Greg Philo
Biographic Data
| ID | 176009 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Greg Philo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Greg |
| FAMILY NAME | Philo |
| SIGNATURE | PHILO G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1552-4563 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
We need to start building up what's called herd immunity
This article uses content and thematic analyses to examine how UK public service broadcasting (PSB) reported on the Covid-19 pandemic prior to the first lockdown on March 23, 2020. This was a period when the British government's response to the pandemic was being heavily criticised by the World Health Organisation and other parts of the scientific community. This paper finds that in PSB these criticisms were muted and partially given. Instead, br…
New approaches to understanding the role of the news media in the formation of public attitudes and behaviours on climate change
This article examines the role of news media on climate change and sustainable energy in the shaping of audience opinions and beliefs and the possible relation of these to behaviours. It reports on a series of studies conducted between 2011 and 2014 which develop existing approaches to audience reception analyses by using innovative methodologies which focus specifically on the negotiation of new information in response to existing beliefs, perce…
Human Rights and Prisoners' Rights
This article examines how the British press covered the debate around a prisoner's right to vote. It shows how Conservative ministers were put under pressure in early 2011 by newspapers on the right of the political spectrum to abandon proposals to end the ‘blanket ban’ on a prisoner's right to vote. Modification of the ban could have brought the UK into compliance with treaty obligations linked to the E uropean C onvention on H uman R ights ( EC…
The role of the press in the war on asylum
An article based on excerpts from a chapter in the book, Bad News for Refugees by the Glasgow Media Group. It examines, in a detailed content analysis of sixty-nine articles in UK national papers in June 2011, how the rightwing press helped set the political agenda on immigration through a consistent conflation of issues of economic and forced migration, an emphasis on numbers as a threat, the pointing to migrants as an economic burden and potent…
The Role of the Media in the Construction of Public Belief and Social Change
The media play a central role in informing the public about what happens in the world, particularly in those areas in which audiences do not possess direct knowledge or experience. This article examines the impact the media has in the construction of public belief and attitudes and its relationship to social change. Drawing on findings from a range of empirical studies, we look at the impact of media coverage in areas such as disability, climate …
Media and Democracy
Reporting disability in the age of austerity
Following its election in 2010 the UK’s Coalition Government has sought to implement radical restructuring of disability-related benefits justified by reference to the financial crises of 2007/08. In this article we examine how these changes have impacted on coverage of disability in the UK media comparing and contrasting coverage of disability in newspapers in 2010/11 with a similar period in 2004/05. Our analysis suggests that disabled people h…
Media coverage and public understanding of sentencing policy in relation to crimes against children
This research examines how the media report on sentences given to those who commit serious crimes against children and how this impacts on public knowledge and attitudes. Three months of press and television coverage were analysed in order to establish the editorial lines that are taken in different sections of the media and how they are promoted by selective reporting of sentencing. Results indicate that a small number of very high profile crime…
More Bad News From Israel
Building on rigorous research by the world-renowned Glasgow University Media Group, More Bad News From Israel examines media coverage of the current conflict in the Middle East and the impact it has on public opinion. \n \nThe book brings together senior journalists and ordinary viewers to examine how audiences understand the news and how their views are shaped by media reporting. In the largest study ever undertaken in this area, the authors foc…
More bad news from Israel
‘Bad News from Israel’
Exposes major media bias in the coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the impact this has on public opinion
Active Audiences and the Construction of Public Knowledge
This article examines key arguments in media and cultural studies including the “encoding/decoding” model which have been used to emphasise the active nature of audiences and their capacity to resist messages as well as to create their own. It compares these with recent studies which show that audiences can indeed sometimes be active and critical but which also found strong evidence pointing to the power and influence of media. This dimension of …
Can Discourse Analysis Successfully Explain the Content of Media and Journalistic Practice
It is argued here that textual analysis of media accounts requires the study of the social structures from which competing ideological explanations develop. A comparison of the methods of the Glasgow University Media Group with the work of Norman Fairclough and Teun van Dijk shows that discourse analysis which remains text-based has problems in its ability to show: (1) the origins of competing discourses and how they relate to different social in…
Israel and Palestine
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
No abstract available.
