Philip Schlesinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 213650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Schlesinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Schlesinger |
| SIGNATURE | SCHLESINGER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0078-9630 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 86 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 661 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 86 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Researching Regulatory Innovation: The UK Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum
The Post-Public Sphere and Neo-Regulation of Digital Platforms
This article discusses the post-public sphere and the regulation of platforms that have had disruptive effects on democracy.Platformisation means that the normative ideals for a political public sphere set out by Jrgen Habermas face a distinctive challenge."Neo-regulation" is an evolving adaption by states that reflects the urgent need to address platformisation and digitalisation more generally.In conditions of geopolitical competition, notably …
The neo‐regulation of internet platforms in the United Kingdom
In 2020, a new platform‐regulatory model was initiated in the United Kingdom. The main focus of this article is on the development of the Digital Regulators Cooperation Forum (DRCF), set up to regulate the continually changing challenges posed by major platforms. The British model has drawn on UK competition regulation, collegial governance of international banking, and international ‘agile’ regulation debates. The backdrop to this ‘neo‐regulator…
In memoriam: Enrique Bustamante Ramírez
After the post-public sphere
The idea of a public sphere has long been central to discussion of political communication. Its present condition is the topic of this essay. Debate about the public sphere has been shaped by the boundary-policing of competing political systems and ideologies. Current discussion reflects the accelerating transition from the mass media era to the ramifying entrenchment of the Internet age. It has also been influenced by the vogue for analysing pop…
Media, the political order and national identity
The critique of media imperialism rested upon a structuralist approach in which domination of international media flows by western capitalist states was assumed to produce negative cultural effects. Characteristic elements would be continuity of territorial settlement entailing a deeply meaningful sense of place, a distinctive language, an identifiable pantheon of heroes, battles and traditions constructed as a &s;national history&s; or collectiv…
Scottish Communicative Space and the Uses of Academic Expertise
This essay offers some personal reflections regarding the impact of devolution on the author's research and public-facing activities. It begins with a discussion of research into the new post-devolution political system established at the Scottish Parliament and continues with an account of the author's subsequent involvement in a little-known communications audit in of that institution that took place in 2001. The essay concludes with brief rema…
Introduction: 1707, 2014 And the Constitutional Imperative in Scotland's National Press and Civil Society
This essay provides an historical, cultural and institutional juxtaposition of the Scottish national press' relationship to constitutional change, using the Union of 1707 and the 2014 independence referendum as key markers of this relationship. It reviews the parallels between both historical events in the context of structural changes to Scottish civil society, and the role played by the media in amplifying and facilitating these changes. Finall…
The creative economy: Invention of a global orthodoxy
Cet article s’attache à l’évolution continue de la manière d’envisager avant tout la culture comme une question économique identifiée comme « économie créative ». La progression d’idées couramment admises et le contexte de leur progression sont discutés. Les questions politiques pleinement élaborées au Royaume-Uni en premier lieu, ont eu un écho important : les exemples démonstratifs de l’Union européenne et des Nations unies sont aussi discutés.…
On the Vagaries of Production Research
The editors of this volume have asked me to undertake a brief stocktaking: to reflect on my experience of undertaking production research of various kinds in the media and cultural fields since the early 1970s. I shall begin by discussing my earliest research and then—covering intervening decades—consider examples of other projects pertinent to the concerns of this book, as well as changes in how the role of the researcher has been conceived and …
The creative economy: Invention of a global orthodoxy
This essay considers how policy thinking about culture has been steadily transformed into an overwhelmingly economic subject matter whose central trope is the “creative economy”. The development of current ideas and their background are discussed. Policy ideas first fully developed in the UK have had a global resonance: the illustrative examples of the European Union and the United Nations are discussed. The embedding of creative economy thinking…
Mass Media and Cultural Identity
Curators of Cultural Enterprise: A Critical Analysis of a Creative Business Intermediary
This study is based on the authors' fieldwork inside Cultural Enterprise Office, a small Scottish agency that supports creative businesses. It discusses UK policy on the creative economy, the rise of
