James Curran
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3660262 |
|---|---|
| NOME | James Curran |
| PRENOMES | James |
| SOBRENOME | Curran |
| ASSINATURA | CURRAN J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9637-0484 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 82 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1130 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
Rethinking Media and Democracy
The principal democratic role of the media, according to liberal theory, is to act as a check on the state. The media should monitor the full range of state activity, and fearlessly expose abuses of official authority. This watchdog role is said to override in importance all other functions of the media. It dictates the form in which the media system should be organized. The traditional public watchdog definition of the media thus legitimates the…
Political Lives
Political Lives: Australian Prime Ministers and Their Biographers." Australian Historical Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Culture Wars
Media and Society
Media and Society is an established textbook, popular worldwide for its insightful and accessible essays from leading international academics on the most pertinent issues in the media field today. With this updated edition, David Hesmondhalgh joins James Curran and a team of leading international scholars to speak to current issues relating to media and gender, media and democracy, sociology of news, the global internet, the political impact of t…
Broadcasting and the Blitz
Triple crisis of journalism
Misunderstanding the Internet
Why Are “Others” So Polarized? Perceived Political Polarization and Media Use in 10 Countries
This study tests the associations between news media use and perceived political polarization, \nconceptualized as citizens’ beliefs about partisan divides among major political parties. Relying \non representative surveys in Canada, Colombia, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea, \nNorway, United Kingdom and United States, we test whether perceived polarization is related to \nthe use of television news, newspaper, radio news, and online new…
Unholy Fury
Beyond the Euphoria
This article asks new questions about the U.S.-Australian alliance at the height of the Cold War. Looking at Lyndon B. Johnson's visit to Australia in October 1966—the first time a serving U.S. president had set foot in the country—the article contends that Johnson's presence brought Australian and U.S. approaches to the Cold War into sharp relief, shedding new light on the policies of both countries, especially as they grappled with the ongoing …
Australia and the Vietnam War
Peter Edwards is the general editor of the nine-volume Official History of Australia's Involvement in South East Asia Conflicts 1948–1975 and the biographer of the eminent mandarin Sir Arthur Tange
International News and Global Integration
This study challenges the ruling orthodoxy that foreign news tends to be reported in divergent ways, reflecting the interests and identity of the home nation. Instead it concludes that the Greek and US elections in 2012 were reported in very similar ways in the leading news media of five countries located in different continents. In the case of the 2012 Chinese election, there were striking affinities in the news reporting of four out of five cou…
Pride and Prejudice
The Olympic Games are one of the most popular global mega-media events. However, the ways in which the opening of the 2012 Olympic Games in London were reported varied significantly from one country to another. In order to compare how different countries represented this event, we conducted a qualitative discourse analysis of three days of television news coverage from 10 channels in five countries: the United States, China, Japan, Germany, and t…
Reinterpreting the democratic roles of the media
Investigative journalism, according to traditional theory, has the task of exposing the abuses of public officials. Therefore, media has been seen as an institution central to liberal democracy. In this article, I examine examples of the role of media in United Kingdom, in United States of America and in Brazil showing how extensive media coverage in these countries drew attention to police violence. The challenge for all of us is to work out wha…
Reconsidering ‘virtuous circle’ and ‘media malaise’ theories of the media
This study, based on a content analysis of television news and survey in eleven nations, explores the split between those who see the media as politically alienating and others who see the media as encouraging greater political involvement. Here, we suggest that both positions are partly right. On the one hand, television news, and in particular public service television news, can be very effective in imparting information about public affairs an…
Impacts and Influences
Electronic Records of the Air War Over Southeast Asia
The United States conducted a massive bombing campaign over Southeast Asia during the Second Indochina War. The joint chiefs of staff attempted to compile comprehensive databases of all US and allied air sorties during the conflict. In this article, we show how we tested the reliability of two of the most commonly used databases and then determined what they tell us about the air war, especially in terms of the tons of ordnance expended. The data…
Sources in the News
In analysing the news media's role in serving the functions associated with democratic citizenship, the number, diversity and range of news sources are central. Research conducted on sources has overwhelmingly focused on individual national systems. However, studying variations in news source patterns across national environments enhances understanding of the media's role. This article is based on a larger project, “Media System, Political Contex…
