Peter Golding
Biographic Data
| ID | 261057 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Golding |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Golding |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDING P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4029-4547 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Political Economy of Contemporary Journalism and the Crisis of Public Knowledge
From its foundation in the later 18th century, political economy has been centrally concerned with understanding how the production and delivery of goods and services are structured by relations between capital and government, and how private interests should be balanced against the public good. This chapter asks how the dual impact of marketisation and digitalisation has altered the organisation and practice of journalism and the conditions of p…
Researching Communications
The new edition of the highly respected Researching Communications is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to researching media and communication. Researching Communications, Third Edition is an invaluable guide to performing and analysing research tasks, introducing the major research methods, giving detailed examples of research analysis and practical step-by-step guidance in clear language. Written by highly regarded experts in the field, t…
“The concentration of power, represented by current prevailing media conditions, is and ought to be open to challenge.” An interview with Peter Golding
Interview with Peter Golding, Emeritus Professor at Northumbria University, Visiting Professor in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University and one of the crucial figures in Critical Political Economy of Communication. In the interview we discuss the role of critical scholarship, the sometimes troubled relationship between cultural studies and critical political economy of communication, the importance of a sociological perspective …
Social media – New challenges and approaches for communications research
This issue of the European Journal of Communication comprises revised versions of papers first given at a symposium convened and hosted by the journal, and held at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, in May 2016. We are extremely grateful to the University, and especially to the Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade (Communication and Society Research Centre). The discussion prompted by the presentation of papers at the symposium all…
Political economy and media production
This is a response to an article by Paul Dwyer in this Journal which makes several claims about the nature and impact of the political economy approach to the analysis of media and communications. We argue that Dwyer’s article misunderstands or is unaware of the history of this approach, and quite fundamentally misconstrues its central tenets. Our response explains how, in capitalist societies, media organisations are integrated into general proc…
Introduction to Special Issue
(Excerto) The European Journal of Communication seeks to present the best in current research in the broad field of media and communication research. Irregularly, we seek to take stock by inviting a small group of leading scholars to present their work at a symposium on a common theme, which then forms the basis for a Special Issue of the Journal. In 2014, the European Science Foundation (ESF) published one of their ‘Forward Looks’ entitled Media…
The Structural Developments of Regional Television in Britain and Germany
This paper compares the structural developments of regional television in Britain and Germany from the early days of broadcasting to the present from an institutional and organisational perspective. Drawing on a series of interviews with policy-makers and other key personalities, it is argued that the combination of political administrative borders and regional television boundaries, as exists in the German Länder, provides a fruitful basis for a…
Trust and the media
Olympic Legacies in the IOC's ‘Celebrate Humanity’ Campaign
The Olympics is a global event that acts as a carrier of cultural meanings that are available to international audiences and markets. Though the heritage of the Olympics is claimed to be derived from the ancient world, in fact the contemporary legacy is very modern. Indeed, such meanings, and the legacy thereby attached, are re-represented, distributed, and marketed by a media-sport complex predicated less on the concept of arete and much more on…
Olympism and Consumption
Drawing on work located within critical political economy and process sociology, this article uses content analysis to examine the types, frequency, and content of Olympic related advertising in the British press and television during the 2004 Athens Olympics. We assessed the degree to which The Olympic Partner (TOP) sponsors incorporated themes derived from Olympism and the Celebrate Humanity program, as well as from consumer culture more broadl…
Celebrate humanity' or 'consumers
The Olympics is a global event that acts as a carrier of cultural meanings and identities that are available to international audiences and markets. Our wider project examining the Athens Olympic Games seeks to investigate how such meanings are re-represented, distributed, and marketed by the media-sport complex. Here, we investigate how the initial formulation, development and use of the ‘Celebrate Humanity’ programme was framed by the IOC marke…
Eurocrats, Technocrats, and Democrats
This article addresses the growing concern about a communication deficit in the European Union, and specifically with the notion that communication technologies may be deployed to overcome existing deficiencies in the dialogue between the union and its citizens. It examines proposed solutions to the deficit, including the notion of a European public sphere, and the creation of ‘e-Europe’ with the increasing digitalisation of many processes and in…
