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The following recent publications are available to download.
You Gov Poll Results on Attitudes to Paying off the National Debt (Including Tax on the Richest 10%) June 2010
This You Gov poll on paying off the National debt has helped to inform part of the 'Let's really be in it together' article written by Greg Philo and published in the Guardian.
Cultural Encounters between China and Britain: Key Factors in the Formation and Transfer of Ideas and Values (Greg Philo, 2010, Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, Vol. 7(1), 91-110, London: University of Westminster)
How do we learn about cultural norms that are different to our own, and what are the effects of exposure to these? This article focuses on  cross cultural perceptions and the processes by which ideas and values move between societies. Drawing on focus groups, questionnaires and interviews with Chinese students, teachers and cultural workers, it shows how the experience of living in Britain can both alter prior expectations of the country and generate processes of critical reflection about the nature of China and of Western societies.
Debates on the Active Audience: A Comparison of the Birmingham and Glasgow Approaches (Greg Philo, 2008)
This article examines key approaches in media and cultural studies which have been used to emphasise the active nature of audiences a nd their capacity to resist messages, including the 'encoding - de-coding' model of Stuart Hall when at the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. It compares these approaches with recent studies from the Glasgow University Media Group which show that audiences can indeed sometimes be active and critical, but which also found strong evidence pointing to the power and influence of media. This dimension of media power is often neglected in current scholarship. The arguments which have led to this 'reduced' view of media effects are re-evaluated in relation to contemporary evidence on the nature of reception processes.
Community Cohesion and the Role of the Local: Report for JCPR (Greg Philo and Emma Briant, 2008)
This report for Jackie Cooper Public Relations examines community as a social issue and the historical and contemporary role that pubs play in this. The first section of the report deals with the history of the local pub - the 'lo cal' - and its development in the contemporary world. The second section examines contemporary arguments of the harmful effects of drink culture and concerns about binge-drinking and anti-social behaviour. Finally, it looks at the issue of community participation in city life and the role of pubs and bars within this.
Image Credits
Wine Rack: Graeme Weatherston / FreeDigitalPhotos.net; Television: Salvatore Vuono / FreeDigitalPhotos.net; China cityscape: http://www.freeimages.co.uk.
YouGov polling data on Israel/Palestine (2008)
Results of a YouGov poll on attitudes to radio and tv news coverage of Israel and Palestine.
More News Less Views (Greg Philo. 2008)
This article was originally sent to the Guardian for its comments page. It shows how public debate on political issues is narrowed on the most influential media because of the absence of critical voices – whether the issue is the financial crisis or world conflicts such as in Israel/Palestine.
The Internet, Mobile Phones and Blogging How new media are transforming traditional journalism (Rena Kim Bivens, 2008, Journalism Practice 2, (1) pp 113 - 129.)
This research examines adaptations of traditional journalistic practice within news rooms that are a result of the varied use of new media among both journalists and the public at the begining of the twenty first century.
Young People, Violence and Media (Greg Philo, 2007)
Conference paper presented at Television, News, Young People and Politics: Generation Disconnected. BFI SouthBank. 7 - 9 Dec 2007.
Media Group Methods (Greg Philo, 2007)
Media Group Methods Chinese translation
Media Group Methods Spanish translation
Also appeared as: Philo, G. ‘Can Discourse Analysis Successfully explain the Content of Media and Journalistic Practice’ in Journalism Studies , Vol 8 Number 2
This article outlines the methods developed by the Glasgow University Media Group and compares them to discourse analysis in the work of two theorists, Norman Fairclough and Teun van Dijk. Their text-based studies are limited in the conclusions which can be drawn, since their approach does not include the study of key production factors in journalism or the analysis of audience understanding. A case study is presented on how it is possible to study simultaneously the three processes of production, content and reception of news messages.
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