John R Steel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3465772 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John R Steel |
| GIVEN NAMES | John R |
| FAMILY NAME | Steel |
| SIGNATURE | STEEL J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5967-0699 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Journalism and Ethical Praxis
The importance of high-quality, ethically sound journalism in sustaining a healthy democratic and deliberative public sphere is well established. However, recent trends suggest a lack of public trust in journalism (Fink 2019. “The Biggest Challenge Facing Journalism: A Lack of Trust.” Journalism; OECD 2024. Survey on Drivers of Trust in Public Institutions—2024 Results) coupled with a range of online challenges to ethically sourced news warrant a…
The Routledge Companion to Freedom of Expression and Censorship
The influence of advertising both directly on non-advertising content and indirectly on the resources and decisions of publishers and content providers has been the subject of analysis and criticism since the seventeenth century. Yet today the very identities of media and advertisers are becoming merged at corporate and content levels in ways that intensify but also reframe discussions on advertiser influence. This chapter surveys the various way…
Towards a Praxis-Based Media and Journalism Research
Media Control
Normative expectations
Journalism's relationship with the public has historically rested on an assumption of its Fourth Estate roles and as fulfilling democratic imperatives. The normative dimensions of these ideals have also long been “taken as given” in journalism studies, serving as a starting point for discussions of journalism's public service, interest, and role. As contradictions to these normative ideals expose flaws in such assumptions, a reassessment of this …
From “We” to “Me
In 1886, in “The Future of Journalism”, W. T. Stead expressed the view that it was the “personal touch” in newspapers that would transcend the vapidity of a hypothesized “we”. Nevertheless, it was to be the ability of newspapers, exploiting his own pioneering take on the New Journalism, to articulate a plausible version of a collective voice which was to dominate the journalism of the mass market of the twentieth century. A refinement of the lang…
The ‘Radical’ Narrative, Political Thought and Praxis
This article offers a methodological refinement to the radical narrative of media history and advocates an exploration of the ideological dynamics of media texts as a crucial component of their praxis. Focusing on early to mid nineteenth-century utilitarian theory and praxis as exemplified in newspapers and pamphlets such as the Westminster Review, the Examiner and Pamphlets for the People, the article offers a sophisticated ideological critique …
The Future of Newspapers
To what extent can we disassociate the technology and economics of newspapers from their political and cultural functions? Many of the latter functions have survived previous eras of technological change, often with a heightened promise of a more democratic engagement with readers and a subsequent amelioration of civic communication. Toolan (1998 Toolan , M.J. 1998 Narrative: A Critical Linguistic Introduction , London : Routledge . [Google Schol…
The Emperor's New Clothes
Two closely related and over-determining myths have shaped government inspired policy towards Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and education: the one is the irresistible power of globalisation, the other is the determining effect of technology. The result of both is to present the acceptance of e-learning throughout the education system as inevitable. The space left for practitioners in Higher Education is either to embrace the n…
Cabal Seminar 81–85
This is the fourth volume of the proceeding of the Caltech-UCLA Logic Seminar, based mainly on material which was presented and discussed in the period 1981-85, but containing also some very recent results. It includes research papers dealing with determinacy hypotheses and their consequences in descriptive set theory. An appendix contains the new Victoria Delfino Problems
John Ireland Concert
The Emperor's New Clothes
Two closely related and over-determining myths have shaped government inspired policy towards Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and education: the one is the irresistible power of globalisation, the other is the determining effect of technology. The result of both is to present the acceptance of e-learning throughout the education system as inevitable. The space left for practitioners in Higher Education is either to embrace the n…
Normative expectations
Journalism's relationship with the public has historically rested on an assumption of its Fourth Estate roles and as fulfilling democratic imperatives. The normative dimensions of these ideals have also long been “taken as given” in journalism studies, serving as a starting point for discussions of journalism's public service, interest, and role. As contradictions to these normative ideals expose flaws in such assumptions, a reassessment of this …
The Future of Newspapers
