Stuart Allan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3945334 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stuart Allan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stuart |
| FAMILY NAME | Allan |
| SIGNATURE | ALLAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7767-0470 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 236 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Visual War Journalism
this Introduction to the Special Issue (SI) begins by discussing several risks, threats and dangers visual war journalists may be compelled to confront when performing the vital role of bearing witness, including ten specific imperatives of mediation.It proceeds to elaborate the conception of "visual war journalism" guiding the SI's rationale and priorities, in general, before turning to examining in closer detail varied aspects of how ongoing co…
Afterword: Broadcast talk and journalism
This flag was never a French one’: Abbotsford, authenticity and the Battle of Waterloo
Three flags in the collections at Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott, undocumented by Scott and believed to be connected with the Battle of Waterloo, have long raised questions about their provenance and authenticity, emerging in the decades after Scott’s death in 1832 as Abbotsford transitioned from private home to Victorian tourist destination. This paper re-examines the flags and researches their provenance to conclude that they could no…
Mediations of cultural policymaking during Covid-19: British newspaper reporting of the Culture Recovery Fund
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, cultural policymaking frequently came to the fore in media debates about the impact of the crisis and measures to alleviate it.In this article, we present evidence of how newspaper coverage of the cultural and creative industries (CCIs) identified and framed competing perceptions of the relative utility of policymaking in this context, while also problematising familiar assumptions about the CCIs among poli…
The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism
Digitalization has been a strong driver of change in the journalism industry over the past 25 years. 1 News organizations producing newspapers, broadcasts, magazines or digital products have faced a steep learning curve, trying to anticipate technological challenges and opportunities, as well as to adapt to the changes in news use resulting from the digital turn.To remain viable and relevant for audiences, they continuously need to develop their …
Routledge Companion to News and Journalism
Weaponizing Memes: The Journalistic Mediation of Visual Politicization
This article develops the concept of “mimetic weaponization” for theory-building. Memes recurrently serve as identificatory markers of affiliation across social media platforms, with ensuing controversies potentially proving newsworthy. Our elaboration of weaponization refers to the purposeful deployment of memetic imagery to disrupt, undermine, attack, resist or reappropriate discursive positions pertaining to public affairs issues in the news. …
A public value typology for public service broadcasting in the UK
Rapid changes in audience habits, media technologies and market dynamics have prompted searching questions about the role and relevance of public service broadcasting (PSB) in the modern digital media landscape. In the UK, where cultural policymaking is increasingly politicised, the normative ideals traditionally associated with PSB are being openly contested. This article evaluates how PSB generates varied forms of “public value” of benefit to v…
Routledge Companion to News and Journalism
Representation of Diverse Populations in Couple and Family Therapy Intervention Studies: A Systematic Review of Race/Ethnicity, Sexual Orientation, Age, and Income in the United States from 2014 to 20…
Disparities in mental health care among marginalized populations have been well‐documented. Without research designed to study interventions for diverse populations, disparities in the quality of services will persist. A systematic review of articles evaluating couple and family therapy (CFT) interventions was conducted to evaluate the representation of diverse populations. More specifically, researchers sought to examine race/ethnicity, sexual o…
The Future of Journalism: Risks, Threats and Opportunities
This volume draws together research originally presented at the 2015 Future of Journalism conference at Cardiff University, UK. The conference theme, ‘Risks, Threats and Opportunities,’ highlighted five areas of particular concern for discussion and debate. \n \nThe first of these areas, ‘Journalism and Social Media’, explores how journalism and the role of the journalist are being redefined in the digital age of social networking, crowd-sourcing…
Future of Journalism: Risks, Threats and Opportunities
Dividing the Spoils: Perspectives on Military Collections and the British Empire
Citizen Journalism and Participation
This chapter begins with identifying a set of particularly important conceptual issues for citizen journalism, namely by tracing the shifting, uneven contexts of media participation. It addresses journalism’s participatory cultures, providing a broader context of theoretical understandings of how technological drivers give shape to communicative platforms to make possible alternative, citizen-centered forms of reportage. The chapter focuses on tw…
New perspectives on citizen journalism
In the aftermath of the South Asian tsunami of 26 December 2004, the term ‘citizen journalism’ swiftly gained currency with global news organisations finding themselves in the difficult position of being largely dependent on ‘amateur’ photographs, video footage and eyewitness accounts to tell the story of what was transpiring on the ground in the most severely affected areas. Despite its ambiguities, the term was widely perceived to capture the c…
