Paul K Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 112187 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul K Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul K |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES P K |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5260-8550 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 244 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Moral Entrepreneurs of the Mastodon Migration
Social media platforms are imbued with politics and values through an interplay of coded architectures, platform policies, economic models, and algorithmic curation, together shaping and shaped by the activities of users. This dynamic set of relations is most evident during moments of disruption, in which platform politics and values come under debate. We examine one such case of disruption through a mixed methods analysis of post-Musk Twitter, t…
Reentry and transition into college life: A study of formerly incarcerated individuals in Southern California
In California, formerly incarcerated individuals face several challenges while pursuing higher education. To combat these challenges, there are several programs in the California higher education system that provide supportive services for formerly incarcerated college students (FICS). Yet, there have been limited scholarly evaluations of the efficacy of these programs for formerly incarcerated individuals. This study uses a mixed-methods design …
Demagogic populism and media system: A preliminary articulation
Political communication studies has a long tradition of ‘crisis talk’ regarding the fate of public communication. Now, however, the field itself faces a kind of existential crisis as its core assumptions of ‘normal’ political communication are daily undermined. This ‘liberal normalcy’ shares much with orthodoxies in populism studies, most notably a tendency to bracket out demagogic communication, both in historical fascist regimes and democracies…
Márkus and the retrieval of the sociological Adorno
Major sociological work related to the culture industry thesis was undertaken by Adorno during his period as a 'refugee scholar' in the USA. It has been charged with a 'sociological deficit' by leading figures within critical theory, typically without reference to that US context. A dialogue with Márkus's work on Adorno and the Marxian production paradigm can redress failings in those critiques. However, such a task is complicated by the limitati…
Insights from the infamous: Recovering the social-theoretical first phase of populism studies
While early studies of populism, usually dated from the 1960s, were highly interdisciplinary, contemporary research in this field is dominated by political science and political theory. This current phase of research is narrowly focused on certain forms of political action and remarkably reluctant to pathologize the US case. Social theory plays at most a marginal role. Recent historicizations of this field have failed to recognize the significanc…
W illiams, R aymond
The communications scholarship of the Welsh‐born Cambridge academic Raymond Williams (1921–1988) sits at the intersection of the fields of communications, cultural sociology, and cultural studies. This entry moves through three phases of his career: his early radical democratic work on communications and policy; his mid‐period, best known for the conceptual innovations of “mobile privatization” and “flow” but equally focused on developing “means …
Marxist Cultural Sociology
Why Are “Others” So Polarized? Perceived Political Polarization and Media Use in 10 Countries
This study tests the associations between news media use and perceived political polarization, \nconceptualized as citizens’ beliefs about partisan divides among major political parties. Relying \non representative surveys in Canada, Colombia, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea, \nNorway, United Kingdom and United States, we test whether perceived polarization is related to \nthe use of television news, newspaper, radio news, and online new…
Reconsidering ‘virtuous circle’ and ‘media malaise’ theories of the media: An 11-nation study
This study, based on a content analysis of television news and survey in eleven nations, explores the split between those who see the media as politically alienating and others who see the media as encouraging greater political involvement. Here, we suggest that both positions are partly right. On the one hand, television news, and in particular public service television news, can be very effective in imparting information about public affairs an…
Online Threat, But Television is Still Dominant: A comparative study of 11 nations’ news consumption
As news media change, so media news consumption changes with them. This paper, part of a larger international research project involving 11 countries in four continents (Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia), is focused on news consumption. As the range of media outlets has increased dramatically in recent years, this paper asks which news sources are people regularly watching, listening to or reading to understand what is happening in the world.…
Sources in the News: A comparative study
In analysing the news media's role in serving the functions associated with democratic citizenship, the number, diversity and range of news sources are central. Research conducted on sources has overwhelmingly focused on individual national systems. However, studying variations in news source patterns across national environments enhances understanding of the media's role. This article is based on a larger project, “Media System, Political Contex…
Internet revolution revisited: A comparative study of online news
