School of Media and Communication researchers co-edit and contribute to the 2024 UK Election Analysis Report
Two academics from the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures are among the editorial team behind this year’s UK 2024 Election Report
Two academics from the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures are among the editorial team behind this year’s UK 2024 Election Report.
Professor Katy Parry and Professor Julie Firmstone in the School of Media and Communication co-edited and contributed to the report, which features 101 contributions from over 130 leading academics and emerging scholars. The free publication captures the immediate thoughts, reflections and early research insights on the 2024 UK General Election from the cutting edge of media and politics research. It includes short articles by a number of staff in the School: Stephen Coleman, John Corner, Carl Hartley, Beth Johnson, Katy Parry, Simon Popple, and Lone Sorensen.
Published just 10 days after the election, these contributions are short and accessible. Authors provide authoritative analysis of the campaign, including research findings or new theoretical insights; to bring readers original ways of understanding the election and its consequences. Contributions also bring a rich range of disciplinary influences, from political science to cultural studies, journalism studies to geography.
The report’s cover also features a photograph of the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves MP, taken by BA Journalism student Emma Jackson, who was one of the School of Media and Communication’s students who covered the election night.
The publication is available as a free downloadable PDF, as a website and as a paperback report.
Articles by School of Media and Communication staff:
- Is this the first podcast election? (Carl Hartley, Prof Stephen Coleman)
- Why Nigel Farage’s anti-media election interference claims are so dangerous (Dr Lone Sorensen)
- TV debates: beyond winners and losers (Prof Stephen Coleman)
- Tetchiness meets disenchantment: capturing the contrasting political energies of the campaign (Prof Beth Johnson, Prof Katy Parry)
- Weeping in Wetherspoons: generative Al and the right/left image battle on X (Simon Popple)
- Truth or dare: the political veracity game (Prof John Corner)
Editorial team:
Prof Dan Jackson, Prof Katy Parry, Dr Emily Harmer, Prof Darren Lilleker, Prof Julie Firmstone, Prof Scott Wright, Prof Einar Thorsen. With special thanks to Mirva Villa and Julia Weiss for production, design, and promotion efforts.
The Election Analysis series is published by the Centre for Comparative Politics & Media Research at Bournemouth University.
The 2024 report was prepared in collaboration with: Political Communication Research Group (University of Leeds), Centre for Digital Politics, Media and Democracy (University of Liverpool), Political Studies Association (UK), and The Conversation UK.
