Oliver Boyd-Barrett
Biographic Data
| ID | 85860 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oliver Boyd-Barrett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oliver |
| FAMILY NAME | Boyd-Barrett |
| SIGNATURE | BOYD-BARRETT O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowling Green State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 213 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Media, War, and the Propaganda of Pretext
This chapter focuses on how large news organizations often – wittingly or unwittingly – represent fabricated or misleading official pretexts for wars, and suggests that modern warfare critically depends on the malleability of mainstream media in the face of official war propaganda. This chapter discusses several cases involving military actions of the United States and its acolytes. Finally, the chapter advocates for a language of media represent…
Conflict Propaganda in Syria: Narrative Battles
Conflict Propaganda in Syria: Narrative Battles
This book investigates rival narratives about the conflict in Syria from 2011 onwards. It examines the starkly different narratives about the Syrian conflict told by mainly Western mainstream and alternative media, and contrasts these narratives with the equally polarized but more nuanced narratives of mainly Western scholars and long-form journalists. Differences of narrative concerning the conflict include: what is deemed relevant context in tr…
Fake news and ‘RussiaGate’ discourses: Propaganda in the post-truth era
Western Mainstream Media and the Ukraine Crisis: A Study in Conflict Propaganda
This book explores contemporary propaganda and mainstream Western news media, with reference to the Ukraine crisis. It examines Western media narratives of the immediate causes of the crisis, the respective roles of those who participated in or otherwise supported the demonstrations of 2013–2014 – including US-backed NGOs and rightist militia – and the legitimacy, or otherwise, of the destabilization of the democratically elected Yanukovych gover…
Media Imperialism
Ukraine, Mainstream Media and Conflict Propaganda
In several recent cases of actual or attempted regime change, Western governments alleged their opponents’ possession of weapons of mass destruction as pretexts for war. Many such allegations are now known to have been false or exaggerated. The Ukraine crisis (since 2013) is arguably of a different order of concern, since it has invoked the participation, in one sense or another, of the United States, the European Union and Russia, each of which …
Media, Knowledge and Power
Assessing the prospects for an Asian re-configuration of the global news order
Contra the journalism of complicity
News Agencies in the Era of the Internet
I examine the implications of the Internet for “wholesaler” news agencies. Like most questions about news agencies, mine deal with the business models that underwrite their operations, and the quality of their business-to-business and business-to-customer news and related services. Although the agencies initially perceived the Internet as more threat than opportunity, by the year 2008 they see it more as opportunity than threat. The Internet acce…
Judith Miller, The New York Times , and the propaganda model
An assessment of Herman and Chomsky's 1988 five-filter propaganda model suggests it is mainly valuable for identifying areas in which researchers should look for evidence of collaboration (whether intentional or otherwise) between mainstream media and the propaganda aims of the ruling establishment. The model does not identify methodologies for determining the relative weight of independent filters in different contexts, something that would be u…
Globalizing the National News Agency
The media book
Theory in media research tools for studying the media the moving image media industries the analysis of popular culture representation, identity and the media advertising and the media interactive electronic media
Distance Education Provision by Universities: How Institutional Contexts Affect Choices
Decisions about distance education are made too often without adequately considering the broader institutional context. This paper explores how a better understanding of 'macro' contexts can lead to more successful choices at the 'micro' level of designing and developing specific programmes. Six models derived from distance learning practices are examined. Analyses of these experiences highlight three primary institutional and political character…
National and International News Agencies: Issues of Crisis and Realignment
National news agencies tend not to excite the same scholarly or even the same popular attention as the international or `global' news agencies. Yet both international and national news agencies contribute to the simultaneous processes of globalization and localization. The number of major general news international agencies has reduced in recent years, while national news agencies are faced with a broad range of difficult challenges that may thre…
European national news agencies: The end of an era or a new beginning?