While numerous studies view the internet as a patron of internationalism and public empowerment, this comparative study of leading news websites in nine nations shows that online news is strongly nation-centred, and much more inclined to cite the voices of authority than those of civil society and the individual citizen. Online news is very similar, in these respects, to newspaper and television news. This convergence is due to the way in which l…
International Tv News, Foreign Affairs Interest and Public Knowledge: A comparative study of foreign news coverage and public opinion in 11 countries
This article investigates the volume of foreign news provided by public service and commercial TV channels in countries with different media systems, and how this corresponds to the public's interest in and knowledge of foreign affairs. We use content analyses of television newscasts and public opinion surveys in 11 countries across five continents to provide new insight into the supply and demand for international television news. We find that (…
Auntie Knows Best? Public Broadcasters and Current Affairs Knowledge
Public service broadcasters (PSBs) are a central part of national news media landscapes, and are often regarded as specialists in the provision of hard news. But does exposure to public versus commercial news influence citizens’ knowledge of current affairs? This question is investigated in this article using cross-national surveys capturing knowledge of current affairs and media consumption. Propensity score analyses test for effects of PSBs on …
Border communication: Media sociology and STS
This article examines the curious interplay between media sociology and Science and Technology Studies (STS). Recent media research is increasingly drawn to STS, while STS analysts are increasingly drawn to research media technologies. While it is routine practice in STS to stress the ‘materiality’ of the objects under investigation, media technologies pose a challenge to this. Their ‘materiality’ is difficult to distinguish from their communicat…
Political communication and ‘media system’: The Australian canary
Mediated Political Communication in Australia: Leading issues, new evidence
New 2007 survey data on political communication is used to study the relation between commercial and ABC/SBS television consumption and Australian political and civic culture. The first section outlines the demographic characteristics of viewers who rely, respectively, for their news and current affairs, on commercial as compared with public service television. This is followed by a profile of popular views on the concentration of media ownership…
Beyond the Semantic 'Big Bang: Cultural Sociology and an Aesthetic Public Sphere
This article argues that cultural sociology should take heed of conceptual and policy ambiguities that developed within British and Australian cultural studies. However, it also proposes that cultural sociology might build on the underdeveloped common ground between Frankfurt critical theory and cultural studies. Habermas's notion of the 'literary public sphere' is taken as a useful point of contact between these fields. This literary public sphe…
Thirty Years of Keywords
Raymond Williams’s Sociology of Culture: A Critical Reconstruction
This detailed study of Williams unlocks his late sociology of culture. It covers previously overlooked aspects, such as his critique of Birmingham cultural studies, his use of an Adorno-like approach
The best of both worlds? Freedom of communication and `positive' broadcasting regulation
Sustained Personal Autonomy: A Measure of Successful Aging
The results are consistent with previous studies of successful aging and show that attitudes expressed at baseline favoring personal independence are associated with sustained autonomy during a period of at least 2 years
Democratic Norms and Means of Communication: Public Sphere, Fourth Estate, Freedom of Communication
This article assesses some major democratic norms commonly invoked in relation to means of communication or ‘media’, especially in the context of ‘media policy’. The paper argues that freedom of communication provides the most appropriate normative discourse in which to re-articulate the case for the European policy practice of ‘regulated pluralism’ outside Europe. Recent developments in Australia provide a brief case-study of this thesis
Paradigmatic tensions in the sociology of news
McLuhanist' Societal Projections and Social Theory: Some Reflections
This article seeks to develop systematically several themes alluded to in my recent account of Raymond Williams' sociological critique of Marshall McLuhan. It considers some initiatives within social theory which might meet Williams' criteria for an adequate social theory of 'the media'. The chief target is the illegitimate projection of 'new social orders' from limited and often asocial analyses of 'new' social phenomena, including those related…
Auntie Knows Best? Public Broadcasters and Current Affairs Knowledge
Public service broadcasters (PSBs) are a central part of national news media landscapes, and are often regarded as specialists in the provision of hard news. But does exposure to public versus commercial news influence citizens’ knowledge of current affairs? This question is investigated in this article using cross-national surveys capturing knowledge of current affairs and media consumption. Propensity score analyses test for effects of PSBs on …
International Tv News, Foreign Affairs Interest and Public Knowledge: A comparative study of foreign news coverage and public opinion in 11 countries
