"Bad News for Refugees analyses the political, economic and environmental contexts of migration and looks specifically at how refugees and asylum seekers have been stigmatised in political rhetoric and in media coverage. Through forensic research it shows how hysterical and inaccurate media accounts act to legitimise political action which can have terrible consequences both on the lives of refugees and also on established migrant commun ..."
"Building on rigorous research by the world-renowned Glasgow University Media Group, More Bad News From Israel examines media coverage of the current conflict in the Middle East and the impact it has on public opinion. The book brings together senior journalists and ordinary viewers to examine how audiences understand the news and how their views are shaped by media reporting. In the largest study ever undertaken in this area, the author ..."
Communication and Society Ser.(1st Edition) Seeing and Believing : The Influence of Television by GregPhilo Paperback, 252 Pages, Published 1990 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-03621-4, ISBN: 0-415-03621-6
"Television has a powerful impact on our beliefs and is open to use as a political and propaganda tool. Greg Philo has taken a new approach to examining these issues by inviting groups of television viewers to write their own news programmes, based on news pictures from the 1984-5 British miners' strike."
The Glasgow Media Group Reader, Vol. II(1st Edition) Industry, Economy, War and Politics (Communication and Society) (Volume 2) by GregPhilo Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1995 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-13037-0, ISBN: 0-415-13037-9
"This volume of the collected writings of the Glasgow University Media Group reprints articles on the reporting and audience reception of industrial and economic news, including coverage of the 1984-5 Miners' Strike. The Reader also includes more recent material on media coverage of conflicts in Northern Ireland, the Falkland Islands and the Persian Gulf. Greg Philo examines the media strategies of political parties in the 1980s, and con ..."
"Jointly written by five leading voices on the topic, this book looks at the contentious issue of antisemitism in the Labour Party today, and sets out ways of addressing the problem while maintaining the integrity of the organisation. The first part of the book includes original material on public beliefs about antisemitism in the Labour Party, and the kinds of problems this poses regarding voting intentions and demoralization of the mem ..."
Message Received(1st Edition) by GregPhilo Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 1999 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-582-29800-2, ISBN: 0-582-29800-8
"Message Received brings together the most recent research findings of the Glasgow Media Group 1993-1998. It focuses on major public issues such as the impact of fictional violence on children and media coverage of ethnic minorities, the developing world and disasters. The research focuses on the production, content and reception of these media messages and its conclusions are linked to contemporary communications theory. It is critical ..."
Israel and Palestine Competing Histories by Mike Berry, GregPhilo Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2006 by Pluto Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-2565-1, ISBN: 0-7453-2565-3
"Following on from their acclaimed book Bad News from Israel, Greg Philo and Mike Berry present a concise guide to the Israel-Palestine conflict. This uniquely accessible book will appeal to anyone looking for an approachable introduction. Uniquely, the authors show how there are many different, competing histories. They offer an overview of the wide range of contending viewpoints, and indicate those which are based on the most considere ..."
"This superb study . . . is extensive in scope, and scrupulously fair. It will be a landmark.' Edward S. Herman, co-author (with Noam Chomsky) of Manufacturing Consent 'Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is often dangerously superficial. Bad News from Israel is a strong contribution to scholarship and public debate.' John D.H. Downing Director, Global Media Research Center, Southern Illinois University '[The book] covers a lo ..."
Trade Unions and the Media(2nd Edition) (Critical Texts in Social Work and the Welfare State) by Peter Beharrell, GregPhilo Paperback, 150 Pages, Published 1978 by Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-333-22055-9, ISBN: 0-333-22055-2
Market Killing(1st Edition) What the Free Market does and what social scientists can do about it by GregPhilo, David Miller Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2000 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-582-38236-7, ISBN: 0-582-38236-X
" What the free market does and what the social scientists can do about it Highly topical and controversial book from a high profile group of contributors which examines several areas. Attacks post-modernists and textual approaches arguing that these are inadequate at the level of both theory and methods. Distinguished list of international contributors including Noam Chomsky, Derek Bouse, Raymond Tillis, Barbara Epstein and Chris ..."
"Jointly written by five leading voices on the topic, this book looks at the contentious issue of antisemitism in the Labour Party today, and sets out ways of addressing the problem while maintaining the integrity of the organisation. The first part of the book includes original material on public beliefs about antisemitism in the Labour Party, and the kinds of problems this poses regarding voting intentions and demoralization of the mem ..."
Communicating Climate Change and Energy Security(1st Edition) New Methods in Understanding Audiences (Routledge New Developments in Communication and Society Research) by GregPhilo, Catherine Happer Paperback, 194 Pages, Published 2018 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-54856-5, ISBN: 1-138-54856-1
"This book, drawing on new research conducted for the UK Energy Resource Centre (UKERC), examines the contemporary public debate on climate change and the linked issue of energy security. It analyses the key processes which affect the formation of public attitudes and understanding in these areas, while also developing a completely new method for analysing these processes. The authors address fundamental questions about how to adequately ..."
Message Received by GregPhilo Hardcover, Published 2017 by Taylor And Francis 2017-01-04, London ISBN-13: 978-1-138-18118-2, ISBN: 1-138-18118-8
Market Killing(1st Edition) What the Free Market does and what social scientists can do about it by GregPhilo Hardcover, Published 2017 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-46703-3, ISBN: 1-138-46703-0
"This book shows how the release of the free market in the last part of the twentieth century produced a rise in inequality and violence, the development of a huge criminal economy and the degradation of social and cultural life. It questions the silence of academics in the face of these changes and asks how much they have been incorporated into the priorities of commerce and governments. Many academics in the social sciences, media and ..."
"E.M.I. remains both the country's leading record company and the dominant force
in music publishing, although Decca have been ... and tape division, a music
publishers, Lemmel Music, and the Ditchburn Organisation which provides
background music. The Granada ... a number of the companies in Table 8.1 also
have interests in other areas of leisure and entertainment provision such as
hotels and ..."
"The most far-reaching decision resulted in the subtitling of Bernadette McAliskey,
the former civil-rights activist and People's Democracy MP for Mid-Ulster together
with members of a studio audience. 'Killing for a cause', part of a series titled
Nation, used the examples of the conflicts in Northern Ireland and South Africa to
ask if the use of political violence was ever justified. Bernadette McAliskey was
one of a panel of thre ..."
Communication and Society Ser. Seeing and Believing : The Influence of Television by GregPhilo 252 Pages, Published 2014 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-134-95925-9, ISBN: 1-134-95925-7
"The Influence of Television Greg Philo ... by his skills (theoretical practice, itself
arising from a history, or 'experience', of making tables, as well as a history of the
evolution of appropriate tools) and by the qualities (size, grain, seasoning etc.) ..."
Seeing and Believing(1st Edition) The Influence of Television (Communication and Society) by GregPhilo Hardcover, 252 Pages, Published 2014 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-83393-7, ISBN: 1-138-83393-2
"Television has a powerful impact on our beliefs and is open to use as a political and propaganda tool. Greg Philo has taken a new approach to examining these issues by inviting groups of television viewers to write their own news programmes, based on news pictures from the 1984-5 British miners' strike."
"Greg. Philo. and. Greg. McLaughlin. When the Gulf crisis began in August 1990,
most people in Britain had no detailed knowledge of the Middle East and there
was no desire to go to war with a country such as Iraq. Yet in a short period, a
majority of the population was convinced that a war was necessary, that it would
be morally justified and that it would very quickly destroy Saddam Hussein. This
change in public belief resulted fr ..."