Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (337)

The communicative structures of journalism and public relations (2005)
Journal Article
Salter, L. (2005). The communicative structures of journalism and public relations. Journalism, 6(1), 90-106. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884905048954

This article seeks to analyze the communication structures of journalism and public relations, using the communication ethics of Jürgen Habermas. The intention is to use this analysis to draw attention to the differences between journalism and public... Read More about The communicative structures of journalism and public relations.

SimAcademy (2005)
Journal Article
Giddings, S. (2005). SimAcademy

The academic study of computer and video games is a rapidly growing field. This article surveys its global - and local - development, and some of the conceptual issues it raises.

Spinners or sinners? PR, journalists and public trust (2005)
Journal Article
Jempson, M. (2005). Spinners or sinners? PR, journalists and public trust. Journal of Communication Management, 9(3), 267-276. https://doi.org/10.1108/13632540510621542

The credibility of journalists and public relations professionals took some bad knocks in 2004. This paper examines the recent history of the debate and some of the efforts being made within the communications industry to rebuild the public confidenc... Read More about Spinners or sinners? PR, journalists and public trust.

Structure and forms of use: A contribution to understanding the role of the Internet in deliberative democracy (2004)
Journal Article
Salter, L. (2004). Structure and forms of use: A contribution to understanding the role of the Internet in deliberative democracy. Information, Communication and Society, 7(2), 185-206. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118042000232648

This paper was delivered in different form to the conference 'The Politics of Code: Shaping the Future of the Next Internet Programme' in the Comparative Media Law and Policy/Oxford Internet Institute seminar series, University of Oxford (Feb 2003),... Read More about Structure and forms of use: A contribution to understanding the role of the Internet in deliberative democracy.

Lara Croft: feminist icon or cyberbimbo? On the limits of textual analysis (2002)
Journal Article
Kennedy, H. W. (2002). Lara Croft: feminist icon or cyberbimbo? On the limits of textual analysis

As the title suggests, the feminist reception of Lara Croft as a game character has been ambivalent to say the least. The question itself presupposes an either/or answer, thereby neatly expressing the polarities around which most popular media and ac... Read More about Lara Croft: feminist icon or cyberbimbo? On the limits of textual analysis.

The sexual geographies of reading in post-war London (2002)
Journal Article
Hornsey, R. (2002). The sexual geographies of reading in post-war London. Gender, Place and Culture, 9(4), 371-384. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369022000024650

This article examines the way in which the spaces, practices and pleasures of reading books became inscribed within a heteronormative geographical imaginary in Britain after the end of the Second World War. The active state provision of cultural welf... Read More about The sexual geographies of reading in post-war London.

This is not a book (1998)
Journal Article
Ward, J. (1998). This is not a book. Eye Magazine, 7(27), 48 -55

An appraisal of the book form, centering on the Artists'book, as a form of communication. The article uses multiple bookworks as fulcra for discussion and debate.