Global News and Media Audiences (ASS023-2)

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Core Texts

• Allan, S. (2004) News culture. 2nd edn. Maidenhead: OUP.

Peer-reviewed journals

• European Journal of Communication
• Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
• Journalism Studies
• Mass Communication and Society
• Media, Culture and Society
• New Media and Society
• Television and New Media

The media & modern culture

• Allan, S. (2002) ‘Introduction: the culture of news’, in News culture. 2nd edn. Buckingham: Open University Press, pp. 1-6.

History of the news media

• Fulcher, J. and Scott, J. (2003) 'Communication and the media: the rise of the mass media', in Sociology. 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 370-374.
• Harcup, T. and O'Neill, D. (2001) 'What is news? Galtung and Ruge revisited', Journalism Studies, 2(2), pp. 261-280. [Journal article]
• Marsh, I. (ed.) (2006) 'Chapter 17: The mass media', in Sociology: making sense of society. 3rd edn. London: Pearson Education, pp. 655-720.

Theory: mass society and functionalism

• Bolin, G. (2004) 'The value of being public service: the shifting of power relations in Swedish television production', Media, Culture and Society, 26(2), pp. 277-287. [Journal article]
• Comrie, M. and Fountaine, S. (2005) 'Retrieving public service broadcasting: treading a fine line at TVNZ', Media, Culture and Society, 27(1), pp. 101-118. [Journal article]
• Curran, J. et. al. (2009) 'Media system, public knowledge and democracy', European Journal of Mass Communication, 24(1), pp. 5-26. [Journal article]
  
• Curran, J. (2002) 'Rival narratives of media history', in Media and power. Taylor & Francis.
• Curran, J. (2009) Power without responsibility: the press and broadcasting in Britain. 7th edn. London: Routledge.
• Harrison, J. and Wessels, B. (2005) 'A new public service communication environment? Public service broadcasting values in the reconfiguring media', New Media and Society, 7(6), pp. 834-853. [Journal article]
• MacDonald, M. (2007) 'Television debate, 'interactivity' and public opinion: the case of the BBC's 'Asylum Day', Media, Culture and Society, 29(4), pp. 679-689. [Journal article]
• Ward, D. (2003) 'State Aid or Band Aid? An evaluation of the European Commission's approach to public service broadcasting', Media, Culture and Society, 25(2), pp. 233-250. [Journal article]
• Ytreberg, E. (2002) 'Ideal types in public service television: paternalists and bureaucrats, charismatics and avant-gardists', Media, Culture and Society, 24(6), pp. 759-774. [Journal article]

Marxism

• Allan, S. (2004) News culture. 2nd edn. Buckingham: Open University Press.

Media & ideological control

• Corner, J. (2007) 'Mediated politics, promotional culture and the idea of propaganda', Media, Culture & Society, 29(4), pp. 669-677. [Journal article]
• Herman, E. (2000) 'The propaganda model: a retrospective', Journalism Studies, 1(1), pp. 101-112. [Journal article]
• Klaehn, J. (2002) 'A critical review and assessment of Herman and Chomsky's "Propaganda model", European Journal of Communication, 17(2), pp. 147-182. [Journal article]

Theory: Pluralism & the critique of Marxism

• Curran, J. (2002) Media and power. London: Routledge.
  
• Davis, A. (2003) 'Wither mass media and power? Evidence for a critical elite theory alternative', Media, Culture & Society, 25(5), pp. 669-690. [Journal article]
• Karppinen, K. (2007) 'Against naive pluralism in media politics: on the implications of the radical-pluralist approach to the public sphere', Media, Culture & Society, 29(3), pp. 495-508. [Journal article]

Transactional perspectives

• Carter, C. (1998) 'Chapter 13: When the extraordinary becomes ordinary', in News, gender and power. Taylor & Francis, pp. 219-232. [Book chapter]
• Chritcher, C. (2002) 'Media, government and moral panic: the politics of paedophilia in Britain 2000-1', Journalism Studies, 3(4), pp. 521-535. [Journal article]
  
• Cohen, S. and Young, J. (2004) 'Comments on Simon Cottee's "Folk devils and moral panics: "Left idealism" reconsidered', Theoretical Criminology, 6(4), pp. 93-97. [Journal article]
• Davis, A. (2000) 'Public relations, news productions and changing patterns of source access in the British national media', Media, Culture & Society, 22(1), pp. 39-59. [Journal article]
  
• Downes, D. et. al. (eds.) (2007) Crime, social control and human rights: from moral panics to states of denial: essays in honour of Stanley Cohen. Cullompton: Willan.
  
