John Corner
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 201699 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John Corner |
| NOMBRES | John |
| APELLIDO | Corner |
| FIRMA | CORNER J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-2824-4468 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 73 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 299 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The ‘Narrative Turn’ Revisited
This note reviews, through examples, how narrative remains a powerful and changing element in public communication, refreshed not only by shifts in technologies and modes but also by the tonalities and affective character of contemporary political exchange
Media research and proposals for media change
A significant body of media research internationally involves suggestions for planned change, often as a key point of conclusion. The suggested changes or reforms are placed in the context of perceived deficits in media performance, which may be seen as longstanding or as a result of recent shifts in the broader economy, the political frame or a major disruption such as that brought about by COVID-19. Some research restricts itself to documenting…
Figuring Covid
This note examines the ways in which statistics have been an important and controversial aspect of public information concerning the Covid-19 pandemic. The profile has varied internationally but some schematic observations about lines of flow, the distinctive role played by figures and the patterns of debate surrounding them can be made. Issues of comprehension and contestability are foregrounded in ways which, while they have their precedents, i…
Introduction
'Mass' in Communication Research
Origins and transformations
This is a brief, interconnected review of some of the extensive work published in the last few years on the history of study into communication. It highlights in particular the expansion of this work to include international contexts and the examination of how teaching programmes as well as research activity have helped to institutionalize the area as one with a discrete, if much-debated, academic identity. Different originating contexts, histori…
'Mediatization'
This short commentary looks at aspects of the debate about the term ‘mediatization’, paying particular attention to recent, cross-referring exchanges both in support of the concept and critical of it. In the context of its widespread use, it suggests that continuing questions need to be asked about the conceptual status of the term, the originality of the ideas it suggests and the kinds of empirical project to which it relates.
Falsehood in Focus
Research Article| September 01 2017 Falsehood in Focus: Media and the Politics of Veracity John Corner John Corner JOHN CORNER is a visiting professor in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2017) 45 (2-3): 9–12. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2017.45.2-3.9 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary…
Fake news, post-truth and media–political change
Afterword
In this Afterword, I raise general questions about how the idea of "engagement" relates to the different phases of media production, reception, and use explored in the previous pieces. Drawing on my earlier writing, I note how different kinds of engagement and involvement occur within a changing "economy of attention" within which commercial activities, media productions, and the politics of media industries have to operate. In this economy, visi…
Aesthetic experience and the question of “difficulty”
This note of commentary explores some of the ways in which “difficulty” figures in aesthetic experience and how these relate to broader factors of social and cultural organisation. Having examined some ideas about the variety and character of difficulty, drawing on previous writing, it suggests that forms of empirical inquiry combined with a refreshed analytic agenda offer the possibility of understanding better its nature as both a negative and …
The Media and Financial Crisis
Strategic impact documentary
The past decade has seen the emergence of a new kind of documentary making that marries documentary storytelling and the principles of strategic communication. Strategic impact documentary is a transmedia practice that aims to achieve specific social change by aligning documentary production with online and offline communications practices. The contemporary media environment is one in which a wide range of organizations work to achieve their poli…
Ideology’ and media research
This commentary reviews the continuing discussion about the use of the concept of ‘ideology’ in media research, connecting back to earlier dimensions of the debate and the problems that developed around its varying usage. It engages with the attempt to reinstate the idea as an organising concept in the analysis of power, looking at some of the ways in which the media’s work in the brokering of power relations remains in need of further understand…
Outside and inside television
This is an exchange on questions of value from two distinct but overlapping perspectives on television. Among other things, it looks at the differences between academic and industry approaches to questions of quality and value and the way in which these approaches are changing. In what ways does the upsurge in production studies promise improved understanding and how is this growth connected with the traditions of textual and audience research? H…
Passion and reason
This note of commentary examines aspects of the relationship between passion and reason. It looks at how forms of interaction between the two have been conceptualised within different theories and at how attempts at correcting the under-recognition of emotion in deliberative activity have been a goal of recent studies. It suggests that ideas of mutuality as well as of tension with forms of rationality will continue to guide cultural analysis into…
The Many Spaces of Theory
This note of commentary examines the divergent contexts within which theoretical work on communication is now undertaken and identifies some of the underlying factors in play. It suggests that further disconnection between areas of conceptual engagement is likely to occur, whatever the quality of specific theoretical advances, and that is highly unlikely that “cross-field” initiatives seeking improved coherence will be able to counter the underly…
Show Me the Money
Temporality and Documentary
Medialife
Is there a ‘field’ of media research? – The ‘fragmentation’ issue revisited
Temporality and Documentary