The Visual Citizen in a Digital News Landscape
This article’s contribution to theory-building focuses on the everyday circumstances under which journalism encourages a civic gaze. Specifically, it elaborates our heuristic conception of the “visual citizen” to explore journalism’s mediation of a politics of seeing, paying particular attention to how and why renderings of in/visibility signify varied opportunities for civic engagement within digital news landscapes. In recognizing a distinction…
Network Society
The concept of network society, as developed by Manuel Castells, is utilized in sociological research to investigate the global forces transforming collective action and institutions. In contrast with the notion of the “information society,” the network society is theorized as the social structure of the information age, being organized around relationships of production/consumption, power, and experience. Its prevailing logic, while constantly c…
In/visible conflicts: NGOs and the visual politics of humanitarian photography
This article examines the diverse factors shaping the involvement of non-governmental organisation (NGO) with humanitarian photography, paying particular attention to co-operative relationships with photojournalists intended to facilitate the generation of visual coverage of crises otherwise marginalised, or ignored altogether, in mainstream news media. The analysis is primarily based on a case study drawing upon 26 semi-structured interviews wit…
Citizen Witnesses
Public Broadcasting
Precisely what counts as public broadcasting varies from one national media system to the next across the globe. Common to most definitions is the understanding that it revolves around a public service ethos that may be contrasted with the economic (profit‐oriented) priorities of private or commercial broadcasting. In investigating the key issues at stake, a continuum may be discerned between the model of public broadcasting introduced in the Uni…
The Future of Journalism: Risks, threats and opportunities
Redrawing boundaries: Witness and the politics of citizen videos
This article engages with several pressing issues revolving around ‘citizen witnessing’, with specific reference to the human rights advocacy group, WITNESS. In the course of tracing WITNESS’ development over the past two decades, it offers an evaluative assessment of the challenges its members have faced in promoting a grass-roots, citizen-centred approach to video reportage. More specifically, this advocacy is informed by an ethical commitment …
Visual truths of citizen reportage: Four Research Problematics
In striving to better understand issues associated with citizen contributions to newsmaking in crisis situations, this article identifies and elaborates four specific research problematics - bearing witness, technologies of truth-telling, mediating visualities and affectivities of othering - in order to recast more familiar modes of enquiry. Specifically, it provides an alternative heuristic to theorize the journalistic mediation of citizen image…
Witnessing in crisis: Photo-reportage of terror attacks in Boston and London
The importance of bearing witness to what is transpiring in harrowing circumstances is a lynchpin of war and conflict reporting. More often than not in recent years, however, the person first on the scene with a camera has been an ordinary citizen, if not one of the combatants themselves. Accordingly, this article explores a number of pressing questions confronting news photographers – both professionals of the craft and bystanders offering impro…
Digital Media and Reporting Conflict: Blogging and the BBC’s Coverage of War and Terrorism
Citizen Witnessing: Revisioning Journalism in Times of Crisis
Online News: Journalism and the Internet
If the promises of online news are to be fulfilled, books like this deserve the widest possible readership' - Paul Bradshaw, University of Central England, UK. In this exciting and timely book Stuart Allan provides a wide-ranging analysis of online news. He offers important insights into key debates concerning the ways in which journalism is evolving on the internet, devoting particular attention to the factors influencing its development. Using …
The Framing of Nanotechnologies in the British Newspaper Press
This article investigates how developments in nanotechnology were framed in the British national newspaper press during a formative period in their rising public salience. Specifically, an intervention by Prince Charles in April 2003 is shown to have acted as the principal catalyst for much of the ensuing newspaper reporting over the next fifteen months. This study, in taking as its focus the operation of specific news frames, identifies a range …
Visual truths of citizen reportage: Four Research Problematics
In striving to better understand issues associated with citizen contributions to newsmaking in crisis situations, this article identifies and elaborates four specific research problematics - bearing witness, technologies of truth-telling, mediating visualities and affectivities of othering - in order to recast more familiar modes of enquiry. Specifically, it provides an alternative heuristic to theorize the journalistic mediation of citizen image…
When Discourse is Torn from Reality: Bakhtin and the Principle of Chronotopicity
The aim of this article is to secure the basis for an interdisciplinary critique of Bakhtin's notion of the `chronotope' (`time-space') and to argue for its relevance to several different research agendas within time studies. First, the article outlines the contours of Bakhtin's dialogical approach to language and its implications for theorizing a text's ontological assumptions regarding time and space. Second, the concept of the `chronotope' is …