Introduction to Special Issue of European Societies
Researching Communications
Researching Communications, Second Edition provides a practical, authoritative, step-by-step guide to media and communications studies students taking courses in communications research. The authors also examine the complementary nature of qualitative and quantitative research methods, and aim to show how these techniques hold up in practice. The new edition also incorporates new information on using archives and computers as well as the use of t…
Same Campaign, Differing Agendas
Communication Theory and Research
Looking Back and Looking Forward
European Culture and the Media
Herb Schiller
Forthcoming Features
This article explores the social impact of new information and communication technologies (ICTs). It argues that they are best understood, not as heralding a substantially new `information society', but as significant technologies emerging in but inherently part of late modernity. This argument is developed by examining themes from post-materialism, globalisation and information society theories. It is suggested there are two types of technology,…
Common Markets
This article charts 2 parallel movements in the communications sectors of the United Kingdom and Europe: the ascendancy of marketization policies within both the European Union and its major member states and accelerating convergence of the computing, telecommunications, and audiovisual industries. The contradictory character of policy at the European level is examined against the background of assertive pressure from the corporate sector for lib…
Between fear and loathing
Cultural Studies in Question
This major reassessment of the current state of cultural studies focuses on its contribution to the understanding of media communication and popular cultures in contemporary societies looking at current tensions and alternative approaches
A response to
World Wide Wedge
"Start Today To realize the Future—the Internet is here and is happening now, Capitalise on the future today"—ad in U.K. Financial Press, March 1996/ "The internet suffers from the problems often found in resources that are in common ownership: potential misuse, security problems and a lack of structure"—International Telecommunication Union press release, October, 1995/ "The days when the Net seemed to exist outside the laws of capitalism are ju…
Forthcoming Features
This article explores the social impact of new information and communication technologies (ICTs). It argues that they are best understood, not as heralding a substantially new `information society', but as significant technologies emerging in but inherently part of late modernity. This argument is developed by examining themes from post-materialism, globalisation and information society theories. It is suggested there are two types of technology,…
Communicating Politics
Media Role in National Development
Journal Article Media Role in National Development: Critique of a Theoretical Orthodoxy Get access Peter Golding Peter Golding 1Peter Golding is a Research Officer at the Centre for Mass Communication Research at the University of Leicester, England. He is currently engaged in research work in Nigeria on the problems of development Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 24, Issue …
Olympism and Consumption
Drawing on work located within critical political economy and process sociology, this article uses content analysis to examine the types, frequency, and content of Olympic related advertising in the British press and television during the 2004 Athens Olympics. We assessed the degree to which The Olympic Partner (TOP) sponsors incorporated themes derived from Olympism and the Celebrate Humanity program, as well as from consumer culture more broadl…
Telling Stories
This paper argues that the media have failed to provide for informed citizenship. Despite claims in media occupational ideologies to service the information needs of the public, the accumulated verdict of research is that the media provide an inadequate basis for citizens to fulfil their role. The popular press has become integrated into the entertainment industry, and public service broadcasting is being dismantled in form and purpose. New techn…
World Wide Wedge
"Start Today To realize the Future—the Internet is here and is happening now, Capitalise on the future today"—ad in U.K. Financial Press, March 1996/ "The internet suffers from the problems often found in resources that are in common ownership: potential misuse, security problems and a lack of structure"—International Telecommunication Union press release, October, 1995/ "The days when the Net seemed to exist outside the laws of capitalism are ju…
Same Campaign, Differing Agendas
Making claims
Olympic Legacies in the IOC's ‘Celebrate Humanity’ Campaign
The Olympics is a global event that acts as a carrier of cultural meanings that are available to international audiences and markets. Though the heritage of the Olympics is claimed to be derived from the ancient world, in fact the contemporary legacy is very modern. Indeed, such meanings, and the legacy thereby attached, are re-represented, distributed, and marketed by a media-sport complex predicated less on the concept of arete and much more on…
Between fear and loathing
Political economy and media production
This is a response to an article by Paul Dwyer in this Journal which makes several claims about the nature and impact of the political economy approach to the analysis of media and communications. We argue that Dwyer’s article misunderstands or is unaware of the history of this approach, and quite fundamentally misconstrues its central tenets. Our response explains how, in capitalist societies, media organisations are integrated into general proc…
The Structural Developments of Regional Television in Britain and Germany
