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Jane Singer, Johnston Press Chair in Digital Journalism

Books

Ethical Webs: Untangling Online Journalism (with Cecilia Friend); manuscript delivered; to be published in 2007 by M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, New York.

Journal articles

“Stepping Back from the Gate: Online Newspaper Editors and the Co-Production of Content in Campaign 2004”, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Vol. 83, No. 2 (summer 2006): 265-80.

“Campaign Contributions: Online Newspaper Coverage of Election 2000”, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Vol. 80, No. 1 (spring 2003): 39-56.

"Partnerships and Public Service: 
Normative Issues for Journalists in Converged Newsrooms”, Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Vol. 21, No. 1 (2006): 30-53.

“More Than Ink-Stained Wretches: The Resocialization of Print Journalists in Converged Newsrooms”, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Vol. 81, No. 4 (winter 2004): 838-856.

"Strange Bedfellows: Diffusion of Convergence in Four News Organizations”, Journalism Studies, 
Vol. 5, No. 1 (February 2004): 3-18.

“The Political J-Blogger: `Normalizing’ a New Media Form To Fit Old Norms and Practice”, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, Vol. 6, No. 2 (May 2005): 173-198.

(Various conference papers and other entries for Professor Singer will be added shortly as the updating of the site is completed.)

Dr. Peter Anderson - Reader in News Media and its Political Context

'Prior to 2001, amongst other things, Peter published three books on international politics or journalism -

(with Tony Weymouth) (1999) Insulting the Public? The British Press and the European Union, Harlow: Longman;
(with Georg Wiessala and Christopher Williams) (2000) New Europe in Transition, London: Continuum;
(1996) The Global Politics of Power, Justice and Death, London: Routledge.

RESEARCH OUTPUT SINCE 2001

Current Research Projects
The future of journalism in intermediate and less developed societies.
The future of journalism in the United Kingdom.
Political journalism.

 

Completed Research Projects (Since 2001, Starting With The Most Recent)
21,000 words long research and advisory report on an aspect of EU press and information policy that is confidential to the commissioning government, October 2001.

 

Publications (Since 2001, Starting With Most Recent)

• Books

With Geoff Ward, The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007. ISBN – Hardback: 0-754-64404-9. Paperback: 0-754-64405-7.
Prior to 2001 Peter also published three books on journalism or politics.

• Book chapters

1) “NATO astride Kosovo”, in Weymouth, A. and Henig, S., (eds.), The Kosovo Crisis, Harlow, Pearson/Reuters, 2001. ISBN - Hardcover: 0-273-65158-7.

2) “Nationalism as Prime Mover or Mask? The mediation of the EU by Rupert Murdoch’s Eurosceptic British newspapers,” in Meyer-Dinkgrafe, D. (Ed.) European Culture in a Changing World: Between Nationalism and Globalism, Aberystwyth, ISSEI (International Society for the Study of European Ideas), 2002. ISBN: 0-9544363.

3) “A Flag of Convenience? Discourse and Motivations of the London-based Eurosceptic Press”, in Harmsen, R. and Spiering, M., Euroscepticism, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2005. (This is the paperback book version of the themed Volume 20 of 'European Studies' from 2004.) ISBN: 9-04201946-8.

4) (With contribution from Ward, G.) “Introduction: the future of Journalism”, in Anderson, P.J. and Ward, G. (eds) The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007.

5) With Weymouth, A. (and with contribution from Ward, G.) “The Changing face of journalism”, in Anderson, P.J. and Ward, G. (eds) The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007.

6) “Competing models of journalism and democracy”, in Anderson, P.J. and Ward, G. (eds) The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007.

7) “The challenges facing journalism”, in Anderson, P.J. and Ward, G. (eds) The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007.

8) “Conclusion”, in Anderson, P.J. and Ward, G. (eds) The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007.

• Journal articles and editorships

1) “Ecology, new technologies and human rights in Europe - the case of genetically modified organisms”, Learning/Development (Portugal), November 2001.

2) “Economic variables in environmental reform in Europe”, Learning/Development (Portugal), November 2001.

3) “A Flag of Convenience? Discourse and Motivations of the London-based Eurosceptic Press”, European Studies: An Interdisciplinary Series in European Culture, History and Politics, Vol.20, Spring 2004, pp.151-170.

4) (with Aileen McLeod) - “The Great Non-Communicator: The Mass Communication Deficit of the European Parliament and its Press Directorate”, Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol.42, no.3, December 2004, pp.897-917.

