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

Favourites

Journal Articles

Books

Chapters

  • Matthews, J., Tran, M., Jackson, D., 2025. Reporting Public Health Emergencies of International Concern: Media frames, Emergency News Cycles, and Evidence-Based Information. In: Löffelholz, M., Johansson, B., Sarısakaloğlu, A., Estella, P.G., eds. Routledge Companion to Conflict and Crisis Reporting. Routledge.
  • Saptorini, E., Jackson, D., Zhao, X., 2025. Journalists and objects of journalism relations during the COVID-19 pandemic: An ethnographic study in three Indonesian newsrooms. In: Mari, W., O’Reilly, C., West, E.J., eds. Media Building: Architecture, Design, and the Spatial Politics of Mass Communication. Springer Nature, 243-266.
  • Jackson, D., Kozman, C., Matthews, J., 2025. A red card for journalistic quality? Sourcing practices in sports news from an international perspective. In: Mellado, C., Van Leuven, S., eds. Sources in the News around the World - Bridging Theory and Practice. Peter Lang.
  • Kavanagh, E.J., Parry, K.D., 2024. Online Violence and the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. In: Jackson, D., Bernstein, A., Butterworth, M., Cho, Y., Sarver Coombs, D., Devlin, M., Vimieiro, A.C., eds. Olympic and Paralympic Analysis 2024: Mega events, media, and the politics of sport - Early reflections from leading academics. Poole, UK: The Centre for Comparative Politics and Media Research, Bournemouth University, 101.
  • Elsheikh, D., Jebril, N., Jackson, D., 2023. Democratising the Media: Media Reform and the Future of Journalism in Egypt. Media and Democracy in the Middle East. 130-146.
  • Oshima, S., 2021. Temporality of emotionalizing athletes. Olympic and Paralympic Analysis 2020: Mega events, media, and the politics of sport. The Centre for Comparative Politics and Media Research, Bournemouth University.
  • Kavanagh, E., Parry, K.D., 2021. Tokyo 2020: athlete welfare and coping with new anxieties. In: Jackson, D., Bernstein, A., Butterworth, M., Cho, Y., Sarver Coombs, D., Devlin, M., Onwumechili, C., eds. Olympic and Paralympic Analysis 2020: Mega events, media, and the politics of sport: Early reflections from leading academics. Bournemouth University: The Centre for Comparative Politics and Media Research, 74-75.
  • Silk, M., Pullen, E., Jackson, D., 2021. Communication, sport, disability, and the (able)national. In: Butterworth, M., eds. Communication and Sport. Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • Lilleker, D.G., Jackson, D., Veneti, A., 2021. The UK: The Post-Brexit, Ghost Election. Political Campaigning and Communication. 233-248.
  • Graham, T., Jackson, D., Wright, S., 2019. The possibilities and limits of "open journalism": Journalist engagement below the line at the guardian 2006-2017. Letters to the Editor Comparative and Historical Perspectives. 147-169.
  • Lilleker, D., Veneti, A., Jackson, D., 2019. Introduction: Visual Political Communication. In: Veneti, A., Jackson, D., Lilleker, D., eds. Visual Political Communication. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Gerodimos, R., 2019. The Interdisciplinary Roots and Digital Branches of Visual Political Communication Research. In: Veneti, A., Jackson, D., Lilleker, D.G., eds. Visual Political Communication in the Digital Era. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Lilleker, D., 2019. The power of visual political communication: pictorial politics through the lens of communication psychology. In: Veneti, A., Jackson, D., Lilleker, D., eds. Visual Political Communication. Palgrave.
  • Hodges, C.E.M., Scullion, R., Jackson, D., 2019. From awww to awe factor: UK audience meaning-making of the 2012 Paralympics as mediated spectacle. Disability Arts and Culture Methods and Approaches. 157-178.
  • Jackson, D., 2018. Public service television and civic engagement. In: Freedman, D., Goblot, V., eds. A Future for Public Service Television. London: Goldsmiths University Press.
  • Graham, T., Jackson, D., Broersma, M., 2017. The personal in the political on Twitter: Towards a typology of politicians' personalized tweeting behaviours. Managing Democracy in the Digital Age Internet Regulation Social Media Use and Online Civic Engagement. 137-157.
  • Lilleker, D.G., Jackson, D., 2016. The social media campaign: Mobilisation and persuasion. Political Communication in Britain Polling Campaigning and Media in the 2015 General Election. 293-313.
  • Wright, S., Graham, T., Jackson, D., 2015. Third space, social media, and everyday political talk. Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics. 74-88.
  • Thorsen, E., Jackson, D., Luce, A., 2015. Citizen journalism and civic inclusion: Access Dorset. In: Gordon, E., Mihalidis, P., eds. Civic Media Reader. MIT Press.
  • Van Raalte, C., 2015. No Small-Talk in Paradise: Why Elysium Fails the Bechdel Test, and Why We Should Care. Media Margins and Popular Culture. 15-27.
  • Thorsen, E., Jackson, D., Luce, A., 2015. ‘I wouldn’t be a victim when it comes to being heard’: Citizen journalism and civic inclusion. Media Margins and Civic Agency. 43-61.
  • Alexander, J., Savigny, H., Thorsen, E., Jackson, D., 2015. Introduction: Marginalised voices, representations and practices. 1-12.
  • Molesworth, M., Jackson, D., Scullion, R., 2014. Where Agendas Collide: Online Talk and the Paralympics. In: Jackson, D., Hodges, C., Scullion, R., Molesworth, M., eds. Re-framing Disability? The Media, (dis)empowerment and Voice in the London Paralympics. London: Routledge, 123-137.
  • Hodges, C., Jackson, D., Scullion, R., 2014. From the distant sidelines: stories of engagement with the London 2012 Paralympics from disabled people. In: Jackson, D., Hodges, C., Scullion, R., Molesworth, M., eds. Re-framing Disability? The Media, (dis)empowerment and Voice in the London Paralympics. London: Routledge, 189-202.
  • Hodges, C., Jackson, D., Scullion, R., 2014. Voices from the armchair: the meanings afforded to the Paralympics by UK television audiences. In: Hodges, C., Jackson, D., Scullion, R., Molesworth, M., eds. Re-framing Disability? The Media, (dis)empowerment and Voice in the London Paralympics. London: Routledge, 172-187.
  • Jackson, D., 2014. Time to get serious? Process news and British politics. In: Broersma, M., Peters, C., eds. Retelling Journalism: Conveying Stories in a Digital Age. Leuven: Peeters.
  • Scullion, R., Gerodimos, R., Jackson, D., Lilleker, D.G., 2013. Introduction to the media, political participation and empowerment. Media Political Participation and Empowerment. 1-10.
  • Scullion, R., Gerodimos, R., Jackson, D., Lilleker, D.G., 2013. Concluding thoughts. Media Political Participation and Empowerment. 251-254.
  • Thorsen, E., 2013. Routinisation of Audience Participation: BBC News Online, Citizenship and Democratic Debate. In: Scullion, R., Gerodimos, R., Jackson, D., Lilleker, D., eds. The Media, Political Participation and Empowerment. Routledge.
  • Moloney, K., Jackson, D., McQueen, D., 2013. News journalism and public relations: a dangerous relationship. In: Allan, S., Fowler, K., eds. Journalism: New Challenges. Poole, England: CJCR: Centre for Journalism & Communication Research, Bournemouth University, 259-281.
  • Jackson, D., Scullion, R., Molesworth, M., 2013. ‘Ooh, politics. You’re brave’. Politics in everyday talk: an analysis of three ‘non-political’ online spaces. In: Scullion, R., Gerodimos, R., Jackson, D., Lilleker, D., eds. The Media, Political Participation and Empowerment. Routledge, 205-220.
  • Jackson, D., 2008. Citizens, consumers and the demands of market-driven news. In: Lilleker, D., Scullion, R., eds. Voters or Consumers: Imagining the Contemporary Electorate. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Conferences

