media and Politics
- Media Studies and Communication
- Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Wikis in Education and Collaboration
- Rhetoric and Communication Studies
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Dupuytren's Contracture and Treatments
- Nail Diseases and Treatments
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- E-Government and Public Services
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Asian Culture and Media Studies
- Hallucinations in medical conditions
- Media and Communication Studies
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- European and International Law Studies
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- African history and culture studies
- Judicial and Constitutional Studies
- World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
- Chemotherapy-related skin toxicity
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
University of Leeds
2010-2025
Hansard Society
2000
How might we describe the development of online deliberation as a field research and practice? should interpret its significance? In this introductory essay to Special Issue, argue...
How the news is produced, circulated and consumed weighs heavily on form force of citizenship. And yet much existing literature tends to reduce tricky issue trust appreciably more straightforward accuracy. The research reported here asked public what they expected from journalists public. findings suggest that in complex nuanced than mere questions journalistic veracity.
AbstractUsing Leeds City Council in the United Kingdom as a case study, we analyse comparatively changing role of local journalism public communications and engagement strategies government. Drawing on over 20 semi-structured interviews with elected politicians, strategists, mainstream journalists, citizen article explores perceptions news media's versus new modes communication engaging communicating citizens. We evaluate Council's its online offline practices different publics, focus...
It is a wonderful sight to see mothers carrying their babies on backs and standing in queues cast votes. […] On the eve of voting we go deep night [sic] start forming q...
Abstract This article considers how the Eurovision Song Contest in UK has come to be seen as a moment of cultural embarrassment. As showcase for national identities, gives rise contemporary unease about disembeddedness, state-centric nature identity and gap between globalized/American popular culture European/ethnic forms. The paper explores Terry Wogan's use ironic commentary both embrace distance himself his audience from embarrassment looks at responses on BBC website. concludes by...
This paper traces the history of an abiding anxiety modern, mass society. From Orwell’s panoptic dystopia (Nineteen Eighty-Four) to Endemol’s multi-mediated spectacle (Big Brother), image deluded, disciplined, and ductile public has haunted liberal imagination. Democratic power is legitimised through participation, but when voluntary engagement takes form collusion with manipulative authority, ceases be accountable autonomous citizen begins look more like a slavish subject. enduring...
Pandemics such as Covid-19 pose tremendous public health communication challenges in promoting protective behaviours, vaccination, and educating the about risks. Segmenting audiences based on attitudes behaviours is a means to increase precision potential effectiveness of communication. The present study reports an audience segmentation effort for population England, sponsored by United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) involving collaboration market research academic experts. A...
In a secondary analysis, we examine how trust in pro-recommendation versus alternative communication channels mediated effects of demographic, personality, lifestyle, and political variables on COVID-19 protective behavior England. so doing, adapt the media-as-mediator approach to pandemic context. Respondents reported that family, close friends, primary care medical providers, mainstream news media were relatively supportive public health recommendations, social friend networks,...
This article explores the ways in which power is made visible through mediated representations within ‘reality TV’ show, Big Brother.
The most useful questions to ask about the relationship between new media and democracies are empirical contextual: can internet, in specific places instances, facilitate forms of participation that strengthen citizens' capacity for collective action political influence? To answer this question, we compiled an inventory 79 e-democracy projects initiated within 'third-wave' democracies. From these, six were selected as subjects descriptive case studies. examined had a range objectives, but...
It has been over 20 years since the reality television genre attracted attention of fans, critics and scholars. Reality programmes produced high viewing figures, suggesting a strong appetite for form; dismissed as mindless participants desperate fame; scholars assessed formats, audiences meanings television, offering complex, if rarely celebratory, account. While some commentators made connections between vote-based formats electoral systems, or opportunities afforded deliberation social...