Research in Journalism
Explore the research of academics working in Journalism, based within the School of Media, Arts and Humanities.
Our research outlook
Members of our faculty are involved in a number of areas of research – including studies into citizen journalism, protest movements and media use, and election coverage.
Our faculty publish journal articles, produce documentary films, and work for global digital and print media organisations.
Publications
See below for a list of recent book publications, contributions to books and journal articles.
- Books
Chen, Sally Xiaojin (2020) Resistance in digital China: the Southern weekly incident. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, New York, NY. ISBN 9781501337697.
Curran, James, Gaber, Ivor and Petley, Julian (2018) Culture wars: the media and the British left, 2nd Edition. Communication and Society . Routledge, London. ISBN 9781138223035
Dekavalla, Marina (2018) Framing referendum campaigns in the news. Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK. ISBN 9781526119896
Metykova, Monika (2016) Diversity and the media. Key Concerns in Media Studies . Palgrave. ISBN 9781137285997
Lorentz, Pascaline, Smahel, David, Metykova, Monika and Wright, Michelle F (eds.) Living in the digital age: self-presentation, networking, playing and participating in politics. Masaryk University, Brno. ISBN 9788021078109
- Contributions to books
Metykova, Monika (2020) Hungarian media policy 2010 – 2018: the illiberal shift. In: Correia, Joao Carlos, Gradim, Anabela and Morais, Ricardo (eds.) Pathologies and dysfunctions of democracy in the media context. Beira Interior University, Covilhã, Portugal, pp. 81-95. ISBN 9789896546489
Oggolder, Christian, Brügger, Niels, Metykova, Monika, Salaverría, Ramón and Siapera, Eugenia (2019), The Emergence of the Internet and the End of Journalism?, In: Arnold, Klaus, Preston, Paschal and Kinnebrock, Susanne (eds) The Handbook of European Communication History p.333-365, Wiley-Blackwell
Metykova, Monika (2016) European media policy limitations in the Balkans: observations on TV Pink BH. In: Krajina, Zlatan and Blanuša, Nebojša (eds.) EU, Europe unfinished: mediating Europe and the Balkans in a time of crisis. Radical Cultural Studies . Rowman and Littlefield International, London; New York. ISBN 9781783489787
Dekavalla, Marina (2018) The EU referendum on Scottish television. In: Ridge-Newman, Anthony, León-Solís, Fernando and O'Donnell, Hugh (eds.) Reporting the Road to Brexit: International Media and the EU Referendum 2016. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 61-73. ISBN 9783319736815
Dekavalla, Marina (2016) The Scottish press account: Narratives of the independence referendum and its aftermath In: Blain, Neil, Hutchison, David and Hassan, Gerry Scotland's Referendum and the Media: National and International Perspectives p.47-58, Edinburgh University Press
Gaber I (2015) Othering Ed: Newspaper coverage of Miliband and the election In: Wring, Dominic, Mortimore, Roger, Atkinson, Simon (Eds.) Political Communication in Britain: Polling, Campaigning and Media in the 2015 General Election, p.273-291
Chen, Sally Xiaojin (2015) Collective action in digital China: a case study of the 2013 southern weekly incident. In: Yang, Guobin (ed.) China's contested internet. Governance in Asia . NIAS Press, Copenhagen, pp. 283-304. ISBN 9788776941758
Metykova, Monika (2015) European media policy: why margins actually matter. In: Savigny, Heather, Thorsen, Einar, Jackson, Daniel and Alexander, Jenny (eds.) Media, margins and civic agency. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, Hampshire, pp. 77-88. ISBN 9781137512635
Metykova, Monika (2015) New media, old inequalities: technological fixes, national containers, and the Roma. In: Lorentz, Pascaline, Smahel, David, Metykova, Monika and Wright, Michelle F (eds.) Living in the digital age: self-presentation, networking, playing and participating in politics. Masaryk University, Brno, pp. 181-195. ISBN 9788021078109
Gaber, Ivor (2014) Three cheers for subjectivity: or the crumbling of the seven pillars of traditional journalistic wisdom. In: Charles, Alec (ed.) The end of journalism version 2.0: industry, technology and politics. Peter Lang Ltd, Oxford, pp. 53-71. ISBN 9781906165482 - Articles
Gaber I, Fisher C (2021) “Strategic Lying”: The Case of Brexit and the 2019 U.K. Election. International Journal of Press/Politics
Gaber I (2021) Why the EHRC Report into Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party is About so much More than Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party—A Personal View. Political Quarterly 92(1):139-141
