
Michael Tasseron
- Email: memrt@leeds.ac.uk
- Supervisors: Dr Katy Parry, Dr Chris Paterson
Profile
I am a Ph.D researcher in the School of Media and Communication. My research focuses on media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and I am being supervised by Dr Katy Parry and Dr Chris Paterson. My research interests include multimodal and critical discourse studies. I hold a BA in Communication and English literature from the University of South Africa, a BA Honours in Journalism and Media Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand, and a MA in Applied Linguistics and TESOL from the University of Leicester.
Research interests
Conflict reporting
Photojournalism
Multimodality
Discourse analysis
Global Communication
Political Communication