Brian Winston

Biographic Data

ID112703
NAMEBrian Winston
GIVEN NAMESBrian
FAMILY NAMEWinston
SIGNATUREWINSTON B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Lincoln
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS87
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX2

  • The Roots of Fake News: Objecting to Objective Journalism

    Brian Winston, Matthew WinstonBOOKRoots of Fake News2020

    This book is neither a defense of, nor an attack on, journalism, but it is unashamedly anchored in the traditional western belief that independent media are essential to any free and just society. We do not believe that it is outdated or ironic to see the press as an essential part of a functioning democracy, a guard over the guardians, a speaker of truth to power, a comforter of the afflicted and an afflicter of the comfortable. On the contrary,…

  • Roots of Fake News: Objecting to Objective Journalism

    Brian Winston, Matthew WinstonBOOKRoots of Fake News2020

  • Roundtable: Brian Winston, Messages: Free Expression, Media and the West from Gutenberg to Google

    Amie Bingham, Megan Mullen et al.ARTICLEMedia History2009References: 5

    A response to three criticisms of 'Messages: Free Expression, Media and the West from Gutenburg to Google' (London, Routledge:2005)

  • The subject and the indexicality of the photograph

    Open AccessBrian Winston, Hing TsangARTICLESemiotica2009References: 1

    Taking as a case study the documentary Unknown White Male (UK, 2005) — a film whose theme and reception problematizes stable notions of what constitutes subjectivity — a corrective is offered to the dominant mode applying Peircean semiotics to the moving image. Cinema and media studies have tended to apply Peirce's triadic division of the sign in a limited, formalist way following the explications of his method offered by Wollen and others. Howev…

  • Emancipation, the media and modernity: Some reflections on Garnham’s Kantian turn

    Open AccessBrian WinstonARTICLEMedia Culture & Society2005References: 1

    In Emancipation, the Media and Modernity, Nicholas Garnham argues for the continued viability of the Enlightenment project, suggesting that, despite attacks from the right and various postmodernists, ‘coercive inequality and avoidable ignorance’ still require an enlightened response. Discarding history is an especially fraught outcome of the turn away from Enlightenment values. Where history might inform, say, public debate and policy-making on a…

  • Towards Tabloidization? Glasgow revisited, 1975-2001

    Brian WinstonARTICLEJournalism Studies2002Cited by: 19References: 2

    In 1975, to contextualize its study of the reporting of trade union affairs on UK television news, \nthe Glasgow Media Group analysed the content and presentational techniques of the bulletins transmitted \non the three then-available national terrestrial channels.1 In 2001 the news output of the ve major channels \nwas sampled to provide a snapshot of contemporary coverage for a preliminary analysis of the signi cant \ndifferences between today’…

  • Media,Technology and Society: A History: From the Telegraph to the Internet

    Brian WinstonBOOKMedia technology and society2002Cited by: 67

    Challenging the popular myth of a present-day 'information revolution', Media Technology and Society is essential reading for anyone interested in the social impact of technological change. Winston argues that the development of new media forms, from the telegraph and the telephone to computers, satellite and virtual reality, is the product of a constant play-off between social necessity and suppression: the unwritten law by which new technologie…

  • John Grierson: Life, Contributions, Influence

    Open AccessBrian WinstonARTICLEVisual Anthropology Review2000Cited by: 1

    Jack C. Ellis. John Grierson: Life, Contributions, Influence. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000. pp. 441

  • Media technology and society: A history : from the telegraph to the Internet

    Brian WinstonBOOKMedia technology and society1998

  • Misunderstanding Media

    David K Allison, Brian WinstonARTICLETechnology and Culture1988