Karen Sanders
Biographic Data
| ID | 3931897 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Sanders |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Sanders |
| SIGNATURE | SANDERS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2346-9058 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 168 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Young, British and searching
‘Generation Z’ is a generational cohort more likely to choose ‘no religion’ as their preferred self-designation and to seek out their own personal approach to spirituality beyond institutional religion. This article analyses the findings of the British sample of a cross-national survey of 4,889 young people (18-29) from eight countries. It explores the religious identity and ethical views of British young people, including how their views align o…
Resisting the (re-)medicalisation of dying and grief in the post-digital age
British government communication during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic
This article examines British government communication during the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing how it aligns to the communicational characteristics of high reliability organizations (HROs). The central proposition of the study is that HROs’ organizational culture enables and cultivates effective, ethical communication that, in turn, enhances the trust and engagement of stakeholders and citizens. A thematic content analysis of the UK prime ministe…
Ethical Criteria for the Admission and Management of Patients in the ICU Under Conditions of Limited Medical Resources
Este artículo se encuentra disponible en la siguiente URL: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00284/full
Journalists’ Perceptions of Populism and the Media
This chapter for the first time shows how journalists react to populist politicians and movements and what they think about them. It examines the reactions of journalists in serious and popular media to the presence of populism in 13 countries. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with around 50 journalists, the chapter explores popular definitions of populism; reasons for popularity; issues related to populism; consequences of populism; an…
Start Spreading the News
Although populist communication has become pervasive throughout Europe, many important questions on its political consequences remain unanswered. First, previous research has neglected the differential effects of populist communication on the Left and Right. Second, internationally comparative studies are missing. Finally, previous research mostly studied attitudinal outcomes, neglecting behavioral effects. To address these key issues, this paper…
Los inmigrantes y la prensa étnica en España
En España, un país al que llegaron más de cinco millones de inmigrantes en apenas una década, este fenómeno social produjo importantes cambios, entre ellos en el ámbito de la comunicación. Este artículo analiza el nacimiento y evolución de la prensa étnica, surgida en torno a los inmigrantes, que pasaron de ver a los extranjeros como un elemento informativo a clientes potenciales de sus servicios. De esta manera, a través de la medición y estudio…
The Invention of Journalism Ethics
Populism and exclusionary narratives
Populist political parties have become a key feature of the European political landscape. In addition to claiming to be identified with the people, many of these parties are characterized by exclusionary narratives which centre on groups such as immigrants and religious minorities, a feature considered by many analysts as specific to right-wing populism. Left-wing populism is frequently defined as sharing right-wing populism’s identification with…
Perceptions of the News Media’s Societal Roles
A longitudinal study of U.K. journalism undergraduates records how their attitudes on societal roles of the news media changed during university education. Students became more likely to endorse an adversarial approach toward public officials and businesses as extremely important. Yet students did not support these roles as strongly as an older generation of U.K. journalists did. Students also became less likely to support the role of giving “ord…
Communicating Governments
Various studies have attempted to conceptualize and assess professionalization of political communication from different perspectives. This article examines the professionalization of central government communication in Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom, applying a framework developed using indicators derived from the sociology of work and from the strategic planning and quality literature. Results show that there are clear indices of the de…
Becoming Journalists
This study discusses data from the most extensive survey of journalism students conducted in Britain, and similar data from Spanish journalism students, collected as they commence their studies in journalism. It shows that significant differences exist between these countries in students' motivations to be journalists, including `public service' motives, and in their views on the social roles of news media. Yet, British and Spanish students exhib…
Did Graduate Journalism Education Make a Difference? A Study of British Journalism Students' Views on News Media Roles
