Message Received Glasgow Media Group Research 19931998
Edited by
Greg Philo
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Message received: Glasgow Media Group research, 19931998 / edited by Greg Philo.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0582298008 (pbk.)
1. Mass media. I. Philo, Greg.
P90.M4615 1998
302.23dc21
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Contents
Jenny Kitzinger
David Miller and Greg Philo
Greg Philo
Greg Philo
Lesley Henderson
Greg Philo and Lesley Henderson
Greg Philo and Lesley Henderson
John Eldridge
Jacquie Reilly
Liza Beattie, Furzana Khan and Greg Philo
Greg Philo and Liza Beattie
Greg McLaughlin
Greg Philo, Lindsey Hilsum, Liza Beattie and Rick Holliman
Liza Beattie, David Miller, Emma Miller and Greg Philo
Kevin Williams
Greg Philo
We would like to thank all of the people who have helped and encouraged the work of the Media Group. We have received financial support from a number of public bodies to develop our research and we would like to thank them for this. The ESRC has given us five grants to investigate different aspects of the media in relation to the AIDS crisis, child abuse, food scares, risk analysis and public beliefs on BSE. We would also like to thank The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust for supporting our work on media, race and migration. The advisory group for this study was of great help to us and we would like to thank especially Steve Pittam, Claude Moraes, Sarah Spencer, Chris Myant, Yasmine Alibhi-Brown, Makbool Javid and Robin Richardson. We would also like to thank all the people who helped us in the development of this work especially in the setting up of focus groups, so thanks to Eve and Phobebe Maine, Mike Phillips, Jenny Owen, David Hammond, Joanne Yuill, Clare Bradley, Linda Baker, Cathy Irvine, Maria Beattie and Daniel Kane. We would also like to acknowledge the support of the Nuffield Hospital Trust for our study of public beliefs about overdose and injury. This study was undertaken jointly with the Observatory Group in Oxford University. We would like to thank our colleagues there especially Chris Bulstrode, Allison Keene, Doug Altman, Keith Hawton, Sue OConnor, Jon Deeks and Sue Simkin. Our study of mental illness and media was supported by the Health Education Board for Scotland, and we would like to thank especially Steve Platt and Jenny Secker for their help in writing and publishing this work. Our study of the media and Rwanda/Zaire was initially published by Save the Children (UK). We would like to thank the press office and especially Don Redding for their help. For the Parents and Media study, we would like to thank Eileen Hayes, Hetty Einzig and Lucy McCarraher. We would also like to thank Jason Ditton and Sam Phillips for their help in producing this study. There are a number of academic colleagues and friends who have given us help and advice. Thanks especially to Noam Chomsky, Sally Macintyre, James Curran, Bob Franklin, John Underwood, Sue Inglish, Andrew Gamble, Peter Golding, Angela McRobbie, Chris Hamnett, Raymond Tallis, John Connor and Charles Husband. In the Media Group thanks to Alison Hill, Cherise Saywell and Howard Davies. We would also like to thank Brian Finch, Kathleen Davidson and Lynne Campbell for all the hard work which they have put into the preparing of the manuscripts; Sarah Caro, Lynn Brandon, and Lynette Miller of Addison Wesley Longman and Anne Rix, the copyeditor.
There are also personal thanks which are very much due to Mary Philo, John Mark and Sarah-May Philo and to Irene and Dick Philo for all their help and encouragement. Thanks finally to everyone who has helped us in our work over the last 25 years, for giving so freely of their energy and time and for doing so with such good grace.
Liza Beattie is a research assistant at the Glasgow University Mass Media Unit. She has written in the area of ethnic minorities in media and media coverage of the developing world.
John Eldridge is Professor of Sociology at the University of Glasgow and a founder member of the Glasgow Media Group. He edited Getting the Message. News, Truth and Power and also Vol. 1 of Glasgow Media Group Reader for the Group. He is the co-author (with Lizzie Eldridge) of Raymond Williams: Making Connections.
Lesley Henderson is a researcher at the Media Unit. Key research interests centre on the framing of public issues in TV drama (child sexual abuse, mental illness, race, attendance at A&E and breast cancer). Selected publications include: Incest in Brookside: Audience Responses to the Jordache Storyline, Channel Four Television: London, 1996; Selling Suffering: Mental Illness and Media Values, in G. Philo (ed.) Media and Mental Distress, Addison Wesley Longman Ltd, 1996; Hard News, Soft News and the Drama of Genes: The story of genetic breast cancer, Sociology of Health and Illness, 1999.
Lindsey Hilsum is a broadcaster and journalist and is currently the diplomatic editor for Channel 4 news. She has written widely on the moral and practical issues of contemporary journalism.
Rick Holliman is currently researching for a PhD entitled Science-in-the-Media at the Department of Sociology (Open University). His research follows methodologies developed at the Glasgow Media Group. He has also been working on the production of an Open University Masters Level course on Science Communication. His publications include: Holliman, R. (1999), Public Affairs Media and the Coverage of Life on Mars?, in
