Communications, Media & Culture
@ University of Stirling
In her opening statement in her report (http://www.damejanetsmithreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Opening-Statement-of-Dame-Janet-Smith-25.02.16.pdf) on Jimmy Savile’s years abusing girls, boys, women and men at the BBC, Dame Janet Smith refers to a “macho culture” as an important element that enabled Savile to get away with decades of criminal, abusive behaviour. Read More …
Dee Amy-Chinn It is with great sadness that we have to announce the death of our dear friend and colleague, Dee Amy-Chinn, on Thursday 3rd December. Dee joined Communications, Media & Culture at Stirling in 2009 from Oxford Brookes University. Her academic career began as Read More …
CMC research covered by Time, the New York Times and Social Media The recent publication of The State of News Photography: The Lives and Livelihoods of Photojournalists in the Digital Age has caused a great deal of debate in the industry worldwide. The study, which Read More …
CMC staffer Adrian Hadland was born in Hong Kong and recently spent almost three years working on mainland China. In this article for the website, The Conversation, he writes about the protests currently taking place on the island and about the prospects for a peaceful Read More …
An exhibition of photographs taken by Eddy Borges-Rey and myself have just been put up in the Pathfoot Building. The photographs are unusual in the sense that they are all taken using mobile phones. The exhibition forms part of a research and teaching initiative aimed Read More …
Since the mid-2000s, major news events such as the London bombings and the Asian tsunami have led to the use of mobile phone video footage becoming a common feature of media content, both broadcast and online. Presenting data from a current study on the use Read More …
On August 4th, 1981, Glasgow became the first city in the world to bestow the freedom of the city to Nelson Mandela. In its time, this was a bold statement. In many parts of the globe, including the UK, public sentiment was not very favourable Read More …