Inside a Cultural Agency: Team Ethnography and Knowledge Exchange
This article undertakes an auto-critical analysis of the research team's ethnographic study of Cultural Enterprise Office (CEO), a Scottish creative business support agency. We discuss the team's composition and how this relates to other analyses of ethnographic teamwork. Our research is situated in the wider policy context of the "creative-economic" turn in the UK's research funding. This has been accompanied by increased emphasis on "knowledge …
The Rise and Fall of the Uk Film Council
A unique The Rise and Fall of the UK Film Council provides a unique study of the making of film policy in the UK set in its political, economic and international contexts. The UK Film Council was responsible for supporting film in the UK for over a decade. What objectives did it pursue over time? How effective was the UKFC as a model of public support for film? And what strategic lessons can be drawn from its experience? As well as offering a cri…
Small nations, the press and the digital challenge
This editorial begins by discussing the current challenges faced by the Scottish press, in the run-up to the referendum on independence. It focuses on a gradual transition to a new business model that is combining print and digital content. The particular dilemmas faced in Scotland are also being addressed elsewhere, but in quite distinctive ways. A brief overview of comparable nation-states (Denmark, Norway) and stateless nations (Catalonia, Que…
Digital media – social memory: Remembering in digitally networked times
From organizational crisis to multi-platform salvation? Creative destruction and the recomposition of news media
Schumpeter’s trope of ‘creative destruction’ aptly describes current transformations of news media whose business models are adjusting to the twin challenges of digitization and the Internet. While most production studies focus on the journalistic labour process, based on current empirical research in the UK press and access to key decision-makers, this article presents case studies of the strategies pursued by the Financial Times and The Telegra…
Media Regulation: Governance and the Interests of Citizens and Consumers
Expertise, the academy and the governance of cultural policy
No abstract available
Copyright and cultural work: An exploration
This article first discusses the contemporary debate on cultural “creativity” and the economy. Second, it considers the current state of UK copyright law and how it relates to cultural work. Third, based on empirical research on British dancers and musicians, an analysis of precarious cultural work is presented. A major focus is how those who follow their art by way of “portfolio” work handle their rights in ways that diverge significantly from t…
Expertise, politiques publiques et économie créative: Le Cas Britannique
Cet article analyse le rôle des experts dans le débat public sur les politiques de soutien aux industries créatives au Royaume Uni. La première section offre un panorama de l'émergence de cette expertise gouvernementale et du développement des think tanks , dans le contexte plus large d'une sociologie des intellectuels. Elle analyse le développement d'une expertise propre au New Labour qui s'opposait au conservatisme thatchérien dans la lutte pou…
The European Public Sphere and the Media: Europe in Crisis
Triandafyllidou, Anna, Wodak, Ruth, and Krzyzanowski Michal (eds): The European Public Sphere and the Media: Europe in Crisis, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, xii ;+ ;286 pp., ISBN-13 978-0
The most creative organization in the world’? The BBC, ‘creativity’ and managerial style
The managerial styles of two BBC directors‐general, John Birt and Greg Dyke, have often been contrasted but not so far analysed from the perspective of their different views of ‘creative management’. This article first addresses the orthodox reading of ‘Birtism’; second, it locates Dyke’s ‘creative’ turn in the wider context of fashionable neo‐management theory and UK government creative industries policy; third, it details Dyke’s drive to change…
The SNP, Cultural Policy and the Idea of the ‘Creative Economy’
This chapter deals with the influence of the Scottish National Party (SNP) on cultural policy and creative economy. Scotland's asymmetrical institutional framework and policy capacity across the interlinked fields of broadcasting and culture is shown. The Scottish Broadcasting Commission (SBC)'s recommendation came at a time of great volatility in television. Scotland has a plurality of supply in public service broadcasting. The demand for ‘broad…
Media, state, and nation: Political Violence and Collective Identities
Changing Spaces of Political Communication: The Case of the European Union
This essay assesses whether new public communicative spaces are emerging in the European Union as a result of the process of political and economic integration. It first argues that supranational developments have induced an important theoretical shift in which the public sphere is no longer equated with the boundaries of the nation-state. It goes on to illustrate how the emergent Euro-polity has developed an important space for a supranational e…
From organizational crisis to multi-platform salvation? Creative destruction and the recomposition of news media