Australia at empire’s end
This article explores recent scholarship on the end of empire in Australia, discussing how it reveals an ongoing debate about historical approaches and methodologies. The unravelling of the maritime empires and the political and economic integration of Europe converged during the 1950s and 1960s, both serving to reorder the world politically and imaginatively. Australia’s adjustment to post-imperial realities can be seen in this broader global co…
Australia and Appeasement
Australia and Appeasement: Imperial Foreign Policy and the Origins of World War II." Australian Historical Studies, 44(2), pp. 314–315
Internet revolution revisited
While numerous studies view the internet as a patron of internationalism and public empowerment, this comparative study of leading news websites in nine nations shows that online news is strongly nation-centred, and much more inclined to cite the voices of authority than those of civil society and the individual citizen. Online news is very similar, in these respects, to newspaper and television news. This convergence is due to the way in which l…
International Tv News, Foreign Affairs Interest and Public Knowledge
This article investigates the volume of foreign news provided by public service and commercial TV channels in countries with different media systems, and how this corresponds to the public's interest in and knowledge of foreign affairs. We use content analyses of television newscasts and public opinion surveys in 11 countries across five continents to provide new insight into the supply and demand for international television news. We find that (…
The Digital Media Handbook
The new edition of The Digital Media Handbook presents an essential guide to the historical and theoretical development of digital media, emphasising cultural continuity alongside technological change, and highlighting the emergence of new forms of communication in contemporary networked culture.Andrew Dewdney and Peter Ride present detailed critical commentary and descriptive historical accounts, as well as a series of interviews from a range of…
Auntie Knows Best? Public Broadcasters and Current Affairs Knowledge
Public service broadcasters (PSBs) are a central part of national news media landscapes, and are often regarded as specialists in the provision of hard news. But does exposure to public versus commercial news influence citizens’ knowledge of current affairs? This question is investigated in this article using cross-national surveys capturing knowledge of current affairs and media consumption. Propensity score analyses test for effects of PSBs on …
How Media Inform Democracy
Culture, Society and the Media
Media System, Public Knowledge and Democracy
■ This article addresses the implications of the movement towards entertainment-centred, market-driven media by comparing what is reported and what the public knows in four countries with different media systems. The different systems are public service (Denmark and Finland), a `dual' model (UK) and the market model (US). The comparison shows that public service television devotes more attention to public affairs and international news, and foste…
Power Without Responsibility
Power Without Responsibility is a classic introduction to the history, sociology, theory and politics of the media in Britain. It is an essential guide, both for students and teachers of media and communication studies, and for all those involved in the production and consumption of the media. The new edition has been substantially revised to bring it right up-to-date with developments in the media industry, new media technologies and changes in …
The New Revisionism in Mass Communication Research
The major developments of mass communication research, particularly in Britain, during the last fifteen years are reviewed critically. A new revisionist movement has emerged that challenges the dominant radical paradigms of the late 1970s and early 1980s. This has taken the form of contesting the underlying models of society, the characterization of media organizations, the representations of media content, the conception of the audience and the …
Auntie Knows Best? Public Broadcasters and Current Affairs Knowledge
Public service broadcasters (PSBs) are a central part of national news media landscapes, and are often regarded as specialists in the provision of hard news. But does exposure to public versus commercial news influence citizens’ knowledge of current affairs? This question is investigated in this article using cross-national surveys capturing knowledge of current affairs and media consumption. Propensity score analyses test for effects of PSBs on …
The Future of Journalism
Media and Cultural Theory
Containing new thinking and original surveys, Media & Cultural Theory brings together leading international scholars to address key issues and debates within media and cultural studies. Through the use of contemporary media and film texts such as Bridget Jones' Diary and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and using case studies of the USA and the UK after September 11th, James Curran and David Morley examine central topics including: * media represen…
International Tv News, Foreign Affairs Interest and Public Knowledge
This article investigates the volume of foreign news provided by public service and commercial TV channels in countries with different media systems, and how this corresponds to the public's interest in and knowledge of foreign affairs. We use content analyses of television newscasts and public opinion surveys in 11 countries across five continents to provide new insight into the supply and demand for international television news. We find that (…
Sources in the News