This article calls for more concerted scholarly attention to the role of national news agencies. The authors argue that the very viability of the institution of national news agency in many parts of Europe is under severe strain. The sources of pressure, however, are identifiably similar to those which have plagued news agencies since their inception, having to do with issues of ownership, relationship to the state, relations with clients, achiev…
The Globalization of News
The Globalization of News
This book overviews and reconsiders media organizations - the news agencies - which report and film the news for the press and broadcast media. Incorporating institutional, historical, political economic and cultural studies perspectives, the book: reviews agency provision of general news, video news and financial news; analyzes agency-state relations through periods of dramatic social upheaval; and critically examines the impact of deregulation …
The Politics of Socialisation: Recruitment and Training for Journalism
The paper demonstrates that the provision of formal training in journalism, as possibly in any other industry or occupation, is not solely determined by a specific range of 'necessary' skills. On the contrary, politico-cultural factors may be equally, if not more, important. The paper finds the 'professionalisation' hypothesis insufficient, however, as an explanation for the emergence of a national system of compulsory training. It notes that the…
The Manufacture of News: Social Problems, Deviance, and the Mass Media
The Manufacture of News: Social Problems, Deviance, and the Mass Media
Judith Miller, The New York Times , and the propaganda model
An assessment of Herman and Chomsky's 1988 five-filter propaganda model suggests it is mainly valuable for identifying areas in which researchers should look for evidence of collaboration (whether intentional or otherwise) between mainstream media and the propaganda aims of the ruling establishment. The model does not identify methodologies for determining the relative weight of independent filters in different contexts, something that would be u…
Ukraine, Mainstream Media and Conflict Propaganda
In several recent cases of actual or attempted regime change, Western governments alleged their opponents’ possession of weapons of mass destruction as pretexts for war. Many such allegations are now known to have been false or exaggerated. The Ukraine crisis (since 2013) is arguably of a different order of concern, since it has invoked the participation, in one sense or another, of the United States, the European Union and Russia, each of which …
European national news agencies: The end of an era or a new beginning?
This article calls for more concerted scholarly attention to the role of national news agencies. The authors argue that the very viability of the institution of national news agency in many parts of Europe is under severe strain. The sources of pressure, however, are identifiably similar to those which have plagued news agencies since their inception, having to do with issues of ownership, relationship to the state, relations with clients, achiev…
National and International News Agencies: Issues of Crisis and Realignment
National news agencies tend not to excite the same scholarly or even the same popular attention as the international or `global' news agencies. Yet both international and national news agencies contribute to the simultaneous processes of globalization and localization. The number of major general news international agencies has reduced in recent years, while national news agencies are faced with a broad range of difficult challenges that may thre…
Fake news and ‘RussiaGate’ discourses: Propaganda in the post-truth era
Globalizing the National News Agency
Assessing the prospects for an Asian re-configuration of the global news order
News Agencies in the Era of the Internet
I examine the implications of the Internet for “wholesaler” news agencies. Like most questions about news agencies, mine deal with the business models that underwrite their operations, and the quality of their business-to-business and business-to-customer news and related services. Although the agencies initially perceived the Internet as more threat than opportunity, by the year 2008 they see it more as opportunity than threat. The Internet acce…
Contra the journalism of complicity
The Manufacture of News: Social Problems, Deviance, and the Mass Media
The Politics of Socialisation: Recruitment and Training for Journalism
The paper demonstrates that the provision of formal training in journalism, as possibly in any other industry or occupation, is not solely determined by a specific range of 'necessary' skills. On the contrary, politico-cultural factors may be equally, if not more, important. The paper finds the 'professionalisation' hypothesis insufficient, however, as an explanation for the emergence of a national system of compulsory training. It notes that the…
The Globalization of News
The Globalization of News
This book overviews and reconsiders media organizations - the news agencies - which report and film the news for the press and broadcast media. Incorporating institutional, historical, political economic and cultural studies perspectives, the book: reviews agency provision of general news, video news and financial news; analyzes agency-state relations through periods of dramatic social upheaval; and critically examines the impact of deregulation …
Distance Education Provision by Universities: How Institutional Contexts Affect Choices
Decisions about distance education are made too often without adequately considering the broader institutional context. This paper explores how a better understanding of 'macro' contexts can lead to more successful choices at the 'micro' level of designing and developing specific programmes. Six models derived from distance learning practices are examined. Analyses of these experiences highlight three primary institutional and political character…
National and International News Agencies: Issues of Crisis and Realignment
National news agencies tend not to excite the same scholarly or even the same popular attention as the international or `global' news agencies. Yet both international and national news agencies contribute to the simultaneous processes of globalization and localization. The number of major general news international agencies has reduced in recent years, while national news agencies are faced with a broad range of difficult challenges that may thre…
European national news agencies: The end of an era or a new beginning?
