Dover, Caroline
CAMRI Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Email: C.J.Dover@westminster.ac.uk
Biography
Caroline Dover is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Communications & Media Research Institute.
She is also a Research Consultant on an ESRC Identities and Social Action project: Urban Classroom Culture & Interaction, based in the Department of Education & Professional Studies, Kings College London (2005-2008).
Research Statement
Her areas of teaching are Media Consumption and Research Methods.
Her current research interests are: the use of ethnography to investigate media use in everyday life; media and popular culture consumption; ethnicity and identity amongst school children. In the past, she has been involved in a range of research projects investigating factual television production and consumption funded by the ESRC and by broadcast industry sponsors. She is a member of the AHRB and BBC New Media Research Collaboration.
Selected Publications
Dover, C (forthcoming/2007) Everyday Talk: Investigating Media Consumption and Identity Amongst School Children. www.participations.org.
Dover, C & Hill, A (forthcoming/2007) Mapping genres: broadcaster and audience perceptions of makeover television in D. Heller (ed) Reading Makeover Television: Realities Remodeled. London: IB Tauris
Dover, C. 2006 'Popular culture consumption and identities at school' Working Papers in Urban Language & Literacies 35 (at www.kcl.ac.uk/ldc)
Dover, C (2006) British Documentary Television and Docusoaps in I. Aitkin (ed) The Encyclopedia of Documentary Film, 3 vols. London: Routledge
Dover, C (2005) Crisis in British documentary television: the end of a genre?, Journal of British Cinema and Television, Vol 1, issue 2. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Dover, C & Barnett, S (2004) The World on the Box: International Issues in News & Factual Programmes on UK Television 1975-2003. London: Third World & Environment Broadcasting Project.