Institute of Communications Studies

My research interests include commercialism and the media, popular music culture, social issues in entertainment television, and media policy and regulation. As Heard on TV: Popular Music in Advertising (2009) addresses the subject of music in television commercials and engages with a number of issues which have a continuing presence in my work, including the relationship between industrial and cultural change and the role of commercial imperatives and corporate power in popular culture. In 2010 I completed the ESRC-funded project Social Issues in Primetime Television: Production Processes and Audience Responses and I am currently Principal Investigator on the ESRC-funded project Communicating Copyright: An Exploration of Copyright Discourses in the Digital Age with Dr Lee Edwards, Dr David Lee and Dr Giles Moss.

I am the module leader for COMM1205 Introduction to Communications Research and COMM3910 Communications Dissertation. I deliver guest lectures on COMM1920 Introduction to Communications Theory and COMM5600 Dissertation and Research Methods. I have previously delivered modules on visual communication, promotional culture, popular culture and communication, media production, and media and cultural theory.

Director of Student Education

Books

• Klein B (2009) As Heard on TV: Popular Music in Advertising. Ashgate Pub Co.

Journal Articles

• Klein B (2013) “Entertainment-Education for the Media-Saturated: Audience Perspectives on Social Issues in Entertainment Programming”, European Journal of Cultural Studies. 16.1: 43-57.

• Edwards L; Klein B; Lee D; Moss G; Philip F (2013) “Framing the Consumer: Copyright Regulation and the Public”, Convergence: the Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. 19.1: 9-24.

• Klein B (2011) “Entertaining Ideas: Social Issues in Entertainment Television”, Media, Culture and Society. 33.6: 905-921.

• Klein B (2011) “Introduction: Special Issue on Popular Music and Marketing”, Popular Music and Society. 34.4: 397-398.

• Klein B (2009) “Contrasting Interactivities: BBC Radio Message Boards and Listener Participation”, The Radio Journal – International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media. 7.1: 11-26.

• Klein B (2008) “‘The New Radio’: Music Licensing as a Response to Industry Woe”, Media, Culture & Society. 30.4: 463-478.

• Klein B; Wardle C (2008) “‘These Two are Speaking Welsh on Channel 4!’: Welsh Representations and Cultural Tensions on Big Brother 7”, Television and New Media. 9.6: 514-530.

• Klein B (2008) “In Perfect Harmony: Popular Music and Cola Advertising”, Popular Music and Society. 31.1: 1-20.

• Klein B (2005) “Dancing About Architecture: Popular Music Criticism and the Negotiation of Authority”, Popular Communication. 3.1: 1-20.

Chapters

• Klein B (2011) “In Perfect Harmony: Popular Music and Cola Advertising”, In: McQuinn J (eds.) Popular Music and Multimedia. Ashgate Publishing. 225-244

• Klein B (2010) “An Episode a Day: The Instructional Value of Health-related Reality Programming”, In: Baruh L; Park JH (eds.) Reel politics. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 182-197

Principal Investigator, ESRC RES 000-22-3202: Social Issues in Primetime Television: Production Processes and Audience Responses, 2009-10, http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/RES-000-22-3202/read

Principal Investigator, ESRC RES 062-23-3027: Communicating Copyright: An Exploration of Copyright Discourses in the Digital Age (with Dr Lee Edwards, Dr David Lee, Dr Giles Moss), 2011-12, http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/RES-062-23-3027/read

Currently supervising:

Divya Maharajh (‘Feminine Experience: Media Studies and Gender Representation’)

Jon Marshall (‘Politics and Musical Aesthetics in the New Russia: Protest Songs, Improvisation and Noise’)