Journalism educators in democracies aim to produce journalists motivated to scrutinize the powerful. This study of British journalism students in graduate programs considers whether their views on the news media's societal roles changed during that education. Students grew more adversarial as regards public officials, but became less likely—in an era when media audiences are fragmenting—to see journalism's role as addressing the widest possible a…
Journalism Education in Britain
The number of undergraduate journalism students in Britain has risen fivefold since 1994/95 as journalism education undergoes the rapid expansion previously seen in other countries. This study analyses this expansion in Britain, demonstrating that it has led to a growing proportion of journalism graduates in newsrooms, despite residual, industry concern that journalism is not the best first degree subject for would-be journalists. The study exami…
Media Use, Anti-Americanism and International Support for the Iraq War
This study investigates the impact of pre-war news coverage on international support for President Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003. The study is based on a survey conducted one week prior to the start of the Iraq War among 1787 university students from six countries in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The findings indicate that exposure to pre-war news coverage was associated with more positive attitudes toward Iraq and higher levels of f…
A scribbling tribe
Comparative research is uniquely able to address theoretical questions about the relationship between journalism and political and cultural contexts. This study takes the reporting of political scandal as the entry-point to an analysis of the practice of investigative reporting in Britain and Spain in the 1990s and its status as a litmus test for a Fourth Estate understanding of the press’ role. Using interview and documentary data, the research …
Journalists at digital television newsrooms in Britain and Spain
This paper explores the impact of new technology on journalists' attitudes and practice in distinctive national and organisational contexts, deriving evidence from observational and interview research conducted in six digital newsrooms selected to provide comparative settings in Britain (BSkyB, Independent Television News [ITN] and the British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC]) and Spain (Telecinco, Antena 3 and Telemadrid). The study explores the p…
Spanish Politicians and the Media
Journal Article Spanish Politicians and the Media: Controlled Visibility and Soap Opera Politics Get access Karen Sanders, Karen Sanders Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar María José Canel María José Canel Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 57, Issue 1, 1 January 2004, Pages 196–208, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsh016 Published: 01 January 200…
Playing by the Book
Both the Thatcher and the Blair governments have been accused of politicising the Prime Ministerial press operation. This article asks whether it is possible to maintain a constitutionally clearer demarcation between the expressly political and the strictly governmental, and at the same time still pursue a successful communications strategy. Based on semi-structured interviews with both national journalists and government and party media managers…
Managing Sleaze
This article investigates the different ways in which two European heads of government, John Major in Britain and Felipe Gonzalez in Spain, achieved ostensibly the same result, namely to distance themselves personally from the media feeding-frenzy over `sleaze' that engulfed their parties and eventually overwhelmed their administrations. It concludes that, although governmental and prime ministerial media relations are less professionalized in Sp…
Para estudiar la comunicación de los gobiernos. Un análisis del estado de la cuestión
El presente artículo describe el estado del arte en la comunicación de gobiernos. Tras identificar las singularidades que tiene el gobierno como institución que se comunica, las autoras realizan una profunda revisión de lo que al respecto ofrecen los campos de estudio de la comunicación política y de la comunicación de organizaciones (relaciones públicas, comunicación organizacional y comunicación corporativa). De la revisión se extraen las teorí…
Las actitudes profesionales de los periodistas británicos. Un caso de agenda simbólica
Este estudio sobre la Redacción de Sky News sugiere que su decisión de realizar un seguimiento muy intenso y no americanizado de las elecciones generales de 1997, no vino tanto determinada por la esperanza de obtener beneficios comerciales inmediatos, como por el deseo de lograr autoestima, junto con la atención de políticos y colegas. Sky confiaba en convertirse en el canal de referencia para los profesionales de la política y esperaba que esto …
Journalists at digital television newsrooms in Britain and Spain
This paper explores the impact of new technology on journalists' attitudes and practice in distinctive national and organisational contexts, deriving evidence from observational and interview research conducted in six digital newsrooms selected to provide comparative settings in Britain (BSkyB, Independent Television News [ITN] and the British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC]) and Spain (Telecinco, Antena 3 and Telemadrid). The study explores the p…
Journalism Education in Britain
