Peter Lunt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1228895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Lunt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Lunt |
| SIGNATURE | LUNT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5575-0923 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 187 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Audience frictions
Against a backdrop of new ways of engaging and configuring audiences across technologies, platforms, regions and modes, there is a revitalisation of audience studies, offering fresh theoretical and empirical territories that follow the frictions of social tensions and resistance in challenging modes of being an audience. As audiences engage with media, including artificial intelligence and related technologies, they are encountering and dealing w…
The Routledge Companion to Media Audiences
As affective flatness entailing a sense of stuckness in the present, boredom is routinely cast as the conceptual and experiential opposite of interest indicative of the richness of experience. Taking a different analytical route, this chapter makes an argument for considering boredom and interest in dynamic relation with one another as oscillations in affective intensity. It further calls for adding nuance into what boredom actually means by addr…
Chinese social media face, sociality, and civility: Face, Sociality and Civility
What role does social media play in the lives of Chinese youths as they adapt to the rapid economic and social changes in modern China? This book examines the social media experiences and practices of young middle class Chinese who moved to Beijing to study and with the hope of work and participation in the possibilities of social and professional life. Through an analysis of their use of WeChat we explore their enthusiasm for self-expression onl…
Introduction: Performance and Citizenship
[First paragraph] This special issue is concerned with the possibilities that the performative turn opens up for the study of spaces, practices and processes of citizenship and the problematization of political culture as a space of appearances and performances. The special issue brings together different approaches to performance in the social sciences and the humanities to examine the intersection between citizenship and performance. The contri…
The performance of power and citizenship: David Cameron meets the people
How do citizens respond to and engage with the performance of political power in the context of mainstream media? Through an analysis of two television programmes aired during the UK Brexit referendum campaign of 2016, a picture emerges of citizenship as the performative disruption of the performance of power. In the programmes the then UK prime minister, David Cameron, met members of the public for a mediated discussion of key issues in the Brex…
Implementing genetic education in primary care: The Gen-Equip programme
Is ‘mediatization’ the new paradigm for our field? A commentary on Deacon and Stanyer (2014, 2015) and Hepp, Hjarvard and Lundby (2015)
In responding to the debate about the theory of mediatization, we reject criticisms that foreclose prematurely on this set of new ideas potentially worthy of further exploration, and we give more attention to the fundamental questions that critics have asked about mediatization. We note that controversy centres on the claim that mediatization is a societal metaprocess of the order of globalization, individualization and commercialization. Substan…
Media studies’ fascination with the concept of the public sphere: Critical reflections and emerging debates
The Implied Audience of Communications Policy Making: Regulating Media in the Interests of Citizens and Consumers
This chapter contains sections titled: Changing Regulatory Regimes and the Implied Audience Audiences as Citizens or Consumers? The Communication Rights Debate Audiences as Empowered or Vulnerable? The Media Literacy Debate Re-imagining the Audience – in Whose Interest?
Stanley Milgram
"This book is a fascinating introduction to Stanley Milgram, best known for his obedience study in which he persuaded his subjects to administer electric shocks to what they thought were fellow subjects. Lunt explores Milgram's influence in social psychology and how he undercut the traditional notion that individuals should be seen as rational autonomous beings"--Provided by publisher
Television, Public Participation, and Public Service: From Value Consensus to the Politics of Identity
The proliferation of popular television genres in which the public are key participants (talk shows, reality TV, and makeover and lifestyle television) on the surface may seem less to do with engagement and more to do with entertainment and voyeurism. However, this article explores an alternative to the idea that popular television based on personal experience is a marker of the end of television in general and the weakening of the public service…
Little Angels: The mediation of parenting
This paper analyses a make over TV programme called Little Angels in which a psychologist offers advice to parents of young children. The conduct of the children, the intervention of the psychologist and the consequent attempts by the parents to influence their children‘s behaviour through changing their parenting style are all filmed in the family home which has been saturated with cameras. A variety of features of the programme are identified: …
Oprah.com: Lifestyle expertise and the politics of recognition
The contemporary mediascape has been marked by a proliferation of popular TV genres in which the public appear as central protagonists. These genres are part of a broader shift in the relationship between media and audiences which challenges traditional conceptions of public service broadcasting and appear to represent a shift from media as public knowledge to media as constituting a space for diffuse popular engagement. A central feature of this…
Popular Culture and the Public Sphere: Currents of Feeling and Social Control in Talk Shows and Reality TV
The growing role of mediation in the creativity, richness, diversity and sheer ubiquity of popular culture challenge Habermas’ (1989) idea that radical democracy can be grounded in the differentiation between everyday life and the institutional spheres of politics and commerce. In a recent account of the contemporary relevance of the public sphere concept, McKee (2005) sets about reconstructing an account of the public sphere that reflects the mu…