This paper compares the structural developments of regional television in Britain and Germany from the early days of broadcasting to the present from an institutional and organisational perspective. Drawing on a series of interviews with policy-makers and other key personalities, it is argued that the combination of political administrative borders and regional television boundaries, as exists in the German Länder, provides a fruitful basis for a…
When Ideology Fails
This article examines the relationship between government and media in the promotion of substantial policy innovations. Taking the general case of `Thatcherism' in the UK, it draws on research into media coverage of the Community Charge, a major shift in the fiscal basis of local government, in the last years of the Thatcher administration. The research suggests that, despite growing media conglomeration and state centralization, it is important …
Learning by Our Mistakes
Celebrate humanity' or 'consumers
The Olympics is a global event that acts as a carrier of cultural meanings and identities that are available to international audiences and markets. Our wider project examining the Athens Olympic Games seeks to investigate how such meanings are re-represented, distributed, and marketed by the media-sport complex. Here, we investigate how the initial formulation, development and use of the ‘Celebrate Humanity’ programme was framed by the IOC marke…
Did the race card tip the balance
The hidden factor
Trust and the media
Looking Back and Looking Forward
Communicating capitalism
Media Role in National Development
Journal Article Media Role in National Development: Critique of a Theoretical Orthodoxy Get access Peter Golding Peter Golding 1Peter Golding is a Research Officer at the Centre for Mass Communication Research at the University of Leicester, England. He is currently engaged in research work in Nigeria on the problems of development Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 24, Issue …
The Mass Media
Making claims
From Charles Booth to Peter Townsend
Poverty in the United Kingdom: A Survey of Household Resources and Standards of Living by PETER TOWNSEND
Cultural Autonomy in Global Communications
Learning by Our Mistakes
Communicating Politics
Information Poverty and Political Inequality
“Where material inequality massively differentiates people's access to goods and services, and those goods and services are themselves a necessary resource for citizenship, then political rights are the victim of the vicissitudes of the marketplace and its inegaltitarian structure.”
The Politics of the Urban Crisis
The voluntary sector in ‘the information society’
At a time of rapid social, political and economic change in Britain, voluntary and community groups are being encouraged to assume a more prominent role in general welfare provision. Accordingly, their ‘need to know’ has never been more acute. Yet the information environment of the voluntary sector is also in a state of flux and transition. Profound changes in the institutional world of information provision hold significant implications for the …
When Ideology Fails
This article examines the relationship between government and media in the promotion of substantial policy innovations. Taking the general case of `Thatcherism' in the UK, it draws on research into media coverage of the Community Charge, a major shift in the fiscal basis of local government, in the last years of the Thatcher administration. The research suggests that, despite growing media conglomeration and state centralization, it is important …
Communicating capitalism
Did the race card tip the balance
The hidden factor
Barriers to centralism
Telling Stories
This paper argues that the media have failed to provide for informed citizenship. Despite claims in media occupational ideologies to service the information needs of the public, the accumulated verdict of research is that the media provide an inadequate basis for citizens to fulfil their role. The popular press has become integrated into the entertainment industry, and public service broadcasting is being dismantled in form and purpose. New techn…
A response to
World Wide Wedge
"Start Today To realize the Future—the Internet is here and is happening now, Capitalise on the future today"—ad in U.K. Financial Press, March 1996/ "The internet suffers from the problems often found in resources that are in common ownership: potential misuse, security problems and a lack of structure"—International Telecommunication Union press release, October, 1995/ "The days when the Net seemed to exist outside the laws of capitalism are ju…
Cultural Studies in Question
This major reassessment of the current state of cultural studies focuses on its contribution to the understanding of media communication and popular cultures in contemporary societies looking at current tensions and alternative approaches
Between fear and loathing
Common Markets
This article charts 2 parallel movements in the communications sectors of the United Kingdom and Europe: the ascendancy of marketization policies within both the European Union and its major member states and accelerating convergence of the computing, telecommunications, and audiovisual industries. The contradictory character of policy at the European level is examined against the background of assertive pressure from the corporate sector for lib…
Forthcoming Features
This article explores the social impact of new information and communication technologies (ICTs). It argues that they are best understood, not as heralding a substantially new `information society', but as significant technologies emerging in but inherently part of late modernity. This argument is developed by examining themes from post-materialism, globalisation and information society theories. It is suggested there are two types of technology,…
Herb Schiller
European Culture and the Media
Communication Theory and Research
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