For the academic year 2007-2008 CICR is hosting Dr Mark Deuze and Dr Carmina Crusafon.

In 2005-2006, CICR hosted a series of invited external speakers and organised a special seminar event in collaboration with the Leeds Centre for Canadian Studies.

In 2006-2007 the Centre hosted three Visiting Research Fellows who worked on economic, policy related and developmental issues surrounding International Communications.

Dr Katharine Sarikakis
Director

Our Work

RESEARCH-LED TEACHING

Out of our research derives a substantial amount of our teaching, most concretely expressed in the MA in International Communications . Visit the MAIC webpage for detailed information on specific modules

RECENTLY COMPLETED RESEARCH
MAPPING INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION SCHOLARSHIP

May Jacob research assistant at CICR ( August-December 2006) worked with Dr Sarikakis on the analyis and mapping of the field of International Communications scholarship. May compiled a bibliography with a list of latest articles published in leading journals in the field of international communication studies, cultural studies, gender and media studies in general withthe aim to identify work that is pushing the boundaries and research objects of IC internationally. The list tried to incorporate studies from various fields, so as to bring to light prevalent practices.
PORNOGRAPHY as A GLOBAL COMMUNICATION MEDIUM

Zeenia Shaukat , Research Assistant at CICR from 1 September - 20 December 2005, worked with Dr Sarikakis over a project that investigated the business and financial aspects of pornography industry. This research aims to look at pornography as a global industry and also investigates the financial outcome of the industry both globally as well as separately in different countries. It also attempts to map the existing inter-industrial links in the business, especially the level of involvement of the cell phone industry and satellite TV network both of which are major outlets for pornography products. This research also covered regulations aimed at pornography in different countries and investigated the power and influence of lobbies opposing and advocating pornography in those regions.
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Dr Myria Georgiou, focuses on urban politics of representation and the appropriation of the media and communication technologies by the dwellers of western cosmopoles. In the city, we see some of the liveliest cultural formations and struggles around political and cultural representation. International communications and diverse local, national and transnational media play a role in the way members of transnational communities see themselves as being heard (or as not being heard) in the society where they live in and in the world. The everyday cultural practices of diasporic and migrant populations, which are in the core of her research in cities like London and New York, reveal elements of international communications with important consequences for cultural and politics on national and transnational level.

Dr Chris Paterson's current research includes an investigation of the safety of, and legal protections for, journalists covering war, and an examination of the role of news agencies in online media. Other interests include the political economy of mass media, media sociology, and communications in developing countries.

Professor Rawnsley's current research, funded by the British Academy, is a study of Megaphone Diplomacy: Radio Free Asia and Sino-US Relations. Building upon his previous work on Cold War radio propaganda this aims to be the first systematic study of Radio Free Asia. It is designed to compare its organisation and content with that of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, and to analyse how the existence of Radio Free Asia - surprisingly tolerated by the Chinese authorities in Hong Kong - influences Sino-American diplomatic relations.

Dr Sarikakis is leading an international network of scholars who will study in a comparative way the questions surrounding the socialisation of explicit imagery, the industrial intersections with mainstream media and will be mapping the laws and policies regulating sexually explicit content in eight countries; the project is supported by the British Academy.

CICR Visiting Research Fellows

In the academic year 2007- 2008 CICR welcomes the following CICR Visiting Research Fellows:

Dr Mark Deuze Department of Telecommunications Indiana University and Professor of Journalism and New Media Leiden University

Mark Deuze holds a joint appointment at Indiana iversity's Department of Telecommunications in Bloomington, United States, and as Professor of Journalism and New Media at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Mark holds a BA in Journalism from the Tilburg School for Journalism, The Netherlands, has an MPhil in History and Communication Studies from the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and received his PhD in the Social Sciences in March 2002 from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. From 2002 to 2003, Deuze was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication. As a visiting professor he has lectured at various schools and departments in the fields of journalism, communication and media in The Netherlands, Germany, Finland, Portugal, South Africa, and the United States. His research looks at the conditions for creative innovation and participatory potential in the production of culture, with a particular focus on media work. Publications of his work in include five books (most recently: "Media Work", published by Polity Press in Autumn 2007), and numerous articles in journals such as the International Journal of Cultural Studies; New Media & Society; Journalism Studies; The Information Society; and the European Journal of Communication.

