Ralph Negrine
BA (Kent), PhD (Leicester)
email : r.negrine@sheffield.ac.uk
tel: (+44)0114 2222508
Ralph Negrine joined the department in August 2006. He is currently Director of Research.
Ralph Negrine has been researching and publishing in the field of political communication for nearly two decades. Whilst this continues to feature strongly in his work, he also has an interest in both domestic and European media policy.
His current work has explored the theme of 'professionalization' in political communication and the extent to which the changes in the communications strategies of governments, political organisations and other political groups can be seen as part of a process of 'professionalization' or as part of other forces at play in society at large. These are themes that he has published on and which form the main connecting thread of his book on 'the transformation of political communication' (published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2008). A part of this study is devoted to changes in the nature and forms of political communication, particularly in the nature and form of party election broadcasts (PEBs). This continues to feature prominently in work on political communication and he is currently working on a US-UK comparison.
In recent years, he has also explored the ways in which the topic of Turkey´s accession to the European Union has been covered in the French, Greek and Turkish press. This work has been carried out with the assistance of colleagues from the Universities of Ankara, Athens and Leicester. It continues to feature in his current work and this topic is being explored by a research student which he is supervising, Mr A. Paksoy, and an Academic Visitor to the department, Dr Onur Oksuz.
Currently, he is engaged in a number of studies focusing on the media in Europe, including a book on the media in the EU and a study of the European elections. The latter is a comparative study involving colleagues from about a dozen EU countries. The project – The mediatisation and framing of the 2009 European Parliament election – is led by professor Jesper Stromback, Mid-Sweden University.
One area of work he is currently developing concerns the representations of displacement and exile in the British media.
Forthcoming publications include a co-edited volume on Communications Policy with Professor Stylianos Papathanassopoulos (University of Athens) to be published by Routledge in 2010.
Teaching
- JNL6070 Political Communication 1
- JNL6210 Research Methods
- JNL 305 Dissertation module
- JNL 312 Journalism and political communication
- JNL 6210 Dissertation module (MA)
PhD Research supervision
Research students in the following areas are currently being supervised:
- The representation of Turkey-EU relations in the British media
- Democratisation in Taiwan
- The television coverage of the Saudi 'parliament'
- New technology and blogging as political communication in the Philippines
- Political marketing in Ghana
- The introduction of digital technology in a South Korean broadcasting service
Books recently published
The Political Communication Reader
Edited by Ralph Negrine, James Stanyer
Routledge 2008
The Transformation of Political Communication
Continuities and Changes in Media and Politics
Ralph Negrine
Palgrave Macmillan 2008
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