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About the University

Professor Stuart Allan
BAA, MA, PhD

Professor of Journalism

Area(s) of Interest

Research Centre:
	Institute of Media Communication Research

Area(s) of Interest:
	Online news, with special interests in crisis, conflict and war reporting (especially the role of citizen journalism).
	Science journalism, including press representations of nanotechnology.
	Journalism history, with a special interest in the ways certain reportorial forms and practices have become conventionalised.
	Young people, citizenship and digital media

Academic Group(s):
	Journalism and Communication

Relevant Posts Within Industry/Academia:
	Book Series Editor, 'Issues in Cultural and Media Studies', Open University Press. Member, Editorial Board, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism (Sage, from 2008). Member, Editorial Board, Media, War and Conflict (forthcoming, Sage). Foundational Member, Editorial Board, Communication, Culture & Critique (forthcoming, Blackwell). Member, Editorial Board, Time & Society (also Deputy Editor, 1993-98). Member, Editorial Board, Space and Culture (Sage). Member, Editorial Board, Text & Talk: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language, Discourse and Communication Studies (Mouton de Gruyter). Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Middle East Media (AUSACE). Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Fifth Estate Online

Profile

I joined the Media School in September 2007 as Professor of Journalism. Prior to this appointment, I was Professor of Media and Journalism Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol.
My current research includes a study of young people’s use of digital media, funding for which has been provided by the AHRC/BBC Knowledge Exchange Programme. My partners are based at Cardiff University, the University of Ulster and the BBC. I am also conducting research into the press reporting of nanotechnology, a project funded by the ESRC. Partners are based at the University of Plymouth.
Current book projects include Digital War: Technologies of News Reporting (co-authored with Donald Matheson), Journalism and Public Life, and Keywords in News and Journalism Studies (co-authored with Barbie Zelizer).

My books include:

Allan, S. (2006) Online News: Journalism and the Internet. Maidenhead and New York: Open University Press.

Allan, S. (ed) (2005) Journalism: Critical Issues. Maidenhead and New York: Open University Press.

Allan, S. (2004) News Culture, Second Edition. Maidenhead and New York: Open University Press. First edition published in 1999.

Allan, S. and Zelizer, B. (eds) (2004) Reporting War: Journalism in Wartime. London and New York: Routledge.

Allan, S. (2002) Media, Risk and Science. Buckingham and Philadelphia: Open University Press.

Zelizer, B. and Allan, S. (eds) (2002) Journalism After September 11. London and New York: Routledge.

Allan, S., Adam, B. and Carter, C. (eds) (2000) Environmental Risks and the Media. London and New York: Routledge.

Carter, C., Branston, G. and Allan, S. (eds) (1998) News, Gender and Power. London and New York: Routledge.

Adam, B. and Allan, S. (eds) (1995) Theorizing Culture: An Interdisciplinary Critique After Postmodernism. London: UCL Press; New York: NYU Press.

Several of these books have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Persian and Polish editions.