Framing risk: Nanotechnologies in the news
The concept of ‘framing’ is being increasingly recognised as a useful means of characterising the social relations of representation shaping the news reporting of science and risk. In theoretical terms, framing is often described as a discursive strategy utilised by journalists to define the nature of a particular event, a complex process with important implications for how certain occurrences are selected as newsworthy, the conventions guiding t…
Witnessing in crisis: Photo-reportage of terror attacks in Boston and London
The importance of bearing witness to what is transpiring in harrowing circumstances is a lynchpin of war and conflict reporting. More often than not in recent years, however, the person first on the scene with a camera has been an ordinary citizen, if not one of the combatants themselves. Accordingly, this article explores a number of pressing questions confronting news photographers – both professionals of the craft and bystanders offering impro…
Bearing witness: Citizen journalism and human rights issues
This article assesses the potential of online news reporting to create discursive spaces for emphatic engagement—of bearing witness—at a distance, especially where human rights violations are concerned. Taking as its focus the emergent forms and practices of citizen journalism, it examines the spontaneous actions of ordinary people compelled to adopt the role of news reporter in order to bear witness to human suffering. Specifically, findings der…
The Visual Citizen in a Digital News Landscape
This article’s contribution to theory-building focuses on the everyday circumstances under which journalism encourages a civic gaze. Specifically, it elaborates our heuristic conception of the “visual citizen” to explore journalism’s mediation of a politics of seeing, paying particular attention to how and why renderings of in/visibility signify varied opportunities for civic engagement within digital news landscapes. In recognizing a distinction…
The future of science journalism
Come on, let us shoot: WikiLeaks and the Cultures of Militarization
This paper explores the controversy generated by the nonprofit WikiLeaks website’s posting of a video documenting the shooting of a group of civilians by U.S. forces situated in a helicopter gunship hovering over a Baghdad neighbourhood. Sparking press attention around the world, the brutal rawness of the black and white footage—compounded by the harrowing exchanges between the air crew recorded on the audio track—proved acutely unsettling to vie…
Time and the Politics of Nostalgia: An Analysis of the Conservative Party Election Broadcast `The Journey
This article engages with the temporal and spatial features of nostalgic discourse in general, and `The Journey' (a British Conservative Party election broadcast employed in the 1992 general election) in particular, in order to illustrate several ways in which `the past' may be re-articulated so as to legitimize a politicized configuration of the present. The form of this article is as follows: first, `nostalgia' as a conceptual problematic is se…
In/visible conflicts: NGOs and the visual politics of humanitarian photography
This article examines the diverse factors shaping the involvement of non-governmental organisation (NGO) with humanitarian photography, paying particular attention to co-operative relationships with photojournalists intended to facilitate the generation of visual coverage of crises otherwise marginalised, or ignored altogether, in mainstream news media. The analysis is primarily based on a case study drawing upon 26 semi-structured interviews wit…
The Chico Demonstration Map
The Commodification of Social Relations: Television News and Social Intervention
When Discourse is Torn from Reality: Bakhtin and the Principle of Chronotopicity
The aim of this article is to secure the basis for an interdisciplinary critique of Bakhtin's notion of the `chronotope' (`time-space') and to argue for its relevance to several different research agendas within time studies. First, the article outlines the contours of Bakhtin's dialogical approach to language and its implications for theorizing a text's ontological assumptions regarding time and space. Second, the concept of the `chronotope' is …
Time and the Politics of Nostalgia: An Analysis of the Conservative Party Election Broadcast `The Journey
This article engages with the temporal and spatial features of nostalgic discourse in general, and `The Journey' (a British Conservative Party election broadcast employed in the 1992 general election) in particular, in order to illustrate several ways in which `the past' may be re-articulated so as to legitimize a politicized configuration of the present. The form of this article is as follows: first, `nostalgia' as a conceptual problematic is se…
Introduction to a Special Issue
Ideas in Action: The Tutzing Time Ecology Project
Time: Histories and Ethnologies ed. by Diane Owen Hughes and Thomas R. Trautmann
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 183 Dr. Guajardo received his doctorate in Latin American Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and is a professor in the Department of Interna tional Studies at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico, Mexico City. Time: Histones and Ethnologies. Edited by Diane Owen Hughes and Thomas R. Trautmann. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. Pp. xiii+306; notes, index. $54.50 (ha…
Time: Histories and Ethnologies