The number of undergraduate journalism students in Britain has risen fivefold since 1994/95 as journalism education undergoes the rapid expansion previously seen in other countries. This study analyses this expansion in Britain, demonstrating that it has led to a growing proportion of journalism graduates in newsrooms, despite residual, industry concern that journalism is not the best first degree subject for would-be journalists. The study exami…
Becoming Journalists
This study discusses data from the most extensive survey of journalism students conducted in Britain, and similar data from Spanish journalism students, collected as they commence their studies in journalism. It shows that significant differences exist between these countries in students' motivations to be journalists, including `public service' motives, and in their views on the social roles of news media. Yet, British and Spanish students exhib…
Start Spreading the News
Although populist communication has become pervasive throughout Europe, many important questions on its political consequences remain unanswered. First, previous research has neglected the differential effects of populist communication on the Left and Right. Second, internationally comparative studies are missing. Finally, previous research mostly studied attitudinal outcomes, neglecting behavioral effects. To address these key issues, this paper…
Populism and exclusionary narratives
Populist political parties have become a key feature of the European political landscape. In addition to claiming to be identified with the people, many of these parties are characterized by exclusionary narratives which centre on groups such as immigrants and religious minorities, a feature considered by many analysts as specific to right-wing populism. Left-wing populism is frequently defined as sharing right-wing populism’s identification with…
Perceptions of the News Media’s Societal Roles
A longitudinal study of U.K. journalism undergraduates records how their attitudes on societal roles of the news media changed during university education. Students became more likely to endorse an adversarial approach toward public officials and businesses as extremely important. Yet students did not support these roles as strongly as an older generation of U.K. journalists did. Students also became less likely to support the role of giving “ord…
Communicating Governments
Various studies have attempted to conceptualize and assess professionalization of political communication from different perspectives. This article examines the professionalization of central government communication in Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom, applying a framework developed using indicators derived from the sociology of work and from the strategic planning and quality literature. Results show that there are clear indices of the de…
A scribbling tribe
Comparative research is uniquely able to address theoretical questions about the relationship between journalism and political and cultural contexts. This study takes the reporting of political scandal as the entry-point to an analysis of the practice of investigative reporting in Britain and Spain in the 1990s and its status as a litmus test for a Fourth Estate understanding of the press’ role. Using interview and documentary data, the research …
Spanish Politicians and the Media
Journal Article Spanish Politicians and the Media: Controlled Visibility and Soap Opera Politics Get access Karen Sanders, Karen Sanders Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar María José Canel María José Canel Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 57, Issue 1, 1 January 2004, Pages 196–208, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsh016 Published: 01 January 200…
Media Use, Anti-Americanism and International Support for the Iraq War
This study investigates the impact of pre-war news coverage on international support for President Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003. The study is based on a survey conducted one week prior to the start of the Iraq War among 1787 university students from six countries in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The findings indicate that exposure to pre-war news coverage was associated with more positive attitudes toward Iraq and higher levels of f…
Resisting the (re-)medicalisation of dying and grief in the post-digital age
Did Graduate Journalism Education Make a Difference? A Study of British Journalism Students' Views on News Media Roles
Journalism educators in democracies aim to produce journalists motivated to scrutinize the powerful. This study of British journalism students in graduate programs considers whether their views on the news media's societal roles changed during that education. Students grew more adversarial as regards public officials, but became less likely—in an era when media audiences are fragmenting—to see journalism's role as addressing the widest possible a…
Los inmigrantes y la prensa étnica en España
En España, un país al que llegaron más de cinco millones de inmigrantes en apenas una década, este fenómeno social produjo importantes cambios, entre ellos en el ámbito de la comunicación. Este artículo analiza el nacimiento y evolución de la prensa étnica, surgida en torno a los inmigrantes, que pasaron de ver a los extranjeros como un elemento informativo a clientes potenciales de sus servicios. De esta manera, a través de la medición y estudio…
Managing Sleaze
