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Design industries and policies in the UK and China : a comparison (2010)
Journal Article
Sun, Q. (2010). Design industries and policies in the UK and China : a comparison. Design Management Review, 21(4), 70-77. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1948-7169.2010.00097.x

Design policy has been an area of heated debate in recent literature. It’s clear that it is highly relevant to national industries. For example, the Korean government’s manifesto in 1988, which put design at the center of the national strategy, has b... Read More about Design industries and policies in the UK and China : a comparison.

Comparing international coverage of 9/11 : towards an interdisciplinary explanation of the construction of news (2010)
Journal Article
Archetti, C. (2010). Comparing international coverage of 9/11 : towards an interdisciplinary explanation of the construction of news. Journalism, 11(5), 567-588. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884910373536

This article presents an interdisciplinary model attempting to explain how news is constructed by relying on the contributions of different fields of study: News Sociology, Political Communications, International Communications, International Relatio... Read More about Comparing international coverage of 9/11 : towards an interdisciplinary explanation of the construction of news.

Zen and the art of film narrative: Towards a transcendental realism in film (2010)
Journal Article
Knudsen, E. (2010). Zen and the art of film narrative: Towards a transcendental realism in film. Journal of Screenwriting, 1(2), 343-355. https://doi.org/10.1386/josc.1.2.343/1

Nations and peoples are largely the stories they feed themselves. If they tell themselves stories that are lies, they will suffer the consequences of those lies. If they tell themselves stories that face their own truths, they will free their histori... Read More about Zen and the art of film narrative: Towards a transcendental realism in film.

Measuring the quality of peer-reviewed publications in social work : impact factors - liberation or liability (2010)
Journal Article
Blyth, E., Shardlow, S., Masson, H., Lyons, K., Shaw, I., & White, S. (2010). Measuring the quality of peer-reviewed publications in social work : impact factors - liberation or liability. Social Work Education, 29(2), 120-136. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615470902856705

Systems for measuring the quality of publications in peer-reviewed academic journals have achieved importance in the 'audit culture' to which academia worldwide has become increasingly subjected. In the United Kingdom this debate has focused on gover... Read More about Measuring the quality of peer-reviewed publications in social work : impact factors - liberation or liability.

Crime, foreigners and hard news: A cross-national comparison of reporting and public perception (2010)
Journal Article
Curran, J., Salovaara-Moring, I., Coen, S., & Iyengar, S. (2010). Crime, foreigners and hard news: A cross-national comparison of reporting and public perception. Journalism, 11(1), 3-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884909350640

The Finnish media devote more attention to hard news than the British media, yet Finns are less interested in politics than the British. The principal reason for this difference in news values is that Finnish TV is more subject to public service infl... Read More about Crime, foreigners and hard news: A cross-national comparison of reporting and public perception.

Ethics and social networking sites: a disclosive analysis of Facebook (2010)
Journal Article
Light, B., & McGrath, K. (2010). Ethics and social networking sites: a disclosive analysis of Facebook. Information Technology and People, 23(4), 290-311. https://doi.org/10.1108/09593841011087770

Purpose – This paper aims to provide insights into the moral values embodied by a popular social
networking site (SNS), Facebook.
Design/methodology/approach – This study is based upon qualitative fieldwork, involving
participant observation, cond... Read More about Ethics and social networking sites: a disclosive analysis of Facebook.

Cross‐National versus individual‐level differences in political information: a media systems perspective (2010)
Journal Article
Iyengar, S., Curran, J., Lund, A., Salovaara‐Moring, I., Hahn, K., & Coen, S. (2010). Cross‐National versus individual‐level differences in political information: a media systems perspective. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 20(3), 291-309. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2010.490707

We propose a context-dependent approach to the study of political information. Combining a content analysis of broadcast news with a national survey measuring public
awareness of various events, issues, and individuals in the news, we show that prop... Read More about Cross‐National versus individual‐level differences in political information: a media systems perspective.