Citizens and consumers: Discursive debates during and after the Communications Act 2003
The regulation of media and communications in the UK has recently been subject to reform resulting in the creation of the Office of Communications (Ofcom). This statutory body, established by an Act of Parliament, is a new, sector-wide regulator, protecting the interests of what has been termed the ‘citizen-consumer’. This article charts the discursive shifts that occurred during the passage of the Communications Act through Parliament and in the…
Representing Citizens and Consumers in Media and Communications Regulation
What do citizens need from the media, and how should this be regulated? Western democracies are witnessing a changing regulatory regime, from “command-andcontrol” government to discursive, multistakeholder governance. In the United Kingdom, the Office of Communications (Ofcom) is required to further the interests of citizens and consumers, which it does in part by aligning them as the citizen-consumer. What is meant by this term, and whether it c…
Privacy versus willingness to disclose in e-commerce exchanges: The effect of risk awareness on the relative role of trust and control
The Jerry Springer Show as an emotional public sphere
The public sphere debate in social theory has been a topic of considerable interest amongst scholars analysing the talk show genre. Habermas attached great importance to the potential of rational critical discussion to create consensus and thereby legitimation in democratic society. He was concerned that the media gave a false impression of engagement in a public sphere while managing rights of access and speech in a manner that was inimical to o…
Questions of definition scope in economic theories of altruism: A commentary on ‘What is altruism?’ by Elias Khalil
The effect of advertising message involvement on brand attitude accessibility
Rethinking the Focus Group in Media and Communications Research
The focus group is a research method frequently used in the social sciences. It is particularly useful when researchers seek to discover participants' meanings and ways of understanding. In this paper, we relate the history of the focus group as a research tool, from its original uses by Lazarsfeld and Merton in early communications research to its decline in usage as social science research became more quantitative and experimental. We explore t…
Discourses of savings
Rethinking the relationship between economics and psychology
Talk on television: Audience participation and public debate
Studio Audience Discussion Programmes: An Analysis of Viewers' Preferences and Involvement
A nationally representative sample (of some 3000 people aged 12 and over) was asked if they watched studio audience discussion programmes and, if so, how often and with what degree of appreciation. The 500 people who had seen such programmes (shown in morning hours or other off-peak times) were asked to indicate their perceptions of and involvement in the genre on 33 response items. In order to identify why and how viewers watch and participate i…
The Jerry Springer Show as an emotional public sphere
The public sphere debate in social theory has been a topic of considerable interest amongst scholars analysing the talk show genre. Habermas attached great importance to the potential of rational critical discussion to create consensus and thereby legitimation in democratic society. He was concerned that the media gave a false impression of engagement in a public sphere while managing rights of access and speech in a manner that was inimical to o…
Predicting personal debt and debt repayment: Psychological, social and economic determinants
Psychological, social and economic determinants of saving: Comparing recurrent and total savings
Media studies’ fascination with the concept of the public sphere: Critical reflections and emerging debates
Television, Public Participation, and Public Service: From Value Consensus to the Politics of Identity
The proliferation of popular television genres in which the public are key participants (talk shows, reality TV, and makeover and lifestyle television) on the surface may seem less to do with engagement and more to do with entertainment and voyeurism. However, this article explores an alternative to the idea that popular television based on personal experience is a marker of the end of television in general and the weakening of the public service…
Little Angels: The mediation of parenting
This paper analyses a make over TV programme called Little Angels in which a psychologist offers advice to parents of young children. The conduct of the children, the intervention of the psychologist and the consequent attempts by the parents to influence their children‘s behaviour through changing their parenting style are all filmed in the family home which has been saturated with cameras. A variety of features of the programme are identified: …
Privacy versus willingness to disclose in e-commerce exchanges: The effect of risk awareness on the relative role of trust and control
The perceived causal structure of loneliness
Two studies examined the way people represent the causes of loneliness as a semantic space and as a causal network. In a multidimensional scaling task, the results of Michela, Peplau, and Weeks (1982) were replicated and the causes wee classified according to locus and stability. In a 2nd study, 44 people judged the likelihood that these causes were interconnected. From these data, a causal network or perceived causal structure (Kelley, 1983) was…
Introduction: Performance and Citizenship
[First paragraph] This special issue is concerned with the possibilities that the performative turn opens up for the study of spaces, practices and processes of citizenship and the problematization of political culture as a space of appearances and performances. The special issue brings together different approaches to performance in the social sciences and the humanities to examine the intersection between citizenship and performance. The contri…
Rethinking the relationship between economics and psychology
Un public actif, un téléspectateur critique