Television News and Audience Understanding of War, Conflict and Disaster
This article shows (1) that the decisions made by broadcasters (on commercial criteria) about what viewers would desire to watch have produced very negative responses in television audiences towards the developing world and war, conflict and disaster within it. (2) That audiences are misinformed because of the low level of explanation and context that is given and because some explanations that are present in television reporting are partial and …
Cultural compliance and critical media studies
Message Received
Political advertising, popular belief and the 1992 British general election
Analyse de la facon dont les partis politiques britanniques utilisent les medias pour leur campagne electorale et la diffusion de leur ideologie politique. Identification des liens entre politique de communication et reussite electorale
Television and Social Control
Whose news
Max Weber on Self-Interest and Domination
Reporting disability in the age of austerity
Following its election in 2010 the UK’s Coalition Government has sought to implement radical restructuring of disability-related benefits justified by reference to the financial crises of 2007/08. In this article we examine how these changes have impacted on coverage of disability in the UK media comparing and contrasting coverage of disability in newspapers in 2010/11 with a similar period in 2004/05. Our analysis suggests that disabled people h…
The Role of the Media in the Construction of Public Belief and Social Change
The media play a central role in informing the public about what happens in the world, particularly in those areas in which audiences do not possess direct knowledge or experience. This article examines the impact the media has in the construction of public belief and attitudes and its relationship to social change. Drawing on findings from a range of empirical studies, we look at the impact of media coverage in areas such as disability, climate …
Can Discourse Analysis Successfully Explain the Content of Media and Journalistic Practice
It is argued here that textual analysis of media accounts requires the study of the social structures from which competing ideological explanations develop. A comparison of the methods of the Glasgow University Media Group with the work of Norman Fairclough and Teun van Dijk shows that discourse analysis which remains text-based has problems in its ability to show: (1) the origins of competing discourses and how they relate to different social in…
Active Audiences and the Construction of Public Knowledge
This article examines key arguments in media and cultural studies including the “encoding/decoding” model which have been used to emphasise the active nature of audiences and their capacity to resist messages as well as to create their own. It compares these with recent studies which show that audiences can indeed sometimes be active and critical but which also found strong evidence pointing to the power and influence of media. This dimension of …
Television and Social Control
Television News and Audience Understanding of War, Conflict and Disaster
This article shows (1) that the decisions made by broadcasters (on commercial criteria) about what viewers would desire to watch have produced very negative responses in television audiences towards the developing world and war, conflict and disaster within it. (2) That audiences are misinformed because of the low level of explanation and context that is given and because some explanations that are present in television reporting are partial and …
Cultural compliance and critical media studies
Political advertising, popular belief and the 1992 British general election
Analyse de la facon dont les partis politiques britanniques utilisent les medias pour leur campagne electorale et la diffusion de leur ideologie politique. Identification des liens entre politique de communication et reussite electorale
New approaches to understanding the role of the news media in the formation of public attitudes and behaviours on climate change
This article examines the role of news media on climate change and sustainable energy in the shaping of audience opinions and beliefs and the possible relation of these to behaviours. It reports on a series of studies conducted between 2011 and 2014 which develop existing approaches to audience reception analyses by using innovative methodologies which focus specifically on the negotiation of new information in response to existing beliefs, perce…
We need to start building up what's called herd immunity
This article uses content and thematic analyses to examine how UK public service broadcasting (PSB) reported on the Covid-19 pandemic prior to the first lockdown on March 23, 2020. This was a period when the British government's response to the pandemic was being heavily criticised by the World Health Organisation and other parts of the scientific community. This paper finds that in PSB these criticisms were muted and partially given. Instead, br…
Media coverage and public understanding of sentencing policy in relation to crimes against children
This research examines how the media report on sentences given to those who commit serious crimes against children and how this impacts on public knowledge and attitudes. Three months of press and television coverage were analysed in order to establish the editorial lines that are taken in different sections of the media and how they are promoted by selective reporting of sentencing. Results indicate that a small number of very high profile crime…
Whose news
Max Weber on Self-Interest and Domination
Whose news
Television and Social Control
Political advertising, popular belief and the 1992 British general election
Analyse de la facon dont les partis politiques britanniques utilisent les medias pour leur campagne electorale et la diffusion de leur ideologie politique. Identification des liens entre politique de communication et reussite electorale
Message Received
Cultural compliance and critical media studies
Television News and Audience Understanding of War, Conflict and Disaster
This article shows (1) that the decisions made by broadcasters (on commercial criteria) about what viewers would desire to watch have produced very negative responses in television audiences towards the developing world and war, conflict and disaster within it. (2) That audiences are misinformed because of the low level of explanation and context that is given and because some explanations that are present in television reporting are partial and …
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
No abstract available.
