Scott Frank

Biographic Data

ID454785
NAMEScott Frank
GIVEN NAMESScott
FAMILY NAMEFrank
SIGNATUREFRANK S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Westminster
ORCID0000-0002-9449-2725
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS28
TOTAL CITATIONS123
WORKS AS AUTHOR28
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX4

  • Perspectives of people with spinal cord injury on a pain education resource

    Open AccessGabriel E Fernandez, Kim D Anderson et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Introduction Spinal cord injury (SCI) often leads to neuropathic pain that negatively affects quality of life. Several qualitative research studies in individuals with SCI who experience neuropathic pain indicate the lack of adequate information about pain. We previously developed an educational resource, the SeePain, based on scientific literature and a series of qualitative interviews of people with SCI, their significant others/family members,…

  • Introduction

    Open AccessScott Frank, Suzanne Franks et al.ARTICLEThe Political Quarterly2024

    Good quality information is a public utility: the rich and powerful will always have access to what they need to know, but poor people do not. Indeed, increasing inequalities in access to decent information underlie other more obvious inequalities. Bad information does not respect borders and yet democracy depends on informed citizens. The case for public intervention in what used to be called broadcasting, now including digital media—but which n…

  • The impact of Covid-19 on science journalists in South Africa

    Michel Joubert, Lali van Zuydam et al.ARTICLEJournal of African Media Studies2023

    Since early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic demanded ongoing media coverage unprecedented in its scope and reach. As a result, the pandemic dominated global and national news headlines for an extended period of time. Science and health journalists, and their colleagues covering other journalistic beats, were called upon to report on various aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic and many journalists found themselves in unchartered waters. To investigate th…

  • Automating Science Journalism Tasks

    Open AccessNeil Maiden, Konstantinos Zachos et al.ARTICLEJournalism Practice2023Cited by: 2References: 6

    Digital tools have the potential to both semi-automate science journalist tasks including the incorporation of more diverse voices in science journalism. This paper reports new design science research that developed then elicited first feedback on one digital prototype with algorithms that semi-automated selected science journalism tasks. The feedback revealed that almost all of participating science journalists were comfortable with increased au…

  • Peace and Good Order

    Open AccessScott Frank, Scott FranksBOOKOsgoode Hall law journal2023References: 1

    Harold Johnson was a Cree lawyer, trapper, author, and storyteller from the Montreal Lake Cree Nation. He practiced as a criminal defence lawyer and then as a Crown prosecutor in my hometown of La Ronge, Saskatchewan. Peace and Good Order: The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada (“Peace and Good Order”) is Harold’s resignation letter to the legal profession, apology for his participation in Canada’s criminal law system, and argument for Indigen…

  • Beyond Cheerleading

    Open AccessScott Frank, Michel Joubert et al.ARTICLEJournalism Studies2022Cited by: 3References: 10

    Science journalism faces an issue that is part of a bigger picture of media change. The economic pressures which have seen shrinking resources available for reporting news are contrasted by the relentless rise of corporate communication and public relations. Institutional science communication has become a booming industry, operating, at least partially, by bypassing the traditional roles of journalists. To interrogate how science journalists per…

  • Associations Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Prenatal Mental Health and Substance Use Among Urban, Low-Income Women

    Open AccessDivya L Jasthi, Sarah Nagle-Yang et al.ARTICLECommunity Mental Health Journal2021References: 42

  • Using computational tools to support journalists’ creativity

    Open AccessScott Frank, Suzanne Franks et al.ARTICLEJournalism2021Cited by: 3References: 20

    This paper presents work surrounding INJECT, a newsroom innovation offering digital tools to support journalists. Research showing increasing time and resource pressure on journalists has led to concerns about the demise of investigative reporting and the ability of today’s journalists to interrogate information adequately. Some digital innovations (e.g. tools facilitating robot journalism) have been viewed with suspicion by newsrooms. This paper…

  • Please Send Us Your Money’

    Scott FrankARTICLEHistorical Journal Of Film Radio…2018

    Fundraising for charitable causes has had a key place in the BBC’s schedule since the earliest days of the corporation and the establishment of the weekly radio appeal. As new forms of fundraising through high-profile media events developed in the 1980s, raising unprecedentedly large sums for charity, the BBC had to adjust the way it negotiated with good causes and audiences. These changes coincided with professionalization and rapid growth of th…

  • Women reporting sport

    Open AccessScott Frank, Suzanne Franks et al.ARTICLEJournalism2014Cited by: 21References: 1

    While it is generally known that sports journalism is an area of gender disparity, no major academic study has established the proportion of women sports writers in the UK press. Although female sports broadcasters have increased their visibility in the United Kingdom, the same is not true in the print media. This research first examines the current visibility of women sports journalists in the national UK press, by counting by-lines according to…

  • Ready for Your Close‐Up? Polyvalent Identity and the Hollywood Headshot

    Open AccessScott Frank, Scott Hall FrankARTICLEVisual Anthropology Review2012

    Headshots are commercial portraits that are arguably the currency of the actor's trade in the Hollywood entertainment industry. But as with all cultural artifacts, a single object can be subject to multiple interpretations by the constituencies that make use of it. This article utilizes a polyvalent interpretation to examine the ways in which actors, photographers, and casting agents all subscribe to the same denotation of these objects, while re…