During his residence as a fellow at the Centre for International Communications Research, Mark will work on a new book project, tentatively titled "Beyond Journalism" (contracted by Polity Press for publication in 2009). In this work, journalism is investigated as a set of practices and ideals particular to a "liquid life" (Zygmunt Bauman), lived under conditions of "postmaterialist" (Ronald Inglehart), "redactional" (John Hartley), "networked" (Manuel Castells), "glocal" (Ronald Robertson) and digital culture. By deliberately framing journalism as the production of culture not necessarily bounded by definitions of a profession, social system, or institution, "Beyond Journalism" attempts to open up new ways for exploring, explaining and indeed doing journalism.

Dr Carmina Crusafon January- April 2008 Department of Communication Studies Faculty of Liberal Arts Universitat Internacional de Catalunya Barcelona

Carmina Crusafon (Barcelona, 1970): Ph.D. in Communication. Assistant professor at the International University of Catalonia (Spain), lecturing at BA Audiovisual Communication, BA Journalism and PhD Humanities. Director of the studies of Audiovisual Communication. Her main domain of competence is in the field of Audiovisual policy and media economics (European Union and Latin America).

Digital technology is being introduced in all media sectors with significant effects on media systems and stakeholders. Therefore we face a new scenario where research and new analysis tools are needed in order to conceptualize new strategies to design media policies. Carmina's main interest is in the ways in which audiovisual policies are changing due to this technological process. She will study and compare different cases at national and supranational level. During her fellowship in Leeds, Carmina will focus on the British case and compare it to the Spanish experience paying special attention to Digital Terrestrial Television, because both countries started deploying it almost at the same time, but their implementation has been quite diverse due to different approaches of the audiovisual policy.

For 2006-2007 we had the pleasure to welcome the following Visiting Research Fellows:

Dr Kiran Prasad Commonwealth Scholar 2006-2007

Dr Kiran Prasad is Associate Professor in Communication and Journalism, Sri Padmavati Mahila University, Tirupati, India. She was a Canadian Studies Research Fellow at the School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She is also visiting faculty at several Indian universities and resource person for faculty improvement programmes in communication, women's studies, human rights and development studies. She is author of Philosophies of Communication and Media Ethics: Theory, Concepts and Empirical Issues (2000) and has edited/co-edited The Glory of Indian Heritage (1998), Intercultural Communication (1999) and V.K. Krishna Menon: Man of the Century (2000) under her earlier name Kiran R.N. Her recent edited/co-edited books include Health Strategies and Population Regulation (2001, in 2 Vols.); Communication, Modernisation and Social Development: Theory, Policy and Strategies (2002, in 2 Vols.); Political Communication: The Indian Experience (2003, in 2 Vols.); Communication and Empowerment of Women: Strategies and Policy Insights from India (2004, in 2 Vols.); Information and Communication Technology: Recasting Development (2004); Women and Media: Challenging Feminist Discourse (2005); Women in Rural Development: Contemporary Social Policy and Practice (2006); and Women, Globalization and Mass Media: International Facets of Emancipation (2006). She has to her credit more than 85 publications in journals of national and international repute. Her theoretical contributions include a conceptual model of Ethics Affecting Variables (EAV) in Communication; an analytical framework and conceptual model on Media Policy Affecting Variables for the implementation of media policy in the developing countries; and a conceptual model on Voting Behaviour Affecting Variables in Political Communication Campaign. She has specialized in several branches of communication and has successfully guided doctoral degrees in communication and journalism. She can be reached at kiranrn_prasad@hotmail.com

project: Information and Communication Technologies for Promoting Gender Equality: Feminist Policy Perspectives.
Dr George Korres Geography Department Aegean University Greece

Dr Korres holds a doctorate in Economic Sciences (Economics of Innovation) from University of London (QMW) and an M.Sc from Essex University. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of the Aegean, Department of Geography. Over the last 10 years, during both his academic and professional career, he has gained an in depth experience in the fields of economics, business and politics in the area of European Economics and Innovation Systems. His main areas of interest and specialisation include: European Integration, Social Policy and Social Inclusion, Economic and Innovation Policies, EU enlargement and the Euro-Mediterranean partnership. He has collaborated with many European universities, Institutions, NGOs as well as academia. George Korres has also been involved in various trans-European and international projects and he has published widely in this area in many International Journals, such as Applied Econometrics, Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies, Southwestern Economic Review, Management Sciences and Regional Development etc, also he has published a number of books with international publishers, such as MacMillan-Palgrave Press, Ashgate Publishers etc.
Dr George Tsobanoglou Assistant Professor Department of Sociology University of the Aegean, Greece