Dr James Stanyer

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Books

(2007) Modern Political Communication: Mediated Politics in Uncertain Times,Cambridge: Polity Press. http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745627984

(2001) The Creation of Political News: Television and British Party Political Conferences. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press,

Edited/Co-edited Books

(2007,with Ralph Negrine)  The Political Communication Reader Routledge.

Journal Articles

Richardson, J. & Stanyer, J. (2011) Reader Opinion in the digital age: Broadsheet and Tabloid Newspaper Websites and the Exercise of Political Voice. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 12 (8): 983-1003.

Downey, J. & Stanyer, J. (2010) Comparative Media Analysis: Why Some Fuzzy Thinking Might Help: Applying Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis to the Personalisation of Mediated Political Communication. European Journal of Communication, 25, (4). 1-17.

(2008) ‘Elected Representatives, Online Self-Presentation and the Personal Vote: Party, Personality and Webstyles in the US and UK.’ Information, Communication and Society Vol. 11, 3,pp. 113-131. Click here to download this document.

(2007) 'O Spin em Eventos: Campanha Permanente e Conferencias Mediatícas nos Partidos Britânicos.' (Conference Spin: the Permanent Campaign and Modern Media Centred British Party Political Conferences.) Media & Jornalismo, Vol.10, Primavera, 7000, wds

(2006) 'Online Campaign Communication and the Phenomenon of Blogging: An Analysis of  Web Logs During the 2005 General Election Campaign' ASLIB Proceedings: New Information Perspectives Vol 58, n 5, pp. 404-415. Click here to download this document.

(2005) 'Political Parties, the Internet and the 2005 General Election: from Web Presence to E-Campaigning?' Journal of Marketing Management  Vol. 21, n9, pp. 1049-1065. Click here to download this document.

(2005) ‘The British Public and Political Attitude Expression: the Emergence of a Self-Expressive Political Culture?’ Contemporary Politics, Vol. 11, n 1, pp. 19-32. Click here to download this document.

(2004) ‘Politics and the Media: A Crisis of Trust?’ Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 57, n 2, pp. 420-434. Click here to download this document.

(2004 with Dominic Wring) ‘Public Images, Private Lives: An Introduction’, Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 57, n 1, pp. 1-8 Click here to download this document.

(2003) ‘Spinning on the Conference Circuit: Public Relations and the Selling of Party and Policy at the British Party Political Conferences’, Journal of Political Marketing, Vol. 2, n 2, pp. 83-104. Click here to download this document.

(2003) ‘Political Communication in Transition: Conceptualising Change and Understanding its Consequences’, European Journal of Communication, Vol. 18(3) pp. 385-394.

(2003) ‘Intra-party Conflict and the Struggle to Shape News Agendas: Television News and Coverage of the Annual British Party Conferences’, Harvard International Journal of Press/ Politics, Vol. 8, n 2, pp. 71-89. Click here to download this document .

(2003) ‘Politics and the Media: A Breakdown in Relations for New Labour’, Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 56, n 2, pp. 309-321. Click here to download this document .

(2002) ‘A Right Seaside Bust-Up: Television News Coverage of Internal Party Debates at the British Party Conferences’, Journalism Studies, Vol. 3, n 3, pp. 423-435. Click here to download this document .

(2002) ‘Politics and the Media: A Loss of Political Appetite?’ Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 55, n 2, pp. 377-388. Click here to download this document .

(2001) ‘Television and Party Political Dissent: Intra-party Competition and the Formation of News Agendas’, Journal of Public Affairs, Vol. 1, n 3, pp. 217-228.

(2001) ‘The Press, Broadcasting and the Internet: The Old Media and the New’, Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 54, n 2, pp. 349-359. Click here to download this document  .

Journal Guest Editorships

(2004, with Dominic Wring) Guest co-editor of a special edition of Parliamentary Affairs Vol. 57, n 1, entitled ‘Public Image, Private Lives: The Mediation of Politicians Around the Globe’.

Book Chapters

Stanyer, J. & Davidson, S.  (2011).  The global human rights regime and the internet: Non-democratic states and the hyper-visibility of evidence of oppression. In Cottle, S. & Lester, L. (eds.). Transnational Protests and the Media. New York: Peter Lang.

Chadwick, A. & Stanyer, J. (2011) Political Communication in Transition: Mediated Politics in Britain’s New Media Environment. In Heffernan, R. et al, (eds.) Developments in British Politics 9. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

(2008) ‘Web 2.0 and the Transformation of News and Journalism: New Possibilities and Challenges in the Internet Age.’ In A. Chadwick and P N. Howard (eds.) The Handbook of Internet Politics. New York: Routledge. 8000, wds. Click here to download this document .

(2008) 'Candidate-Centered Communication.' In C. Hotlz-Bacha, and L L Kaid. (eds.) Encyclopaedia of Political Communication. London: Sage.

(2007) (with Ralph Negrine) 'Introduction: Political Communication Transformed? In R. Negrine and J.Stanyer (eds.) The Political Communication Reader London: Routledge.

(2002) ‘The Mass Media’, Chp. 12 in T. Bilton, K. Bonnett, P. Jones, T. Lawson, D. Skinner, M. Stanworth, and A. Webster (eds.)Introductory Sociology (4th edition), Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 328-353.

(1999 with Raymond Kuhn) ‘Television and the State in Britain and France’, in Michael Scriven and Monia Lecomte (eds.) Television Broadcasting in Contemporary France and Britain. Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 2-15.

(1997 with Richard Heffernan) ‘The Enhancement of Leadership Power: The Labour Party and the Impact of Political Communications’, in C. Pattie, D. Denver, J. Fisher and S. Ludlum (eds.) British Elections and Parties Review: Volume 7. London: Frank Cass, pp. 168-184.

(1997) ‘The 1996 British Party Conferences as News Events: Assessing the contribution of the broadcasters to the conference news agenda’, in Jeffery Stanyer and Gerry Stoker (eds.) Contemporary Political Studies 1997: Volume 1. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 53-61.

Book Reviews

(2007) E. Louw The Media and Political Process, London and Thousand Oaks: Sage, for European Journal of Communication Vol. 22. (1), pp. 111-113.

(2007) B McNair, Cultural Chaos, Routledge, for Fifth Estate Online - International Journal of Radical Mass Media Criticism, http://www.fifth-estate-online.co.uk/reviews/brianmcnair2006culturalchaos.html

(2007) F. Faucher-King, Changing Political Parties, Basingstoke: Palgrave, for Political Studies Review, Vol. 5, (1), p. 109.

(2006) J. Corner and D. Pels (Eds.) Media and the Restyling of Politics, London and Thousand Oaks: Sage, for Media, Culture and Society Vol. 28,(1) pp. 147-149

(2004) P. Maarek and G. Wolfsfeld (Eds.) Political Communication in a New Era, London: Routledge, for Contemporary Politics, Vol. 10 (1) pp. 84-85

 (2001) S. Splichal Public Opinion: Developments and Controversies in the Twentieth Century. European Journal of Communication Vol. 16 (2) pp. 264-266.

Other Publications

(2003) with D. Lilleker and R. Negrine ‘Media Malaise: Britain’s Political Communication Problems’ Politics Review, Vol. 12, n 3, pp. 29-31.

(2002) ‘Six Point Test to See if you are Hooked on TV’, Leicester Mercury, February 5, p. 13.

(2000) ‘Live Debate Will Not Solve the Apathy Problem’, Leicester Mercury, December 5, p. 13.