Time is the subject of several rather different conversations. Some of them, such as that of the cosmologists and theoretical physicists, are nearly impenetrable to nonspecialists; others have an easy popular appeal. In this volume, editors Diane Owen Hughes and Thomas R. Trautmann collect nine essays on the related but distinct conversation about time that takes place at the intersection of history and ethnology.From the standpoint of Enlightenm…
Environmental Risks and the Media
News, Gender and Power
How do gender relations affect the practice of journalism? Despite the star status accorded to some women reporters, and the dramatic increase in the number of women working in journalism, why do men continue to occupy most senior management positions? And why do female readers, viewers and listeners remain as elusive as ever? 'News, Gender and Power' addresses the pressing questions of how gender shapes the forms, practice, institutions and audi…
News, Gender, And Power
Journalism after September 11
Mediating Citizenship: On-line journalism and the public sphere new voices
Reporting War
Challenging Canada's Nuclear Commitments: An Analysis of Defence Discourse
FOR INDIVIDUALS INTERESTED in the historical development of Canadian defence policy, the 1987 White Paper on Defence, Challenge and Commitment: A Defence Policy for Canada, continues to generate a remarkable amount of discussion. For many commentators, this policy initiative signalled a decisive turning point in debates about Canada's national defence, namely by advocating a massive increase in military spending - including the purchase of a flee…
Science fiction/science fact: Medical genetics in news stories
News media coverage of biotechnology issues offers a rich source of fictional portrayals, with stories drawing strongly on popular imagery and metaphors in descriptions of the powers and dangers of biotechnology. This article examines how science fiction metaphors, imagery and motifs surface in British newspaper (broadsheet and tabloid) coverage of medical genetic issues, focusing on press reporting of two recent highly publicised news media even…
The Framing of Nanotechnologies in the British Newspaper Press
This article investigates how developments in nanotechnology were framed in the British national newspaper press during a formative period in their rising public salience. Specifically, an intervention by Prince Charles in April 2003 is shown to have acted as the principal catalyst for much of the ensuing newspaper reporting over the next fifteen months. This study, in taking as its focus the operation of specific news frames, identifies a range …
Online News: Journalism and the Internet
If the promises of online news are to be fulfilled, books like this deserve the widest possible readership' - Paul Bradshaw, University of Central England, UK. In this exciting and timely book Stuart Allan provides a wide-ranging analysis of online news. He offers important insights into key debates concerning the ways in which journalism is evolving on the internet, devoting particular attention to the factors influencing its development. Using …
Nanotechnologies, risk and society
Nanotechnologies, like other emergent technologies, have had mixed receptions: heightened expectations of their likely benefits are accompanied with uncertainties and fears about their potential consequences. Scientists and policymakers are acutely aware of the significance of public perceptions for the successful realisation of technologies, which is especially evident in recent policy documents and debates on nanotechnologies. Trust, or rather …
From uncertainty to risk: Scientific and news media portrayals of nanoparticle safety
This article examines how nanotechnology has been portrayed in the British newspaper press over an extended period (from April 1, 2003 to July 1, 2006) and the views of scientists involved in nanotechnology research and journalists who wrote news stories. Two methodological strategies are employed: first, recurring patterns in the press coverage were identified using content analysis. Second, scientists and journalists were questioned about their…
Public Broadcasting
Precisely what counts as public broadcasting varies from one national media system to the next across the globe. Common to most definitions, however, is the understanding that it revolves around a public service ethos that may be contrasted with the economic (profit‐oriented) priorities of private or commercial broadcasting. A continuum of sorts exists between the model of public broadcasting introduced in the US, on one end, and that developed i…
Network Society
Social theorist Manuel Castells coined the phrase the “network society” as a form of analytical shorthand to characterize the global forces transforming collective action and institutions from one national context to the next. The network society is the social structure of the Information Age, being organized around relationships of production/consumption, power, and experience. Its prevailing logic, while constantly challenged by conflicts, neve…
Bearing witness: Citizen journalism and human rights issues
This article assesses the potential of online news reporting to create discursive spaces for emphatic engagement—of bearing witness—at a distance, especially where human rights violations are concerned. Taking as its focus the emergent forms and practices of citizen journalism, it examines the spontaneous actions of ordinary people compelled to adopt the role of news reporter in order to bear witness to human suffering. Specifically, findings der…
The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism
The Routledge companion to news and journalism studies
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