Schumpeter’s trope of ‘creative destruction’ aptly describes current transformations of news media whose business models are adjusting to the twin challenges of digitization and the Internet. While most production studies focus on the journalistic labour process, based on current empirical research in the UK press and access to key decision-makers, this article presents case studies of the strategies pursued by the Financial Times and The Telegra…
Media, the political order and national identity
No abstract available
The Media Politics of Crime and Criminal Justice
Reporting crime: The Media Politics of Criminal Justice
Every day we watch, read, and hear stories about crime and justice. This path-breaking book reveals how policy makers, criminal justice professionals, pressure groups, and the police compete in self-promoting struggles to shape their own images and the policy agenda. In a series of case studies, the authors pose a number of important questions. Does coverage of crime statistics promote fear of crime, or is the debate about the figures really abou…
Creativity: From discourse to doctrine
de l'information et de la communication
Wishful Thinking: Cultural Politics, Media, and Collective Identities in Europe
On national identity: Some Conceptions and Misconceptions Criticized
No abstract available
Newsmen and Their Time-Machine
Repenser la sociologie du journalisme. Les stratégies de la source d'information et les limites du média-centrisme
Whilst the mass media fashion has pushed sociology into a type of « media-centrism », Schlesinger aims at reexamining the study of journalism by looking at the question of sources and their relation to the medium used. After having reviewed existing works (structuralist, empiricist), the author creates his own model, taking into account the strategy of the media and the structure of their capital, both financial and symbolic. He completes his dem…
From cultural defence to political culture: Media, politics and collective identity in the European Union
This paper takes recent EU policy concerning audiovisual media as its initial point of focus, placing it in the context both of the market negotiations of the GATT talks and the various notions of `European cultural identity' to be found in official EU statements and documents. Exploring a number of slippages and tensions, it maps the shifting ground of media and cultural policy in the mid-1990s, particularly in relation to questions of cultural …
Journalists at Work. Specialist Correspondents: Their News Organizations, News Sources, and Competitor-Colleagues
Sociology of Mass Communications: Selected Readings
Creativity and the Experts: New Labour, Think Tanks, and the Policy Process
This article explores the role of expertise in public debate on creative industries policy in the United Kingdom. The first section gives an overview of the emergence of expertise in government and the rise of think tanks, locating this within a wider sociology of the intellectuals. It discusses the development of New Labour expertise in response to that of Thatcherite Conservatism in the battle to dominate public policy agendas. The second secti…
Public Access Broadcasting and Democratic Participation in the Age of Mediated Politics
This article presents the results of research carried out as part of the Economic and Social Research Council's Democracy and Participation programme. Drawing on new empirical data assembled by the authors from interviews with programme makers, public participants and members of the listening and viewing audience, it seeks to evaluate the role of political access broadcasting in the British democratic process, against the background of a perceive…
Europeanness’ ‐ a new cultural battlefield
The nation‐state is par excellence a product of ‘modernity’ in Europe. Its supercession has been trumpeted of late, hard on the heels of the fashion for post‐modernity. However, the self‐service conceptions of political identity that pertained until the end of the Cold War now need to be discarded as ethnicity and nationhood evidently become the predominant obsessions of the 1990s. Consequently, ‘Europeanness’ has become a cultural battlefield fo…
Terrorism' and the state: A Case Study of the Discourses of Television
No abstract available
Scottish Devolution and the Media
Copyright and cultural work: An exploration
This article first discusses the contemporary debate on cultural “creativity” and the economy. Second, it considers the current state of UK copyright law and how it relates to cultural work. Third, based on empirical research on British dancers and musicians, an analysis of precarious cultural work is presented. A major focus is how those who follow their art by way of “portfolio” work handle their rights in ways that diverge significantly from t…
Political Roof and Sacred Canopy: Religion and the EU Constitution
Debate over the place of Christianity in European politics and society has made an important come-back. The Convention on the Future of Europe's deliberations over the EU Constitution has thrown into relief the role of religion in defining 'Europeanness'. In the context of a secularized Europe, Christianity is fighting for its institutional recognition and space in the public sphere. Religion may offer a cultural identity and work both to resist …
After the post-public sphere
The idea of a public sphere has long been central to discussion of political communication. Its present condition is the topic of this essay. Debate about the public sphere has been shaped by the boundary-policing of competing political systems and ideologies. Current discussion reflects the accelerating transition from the mass media era to the ramifying entrenchment of the Internet age. It has also been influenced by the vogue for analysing pop…
