Professor of Communication and Media Analysis, Loughborough University
David Deacon is Professor of Communication and Media Analysis, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University.
Women have been a lot less visible in this UK general election campaign – why?
Dec 03, 2019 03:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Every general election is haunted by the ghosts of campaigns past. The most significant spectre in 2019 has to be Nancy Astor, who on December 1 1919 was the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons as an...
UK election 2019: partisan press is pulling out all the stops against Labour
Nov 19, 2019 03:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The idea that theres no such thing as bad publicity could well be tested in the UKs 2019 election campaign. So could the proposition that the only worse thing than people talking about you is people not talking about you,...
Conservatives dominate in the election media battle
May 16, 2017 15:36 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Brexit may be taking the UK into uncharted political waters but national media reporting of the first week of the 2017 general election was a very familiar combination of choreography, conspiracies and cock-ups. The most...
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