The temporalities of the image have long been a focus for theoretical and analytical discussion, both in photographic studies, where the paradoxes of ‘stillness’ have been at the centre of debate about the distinctive aesthetics of the medium, 1 and in film studies, where the narrative and symbolic organisation of shots which move spectators through the flows and disruptions of seemingly co-present eventuality have required attention in any addre…
Assessing Television’s ‘Political Dramas’
Because drama is so important to the television schedules, and because television remains a ubiquitous and pervasive medium, TV drama is a constant cultural presence. Some of its stories are about politics, featuring the work of government, the contestation of elections, party rivalry and negotiation, and so on, with a cast of characters including leaders, advisors, journalists, celebrities and citizens: they echo, refract, replay, model and feed…
Comedy, the Civic Subject, and Generic Mediation
This article explores the contribution of comedy to the mediation of politics in a number of genres outside the core forms of journalism. Using material collected during an extensive study of diverse media treatments of British politics, it raises questions about the functions that comedy performs within civic culture and civic subjectivity, giving emphasis to broadcasting. Selected accounts from respondent groups are used to investigate further …
Putting the Mock in Democracy
Political humour has an ancient lineage and a vigorous and generically varied present. The idea that there is something inherently ridiculous about the political class as a group, along with many of its activities, has been articulated in widely different historical and geographical contexts, quite apart from comical perceptions of specific deficits at the level of persons, processes, policies and structures. In Britain, and maybe elsewhere, it c…
Media and the Restyling of Politics
Introduction - John Corner and Dick Pels The Re-Styling of Politics Democracy's Inner Voice - Frank Ankersmit Political Style as Unintended Consequence of Political Action Aesthetic Representation and Political Style - Dick Pels Re-Balancing Identity and Difference in Media Democracy Mediated Persona and Political Culture - John Corner The Celebrity Politician - John Street Political Style and Popular Culture 'After Dallas and Dynasty We Have... …
Performing the Real
This article places Big Brother in the context of shifts in factual television's forms and functions. Having identified some of the distinctive features of Big Brother's construction of telereality, it reviews the category of “documentary” across some of its dominant modes. The current emphasis on formats that divert as much as they inform or question is given particular attention, and the wider social and cultural coordinates of this trend are n…
Mediated persona and political culture
An engagement with the terms of mediated persona is central to the understanding of contemporary political culture. Persona poses questions about the nature of political identity, political performance and the linkage with different media forms and conventions. It also connects directly with the nature of modern political sentiment and with the various articulations of the political within the popular. This article provides a schematic exploratio…
Mass” in Communication Research
Journal Article “Mass” in Communication Research Get access John Corner John Corner 1Lecturer in Mass Communication at Sunderland Polytechnic, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 29, Issue 1, March 1979, Pages 26–32, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1979.tb01679.x Published: 07 February 2006
Finding Data, Reading Patterns, Telling Stories
Fake news, post-truth and media–political change
Sounds real
This article examines the way in which music has featured in documentary films and programmes. The conventions of restrained use to cue mood and theme are explored, using examples and the recommendations of manuals. Across the varieties of documentary output, the article notes how the dominance of journalistic and observational formats has, for different reasons, tended to place music in the margins. Drawing on an example from the classic period …
Reading Reception
Political culture and television fiction
Recently, the study of politics has expanded its scope by recognizing the constitutive power of `political culture' at the same time as cultural studies has become more interested in formal political processes and their relationship to popular culture. This article is a case study of political culture in the United Kingdom, focusing on one example of fictional expression, a television drama series broadcast in 2006: The Amazing Mrs Pritchard . Th…
Mediated politics, promotional culture and the idea of `propaganda
Textualizing risk
Strategic impact documentary
The past decade has seen the emergence of a new kind of documentary making that marries documentary storytelling and the principles of strategic communication. Strategic impact documentary is a transmedia practice that aims to achieve specific social change by aligning documentary production with online and offline communications practices. The contemporary media environment is one in which a wide range of organizations work to achieve their poli…
Political Culture and Media Genre
Exploring the forms and meanings of mediated politics beyond the news cycle, this book encompasses genres drawn from television, radio, the press and the internet, assessing their individual and colle
International Media Research
The Model in Question
Studying Media
Media Studies courses are more popular than ever. This collection brings together a selection of John Corner's writings, considering issues such as Media Language, Reception Studies, the Role of Theory, and Cultural Evaluation. This accessibly-written book will be an invaluable resource for advanced students, providing new perspectives on the media.Key FeaturesCovers developments in media studies across 20 yearsAnalyses central problems in theory…
Epilogue
International audience
Television in theory
This article conducts a `critical audit' on the range of theoretical work about television, asking questions about how television has variously been positioned within different political, cultural and social perspectives. After raising some preliminary questions about the nature and status of `theory' in relation to `research', it considers theoretical developments under four headings — representation, institution, medium and process — examining …
Ideology’ and media research
This commentary reviews the continuing discussion about the use of the concept of ‘ideology’ in media research, connecting back to earlier dimensions of the debate and the problems that developed around its varying usage. It engages with the attempt to reinstate the idea as an organising concept in the analysis of power, looking at some of the ways in which the media’s work in the brokering of power relations remains in need of further understand…
