[Commlist] JOMEC Research Seminars

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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