An investigation of the impact and interpretation of television news coverage, based on an experiment conducted by the author. He describes how members of different social groups interpreted the events of a strike according to their own individual backgrounds and social experiences.
An investigation of the impact and interpretation of television news coverage, based on an experiment conducted by the author. He describes how member...
This volume of the collected writings of the Glasgow University Media Group reprints articles on the reporting and audience reception of industrial and economic news, including coverage of the 1984-5 Miners' Strike. The Reader also includes more recent material on media coverage of conflicts in Northern Ireland, the Falkland Islands and the Persian Gulf. Greg Philo examines the media strategies of political parties in the 1980s, and considers the effects of recent changes in the legal and commercial structure of broadcasting, including the 1990 Broadcasting Act. Overall, it illustrates how...
This volume of the collected writings of the Glasgow University Media Group reprints articles on the reporting and audience reception of industrial an...
"Bad News for Refugees "analyses the political, economic and environmental contexts of migration and looks specifically at how refugees and asylum seekers have been stigmatised in political rhetoric and in media coverage. Through forensic research it shows how hysterical and inaccurate media accounts act to legitimise political action which can have terrible consequences both on the lives of refugees and also on established migrant communities. Based on new research by the renowned Glasgow Media Group, "Bad News for Refugees "is essential reading for those concerned with the...
"Bad News for Refugees "analyses the political, economic and environmental contexts of migration and looks specifically at how refugees and asylum ...
This book, drawing on new research conducted for the UK Energy Resource Centre (UKERC), examines the contemporary public debate on climate change and the linked issue of energy security. It analyses the key processes which affect the formation of public attitudes and understanding in these areas, while also developing a completely new method for analysing these processes. The authors address fundamental questions about how to adequately inform the public and develop policy in areas of great social importance when public distrust of politicians is so widespread. The new methods of attitudinal...
This book, drawing on new research conducted for the UK Energy Resource Centre (UKERC), examines the contemporary public debate on climate change and ...
Television has a powerful impact on our beliefs and is open to use as a political and propaganda tool. Greg Philo has taken a new approach to examining these issues by inviting groups of television viewers to write their own news programmes, based on news pictures from the 1984-5 British miners' strike.
Television has a powerful impact on our beliefs and is open to use as a political and propaganda tool. Greg Philo has taken a new approach to examinin...
Drawing on the research of the Glasgow University Media group, this book examines the latest developments in media reporting and impact on topical issues such as food panics, risk situations, child sexual abuse, race and migration, and mental illness.
Drawing on the research of the Glasgow University Media group, this book examines the latest developments in media reporting and impact on topical iss...