This article investigates the different ways in which two European heads of government, John Major in Britain and Felipe Gonzalez in Spain, achieved ostensibly the same result, namely to distance themselves personally from the media feeding-frenzy over `sleaze' that engulfed their parties and eventually overwhelmed their administrations. It concludes that, although governmental and prime ministerial media relations are less professionalized in Sp…
Para estudiar la comunicación de los gobiernos. Un análisis del estado de la cuestión
El presente artículo describe el estado del arte en la comunicación de gobiernos. Tras identificar las singularidades que tiene el gobierno como institución que se comunica, las autoras realizan una profunda revisión de lo que al respecto ofrecen los campos de estudio de la comunicación política y de la comunicación de organizaciones (relaciones públicas, comunicación organizacional y comunicación corporativa). De la revisión se extraen las teorí…
Para estudiar la comunicación de los gobiernos. Un análisis del estado de la cuestión
El presente artículo describe el estado del arte en la comunicación de gobiernos. Tras identificar las singularidades que tiene el gobierno como institución que se comunica, las autoras realizan una profunda revisión de lo que al respecto ofrecen los campos de estudio de la comunicación política y de la comunicación de organizaciones (relaciones públicas, comunicación organizacional y comunicación corporativa). De la revisión se extraen las teorí…
Las actitudes profesionales de los periodistas británicos. Un caso de agenda simbólica
Este estudio sobre la Redacción de Sky News sugiere que su decisión de realizar un seguimiento muy intenso y no americanizado de las elecciones generales de 1997, no vino tanto determinada por la esperanza de obtener beneficios comerciales inmediatos, como por el deseo de lograr autoestima, junto con la atención de políticos y colegas. Sky confiaba en convertirse en el canal de referencia para los profesionales de la política y esperaba que esto …
Managing Sleaze
This article investigates the different ways in which two European heads of government, John Major in Britain and Felipe Gonzalez in Spain, achieved ostensibly the same result, namely to distance themselves personally from the media feeding-frenzy over `sleaze' that engulfed their parties and eventually overwhelmed their administrations. It concludes that, although governmental and prime ministerial media relations are less professionalized in Sp…
Playing by the Book
Both the Thatcher and the Blair governments have been accused of politicising the Prime Ministerial press operation. This article asks whether it is possible to maintain a constitutionally clearer demarcation between the expressly political and the strictly governmental, and at the same time still pursue a successful communications strategy. Based on semi-structured interviews with both national journalists and government and party media managers…
Journalists at digital television newsrooms in Britain and Spain
This paper explores the impact of new technology on journalists' attitudes and practice in distinctive national and organisational contexts, deriving evidence from observational and interview research conducted in six digital newsrooms selected to provide comparative settings in Britain (BSkyB, Independent Television News [ITN] and the British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC]) and Spain (Telecinco, Antena 3 and Telemadrid). The study explores the p…
Spanish Politicians and the Media
Journal Article Spanish Politicians and the Media: Controlled Visibility and Soap Opera Politics Get access Karen Sanders, Karen Sanders Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar María José Canel María José Canel Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 57, Issue 1, 1 January 2004, Pages 196–208, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsh016 Published: 01 January 200…
Media Use, Anti-Americanism and International Support for the Iraq War
This study investigates the impact of pre-war news coverage on international support for President Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003. The study is based on a survey conducted one week prior to the start of the Iraq War among 1787 university students from six countries in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The findings indicate that exposure to pre-war news coverage was associated with more positive attitudes toward Iraq and higher levels of f…
A scribbling tribe
Comparative research is uniquely able to address theoretical questions about the relationship between journalism and political and cultural contexts. This study takes the reporting of political scandal as the entry-point to an analysis of the practice of investigative reporting in Britain and Spain in the 1990s and its status as a litmus test for a Fourth Estate understanding of the press’ role. Using interview and documentary data, the research …
Did Graduate Journalism Education Make a Difference? A Study of British Journalism Students' Views on News Media Roles
Journalism educators in democracies aim to produce journalists motivated to scrutinize the powerful. This study of British journalism students in graduate programs considers whether their views on the news media's societal roles changed during that education. Students grew more adversarial as regards public officials, but became less likely—in an era when media audiences are fragmenting—to see journalism's role as addressing the widest possible a…
Journalism Education in Britain