This article calls for more concerted scholarly attention to the role of national news agencies. The authors argue that the very viability of the institution of national news agency in many parts of Europe is under severe strain. The sources of pressure, however, are identifiably similar to those which have plagued news agencies since their inception, having to do with issues of ownership, relationship to the state, relations with clients, achiev…
The media book
Theory in media research tools for studying the media the moving image media industries the analysis of popular culture representation, identity and the media advertising and the media interactive electronic media
Globalizing the National News Agency
Judith Miller, The New York Times , and the propaganda model
An assessment of Herman and Chomsky's 1988 five-filter propaganda model suggests it is mainly valuable for identifying areas in which researchers should look for evidence of collaboration (whether intentional or otherwise) between mainstream media and the propaganda aims of the ruling establishment. The model does not identify methodologies for determining the relative weight of independent filters in different contexts, something that would be u…
News Agencies in the Era of the Internet
I examine the implications of the Internet for “wholesaler” news agencies. Like most questions about news agencies, mine deal with the business models that underwrite their operations, and the quality of their business-to-business and business-to-customer news and related services. Although the agencies initially perceived the Internet as more threat than opportunity, by the year 2008 they see it more as opportunity than threat. The Internet acce…
Contra the journalism of complicity
Assessing the prospects for an Asian re-configuration of the global news order
Media, Knowledge and Power
Media Imperialism
Ukraine, Mainstream Media and Conflict Propaganda
In several recent cases of actual or attempted regime change, Western governments alleged their opponents’ possession of weapons of mass destruction as pretexts for war. Many such allegations are now known to have been false or exaggerated. The Ukraine crisis (since 2013) is arguably of a different order of concern, since it has invoked the participation, in one sense or another, of the United States, the European Union and Russia, each of which …
Western Mainstream Media and the Ukraine Crisis: A Study in Conflict Propaganda
This book explores contemporary propaganda and mainstream Western news media, with reference to the Ukraine crisis. It examines Western media narratives of the immediate causes of the crisis, the respective roles of those who participated in or otherwise supported the demonstrations of 2013–2014 – including US-backed NGOs and rightist militia – and the legitimacy, or otherwise, of the destabilization of the democratically elected Yanukovych gover…
Fake news and ‘RussiaGate’ discourses: Propaganda in the post-truth era
Conflict Propaganda in Syria: Narrative Battles
This book investigates rival narratives about the conflict in Syria from 2011 onwards. It examines the starkly different narratives about the Syrian conflict told by mainly Western mainstream and alternative media, and contrasts these narratives with the equally polarized but more nuanced narratives of mainly Western scholars and long-form journalists. Differences of narrative concerning the conflict include: what is deemed relevant context in tr…
Conflict Propaganda in Syria: Narrative Battles
Media, War, and the Propaganda of Pretext
This chapter focuses on how large news organizations often – wittingly or unwittingly – represent fabricated or misleading official pretexts for wars, and suggests that modern warfare critically depends on the malleability of mainstream media in the face of official war propaganda. This chapter discusses several cases involving military actions of the United States and its acolytes. Finally, the chapter advocates for a language of media represent…
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Media studies (12 works) · Politics (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Media Studies and Communication (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)