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[Commlist] JOMEC Research Seminars

Tue Oct 12 08:12:19 GMT 2021




This is a reminder that all members of this list are invited to the first of the School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC) at Cardiff University’s weekly research seminar series which will take place virtually via Zoom this Wednesday (13/10). Our speaker will be Dr Mike Berry (Cardiff University) who will be presenting a paper entitled ‘Public Broadcasting and Public Health’ (abstract below). The seminar will take place between 1600 and 1715 GMT. All are welcome to attend but any attendees will need to register athttps://cardiff.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApdeugqj4qEtFtrhPSJJVxTL71nU6r7D83 <https://cardiff.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApdeugqj4qEtFtrhPSJJVxTL71nU6r7D83>for access.


Abstract:

Public Broadcasting and Public Health

This article uses thematic analysis to examine how UK public service broadcasting reported on the COVID-19 pandemic in the two weeks prior to the first lockdown on 23 March 2020. Although the British government’s response to the pandemic had been heavily criticized by the WHO and other parts of the scientific community, this paper finds that in public service broadcasting these criticisms were muted and partially given. Instead, broadcasting explained in detail – and sometimes directly endorsed – government views, such as the theory of ‘herd immunity’. Most coverage of international responses focused on the approaches taken by the United States and European countries with little attention paid to states that had successfully suppressed the virus. When such states were featured their public health measures were not explained nor compared to what was being done in the UK. A critical journalism committed to the public interest could have featured the successful approaches that had been well demonstrated elsewhere, but public media was unfortunately unable to alert the public on the need for these in the UK.

Upcoming JOMEC Research Seminars:

20/10 - Dr Afonso de Albuquerque (Fluminense Federal University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) presenting ‘The Institutional Barriers for De-westernizing Communication Research’.

Register at: https://cardiff.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpcu6vqTwsGdLg8VBQ6YKk8FVhH0qGx_X <https://cardiff.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpcu6vqTwsGdLg8VBQ6YKk8FVhH0qGx_X>

3/11 - Dr Ana Christina Suzina (Loughborough University) presenting ‘The popular is not dead: evolutions in the field of popular communication in Latin America’.

Register at: https://cardiff.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZElceiuqjwuG9JSs4KzoW80apELKO9QKhR9 <https://cardiff.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZElceiuqjwuG9JSs4KzoW80apELKO9QKhR9>

10/11 - Professor Benjamin Arditi (University of Mexico) presenting ‘There Is No Such Thing As Populism’.

Register at: https://cardiff.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvdOqtrT0uHNB9Ng34bouH5Qy3k3alt3kz <https://cardiff.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvdOqtrT0uHNB9Ng34bouH5Qy3k3alt3kz>


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