Stylish, readable and packed with telling examples from around the world... In a world obscured by spin, soundbites and multivarious political conflict, John Street is an illuminating - and often entertaining - guide.
Douglas Kellner, UCLA
A provocative and an innovative collection that aims to highlight the current ‘crisis' of the country through an analysis of several different ‘dark shadows' of contemporary Italian society.
Michael Skey explores the often neglected traces of nationalist thinking found in everyday speech, and so provides an important reminder of the distance of much abstract writing about cosmopolitanism from daily experience.
Nick Couldry, Goldsmiths, University of London

Researchers carrying out work in this field include: Alan Finlayson, Chris Hanretty, Sanna Inthorn, Li Zhang, Marina Prentoulis, Michael Skey, John Street, Giuseppe A. Veltri

Current projects include:

Recent publications include:

Hanretty, Chris (2011) Public Broadcasting and Political Interference. Routledge Research in Political Communication. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415665520

Street, John (2011) Mass media, politics and democracy (updated and revised second edition). Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills. ISBN 978-1-4039-4734-5

Street, John (2011) Music and Politics. Polity, Cambridge. ISBN 978-0-7456-3544-6

Veltri, Giuseppe A (2010) Italy Today. The Sick Man of Europe, Routledge, London ISBN 978-0415561600

Zhang, Li (2011) News Media and EU-China Relations, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, ISBN 978-0230105027

Comment

Chris Hanretty ‘Public service broadcasting's continued rude health', 25 April 2012, British Academy symposium

Links

ESRC Centre for Competition Policy, UEA

Science, Society and Sustainability, UEA

Tyndall Centre, UEA