et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France.Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit
Representing Citizens and Consumers in Media and Communications Regulation
What do citizens need from the media, and how should this be regulated? Western democracies are witnessing a changing regulatory regime, from “command-andcontrol” government to discursive, multistakeholder governance. In the United Kingdom, the Office of Communications (Ofcom) is required to further the interests of citizens and consumers, which it does in part by aligning them as the citizen-consumer. What is meant by this term, and whether it c…
Discourses of savings
Se faire entendre dans l'espace public. Les femmes, la télévision et le citoyen-téléspectateur
Talk shows can serve as a « women's forum » in the public sphere constituted by the media. They provide the opportunity for people to meet and participate in free discussion in which women's problems and experiences can be presented more positively, and in which alternative conceptions of discursive rationality are legitimized. Generally speaking, the mass media have, in a significant way, brought political questions and processes into the domest…
Oprah.com: Lifestyle expertise and the politics of recognition
The contemporary mediascape has been marked by a proliferation of popular TV genres in which the public appear as central protagonists. These genres are part of a broader shift in the relationship between media and audiences which challenges traditional conceptions of public service broadcasting and appear to represent a shift from media as public knowledge to media as constituting a space for diffuse popular engagement. A central feature of this…
The effect of advertising message involvement on brand attitude accessibility
Expert and Lay Participation in Television Debates: An Analysis of Audience Discussion Programmes
The television audience discussion programme is critically analysed as a cultural forum in which the viewer-as-citizen may participate in public debate. These programmes place experts and ordinary viewers face to face in a studio audience to discuss an issue of current social concern. The viewer thus plays a role as joint author of the text. The programmes raise issues of citizenship, political participation, the active viewer and the cultural fo…
Studio Audience Discussion Programmes: An Analysis of Viewers' Preferences and Involvement
A nationally representative sample (of some 3000 people aged 12 and over) was asked if they watched studio audience discussion programmes and, if so, how often and with what degree of appreciation. The 500 people who had seen such programmes (shown in morning hours or other off-peak times) were asked to indicate their perceptions of and involvement in the genre on 33 response items. In order to identify why and how viewers watch and participate i…
Debating drunk driving: The construction of causal explanations in television discussion programmes
The mass media are an important source of social understandings and representations. The growing genre of audience discussion programmes functions as a public forum for airing opinions on issues of social concern. The genre is structured so as to involve viewers, to validate ordinary experiences and to express opinion. Four programmes on drunk driving were analysed for the causal explanations they offer viewers. The causes, effects and causal int…
Psychological, social and economic determinants of saving: Comparing recurrent and total savings
The perceived causal structure of loneliness
Two studies examined the way people represent the causes of loneliness as a semantic space and as a causal network. In a multidimensional scaling task, the results of Michela, Peplau, and Weeks (1982) were replicated and the causes wee classified according to locus and stability. In a 2nd study, 44 people judged the likelihood that these causes were interconnected. From these data, a causal network or perceived causal structure (Kelley, 1983) was…
Debating drunk driving: The construction of causal explanations in television discussion programmes
The mass media are an important source of social understandings and representations. The growing genre of audience discussion programmes functions as a public forum for airing opinions on issues of social concern. The genre is structured so as to involve viewers, to validate ordinary experiences and to express opinion. Four programmes on drunk driving were analysed for the causal explanations they offer viewers. The causes, effects and causal int…
Expert and Lay Participation in Television Debates: An Analysis of Audience Discussion Programmes
The television audience discussion programme is critically analysed as a cultural forum in which the viewer-as-citizen may participate in public debate. These programmes place experts and ordinary viewers face to face in a studio audience to discuss an issue of current social concern. The viewer thus plays a role as joint author of the text. The programmes raise issues of citizenship, political participation, the active viewer and the cultural fo…
Predicting personal debt and debt repayment: Psychological, social and economic determinants
Un public actif, un téléspectateur critique
et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France.Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit
Talk on Television: Audience Participation and Public Debate
Not only is everyday conversation increasingly dependent on television, but more and more people are appearing on television to discuss social and personal issues. Is any public good served by these programmes or are they simply trashy entertainment which fills the schedules cheaply? Talk on Television examines the value and significance of televised public debate. Analysing a wide range of programmes including Kilroy, Donohue and The Oprah Winfr…
Talk on television: Audience participation and public debate
Studio Audience Discussion Programmes: An Analysis of Viewers' Preferences and Involvement
A nationally representative sample (of some 3000 people aged 12 and over) was asked if they watched studio audience discussion programmes and, if so, how often and with what degree of appreciation. The 500 people who had seen such programmes (shown in morning hours or other off-peak times) were asked to indicate their perceptions of and involvement in the genre on 33 response items. In order to identify why and how viewers watch and participate i…