The number of undergraduate journalism students in Britain has risen fivefold since 1994/95 as journalism education undergoes the rapid expansion previously seen in other countries. This study analyses this expansion in Britain, demonstrating that it has led to a growing proportion of journalism graduates in newsrooms, despite residual, industry concern that journalism is not the best first degree subject for would-be journalists. The study exami…
Becoming Journalists
This study discusses data from the most extensive survey of journalism students conducted in Britain, and similar data from Spanish journalism students, collected as they commence their studies in journalism. It shows that significant differences exist between these countries in students' motivations to be journalists, including `public service' motives, and in their views on the social roles of news media. Yet, British and Spanish students exhib…
Communicating Governments
Various studies have attempted to conceptualize and assess professionalization of political communication from different perspectives. This article examines the professionalization of central government communication in Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom, applying a framework developed using indicators derived from the sociology of work and from the strategic planning and quality literature. Results show that there are clear indices of the de…
Perceptions of the News Media’s Societal Roles
A longitudinal study of U.K. journalism undergraduates records how their attitudes on societal roles of the news media changed during university education. Students became more likely to endorse an adversarial approach toward public officials and businesses as extremely important. Yet students did not support these roles as strongly as an older generation of U.K. journalists did. Students also became less likely to support the role of giving “ord…
The Invention of Journalism Ethics
Populism and exclusionary narratives
Populist political parties have become a key feature of the European political landscape. In addition to claiming to be identified with the people, many of these parties are characterized by exclusionary narratives which centre on groups such as immigrants and religious minorities, a feature considered by many analysts as specific to right-wing populism. Left-wing populism is frequently defined as sharing right-wing populism’s identification with…
Start Spreading the News
Although populist communication has become pervasive throughout Europe, many important questions on its political consequences remain unanswered. First, previous research has neglected the differential effects of populist communication on the Left and Right. Second, internationally comparative studies are missing. Finally, previous research mostly studied attitudinal outcomes, neglecting behavioral effects. To address these key issues, this paper…
Los inmigrantes y la prensa étnica en España
En España, un país al que llegaron más de cinco millones de inmigrantes en apenas una década, este fenómeno social produjo importantes cambios, entre ellos en el ámbito de la comunicación. Este artículo analiza el nacimiento y evolución de la prensa étnica, surgida en torno a los inmigrantes, que pasaron de ver a los extranjeros como un elemento informativo a clientes potenciales de sus servicios. De esta manera, a través de la medición y estudio…
Journalists’ Perceptions of Populism and the Media
This chapter for the first time shows how journalists react to populist politicians and movements and what they think about them. It examines the reactions of journalists in serious and popular media to the presence of populism in 13 countries. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with around 50 journalists, the chapter explores popular definitions of populism; reasons for popularity; issues related to populism; consequences of populism; an…
British government communication during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic
This article examines British government communication during the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing how it aligns to the communicational characteristics of high reliability organizations (HROs). The central proposition of the study is that HROs’ organizational culture enables and cultivates effective, ethical communication that, in turn, enhances the trust and engagement of stakeholders and citizens. A thematic content analysis of the UK prime ministe…
Ethical Criteria for the Admission and Management of Patients in the ICU Under Conditions of Limited Medical Resources
Este artículo se encuentra disponible en la siguiente URL: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00284/full
Resisting the (re-)medicalisation of dying and grief in the post-digital age
Young, British and searching
‘Generation Z’ is a generational cohort more likely to choose ‘no religion’ as their preferred self-designation and to seek out their own personal approach to spirituality beyond institutional religion. This article analyses the findings of the British sample of a cross-national survey of 4,889 young people (18-29) from eight countries. It explores the religious identity and ethical views of British young people, including how their views align o…
Political science (21 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Media studies (11 works) · Public relations (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Media Studies and Communication (9 works) · Public Relations and Crisis Communication (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Journalism (7 works)