Ideology
What can we say about `documentary
Outside and inside television
This is an exchange on questions of value from two distinct but overlapping perspectives on television. Among other things, it looks at the differences between academic and industry approaches to questions of quality and value and the way in which these approaches are changing. In what ways does the upsurge in production studies promise improved understanding and how is this growth connected with the traditions of textual and audience research? H…
Comedy, the Civic Subject, and Generic Mediation
This article explores the contribution of comedy to the mediation of politics in a number of genres outside the core forms of journalism. Using material collected during an extensive study of diverse media treatments of British politics, it raises questions about the functions that comedy performs within civic culture and civic subjectivity, giving emphasis to broadcasting. Selected accounts from respondent groups are used to investigate further …
Putting the Mock in Democracy
Political humour has an ancient lineage and a vigorous and generically varied present. The idea that there is something inherently ridiculous about the political class as a group, along with many of its activities, has been articulated in widely different historical and geographical contexts, quite apart from comical perceptions of specific deficits at the level of persons, processes, policies and structures. In Britain, and maybe elsewhere, it c…
Public knowledge and popular culture
Mass” in Communication Research
Journal Article “Mass” in Communication Research Get access John Corner John Corner 1Lecturer in Mass Communication at Sunderland Polytechnic, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 29, Issue 1, March 1979, Pages 26–32, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1979.tb01679.x Published: 07 February 2006
Codes and cultural analysis
Reading Reception
A connecting view
Textualizing risk
British Association for Applied Linguistics, Media Language Workshop
Studying culture
Communication and health
Enterprise Culture
Battle culture
Review of: James Aulich (ed.), Framing the Falklands’ War: Nationhood, Culture and Identity (London: Open University Press, 1992), 150pp
Genres télévisuels et analyse de la réception
La notion de genre et les differenciations qu’elle suggere, tant au niveau de la production televisuelle qu’a celui de la reception, a ete trop longtemps ignoree en faveur d’une « essence » mythique de la television. Si la revendication d’une telle « essence » permet certains apercus brillants, elle tend le plus souvent a alimenter des polemiques steriles et a proscrire tout regard reellement critique sur l’activite de reception.A cet egard, la n…
Enterprise Culture
Debating culture
The Politics of 'Spin
THE POLITICS OF ‘SPIN’ Get access John Corner John Corner Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 49, Issue 2, April 1996, Pages 354–356, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028685 Published: 01 April 1996
Sens, genre et contexte
L'intérêt accordé dans les années 80 aux questions de réception a conduit à mettre l'accent sur l'interprétation des publics tout en sous-estimant l'influence des médias. Un fossé dommageable semble se creuser entre les recherches sur le savoir public, centrées sur les productions non-fictionnelles, et celles sur la culture populaire, plus axées sur le divertissement. De ce fait, diverses confusions autour de la notion de sens ont nui à la théori…
Re‐styling the real
Television in theory
This article conducts a `critical audit' on the range of theoretical work about television, asking questions about how television has variously been positioned within different political, cultural and social perspectives. After raising some preliminary questions about the nature and status of `theory' in relation to `research', it considers theoretical developments under four headings — representation, institution, medium and process — examining …
Studying Media
Media Studies courses are more popular than ever. This collection brings together a selection of John Corner's writings, considering issues such as Media Language, Reception Studies, the Role of Theory, and Cultural Evaluation. This accessibly-written book will be an invaluable resource for advanced students, providing new perspectives on the media.Key FeaturesCovers developments in media studies across 20 yearsAnalyses central problems in theory…
Mediated persona and political culture
An engagement with the terms of mediated persona is central to the understanding of contemporary political culture. Persona poses questions about the nature of political identity, political performance and the linkage with different media forms and conventions. It also connects directly with the nature of modern political sentiment and with the various articulations of the political within the popular. This article provides a schematic exploratio…
What can we say about `documentary
Book section. Journalism and democracy
Ideology
The formation ofWorld in Action
This article examines the character of the British television current affairs series World in Actionfrom its first transmission in 1963 until 1965. Against the background of existing current affairs programming, it assesses the series' contribution to the development of distinctive rhetorical and visual forms appropriate for television current affairs journalism. The authors examine some of the specific intentions and practices, the guiding ideas…
Performing the Real
This article places Big Brother in the context of shifts in factual television's forms and functions. Having identified some of the distinctive features of Big Brother's construction of telereality, it reviews the category of “documentary” across some of its dominant modes. The current emphasis on formats that divert as much as they inform or question is given particular attention, and the wider social and cultural coordinates of this trend are n…
Sounds real
This article examines the way in which music has featured in documentary films and programmes. The conventions of restrained use to cue mood and theme are explored, using examples and the recommendations of manuals. Across the varieties of documentary output, the article notes how the dominance of journalistic and observational formats has, for different reasons, tended to place music in the margins. Drawing on an example from the classic period …
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