Se faire entendre dans l'espace public. Les femmes, la télévision et le citoyen-téléspectateur
Talk shows can serve as a « women's forum » in the public sphere constituted by the media. They provide the opportunity for people to meet and participate in free discussion in which women's problems and experiences can be presented more positively, and in which alternative conceptions of discursive rationality are legitimized. Generally speaking, the mass media have, in a significant way, brought political questions and processes into the domest…
Rethinking the Focus Group in Media and Communications Research
The focus group is a research method frequently used in the social sciences. It is particularly useful when researchers seek to discover participants' meanings and ways of understanding. In this paper, we relate the history of the focus group as a research tool, from its original uses by Lazarsfeld and Merton in early communications research to its decline in usage as social science research became more quantitative and experimental. We explore t…
Discourses of savings
Rethinking the relationship between economics and psychology
The effect of advertising message involvement on brand attitude accessibility
Questions of definition scope in economic theories of altruism: A commentary on ‘What is altruism?’ by Elias Khalil
Privacy versus willingness to disclose in e-commerce exchanges: The effect of risk awareness on the relative role of trust and control
The Jerry Springer Show as an emotional public sphere
The public sphere debate in social theory has been a topic of considerable interest amongst scholars analysing the talk show genre. Habermas attached great importance to the potential of rational critical discussion to create consensus and thereby legitimation in democratic society. He was concerned that the media gave a false impression of engagement in a public sphere while managing rights of access and speech in a manner that was inimical to o…
Popular Culture and the Public Sphere: Currents of Feeling and Social Control in Talk Shows and Reality TV
The growing role of mediation in the creativity, richness, diversity and sheer ubiquity of popular culture challenge Habermas’ (1989) idea that radical democracy can be grounded in the differentiation between everyday life and the institutional spheres of politics and commerce. In a recent account of the contemporary relevance of the public sphere concept, McKee (2005) sets about reconstructing an account of the public sphere that reflects the mu…
Citizens and consumers: Discursive debates during and after the Communications Act 2003
The regulation of media and communications in the UK has recently been subject to reform resulting in the creation of the Office of Communications (Ofcom). This statutory body, established by an Act of Parliament, is a new, sector-wide regulator, protecting the interests of what has been termed the ‘citizen-consumer’. This article charts the discursive shifts that occurred during the passage of the Communications Act through Parliament and in the…
Representing Citizens and Consumers in Media and Communications Regulation
What do citizens need from the media, and how should this be regulated? Western democracies are witnessing a changing regulatory regime, from “command-andcontrol” government to discursive, multistakeholder governance. In the United Kingdom, the Office of Communications (Ofcom) is required to further the interests of citizens and consumers, which it does in part by aligning them as the citizen-consumer. What is meant by this term, and whether it c…
Little Angels: The mediation of parenting
This paper analyses a make over TV programme called Little Angels in which a psychologist offers advice to parents of young children. The conduct of the children, the intervention of the psychologist and the consequent attempts by the parents to influence their children‘s behaviour through changing their parenting style are all filmed in the family home which has been saturated with cameras. A variety of features of the programme are identified: …
Oprah.com: Lifestyle expertise and the politics of recognition
The contemporary mediascape has been marked by a proliferation of popular TV genres in which the public appear as central protagonists. These genres are part of a broader shift in the relationship between media and audiences which challenges traditional conceptions of public service broadcasting and appear to represent a shift from media as public knowledge to media as constituting a space for diffuse popular engagement. A central feature of this…
Stanley Milgram
"This book is a fascinating introduction to Stanley Milgram, best known for his obedience study in which he persuaded his subjects to administer electric shocks to what they thought were fellow subjects. Lunt explores Milgram's influence in social psychology and how he undercut the traditional notion that individuals should be seen as rational autonomous beings"--Provided by publisher
Television, Public Participation, and Public Service: From Value Consensus to the Politics of Identity
The proliferation of popular television genres in which the public are key participants (talk shows, reality TV, and makeover and lifestyle television) on the surface may seem less to do with engagement and more to do with entertainment and voyeurism. However, this article explores an alternative to the idea that popular television based on personal experience is a marker of the end of television in general and the weakening of the public service…
The Implied Audience of Communications Policy Making: Regulating Media in the Interests of Citizens and Consumers
This chapter contains sections titled: Changing Regulatory Regimes and the Implied Audience Audiences as Citizens or Consumers? The Communication Rights Debate Audiences as Empowered or Vulnerable? The Media Literacy Debate Re-imagining the Audience – in Whose Interest?
Sociology (22 works) · Political science (21 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Media studies (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Media Studies and Communication (13 works) · Politics (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Social Media and Politics (12 works) · Social Psychology (10 works)