Media and the European Union
The division's ‘EU and the media’ focus builds upon and benefits financially from work undertaken originally by the Centre for the Study of Popular Legitimacy in Europe (CPLE), a small independent consultancy body run by one of its staff.
The CPLE exists to conduct research into the relationship between Europe's news media, the public and the various institutions of governance that exist across the continent. It has particular expertise with regard to the United Kingdom and the institutions of the European Union.
Division staff and research students are actively engaged in publishing in this field. The work originates from a book published by Peter Anderson and Tony Weymouth in 1999, Insulting the Public? The British Press and the European Union, (Harlow: Longman).
It has been further developed through the following avenues: papers delivered at the 2002 ISSEI conference in Aberystwyth and the 2004 Europeanisation of the Public Sphere conference in Berlin; a revised version of the Aberystwyth paper published in Meyer-Dirkgrafe, Daniel (ed.) European Culture in a Changing World: Between Nationalism and Globalism (ISSEI, Aberystyth) 2002; a paper published in volume 20 of European Studies in Spring 2004; a paper published in volume 42 of the Journal of Common Market Studies in December 2004; a paper that will be published during 2007 in European Studies; a 20,000 word report produced for an EU member government in 2001; a paper presented to the European Parliament's Committee on Culture, Youth Education, the Media and Sport in December 2000; a successfully completed PhD project by Aileen McLeod (2004, now being submitted for publication); and the current work of John Price, whose PhD project focuses on the relationship between the EU Commission and the news media.
Insulting the Public? is now one of the most widely cited sources on the EU and the media both within academia and the media itself. For example, the debate it prompted resulted in coverage within the Guardian (Hugo Young and Roy Greenslade) and has occasioned several appearances by its authors on BBC radio and television and in a UK media debate organised by Le Monde Diplomatique. At the last count, the book is cited by fifteen different academic works in what is a small, specialist field of study.
Enquiries from potential collaborators and clients are welcomed and should, in the first instance, be directed to the Research Coordinator for the Journalism Subject, Dr. Peter Anderson. Email: pjanderson1@uclan.ac.uk or telephone 01772 894744.
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