Papers

Tele-technologies, Control and Sousveillance: Saddam Hussein – De-Deification and the Beast

Published in Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture (2009).

This looks at the role of Web 2.0 (moblogging, in particular) on mainstream TV news coverage of Saddam Hussein’s capture and execution, thereby exploring Mann’s concept of sousveillance (watching the institutional watchers). 

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Policy Agenda-Setting and Risk Communication: Greenpeace, Shell and Issues of Trust

Published in The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, 11(3) July (2006)

This explores the news-oriented public relations battles, TV news outcomes and policy outcomes over 5 years between a media-oriented, international non-governmental organisation and a multinational, focussing on trust issues.

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A Critique of the Predictive Capacity of Strauss’ Grounded Theory Via a Grounded Theorisation of Leisure and Cultural Strategy

Co-written with Ali Bakir. Published in The Qualitative Report, 11(4), December (2006).

This critiques a major method of qualitative research – grounded theory – through empirical analysis of interview data generated from managers within leisure and cultural industries.

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Privacy, Online Advertising and Marketing Techniques: The Paradoxical Disappearance of the User

Co-written with Andy McStay. Published in Ethical Space: the International Journal of Communication Ethics, 3(1), (2006)

The critiques literatures on new media and cybercultures, online privacy regulation, and online marketing techniques to explore their effacement of users.

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Greenpeace v. Shell: Media exploitation and the Social Amplification of Risk Framework (SARF).

Published in Journal of Risk Research, 8, (7-8) (2005)

This defends the SARF model against recent critiques from journalism scholars, highlighting its efficacy through an empirical case study of TV news-oriented risk communication.

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