• Thompson, K. (1998) Moral panics. London: Routledge.
• Vasterman, P.L.M. (2005)'Media-hype: self-reinforcing news waves: journalistic standards and the construction of social problems', European Journal of Communication, 20(4), pp. 508-530. [Journal article]
• Weaver, C. K. (1998) 'Chapter 15: Crimewatch UK', in Carter, C. et. al. (eds.) News, gender and power. Taylor & Francis. [Book chapter]

Theory: Postmodernism

• Morris, M. (2005) 'Interpretability, and social power, or why postmodern advertising works', Media, Culture & Society, 27(5), pp. 697-718. [Journal article]

The dynamics of news production

• Chomsky, D. (1999) 'The mechanism of management control at the New York Times', Media, Culture & Society, 21(5), pp. 579-599. [Journal article]
• Langhorne, R. (2006) 'Part E: The performance: the machinery of interaction: 6: Media', in The essentials of global politics. London: Hodder Arnold. [Book chapter]

Agenda setting and gate-keeping

• McCombs, M.E. and Shaw, D.L. (1972) 'The agenda-setting function of mass media' Public Opinion Quarterly, 36(2), pp. 176-187. [Journal article]
• Weaver, D. H. (2007) 'Thoughts on agenda setting, framing and priming', Journal of Communication, 57(1), pp. 142-147. [Journal article]

Content analysis

• Jensen, K.B. (ed.) (2002) A handbook of media and communication research: qualitative and quantitative methodologies. London: Routledge.

Semiotic and discourse analysis of news

• Franklin, B. (ed.) (2008) Pulling newspapers apart: analysing print journalism. London: Routledge.
• Pan, L.X. (2002) ' Consensus behind disputes: a critical discourse analysis on the media coverage of the right-of-abode issue in postcolonial Hong Kong', Media, Culture & Society, 24(1), pp. 49-68. [Journal article]
• Discourse & Society

Gender on the agenda

• Allan, S. (2004) 'Chapter 6: The gendered realities of journalism', in News Culture. 2nd edn. Maidenhead: OUP,  pp.119-142.
• Armstrong, C.L. (2004) 'The influence of reporter gender on source selection in newspaper stories', Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 81(1), pp. 139-154. [Journal article]
• Armstrong, C.L. and Nelson, M. R. (2005) 'How newspaper sources trigger gender stereotypes', Journalism & Mass Media Quarterly, 82(4), pp. 820-837. [Journal article]
• Craft, S. and Wanta, W. (2004) 'Women in the newsroom: influences of female editors and reporters on the news agenda', Journalism and Mass Media Quarterly, 81(1), pp. 124-138. [Journal article]
• Hogan, J. (1999) 'The construction of gendered national identities in the television advertisements of Japan and Australia', Media, Culture and Society, 21(6), pp. 743-758. [Journal article]
  
• Kitch, C. (1997) 'Changing theoretical perspectives on women's media images: the emergence of patterns in a new area of historical scholarship', Journalism and Mass Media Quarterly, 74(3), pp. 477-489. [Journal article]
• Lavie, A. and Leman-Wilsig, S. (2003) 'Who's news? : Does gender determine the editorial product?', European Journal of Communication, 18(1), pp. 5-29. [Journal article]
  
• Stabile, C. A. and Kumar, D. (2005) 'Unveiling imperialism: media, gender and the war on Afghanistan', Media, Culture and Society, 27(5), pp. 765-782. [Journal article]
• Torenli, L. (2006) 'The "other" faces of digital exclusion: ICT gender divides in the broader community', European Journal of Communication, 21(4), pp. 435-455. [Journal article]
  
• Zoch, L.M. and VanSlyke, J. (1998) 'Women making news: gender as a variable in source selection and use', Journalism and Mass Media Quarterly, 75(4), pp. 762-775. [Journal article]

Race, ethnicity and the media

• Allan, S. (2004) 'Chapter 7: Us and them: racism in the news', in News Culture. 2nd edn. Maidenhead: OUP, pp. 143-170. [Book chapter]
• Coleman, R. (2003) 'Race and ethical reasoning: the importance of race to journalistic decision making', Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 80(2), pp. 295-310. [Journal article]
• Duke, L. (2000) 'Black in a blonde world: race and girls' interpretation of the feminine ideal in teenage magazines', Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 77(2), pp. 367-392. [Journal article]
• Miller, R.E. and Wanta, W. (1996) 'Race as a variable in agenda setting', Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 73(4), pp. 913-925. [Journal article]
  

News, the state and spinning

• Allan, S. (2004) 'Chapter 8: Journalism on the web: September 11 and the war in Iraq', in News Culture. 2nd edn. Maidenhead: OUP, pp. 171-192. [Book Chapter]
• Bruce, T. (2004) 'Making the boundaries of the "normal" in televised sports: the play-by-play of race', Media, Culture and Society, 26(6), pp. 861-879. [Journal article]
• Wal, J.T. et. al. (2005) '(Re) presentation of ethnicity in EU and Dutch domestic news: a quantitative analysis' Media, Culture and Society, 27(6), pp. 937-950. [Journal article]