5) “Speaking the East, framing the East or shaping the East? A constructivist and critical discourse analysis approach to the communication of EU-Asia relations using case studies from selected international news media and EU documentation”, European Studies: An Interdisciplinary Series in European Culture, History and Politics, Vol.25, October 2007, pp.83-102.

6) (with Georg Wiessala) – introductory article, European Studies: An Interdisciplinary Series in European Culture, History and Politics, Vol.25, October 2007, pp.15-28.
7) Joint guest editor of the September 2007 issue of European Studies: An Interdisciplinary Series in European Culture, History and Politics.

8) (with John Price) - “An evaluation of the press and communication reforms of the Prodi Commission of 1999-2004, with particular reference to UK Europhile and Eurosceptic journalists’ perceptions of their impact”, European Journal of Communication, March 2008.

• Conference Papers

1) Single authored – ‘Nationalism as prime mover or mask? The mediation of the EU by the Eurosceptic press in Britain’, paper presented at the July 2002 8th International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI) conference in Aberystwyth.

2) (With Aileen McLeod) - The Great Non-Communicator: The European Parliament and its press and information directorate, paper presented at the June 2003 Europeanisation of Public Spheres conference at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fur Sozialforschung. This was the opening paper for the conference.

3) Summary paper on the future of journalism presented to forty invited guests from academia and the news industry as part of a launch event for The Future of Journalism book, Waterstones, Deansgate, Manchester, February 2007.

• Other

Grants Etc

Since 2001 Peter has earned around £4,600 in external funding and £20,000 in internal funding for his research.

Research Degree Supervision (Completed And Current Since 2001)

1) Frands Pedersen was awarded his PhD (on multi-level governance in the Nordic region) in 2002. Peter was the second supervisor. Frands is now teaching at the University of Westminster.

2) Aileen McLeod was awarded her PhD (on the relationship between the European Parliament and the news media) in 2004. Peter was the Director of Studies. Aileen was the Senior Research Specialist on the EU for the Scottish Parliament and is now running the office of a Scottish MEP in Brussels.

3) John Price is due to complete his PhD thesis (on the relationship between the European Commission and the British news media) during 2008. Peter is the Director of Studies. John is now teaching at the University of Sunderland.

Robert Beers

Book chapters

With Egglestone, P. (2006) ‘The future of television journalism’ in Anderson, P.J. and Ward, G. – The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, Aldershot, Ashgate.

Catherine Darby

Book chapters

A chapter on magazine journalism in Mazierska, E. (2006 forhtcoming) Employability Skills in Film and Media, London: Sage.

Conference papers

Darby, C. (2005). 'Magazine Dreams - Concepts of the Future', paper presented at Cardiff academic conference, September 16.

 

Paul Egglestone

Book chapters

With Beers, R. (2006) ‘The future of television journalism’ in Anderson, P.J. and Ward, G. – The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, Aldershot, Ashgate.

Chapter in Mazierska, E. (2006 forthcoming) Employability Skills in Film and Media, London: Sage.

Conference papers

Egglestone, P. (2005) ‘The Future of Digital Storytelling', at the International Conference on Publishing and Printing Technology and Education at University of Shanghai for Science and Technology November 2005, published by USST.

Documentary films dual classified as academic research

Making Babies. ITV 2004
Faith Police, ITV 2004
Living with the law - ITV 2004

Julie Freer

Book chapters

‘The future of local and regional newspaper journalism’ in Anderson, P.J. and Ward, G. – The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, Aldershot, Ashgate.

Guy Hodgson

Book chapters

A chapter on national newspapers in Gregory, G, Healy R, Mazierska, E (eds): (2006) Employability Skills in Film and Media, London: Sage.

‘Sports Journalism and its relationship to hard news journalism,’ in Anderson, P.J. and Ward, G. (2006) – The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, Aldershot, Ashgate.

Articles

‘Sir Nevile Henderson and the Press’, Journalism Studies, article due to be published during 2007.

Francois Nel

Journal articles

Nel, F. 2003. ‘Power- who has it, who should get it?’ Rhodes University Journalism Review, Issue 22: 14-16 (Summer 2003).

Book chapters

With Rawlinson, A. and Ward, M. (2006) ‘The future of online journalism’ in Anderson, P.J. and Ward, G. – The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, Aldershot, Ashgate.

Refereed conference proceedings

Nel. F. 2002. Relationships between media organizations and their commercial content providers in a society in transition: a discussion of a South African experience. Proceedings of the 9th annual conference of the European Public Relations Education and Research Association, Bled, Slovenia, 6 July 2002.

