Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI)

CAMRI is a global centre for media and social change.

It has 25 researchers and 50 doctoral students, and provides expertise in media policy and economics, media history, and media audiences. CAMRI has a strong international dimension, with interests in the study of global and transnational media.

The China Media Centre and Arab Media Centre provide a focus for high quality research, policy analysis and industry training. CAMRI is also developing work in Indian and African media. The Media Audiences Centre is a new initiative for research into contemporary audience transformations.

CAMRI is ranked as the leading centre of media and communications research in the UK. In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008), 60 per cent of our research was judged to be "world-leading" (four stars), with 90 per cent of the total rated "internationally excellent". CAMRI had more "world leading" media and communications research than any other UK university.

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New publications

New report just out analysing changing trends in UK television news over the last 35 years.

From Callaghan to Credit Crunch: Changing Trends in British Television News 1975-2009

Steven Barnett and Gordon Neil Ramsay with Ivor Gabor (University of Bedfordshire)

Forthcoming events

Creating Preschool Television: A Story of Commerce, Creativity and Curriculum by Jeanette Steemers

First chapter and further details

Findings - Spring 2010

Download the latest issue of CAMRI's newsletter Findings, edited by Caroline Dover

Table of contents and Findings archive

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (WPCC) November 2009, Volume 6.2
The Herman-Chomsky Propaganda Model Twenty Years On

Co-edited by Katharina Nötzold and Andrew Mullen, including an interview to Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky by Andrew Mullen, articles by Alison Edgley, Jeffery Klaehn, Des Freedman, Peter A. Thompson, Florian Zollmann, Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman, Matthew Alford, and a book review by Lawrie Hallett.

Journal of African Media Studies
Principal Editor, Winston Mano
> Issue 1.3

also including an article by Xin Xin, Xinhua News Agency in Africa (abstract)

First issue of Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture (Intellect)

Access the issue free of charge

Journalism, Democracy and the Public Interest: rethinking media pluralism for the Digital Age, by Steven Barnett
>  Download from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism website

International Communication. A Reader, edited by Daya Thussu
> Table of contents and further information

Contact

If you are interested in conducting research with us, please contact Fauzia Ahmad

CAMRI Research Directors, David Gauntlett and Jeanette Steemers.