Tag: Media

The BBC, North Korea and the Culture of Impunity

By Robert Dingwall | Published: April 16, 2013

The controversy over BBC journalists’ use of a student tour group linked to the London School of Economics should not be allowed to go away quietly.

Posted in News, Public Policy, Research Ethics | Also tagged BBC, Craig Calhoun, Ethics, London School of Economics, LSE, North Korea, Panorama, policy, Project Camelot, research, Social research, social science, social science research | 2 Comments

Toxic, Poisonous and Stupid: Iraq War Decision-Making Ten Years On

By Leo McCann | Published: March 19, 2013

Even within its own narrow terms the Iraq war was appallingly costly. A bad decision to invade was compounded by shambolic and ineffective leadership of the warfighting itself. Why? The answer seems to lie in the ways in which contemporary large organizations behave

Posted in Featured, Impact, International Debate, News, Public Policy | Also tagged 100 with 50, Bernard Trainor, Blair Government, Bush Administration, Business School, Cobra II, Colonel George E. Reed, Corporatization, Counterinsurgency, decision-making, Department of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush, Iraq War, Journalism Studies, Michael Gordon, Organization Studies, Pentagon, Resource Management, State Department, The Pentagon Papers, Tony Blair, toxic leadership, Vietnam, Wikileaks, WMDs | 1 Comment

Podcast: Virginia Crisp on Filesharing: Who’s the true thief?

By Toby Miller | Published: January 3, 2013

Virginia Crisp on filesharing - or is it piracy - or is all property theft?....and why is everyone playing table football?

Posted in Interdisciplinarity, International Debate, News | Also tagged Anonymous, copywrite, Copywrite Law, Cultural Studies, Filesharing, Piracy, Property, Social Studies, technology, Toby Miller, Virginia Crisp | 1 Comment

Sir Jimmy Savile’s Crimes

By Robert Dingwall | Published: November 20, 2012

The English in full moral panic are never an edifying spectacle. The Jimmy Savile affair is no exception, as self-appointed experts on child abuse, BBC-bashing tabloids and ambulance-chasing lawyers have piled into the fray.

Posted in Featured, Impact, Interdisciplinarity, International Debate, News, Public Policy | Also tagged age of consent, BBC, child protection, children, ephebophilia, Jimmy Savile, moral panic, paedophilia, social science, sociology, Sociology of Childhood | Leave a comment

The Internet Black Widow

By David Canter | Published: October 4, 2012

When some journalist awards a case a sobriquet like The Railway Rapist, or the Moors Murderers, you know that the media has got its teeth into the case and will shake as much life out of it as possible.

Posted in Featured, International Debate, News, Public Engagement | Also tagged Criminology, Defense, Law, Media Coverage, murder, Prosecution, Serial Killers | 1 Comment

Sonia Livingstone on Children and the Internet

By Social Science Bites | Published: July 2, 2012

How are children using the Internet? How is it affecting them? Sonia Livingstone, who has overseen a major study of children’s behaviour online discusses these issues with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast.

Posted in Audio, Featured, International Debate, Interview, Public Engagement, Resources | Also tagged children, communications, internet, LSE, podcast, research, Social Science Bites, Sonia Livingstone | 17 Comments

My social science career: Interview with Ellen Wartella

By MZurn | Published: December 12, 2011

As part of a series of occasional interviews with leading social scientists Ellen Wartella, a scholar on the role of media in children’s development spoke to socialsciencespace about her career in social science, and what she considered to be some of the important developments in the field. Tell me about your career in social science [...]

Posted in Communication, Early Career, Higher Education Reform, Interview, Public Engagement, Resources, Science & Social Science | Also tagged Childhood, communications, higher education, Interview, Social research, social science | Leave a comment

Campaign for Social Science: Press Officer

By Academy of Social Sciences | Published: March 14, 2011

The Academy of Social Sciences is looking to recruit a press officer to work on the recently launched Campaign for Social Science (CfSS). The role is to promote social science by writing and placing press releases and articles in the general and specialist press. The role is initially envisaged for the equivalent of one day [...]

Posted in Jobs | Also tagged Campaign for Social Science | Leave a comment

Is democracy possible now?

By SAGE | Published: January 28, 2011

Last month, SAGE sponsored a one-day symposium at the British Academy on the future of democracy, and media’s contribution to that future. It was jointly organized by SAGE and Goldsmiths’ Centre for the study of Global Media and Democracy. As our MD, Stephen Barr, commented, SAGE is committed to supporting the intellectual content of our publishing and [...]

Posted in Communication, Resources, Videos | Also tagged democracy, Goldsmiths, Politics | Leave a comment

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