Dan Jackson

Professor Dan Jackson

  • Professor of Media and Communication
  • Weymouth House W309, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
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Biography

I am a researcher, educator and consultant in the field of media, communication, sport and politics.

My research broadly explores the intersection of media and social change, including the construction of news, mediated disability representation, political communication, and journalistic role performance. I am former convenor of the Political Studies Association Media and Politics Group and International Liaison for the International Communication Association's Communication and Sport Interest Group.

Alongside colleagues at Bournemouth University, I have led a string of publications around recent elections in the UK and USA. The election analysis reports provide over 80 short and accessible analyses of every part of the election, written by leading academics in the field, all published within ten days of the vote.

I was co-investigator on a major AHRC project examining the cultural legacy of the Rio Paralympics, and am currently co-investigator on an AHRC-funded project that examines the role of constructive journalism as a response to the pandemic...

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Research

Ongoing research projects include:

1. Journalistic Role Performance Around the World (with Antje Glueck, Jamie Matthews, Xin Zhao and Einar Thorsen). We are the UK team for this cross-national, theory-driven endeavour to systematically analyse the state of journalistic cultures in the new media landscape across the world. https://www.journalisticperformance.org.

2. Digiworld (with Darren Lilleker and Matthew Wall). We are the UK team for this scientific collaboration that aims at international comparisons of election campaign strategies in digital communication channels. https://digidemo.ifkw.lmu.de

3. Campaigning for Strasbourg (with Darren Lilleker and Anastasia Veneti). We are the UK team for this 11 country comparative study of the EU elections on social media. https://digidemo.ifkw.lmu.de/camfors/

4. COJO for COVID recovery: Solutions-focused constructive journalism as a pandemic exit strategy for local/regional UK communities (with An Nguyen, Antje Glueck and Xin Zhao). In this AHRC-funded rapid-response project, we explore how constructive journalism can increase audience engagement and empower communities to tackle the problems they face in the aftermath of the pandemic. https://cojouk.org

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