Waschkova Cisarova, Lenka and Metykova, Monika (2020) Peripheral news workers expelled to the periphery: the case of camera reporters. Journalism. ISSN 1464-8849
Metykova, Monika and Cisarova, Lenka Waschkova (2020) Closed doors, empty desks: the declining material conditions of the Czech local print newsroom. Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies, 9 (1). pp. 21-38. ISSN 2001-0818
Chen, Sally Xiaojin (2020) Relational interaction and embodiment: conceptualizing meanings of LGBTQ+ activism in digital China. Communication and the Public, 5 (3-4). pp. 1-15. ISSN 2057-0473
Dekavalla, Marina (2020) Visualising the game frame: constructing political competition through television images in referendum coverage. Visual Communication, 19 (4). pp. 483-505. ISSN 1470-3572Gaber I (2020) Anti-Semitism: the Touchstone Issue for the Next Labour Leader. Political Quarterly 91(1):70-73
Dekavalla, Marina (2020) Gaining trust: the articulation of transparency by You Tube fashion and beauty content creators. Media, Culture and Society, 42 (1). pp. 75-92. ISSN 0163-4437
Gaber, Ivor (2018) New challenges in the coverage of politics for UK broadcasters and regulators in the new ‘Post-Truth’ environment. Journalism Practice, 12 (8). pp. 1019-1028. ISSN 1751-2786
Dekavalla, Marina and Montagut, Marta (2018) Constructing issues in the media through metaphoric frame networks. Discourse, Context & Media, 26. pp. 74-81. ISSN 2211-6958
Gaber, Ivor (2018) New challenges in the coverage of politics for UK broadcasters and regulators in the new ‘Post-Truth’ environment. Journalism Practice, 12 (8). pp. 1019-1028. ISSN 1751-2786
Gaber, Ivor and Tiffen, Rodney (2018) Politics and the media in Australia and the United Kingdom: parallels and contrasts. Media International Australia, 167 (1). pp. 27-40. ISSN 1329-878X
Dekavalla, Marina (2018) Issue and game frames in the news: Frame-building factors in television coverage of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. Journalism, 19 (11). pp. 1588-1607. ISSN 1464-8849
Dekavalla, Marina and Jelen-Sanchez, Alenka (2017) Whose voices are heard in the news? A study of sources in television coverage of the Scottish independence referendum. British Politics, 12 (4). pp. 449-472. ISSN 1746-918X
Gaber, Ivor (2017) Twitter: a useful tool for studying elections? Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 23 (6). pp. 603-626. ISSN 1354-8565
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Sharp, Rob (2017) These Slovak journalists quit their paper and built an independent rival with 23,000 digital subscribers. Nieman Journalism Lab.
Dekavalla, Marina (2016) Framing referendum campaigns: the 2014 Scottish independence referendum in the press. Media, Culture and Society, 38 (6). pp. 793-810. ISSN 0163-4437
Gaber, Ivor (2016) Is there still a 'crisis in public communication' (if there ever was one)? The UK experience. Journalism, 17 (5). pp. 636-651. ISSN 1464-8849
Dekavalla, Marina and Rafter, Kevin (2016) The construction of a ‘historical moment’: Queen Elizabeth’s 2011 visit to Ireland in British and Irish newspapers. Journalism, 17 (2). pp. 227-243. ISSN 1464-8849
Gaber, Ivor and McCrory, Sam (2015) Spinning on a cleaner cycle: how media management became 'respectable' under the UK's coalition government. Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies, 4 (2). 205 -222. ISSN 2001-0818
Gaber, Ivor (2015) The ‘othering’ of ‘Red Ed’, or how the Daily Mail ‘framed’ the British Labour leader. Political Quarterly, 85 (4). pp. 471-479. ISSN 0032-3179
Metykova, Monika and Waschkova Cisarova, Lenka (2015) Better the devil you don’t know: post-revolutionary journalism and media ownership in the Czech Republic. Medijske Studije/Media Studies, 6 (11). ISSN 1847-9758
Dekavalla, Marina (2015) The Scottish newspaper industry in the digital era. Media, Culture and Society, 37 (1). pp. 107-114. ISSN 0163-4437
Margaretten, Mark and Gaber, Ivor (2014) The crisis in public communication and the pursuit of authenticity: an analysis of the Twitter feeds of Scottish MPs 2008–2010. Parliamentary Affairs, 67 (2). pp. 328-350. ISSN 0031-2290
Metykova, Monika (2014) Bridge guard: transnational artists, national populist politics, and cross-border interethnic relationships. East Central Europe, 41 (2-3). pp. 277-295. ISSN 0094-3037
Gaber I, Lora-Kayambazinthu E Whose media, whose agenda? Monitoring the Malawi 2014 tripartite elections. Ecquid Novi 35(3):106-114. -