Research and Publications
Network
Prof Martin Conboy has received £37,000 from the AHRC to fund a research network entitled 'Exploring the language of the popular in American and British newspapers 1833-1988'.
Aims and Objectives:
- To bring together scholars, researchers and news media researchers to develop interdisciplinary approaches to the study of digital newspaper archives in Britain and North America.
- To investigate representations of popular culture in Anglo-American newspapers over the period 1833 to 1988.
- To develop with colleagues from a range of cognate disciplines a set of agreed principles for a consistent methodology for the investigation of the increasing number of digital archives of newspapers which would extend computer-assisted research in the humanities.
- To establish a network of scholars and researchers which can sustain such dialogues beyond the scope of the project by setting up a clear set of publishing outcomes and future collaborations.
- To provide a forum for dissemination of best practice in historical and linguistic research approaches to digital newspaper archives.
- To develop the general area of Historical Pragmatics by a series of sustained and focused investigations into a particular area of media language and social representation; representation of popular culture in newspapers.
For further details, please contact Prof Martin Conboy: m.conboy@sheffield.ac.uk
Recent Publications
Martin Conboy, The Language of Newspapers: Socio-Historical Perspectives (Continuum, 2010)
Adrian Bingham and Martin Conboy, ‘The Daily Mirror and the Development of a Language of Popular Appeal 1936-1939: A People’s War and A People’s paper?’, Journalism Studies, 10/5 (2009), pp. 639-54.
Adrian Bingham, Family Newspapers: Sex, Private Life, and the British Popular Press, 1918-1978 (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Martin Conboy and John Steel, “The Future of Newspapers: Historical Perspectives”, Journalism Studies, 9/5 (2008), pp. 650-661