The creative economy: Invention of a global orthodoxy
This essay considers how policy thinking about culture has been steadily transformed into an overwhelmingly economic subject matter whose central trope is the “creative economy”. The development of current ideas and their background are discussed. Policy ideas first fully developed in the UK have had a global resonance: the illustrative examples of the European Union and the United Nations are discussed. The embedding of creative economy thinking…
The most creative organization in the world’? The BBC, ‘creativity’ and managerial style
The managerial styles of two BBC directors‐general, John Birt and Greg Dyke, have often been contrasted but not so far analysed from the perspective of their different views of ‘creative management’. This article first addresses the orthodox reading of ‘Birtism’; second, it locates Dyke’s ‘creative’ turn in the wider context of fashionable neo‐management theory and UK government creative industries policy; third, it details Dyke’s drive to change…
Collective Identities in a changing Europe
No abstract available
Journalists at Work. Specialist Correspondents: Their News Organizations, News Sources, and Competitor-Colleagues
Sociology of Mass Communications: Selected Readings
Newsmen and Their Time-Machine
Some aspects of communism as a cultural category
No abstract available
On the Stratification of Political Knowledge: Studying 'Eurocommunism', an Unfolding Ideology
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Making the News
Between Sociology and Journalism
You feel you can argue with literature, temper its vicarious experience with your own. Journalism intimidates because its currency appears to be irrefutable fact and the great myth about himself and his profession to which the journalist succumbs is that he is engaged mainly in the communication of objective fact. But if we view journalism as a chemical compound and break it down we would find the ingredient ‘fact’ existed in only small quantitie…
In search of the intellectuals: Some comments on recent theory
No abstract available
State Heroes for the Eighties
Journal Article State Heroes for the Eighties Get access Richard Paterson, Richard Paterson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Philip Schlesinger Philip Schlesinger Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 24, Issue 3, May/June 1983, Pages 55–73, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/24.3.55 Published: 01 May 1983
Terrorism' and the state: A Case Study of the Discourses of Television
No abstract available
Two Debates on Political Violence and the Mass Media: The Organisation of Intellectual Fields in Britain and Italy
From public service to commodity: The political economy of teletext in the UK
No abstract available
Trading in Fictions: What Do We Know About British Television Imports and Exports
This article surveys information available on the imports and exports of television fiction programmes in Britain. The scope of the problem is defined, then imports are discussed, with the conclusion that the USA is the largest source by far of foreign programming, but that quota restrictions are still important. The evidence on imports may be thin but, it is argued, even less is known about British exports. The official statistics tell us little…
Any chance of fabricating Eurofiction
No abstract available
On national identity: Some Conceptions and Misconceptions Criticized
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Die interpretation von gewalt
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Kollektive identitäten, freunde, feinde
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From production to propaganda
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Negotiating Control: A Study of News Sources
Книга основана на обширном исследовании репортерской деятельности группой канадских социологов, исходивших из конструктивистского представления о медиа-производстве как о процессе, в котором новость появляется в результате взаимодействия журналистов с их источниками. Авторы ставят задачу изучить это взаимодействие, определить степень взаимозависимости сторон, их стратегии и влияние их отношений на конечный продукт и на знание общества о самом себ…
Introduction: Europe and the media: Changing structures in a changing context
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Le chaînon manquant: Le Professionnalisme Et Le Public
Schlesinger Philip, Zeitlin Edith. Le chaînon manquant: le professionnalisme et le public . In: Réseaux, volume 9, n°44-45, 1990. Sociologie de la télévision : Europe. pp. 153-178
Media, state, and nation: Political Violence and Collective Identities
L'identité nationale: De l'incantation à l'analyse
La « mediologie » contemporaine, qu’elle soit universitaire ou « officielle » presente d’immenses lacunes. Tout en parlant d’« identite nationale », d’« identite culturelle », d’« espace audiovisuel », etc., les mediologues n’offrent aucune definition claire de ces termes-clefs. L’ensemble de l’exercice semble avoir un cote improvise : les termes fonctionnent comme des signes de ralliement pour des projets politico-economiques concurrents sans re…
Media, the political order and national identity
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Collective Identities in a changing Europe
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