This article investigates the volume of foreign news provided by public service and commercial TV channels in countries with different media systems, and how this corresponds to the public's interest in and knowledge of foreign affairs. We use content analyses of television newscasts and public opinion surveys in 11 countries across five continents to provide new insight into the supply and demand for international television news. We find that (…
Sources in the News: A comparative study
In analysing the news media's role in serving the functions associated with democratic citizenship, the number, diversity and range of news sources are central. Research conducted on sources has overwhelmingly focused on individual national systems. However, studying variations in news source patterns across national environments enhances understanding of the media's role. This article is based on a larger project, “Media System, Political Contex…
Why Are “Others” So Polarized? Perceived Political Polarization and Media Use in 10 Countries
This study tests the associations between news media use and perceived political polarization, \nconceptualized as citizens’ beliefs about partisan divides among major political parties. Relying \non representative surveys in Canada, Colombia, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea, \nNorway, United Kingdom and United States, we test whether perceived polarization is related to \nthe use of television news, newspaper, radio news, and online new…
Reconsidering ‘virtuous circle’ and ‘media malaise’ theories of the media: An 11-nation study
This study, based on a content analysis of television news and survey in eleven nations, explores the split between those who see the media as politically alienating and others who see the media as encouraging greater political involvement. Here, we suggest that both positions are partly right. On the one hand, television news, and in particular public service television news, can be very effective in imparting information about public affairs an…
Online Threat, But Television is Still Dominant: A comparative study of 11 nations’ news consumption
As news media change, so media news consumption changes with them. This paper, part of a larger international research project involving 11 countries in four continents (Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia), is focused on news consumption. As the range of media outlets has increased dramatically in recent years, this paper asks which news sources are people regularly watching, listening to or reading to understand what is happening in the world.…
Internet revolution revisited: A comparative study of online news
While numerous studies view the internet as a patron of internationalism and public empowerment, this comparative study of leading news websites in nine nations shows that online news is strongly nation-centred, and much more inclined to cite the voices of authority than those of civil society and the individual citizen. Online news is very similar, in these respects, to newspaper and television news. This convergence is due to the way in which l…
Political communication and ‘media system’: The Australian canary
Border communication: Media sociology and STS
This article examines the curious interplay between media sociology and Science and Technology Studies (STS). Recent media research is increasingly drawn to STS, while STS analysts are increasingly drawn to research media technologies. While it is routine practice in STS to stress the ‘materiality’ of the objects under investigation, media technologies pose a challenge to this. Their ‘materiality’ is difficult to distinguish from their communicat…
Beyond the Semantic 'Big Bang: Cultural Sociology and an Aesthetic Public Sphere
This article argues that cultural sociology should take heed of conceptual and policy ambiguities that developed within British and Australian cultural studies. However, it also proposes that cultural sociology might build on the underdeveloped common ground between Frankfurt critical theory and cultural studies. Habermas's notion of the 'literary public sphere' is taken as a useful point of contact between these fields. This literary public sphe…
Sustained Personal Autonomy: A Measure of Successful Aging
The results are consistent with previous studies of successful aging and show that attitudes expressed at baseline favoring personal independence are associated with sustained autonomy during a period of at least 2 years
Democratic Norms and Means of Communication: Public Sphere, Fourth Estate, Freedom of Communication
This article assesses some major democratic norms commonly invoked in relation to means of communication or ‘media’, especially in the context of ‘media policy’. The paper argues that freedom of communication provides the most appropriate normative discourse in which to re-articulate the case for the European policy practice of ‘regulated pluralism’ outside Europe. Recent developments in Australia provide a brief case-study of this thesis
Between Cultural Studies and Critical Sociology
This essay reviews John Hartley's Popular Reality: Journalism, Modernity, Popular Culture. The significance of this text is that it provides one of the most developed engagements with the public sphere literatures from an author within cultural studies. The article necessarily addresses the considerable weaknesses in Hartley's understanding of the public sphere case. However, the aim is not to dismiss Popular Reality out of hand. Rather, the crit…
Insights from the infamous: Recovering the social-theoretical first phase of populism studies
