Roger Dickinson – författare

Approaches to Audiences offers a comprehensive survey of contemporary academic research along with a brief account of its history and development . The main themes include social influences, public opinion, individual impacts and uses, children and young people, cultures of class and nation, families and households. Each of the three sections presents a group of key studies on the relevant topic, followed by a specially commissioned critical analysis written by a distinguished scholar. Audience research ranges from the study of individual impacts to wider social/global influences. Students and researchers alike will find this book an essential up to date guide to the state of the field today.

News Media in the Arab World: A Study of 10 Arab and Muslim Countries is based on ongoing research at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Leicester, and has investigated the rapidly changing nature of the news media in Arab countries. They have investigated the role of newspapers and television in news provision and the impact of new media developments, most especially the emergence of the internet as a platform for news distribution and of international satellite television channels such as Al Jazeera. Examining the constantly developing nature of news, the collection contains separately authored chapters produced by the researchers responsible for each original analysis, covering Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Palestine, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Based on original primary and secondary research, this will be the first empirical-based collection to blend perspectives from both the Western and Arab nations.