Nel, F. 2004. Using Desktop Video Conferencing (DTVC) to enhance social presence in electronically-supported learning. Proceedings of the Conference On Information Technology in Tertiary Education (CITTE 2004),1-3 September 2004, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Non-research professional publications and text books

(2005) Writing for the Media in Southern Africa, 3rd ed., Cape Town: Oxford University Press.

Dr. George Ogola

Journal Publications

“The idiom of age in a popular Kenyan newspaper serial” in Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute. 76.4 (2006) pp. 569-589

Ogola, G. “Confronting and Performing Power: Memory, Popular Imagination and a ‘Popular’ Kenyan Newspaper Serial” in African Studies 64.1 (July 2005) pp. 73-85

Ogola, G. “Popular Culture and Politics: Whispers and the ‘dramaturgy of power’ in Kenya” in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture. 11. 2 (March 2005) pp. 147-160

Ogola, G “Popular Fiction as a ‘restorative’ narrative” in Social Dynamics 30. 2. (2004) pp. 207-220

Ogola, G “Mapping Texts: Imagining Audiences in Popular Fiction” in English Studies in Africa 45.2 (Sept 2002) pp. 47-61

Chapters in books

Ogola, G. “Christening Fiction: Sermonising the ‘Popular’ in Whispers” in Ogude and Nyairo (eds.) Popular Culture and Fiction in Kenya, Africa World Press and New Africa Books (2006)

Conference Papers

Ogola, G. Mediating Christianities: Re-reading the ‘Popular’ in the Kenyan Popular Press. A paper presented at The Fifth International Conference on Media, Religion, and Culture: Mediating religion in the context of multicultural tension, The Sigtuna Foundation, Stockholm/Sigtuna/Uppsala, Sweden, 6-9 July, 2006

Ogola, G. “Politics and Popular Culture: Whispers and the ‘dramaturgy of power’ in Kenya”. A paper presented at the “Imagining Texts: Media and Popular Literature in Africa Conference”, University of KwaZulu Natal, Pietermaritzburg, September, 2004.

Ogola, G. “The idiom of age in a popular Kenyan newspaper serial”. A paper presented at the “The Idiom of Age in Africa Workshop”, University of Birmingham, UK, May 2004.

Ogola, G. “Christening Fiction: Sermonising the Popular in Whispers”. A paper presented at the “Colloquium on Popular Literature in Africa”, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, November, 2003.

Ogola, G. “Confronting and Performing Power: Memory, Popular Imagination and the Kenyan Newspaper”. A paper presented at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, September, 2003.

Ogola, G. “Writing Community: Fact, Fiction, Friction”. A paper presented at the “Culture and the State: Past, Present, Future Conference”, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, May, 2003.

Ogola, G. “Popular Fiction as a ‘restorative’ genre in the Kenyan Newspaper”. A paper presented at the “Colloquium on Popular Culture”, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, July, 2003

Alan Rawlinson

Book chapters

With Nel, F. and Ward, M. (2006) ‘The future of online journalism’ in Anderson, P.J. and Ward, G. – The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, Aldershot, Ashgate.

Geoff Ward

Edited books

With Anderson, P.J. (2006) – The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, Aldershot, Ashgate.

Chapters in books

‘The Future of National Newspaper Journalism,’ in Anderson, P.J. and Ward, G. – The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, Aldershot, Ashgate.

In addition, Geoff also made short contributions to chapters one and two of the same book.

Michael Ward

Book chapters

‘Marketing on the Internet’, in Keaveney, P. and Kaufmann, M. (2001). Marketing for the Voluntary Sector, Publisher?

With Nel, F. and Rawlinson, A. (2006) ‘The future of online journalism’ in Anderson, P.J. and Ward, G. – The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, Aldershot, Ashgate.

Non-research professional publications and text books

(2002) Journalism Online, Oxford: Focal Press

Postgraduate research

The division’s first doctoral student, Aileen McLeod, was awarded her PhD in January 2004. Her project was a detailed study of the extent to which the UK print and broadcast media could be argued to have helped undermine the legitimacy of the European Parliament.

Her work included extensive interviewing of UK print and broadcast journalists and of EU officials both in Britain and Brussels. She is now a senior research specialist with the parliament of an EU country and is in the process of seeking publication of her thesis. She has been invited to contribute also to the academic publications of leading figures within this field.

John Price, the current journalism division bursary student, joined the department after several years experience as a working journalist, followed by outstandingly successful completion of a MA at Liverpool University. He is in the final year of his research into the relationship between the EU commission and the British press.

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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