In analysing the news media's role in serving the functions associated with democratic citizenship, the number, diversity and range of news sources are central. Research conducted on sources has overwhelmingly focused on individual national systems. However, studying variations in news source patterns across national environments enhances understanding of the media's role. This article is based on a larger project, “Media System, Political Contex…
Crime, foreigners and hard news
The Finnish media devote more attention to hard news than the British media, yet Finns are less interested in politics than the British. The principal reason for this difference in news values is that Finnish TV is more subject to public service influence than British TV, and the Finnish press is more strongly influenced by a professional journalistic culture than its British counterpart. While a number of national differences contribute to diffe…
Why Are “Others” So Polarized? Perceived Political Polarization and Media Use in 10 Countries
This study tests the associations between news media use and perceived political polarization, \nconceptualized as citizens’ beliefs about partisan divides among major political parties. Relying \non representative surveys in Canada, Colombia, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea, \nNorway, United Kingdom and United States, we test whether perceived polarization is related to \nthe use of television news, newspaper, radio news, and online new…
Older People and the Enterprise Society
The UK, like most developed economies has an ageing population. In 1901 nearly one in seven were aged 50 and over but by 1997 this had doubled to one in three (ONS 1999) a trend that will continue over the next twenty years (Scase 1999:13). Accompanying this shift has been a burgeoning debate on the roles and involvement of older people in society and the economy (Laslett 1996; Phillipson 1998). Many of the themes in this debate, however, are con…
Reconsidering ‘virtuous circle’ and ‘media malaise’ theories of the media
This study, based on a content analysis of television news and survey in eleven nations, explores the split between those who see the media as politically alienating and others who see the media as encouraging greater political involvement. Here, we suggest that both positions are partly right. On the one hand, television news, and in particular public service television news, can be very effective in imparting information about public affairs an…
Media and the Making of British Society, c .1700-2000
(2002). Media and the Making of British Society, c .1700-2000. Media History: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 135-154
International News and Global Integration
This study challenges the ruling orthodoxy that foreign news tends to be reported in divergent ways, reflecting the interests and identity of the home nation. Instead it concludes that the Greek and US elections in 2012 were reported in very similar ways in the leading news media of five countries located in different continents. In the case of the 2012 Chinese election, there were striking affinities in the news reporting of four out of five cou…
Triple crisis of journalism
Pride and Prejudice
The Olympic Games are one of the most popular global mega-media events. However, the ways in which the opening of the 2012 Olympic Games in London were reported varied significantly from one country to another. In order to compare how different countries represented this event, we conducted a qualitative discourse analysis of three days of television news coverage from 10 channels in five countries: the United States, China, Japan, Germany, and t…
How Media Inform Democracy
Wide-Coverage Efficient Statistical Parsing with CCG and Log-Linear Models
This article describes a number of log-linear parsing models for an automatically extracted lexicalized grammar. The models are “full” parsing models in the sense that probabilities are defined for complete parses, rather than for independent events derived by decomposing the parse tree. Discriminative training is used to estimate the models, which requires incorrect parses for each sentence in the training data as well as the correct parse. The …
Press and popular culture
Worker Involvement and Social Relations in the Small Firm
A New Look at Job Satisfaction in the Small Firm
The widely accepted view that job satisfaction is higher among workers in small firms than their large-firm counterparts, especially in terms of non-monetary and expressive aspects of work, is critically examined. Workers employed in small and large firms in the printing and electronics industries were surveyed using a semistructured interview strategy. Job satisfaction was related to work environment and also nonwork influences such as family li…
Rethinking Economic Structure
Dominant sociological interpretations of the economic structures of industrial societies have long neglected the role of small scale economic activities. However, current rethinking, stimulated by attempts to explain economic restructuring in the 1980s, appears to offer petty capitalism and self-employment a more important role in the economy. Several versions of economic restructuring theory are examined critically and argued to continue to offe…
Self-Selection and the Small Firm Worker-A Critique and an Alternative View
The thesis that some manual workers gradually develop a stable set of orientations which leads them to choose to work for small rather than large firms is tested against data from a study of small and large firm workers in the printing and electronics industries. Little support is found for the thesis and an alternative view is presented which suggests that the main reasons why some manual workers come to work in small firms are connected with th…
The Sociology of Petit Capitalism