While early studies of populism, usually dated from the 1960s, were highly interdisciplinary, contemporary research in this field is dominated by political science and political theory. This current phase of research is narrowly focused on certain forms of political action and remarkably reluctant to pathologize the US case. Social theory plays at most a marginal role. Recent historicizations of this field have failed to recognize the significanc…
Mediated Political Communication in Australia: Leading issues, new evidence
New 2007 survey data on political communication is used to study the relation between commercial and ABC/SBS television consumption and Australian political and civic culture. The first section outlines the demographic characteristics of viewers who rely, respectively, for their news and current affairs, on commercial as compared with public service television. This is followed by a profile of popular views on the concentration of media ownership…
The best of both worlds? Freedom of communication and `positive' broadcasting regulation
Compliance in acute and chronic patients receiving a health belief model intervention in the emergency department
Organic' Intellectuals and the Generation of English Cultural Studies
Reentry and transition into college life: A study of formerly incarcerated individuals in Southern California
In California, formerly incarcerated individuals face several challenges while pursuing higher education. To combat these challenges, there are several programs in the California higher education system that provide supportive services for formerly incarcerated college students (FICS). Yet, there have been limited scholarly evaluations of the efficacy of these programs for formerly incarcerated individuals. This study uses a mixed-methods design …
Williams and `quality: A response to John Corner
Peer-reviewed
Identification of Patients in Need of Psychiatric Intervention: Visiting an Emergency Facility
The utilization of the emergency room (E.R.) at a small community hospital located in a black inner-city area is investigated. Patients are classified according to a criterion for psychiatric intervention for the purpose of making staffing pattern recommendations. Psychiatric patients and non-psychiatric patients are classified by age, marital status, previous admissions to the E.R., time of arrival and time spent in the E.R., and circumstances o…
Prediction of Neonatal Death or Need for Interhospital Transfer by Prenatal Risk Characteristics of Mother
A closed-circuit television system is implemented between neonatal specialists at a large neonatal care hospital and nurses caring for infants in the newborn nursery in a small community hospital located in an inner city, predominantly black, economically deprived area. Data are systematically collected relating prenatal risk characteristics of mothers to outcome measures, including selected intrapartum maternal complications, neonatal morbidity …
Evaluation of Television Consultations Between a Large Neonatal Care Hospital and a Community Hospital
Two-way television consultations between community hospital nurses and neonatologists at a nearby teaching hospital were conducted over a two- and one-half year period of time and were evaluated with respect to a baseline time period in which the television was not available. Screening for illness and prematurity in neonates occurred in a high risk population residing in a black, economically deprived, innercity area. Outcomes including transfer …
Does Cost Information Availability Reduce Physician Test Usage: A Randomized Clinical Trial With Unexpected Findings
Four similar teams of physicians associated with similar inpatient units and randomly assigned patients were used to study the effect of providing physicians with cost information about their use of lab tests and x-rays. Two teams received information about lab test costs, and two teams received x-ray test costs. Test usage fell during the experimental conditions and continued to fall after the experimental period ended in teams in which there wa…
Organic' Intellectuals and the Generation of English Cultural Studies
Health Belief Model Intervention to Increase Compliance With Emergency Department Patients
The effects on compliance of clinical and telephone intervention, based on the Health Belief Model (HBM), were investigated for 842 Emergency Department (ED) patients. The influence of mediating variables on compliance was also examined. Compliance was defined operationally as follow-through on a recommended referral originating in the ED. The study design was a 2 X 2 X 11 factorial design, in which the first factor was the HBM clinical intervent…
Compliance in acute and chronic patients receiving a health belief model intervention in the emergency department
The Role of Adult Children in Their Parent's Divorce
The present research addresses two relatively unstudied issues: first, divorce in mid and later life; second, the potential influence of adult children on the divorce process in this age group. First examined is the prevalence and type of involvement of adult children in the marital conflict of their parents; second examined is the influence of the adult child in the divorce outcome for the parents
The myth of ‘Raymond Hoggart’: On ‘Founding fathers’ and cultural policy
At the time when Richard Hoggart and I were inseparable, we had not yet met. it still seems reasonable that so many people put his Uses of Literacy and my Culture and Society together. One newspaper went so far as to refer, seriously, to a book called the Uses of Culture by Raymond Hoggart. But as I say we did not then know each other, and as writers we were pretty clear about our differences as well as our obvious common ground. (Raymond William…
Williams and `quality: A response to John Corner
Peer-reviewed