Israel and Palestine
Can Discourse Analysis Successfully Explain the Content of Media and Journalistic Practice
It is argued here that textual analysis of media accounts requires the study of the social structures from which competing ideological explanations develop. A comparison of the methods of the Glasgow University Media Group with the work of Norman Fairclough and Teun van Dijk shows that discourse analysis which remains text-based has problems in its ability to show: (1) the origins of competing discourses and how they relate to different social in…
Active Audiences and the Construction of Public Knowledge
This article examines key arguments in media and cultural studies including the “encoding/decoding” model which have been used to emphasise the active nature of audiences and their capacity to resist messages as well as to create their own. It compares these with recent studies which show that audiences can indeed sometimes be active and critical but which also found strong evidence pointing to the power and influence of media. This dimension of …
‘Bad News from Israel’
Exposes major media bias in the coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the impact this has on public opinion
More Bad News From Israel
Building on rigorous research by the world-renowned Glasgow University Media Group, More Bad News From Israel examines media coverage of the current conflict in the Middle East and the impact it has on public opinion. \n \nThe book brings together senior journalists and ordinary viewers to examine how audiences understand the news and how their views are shaped by media reporting. In the largest study ever undertaken in this area, the authors foc…
More bad news from Israel
Media coverage and public understanding of sentencing policy in relation to crimes against children
This research examines how the media report on sentences given to those who commit serious crimes against children and how this impacts on public knowledge and attitudes. Three months of press and television coverage were analysed in order to establish the editorial lines that are taken in different sections of the media and how they are promoted by selective reporting of sentencing. Results indicate that a small number of very high profile crime…
The role of the press in the war on asylum
An article based on excerpts from a chapter in the book, Bad News for Refugees by the Glasgow Media Group. It examines, in a detailed content analysis of sixty-nine articles in UK national papers in June 2011, how the rightwing press helped set the political agenda on immigration through a consistent conflation of issues of economic and forced migration, an emphasis on numbers as a threat, the pointing to migrants as an economic burden and potent…
The Role of the Media in the Construction of Public Belief and Social Change
The media play a central role in informing the public about what happens in the world, particularly in those areas in which audiences do not possess direct knowledge or experience. This article examines the impact the media has in the construction of public belief and attitudes and its relationship to social change. Drawing on findings from a range of empirical studies, we look at the impact of media coverage in areas such as disability, climate …
Media and Democracy
Reporting disability in the age of austerity
Following its election in 2010 the UK’s Coalition Government has sought to implement radical restructuring of disability-related benefits justified by reference to the financial crises of 2007/08. In this article we examine how these changes have impacted on coverage of disability in the UK media comparing and contrasting coverage of disability in newspapers in 2010/11 with a similar period in 2004/05. Our analysis suggests that disabled people h…
Human Rights and Prisoners' Rights
This article examines how the British press covered the debate around a prisoner's right to vote. It shows how Conservative ministers were put under pressure in early 2011 by newspapers on the right of the political spectrum to abandon proposals to end the ‘blanket ban’ on a prisoner's right to vote. Modification of the ban could have brought the UK into compliance with treaty obligations linked to the E uropean C onvention on H uman R ights ( EC…
New approaches to understanding the role of the news media in the formation of public attitudes and behaviours on climate change
This article examines the role of news media on climate change and sustainable energy in the shaping of audience opinions and beliefs and the possible relation of these to behaviours. It reports on a series of studies conducted between 2011 and 2014 which develop existing approaches to audience reception analyses by using innovative methodologies which focus specifically on the negotiation of new information in response to existing beliefs, perce…
We need to start building up what's called herd immunity
This article uses content and thematic analyses to examine how UK public service broadcasting (PSB) reported on the Covid-19 pandemic prior to the first lockdown on March 23, 2020. This was a period when the British government's response to the pandemic was being heavily criticised by the World Health Organisation and other parts of the scientific community. This paper finds that in PSB these criticisms were muted and partially given. Instead, br…
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