Despite the demonstrable importance of small scale capitalism in contemporary industrial societies, sociologists still generally ignore its economic, social and ideological significance. However, it is now possible to bring together the main elements of a sociology of petit capitalism. Four areas are examined: the class analysis of the owners of small capital; the sociology of entrepreneurship; social relations in the enterprise; and the links be…
Mass communication and society
British Press
Advertising and the Press
The British Press
The media and politics
Press freedom as a property right
Worker Involvement and Social Relations in the Small Firm
Self-Selection and the Small Firm Worker-A Critique and an Alternative View
The thesis that some manual workers gradually develop a stable set of orientations which leads them to choose to work for small rather than large firms is tested against data from a study of small and large firm workers in the printing and electronics industries. Little support is found for the thesis and an alternative view is presented which suggests that the main reasons why some manual workers come to work in small firms are connected with th…
The Political World of the Small Firm Worker
The Social Dynamics of the Small Manufacturing Enterprise
A New Look at Job Satisfaction in the Small Firm
The widely accepted view that job satisfaction is higher among workers in small firms than their large-firm counterparts, especially in terms of non-monetary and expressive aspects of work, is critically examined. Workers employed in small and large firms in the printing and electronics industries were surveyed using a semistructured interview strategy. Job satisfaction was related to work environment and also nonwork influences such as family li…
The impact of advertising on the British mass media
Class Imagery, Work Environment and Community
Relationships between class imagery, size of workplace and type of community are briefly examined in analyzing data from a study of shopfloor workers in small and large firms in the printing and electronics industries in an affluent, urban conurbation. The results confirm recent studies reporting that the link between deferential imagery and small firm employment has little empirical support. The data suggests that the industry in which the worke…
Advertising as a Patronage System
Production of culture
The Sociology of Petit Capitalism
Despite the demonstrable importance of small scale capitalism in contemporary industrial societies, sociologists still generally ignore its economic, social and ideological significance. However, it is now possible to bring together the main elements of a sociology of petit capitalism. Four areas are examined: the class analysis of the owners of small capital; the sociology of entrepreneurship; social relations in the enterprise; and the links be…
The Future of the Left
Sociological Research on Service Sector Small Businesses
Recently 'small business revivalism', and the 'enterprise culture' more gener ally, has been articulated through a range of political discourses as a panacea for the economic and social ills of the British economy. This is sometimes linked — often in an implied causality — with official data showing self-employment and small business ownership increasing throughout the 1980s (Bechhofer and Elliott 1985; Creigh et al. 1986; Spilsbury et al. 1986; …
The New Revisionism in Mass Communication Research
The major developments of mass communication research, particularly in Britain, during the last fifteen years are reviewed critically. A new revisionist movement has emerged that challenges the dominant radical paradigms of the late 1970s and early 1980s. This has taken the form of contesting the underlying models of society, the characterization of media organizations, the representations of media content, the conception of the audience and the …
Rethinking Economic Structure
Dominant sociological interpretations of the economic structures of industrial societies have long neglected the role of small scale economic activities. However, current rethinking, stimulated by attempts to explain economic restructuring in the 1980s, appears to offer petty capitalism and self-employment a more important role in the economy. Several versions of economic restructuring theory are examined critically and argued to continue to offe…
Press and popular culture
Mass Media and Society
Part 1 Mass media and society - general perspectives: culture, communications, and political economy feminist perspectives on the media postmodernism and television mass media and the public interest - towards a framework of norms for media performance mass media and democracy revisited media changes and social change linkages and junctures. Part 2 Media production: the sociology of news production revisited entertainment the global and the local…
Paths of Enterprise
Roger Burrows, University of Surrey John Stanworth and Celia Stanworth, both at the Polytechnic of Central London Robin Ward, Nottingham Business School Alan Felstead, Nuffield College, Oxford Steve Johnson, Leeds Polytechnic Shelia Allen, University of Bradford Carole Truman, Leverhulme Trust Ray Oakey, Heriot-Watt University Business School Martin Binks, University of Nottingham
La décennie des révisions
Dans un survol critique des principaux developpements qui ont marque la recherche en communications de masse, au cours des quinze dernieres annees, cet article souligne l’apparition, notamment en Grande-Bretagne, d’un mouvement dont l’apparente nouveaute se traduit en fait par un « revisionnisme ». Ce mouvement remet en question les acquis d’une reflexion de gauche sur les medias, reflexion qui domine la fin des annees 70 et le debut des annees 8…
Local authority privatisation and markets for small businesses
1996). Local authority privatisation and markets for small businesses. Local Government Studies: Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 72-89
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