The Technology is not the Cultural Form: Raymond Williams's Sociological Critique of Marshall McLuhan
This article's prime aim is to provide an exegesis of Raymond Williams's neglected "mature'' theorization of means of communication. Much of this aspect of his cultural materialism is articulated as a critique of Marshall McLuhan. Williams attempts to recover and develop what he saw as the lost early promise of McLuhan's work. The article thus takes the form of an account of the complex relationship between the two authors' projects from their co…
Between Cultural Studies and Critical Sociology
This essay reviews John Hartley's Popular Reality: Journalism, Modernity, Popular Culture. The significance of this text is that it provides one of the most developed engagements with the public sphere literatures from an author within cultural studies. The article necessarily addresses the considerable weaknesses in Hartley's understanding of the public sphere case. However, the aim is not to dismiss Popular Reality out of hand. Rather, the crit…
Sustained Personal Autonomy: A Measure of Successful Aging
The results are consistent with previous studies of successful aging and show that attitudes expressed at baseline favoring personal independence are associated with sustained autonomy during a period of at least 2 years
Democratic Norms and Means of Communication: Public Sphere, Fourth Estate, Freedom of Communication
This article assesses some major democratic norms commonly invoked in relation to means of communication or ‘media’, especially in the context of ‘media policy’. The paper argues that freedom of communication provides the most appropriate normative discourse in which to re-articulate the case for the European policy practice of ‘regulated pluralism’ outside Europe. Recent developments in Australia provide a brief case-study of this thesis
Paradigmatic tensions in the sociology of news
McLuhanist' Societal Projections and Social Theory: Some Reflections
This article seeks to develop systematically several themes alluded to in my recent account of Raymond Williams' sociological critique of Marshall McLuhan. It considers some initiatives within social theory which might meet Williams' criteria for an adequate social theory of 'the media'. The chief target is the illegitimate projection of 'new social orders' from limited and often asocial analyses of 'new' social phenomena, including those related…
The best of both worlds? Freedom of communication and `positive' broadcasting regulation
Raymond Williams’s Sociology of Culture: A Critical Reconstruction
This detailed study of Williams unlocks his late sociology of culture. It covers previously overlooked aspects, such as his critique of Birmingham cultural studies, his use of an Adorno-like approach
Thirty Years of Keywords
Beyond the Semantic 'Big Bang: Cultural Sociology and an Aesthetic Public Sphere
This article argues that cultural sociology should take heed of conceptual and policy ambiguities that developed within British and Australian cultural studies. However, it also proposes that cultural sociology might build on the underdeveloped common ground between Frankfurt critical theory and cultural studies. Habermas's notion of the 'literary public sphere' is taken as a useful point of contact between these fields. This literary public sphe…
Mediated Political Communication in Australia: Leading issues, new evidence
New 2007 survey data on political communication is used to study the relation between commercial and ABC/SBS television consumption and Australian political and civic culture. The first section outlines the demographic characteristics of viewers who rely, respectively, for their news and current affairs, on commercial as compared with public service television. This is followed by a profile of popular views on the concentration of media ownership…
Political communication and ‘media system’: The Australian canary
Border communication: Media sociology and STS
This article examines the curious interplay between media sociology and Science and Technology Studies (STS). Recent media research is increasingly drawn to STS, while STS analysts are increasingly drawn to research media technologies. While it is routine practice in STS to stress the ‘materiality’ of the objects under investigation, media technologies pose a challenge to this. Their ‘materiality’ is difficult to distinguish from their communicat…
Online Threat, But Television is Still Dominant: A comparative study of 11 nations’ news consumption
As news media change, so media news consumption changes with them. This paper, part of a larger international research project involving 11 countries in four continents (Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia), is focused on news consumption. As the range of media outlets has increased dramatically in recent years, this paper asks which news sources are people regularly watching, listening to or reading to understand what is happening in the world.…
Sources in the News: A comparative study
In analysing the news media's role in serving the functions associated with democratic citizenship, the number, diversity and range of news sources are central. Research conducted on sources has overwhelmingly focused on individual national systems. However, studying variations in news source patterns across national environments enhances understanding of the media's role. This article is based on a larger project, “Media System, Political Contex…
Sociology (25 works) · Political science (21 works) · Politics (15 works) · Epistemology (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Social Media and Politics (12 works) · Social science (12 works) · Media studies (11 works) · Media Studies and Communication (11 works)