To what extent can we disassociate the technology and economics of newspapers from their political and cultural functions? Many of the latter functions have survived previous eras of technological change, often with a heightened promise of a more democratic engagement with readers and a subsequent amelioration of civic communication. Toolan (1998 Toolan , M.J. 1998 Narrative: A Critical Linguistic Introduction , London : Routledge . [Google Schol…
Media Control
The ‘Radical’ Narrative, Political Thought and Praxis
This article offers a methodological refinement to the radical narrative of media history and advocates an exploration of the ideological dynamics of media texts as a crucial component of their praxis. Focusing on early to mid nineteenth-century utilitarian theory and praxis as exemplified in newspapers and pamphlets such as the Westminster Review, the Examiner and Pamphlets for the People, the article offers a sophisticated ideological critique …
From “We” to “Me
In 1886, in “The Future of Journalism”, W. T. Stead expressed the view that it was the “personal touch” in newspapers that would transcend the vapidity of a hypothesized “we”. Nevertheless, it was to be the ability of newspapers, exploiting his own pioneering take on the New Journalism, to articulate a plausible version of a collective voice which was to dominate the journalism of the mass market of the twentieth century. A refinement of the lang…
John Ireland Concert
Cabal Seminar 81–85
This is the fourth volume of the proceeding of the Caltech-UCLA Logic Seminar, based mainly on material which was presented and discussed in the period 1981-85, but containing also some very recent results. It includes research papers dealing with determinacy hypotheses and their consequences in descriptive set theory. An appendix contains the new Victoria Delfino Problems
The Emperor's New Clothes
Two closely related and over-determining myths have shaped government inspired policy towards Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and education: the one is the irresistible power of globalisation, the other is the determining effect of technology. The result of both is to present the acceptance of e-learning throughout the education system as inevitable. The space left for practitioners in Higher Education is either to embrace the n…
The Future of Newspapers
To what extent can we disassociate the technology and economics of newspapers from their political and cultural functions? Many of the latter functions have survived previous eras of technological change, often with a heightened promise of a more democratic engagement with readers and a subsequent amelioration of civic communication. Toolan (1998 Toolan , M.J. 1998 Narrative: A Critical Linguistic Introduction , London : Routledge . [Google Schol…
The ‘Radical’ Narrative, Political Thought and Praxis
This article offers a methodological refinement to the radical narrative of media history and advocates an exploration of the ideological dynamics of media texts as a crucial component of their praxis. Focusing on early to mid nineteenth-century utilitarian theory and praxis as exemplified in newspapers and pamphlets such as the Westminster Review, the Examiner and Pamphlets for the People, the article offers a sophisticated ideological critique …
From “We” to “Me
In 1886, in “The Future of Journalism”, W. T. Stead expressed the view that it was the “personal touch” in newspapers that would transcend the vapidity of a hypothesized “we”. Nevertheless, it was to be the ability of newspapers, exploiting his own pioneering take on the New Journalism, to articulate a plausible version of a collective voice which was to dominate the journalism of the mass market of the twentieth century. A refinement of the lang…
Media Control
Normative expectations
Journalism's relationship with the public has historically rested on an assumption of its Fourth Estate roles and as fulfilling democratic imperatives. The normative dimensions of these ideals have also long been “taken as given” in journalism studies, serving as a starting point for discussions of journalism's public service, interest, and role. As contradictions to these normative ideals expose flaws in such assumptions, a reassessment of this …
Towards a Praxis-Based Media and Journalism Research
The Routledge Companion to Freedom of Expression and Censorship
The influence of advertising both directly on non-advertising content and indirectly on the resources and decisions of publishers and content providers has been the subject of analysis and criticism since the seventeenth century. Yet today the very identities of media and advertisers are becoming merged at corporate and content levels in ways that intensify but also reframe discussions on advertiser influence. This chapter surveys the various way…
Journalism and Ethical Praxis
The importance of high-quality, ethically sound journalism in sustaining a healthy democratic and deliberative public sphere is well established. However, recent trends suggest a lack of public trust in journalism (Fink 2019. “The Biggest Challenge Facing Journalism: A Lack of Trust.” Journalism; OECD 2024. Survey on Drivers of Trust in Public Institutions—2024 Results) coupled with a range of online challenges to ethically sourced news warrant a…
Political science (9 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Media Studies and Communication (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Journalism (4 works) · Social Media and Politics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)