Dr Daniel Jackson (left) and Dr Emma Pullen (right), co-authors of the paper with Professor Silk and Dr Richard Scullion, collecting the award alongside presentation chair Tang Tang, of the University of Akron, USA天美传媒 researchers picked up two prestigious awards at the (ICA) annual conference held in Prague,聽24-28 May 2018.
This is the largest communications conference in the world and highly competitive, so receiving recognition in the form of awards is a great honour.
Dr聽Nael Jebril was recognised for his聽co-edited book entitled聽 that won the Harvard International Journal of Press/ Politics best book award. This is a major honour and awarded by the top journal in the field of media and politics. Dr Jebril received the award with his co-editors, Prof聽Erik Alb忙k (University of Southern Denmark), Prof Arjen van Dalen (University of Southern Denmark), and Prof Claes H. de Vreese (Universiteit van Amsterdam).
Dr Emma Pullen, Dr Daniel Jackson, Prof Michael Silk and Dr Richard Scullion won聽the top faculty paper award for the Sports Communication division of ICA, for their paper entitled Giving Disability the 鈥楬ollywood Treatment鈥�: Channel 4 and the Broadcasting of the Paralympic Games. This is their聽first output from the AHRC funded Paralympics project聽on the cultural legacy of the 2016 Rio Paralympics (grant ref: AH/P003842/1).聽Keep up to date with their progress via the project website聽, Twitter聽, and the聽.
Abstracts
Political Journalism in Comparative Perspective
Prof Erik Alb忙k, Prof Arjen van Dalen, Dr Nael Jebril, Prof Claes H. de Vreese
Political journalism is often under fire. Conventional wisdom and much scholarly research suggest that journalists are cynics and political pundits. Political news is void of substance and overly focused on strategy and persons. Citizens do not learn from the news, are politically cynical, and are dissatisfied with the media. This book challenges these assumptions, which are often based on single-country studies with limited empirical observations about the relation between news production, content, and journalism鈥檚 effects. Based on interviews with journalists, a systematic content analysis of political news, and panel survey data in different countries, this book tests how different systems and media-politics relations condition the contents of political news. It shows how different content creates different effects and demonstrates that under the right circumstances citizens learn from political news, do not become cynical, and are satisfied with political journalism.
Giving Disability the 鈥楬ollywood Treatment鈥�: Channel 4 and the Broadcasting of the Paralympic Games
Dr Emma Pullen, Dr Daniel Jackson, Prof Michael Silk and Dr Richard Scullion
Studies that have critiqued para-sport broadcasting, particularly through a narrative lens, have almost exclusively relied on textual and/or content analysis of the Paralympic Games as the source of cultural critique. We know far less about the decisions taken inside Paralympic broadcasters that led to such representations. In this study 鈥� based on interviews with senior production and promotion staff at the UK鈥檚 Paralympic broadcaster, Channel 4 鈥� we provide the first examination of mediated para-sport from this vantage point. We explore the use of controversial promotional devices such as athletes鈥� backstories 鈥� the 鈥淗ollywood treatment鈥� 鈥� to hook audiences as a vehicle to achieving its social enterprise ambitions of changing public attitudes toward disability. In so doing, we reveal myriad tensions that exist within a Paralympic broadcaster as they attempt to balance the competing goals of key stakeholders with their own desire to make the Paralympics a commercial and socially progressive success.
