Dr Piers Robinson

Piers Robinson (previously lecturer in Political Communication, School of Politics and Communication Studies, University of Liverpool) researches the relationship between communications and world politics. His book The CNN Effect: the myth of news, foreign policy and intervention’ (Routledge, 2002) analyses the relationship between news media, US foreign policy and humanitarian crises. He is currently completing the writing up a two-year ESRC funded project titled ‘Media Wars: News Media Performance and Media Management During the 2003 Iraq War’ with Peter Goddard (University of Liverpool), Robin Brown and Phil Taylor (University of Leeds). The book from this project is provisionally titled Pockets of Resistance: The British Media and the 2003 Invasion of Iraq (forthcoming 2009/10). He is also an editor of the new journal Critical Studies on Terrorism (Routledge).

News media, foreign policy and humanitarian intervention. Media coverage of war, media-state relations and critical terrorism studies.

Since June 2004 I have been directing a major 21 month ESRC funded project (£120k) titled ‘Media Wars: News Media Performance and Media Management During the 2003 Iraq War’ (with Peter Goddard [Liverpool] and Robin Brown and Phil Taylor [University of Leeds]). The research provides a comprehensive assessment of how different media outlets reported the war including the extent to which media both challenged and supported government policy over the course of the war and the relative success of coalition information-management strategies. The study combines content and framing analysis of media coverage with analysis of coalition information-management strategies as well as interviews with leading government and media officials. Since the completion of this ESRC award, we have been awarded an Outstanding grade by the ESRC.

Undergraduate

• GV3691 - News Media and International Crisis

Postgraduate

• GV6261 - Humanitarian Crises and Global Media

Areas in which I can supervise PhD level work include: media and world politics, news media and intervention, media coverage of civil war and new communication technologies and word politics.

 

Publications Database

Major publications include:

• The CNN Effect: the myth of news, foreign policy and intervention’ (Routledge: London and New York, 2002).
• 'Theorizing the Influence of Media on World Politics: models of media influence on foreign policy', European Journal of Communication, 2001, 16(4): 523-544.
• '‘Too Polemical or Too Critical? Chomsky on the Study of the news media and US foreign Policy', co-authored with Dr Eric Herring (Bristol), Forum on Chomsky, Review of International Studies, 2003, 29(4): pp. 553-568.

• Pockets of Resistance: The British Media and the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, co-authors Peter Goddard, Phil Taylor, Katy Parry, Craig Murray, (Manchester University Press forthcoming 2009/10)
• 'Testing Models of Media Performance In Wartime: UK TV News and the 2003 Invasion of Iraq', co-authors Peter Goddard, Katy Parry and Craig Murray, Journal of Communication, forthcoming 2009.
• Special Issue Editor 'Communicating Terrorism' Critical Studies on Terrorism , 2009, Volume 2 (1).

• 'UK Media and Media-Management during the 2003 Invasion of Iraq', co-authors Peter Goddard and Katy Parry, Special Issue on Media and Public Diplomacy edited by Holli Semetko, American Behavioural Scientist, forthcoming 2009.
• Reporting Dissent in Wartime: British Press, the anti-war movement and the 2003 Iraq War', co-authors Craig Murray, Katy Parry and Peter Goddard, European Journal of Communication, 2008, 23(1): pp. 7-27
• 'Patriotism meets plurality: Reporting the 2003 Iraq War in the British Press', co-authors Peter Goddard and Katy Parry, Media, War and Conflict, 2008, 1(1): pp. 1-27.
• 'Media and Public Opinion', US Foreign Policy, Mick Cox and Doug Stokes (eds) (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008).
• 'Media and Public Opinion', Foreign Policy Analysis in International Relations, Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield and Tim Dunne (Eds) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
• The CNN Effect Revisited', Critical Studies in Media Communications. 2005, 22(4): pp. 344-349.

Available to media for comment on foreign policy, media, humanitarian intervention, media-state relations and media coverage of war.

Phd students

• MPhil, Jimmy Imo, Strategies of Resistance, Journalism and Military Rule in Nigeria. Completed 2003.
• PhD, Ana Pereira. Media mergers and their impact upon journalism. Completed 2007.
• PhD, Catalina Montoya Londono. Framing Event Driven News: the promotion of the US agenda in the Colombian armed conflict through the pages of El Tiempo newspaper . Completed 2008.
• PhD, Ambrose Akor, Media influence on British foreign policy during the 2003 Iraq War. 2nd year.
• PhD, Ahed ALhouis, Role of Images in US-Syrian relations’ 2nd year.