  • Global media and the War on Terror

    Scott Frank, Ibrahim Seaga ShawARTICLEJournal of African Media Studies2012

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  • BBC Reporting in India in The 1970s and 1980s

    Scott Frank, Suzanne FranksARTICLEHistorical Journal Of Film Radio…2012

    We are accustomed to the complaint that western media depict the developing world in a stereotyped and inadequate manner. However this article, based on documents in the BBC Written Archives Centre, demonstrates that the way India was reported in the period 1970–1987 provides an exception to this characterisation. The material reveals that the there was surprisingly, an intense care and attention shown by broadcasters and managers to the coverage…

  • The Neglect of Africa and the Power of Aid

    Open AccessScott Frank, Suzanne FranksARTICLEInternational Communication Gazette2010Cited by: 17References: 1

    Since the end of colonial rule, Africa has on the whole been inadequately covered by the western media. It is rarely reported except as a backdrop to disaster or as the scene of a celebrity visit. There is an absence of sustained and well-informed reporting about Africa in the mainstream media. And when the media do cover it they often get the story very wrong, partly because there is no ongoing understanding of and engagement with the continent.…

  • Consumption of Alcoholic Beverages Among Pregnant Urban Ugandan Women

    Open AccessImelda Namagembe, Leila W Jackson et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2009

  • China—Africa media relations

    Open AccessScott Frank, Kate RibetARTICLEGlobal Media and Communication2009Cited by: 4References: 2

  • Trustworthiness

    Open AccessJulian Le Grand, Richard Ashby Wilson et al.ARTICLEThe Political Quarterly2008Cited by: 1

    Mark Thompson deplores the decline in the public trust of government and of public service institutions such as the BBC. But there has also been a decline in another form of trust: government's trust in the ability of professionals such as doctors and teachers to deliver high quality public services. And, unlike Thompson's type of trust, this decline was inevitable, because it was based on untenable assumptions concerning professional motivation.…

  • Tony Blair's ‘Media’ Speech

    Open AccessPeter Riddell, Onora O’neill et al.ARTICLEThe Political Quarterly2007

    Tony Blair's speech challenged the media over its standards in his valedictory lecture. Many of his charges about the absence of balance, attacks on motive and a pack mentality stand up, even if some are exaggerated and also applied well before his arrival in 10 Downing Street. Mr Blair's solutions did ot match his critique. What is required is a more self‐questioning media, being held to account on the internet and on specialist blogging sites. …

  • How Famine Captured the Headlines

    Scott FrankARTICLEMedia History2006References: 3

    The research for this paper was partly based upon the BBC written archives at Caversham. Privileged access to the archives was permitted as part of the Official History of the BBC, funded by the AHRC. I would also like to thank all the interviewees. Notes 1. International audience figures are very hard to estimate so this can only be an approximate figure. See Graham Mytton 'Dissent. A Billion Viewers Can't Be Right' Intermedia 19.3 (May–June 199…

  • The Carma Report

    Open AccessScott Frank, Suzanne FranksARTICLEThe Political Quarterly2006Cited by: 12

    This 17-page article shares CARMA International research examining western media coverage of 6 humanitarian disasters: the earthquake in Pakistani Kashmir (October 8 2005), Hurricane Stanley (October 1 2005), Hurricane Katrina (August 23 2005), the Indian Ocean earthquake/Tsunami (December 26 2004), the earthquake in Bam, Iran (December 26 2003), and the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan (since February 2003). The purpose was to ascertain what…

  • Lacking a Clear Narrative

    Open AccessScott Frank, Suzanne FranksARTICLEThe Political Quarterly2005Cited by: 3

  • Our Common Interest

    Open AccessScott Frank, Suzanne FranksARTICLEThe Political Quarterly2005Cited by: 51

  • Telling Stories About Engineering

    Cynthia Burack, Scott Frank et al.ARTICLENWSA Journal2004

    Feminists and other proponents of engineering diversity often encounter resistance to initiatives and programs intended to increase diversity in engineering. Supporters of diversity often suggest both strategies for attracting underrepresented group members and changes to engineering itself. It is less common for proponents of diversity to directly address the stubborn resistance to diversity that frequently prevails in the discipline. This paper…

  • Perceptual reality and the disappearing Hollywood studio libraries

    Scott Frank, Scott Hall FrankARTICLEHistorical Journal Of Film Radio…2004

  • The World on the Box

    Open AccessScott Frank, Suzanne FranksARTICLEThe Political Quarterly2004

    A report on factual international programmes shown on UK TV in 2003 reveals that the total of hours broadcast is similar that of previous years. However, there has been a drop in the number of programmes on developing countries, and the definition of 'factual international' covers a misleadingly wide range ‐ including game shows and travel programmes. The amount of developing country coverage on terrestrial TV is the lowest since the measurement …