  • Mellado, C., Hallin, D.C., Blanchett, N., Márquez-Ramírez, M., Jackson, D., Stępińska, A., Skjerdal, T., Himma, M., McIntyre, K., Hagen, L.M., Amiel, P., Abuali, Y., Fahmy, N., Boudana, S., Chen, Y.N.K., Davidov, S., De Maio, M., Frías Vázquez, M., Garcés, M., Humanes, M.L., Herczeg, P., Lee, M., Lin, C.I.H., Melki, J., Mick, J., Mincigrucci, R., Ninković Slavnić, D., Nolan, D., Olivera, D., Olmedo, S., Pizarro, M., Quinn, F., Szabó, G., Van Leuven, S., Viveros Aguilar, D., Wyss, V., 2024. The societal context of professional practice: Examining the impact of politics and economics on journalistic role performance across 37 countries. Journalism, 25 (11), 2237-2263.
  • Jackson, D., Kozman, C., Matthews, J., 2024. Sourcing practices in sports news in comparative perspective. In: ECREA Journalism Studies Section Annual Conference 11/04/2024 Sheffield.
  • Elsheikh, D., Jackson, D., Jebril, N., 2024. The Power of Numbers: Four Ways Metrics are Changing the News. In: ECREA Journalism Studies Section Annual Conference 11/04/2024 Sheffield.
  • Saptorini, E., Jackson, D., Zhao, X., 2023. Press-state relationship in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic: An ethnography study of three Indonesian news organisatons. In: Future of Journalism Conference 14/09/2023 Cardiff.
  • Jackson, D., Glück, A., Nguyen, A., 2023. Incorporating solutions journalism into local UK newsrooms: Toward a model of 'SOJO lite'? In: Future of Journalism Conference 14/09/2023 Cardiff.
  • van Leuven, S., Jackson, D., Mellado, C., 2023. Narrating the News: A Comparative Study of Sourcing Practices in 37 Countries. In: 73rd ICA Annual Conference 25/05/2023 Toronto.
  • Kruschinski, S., Russmann, U., Jackson, D., Hassler, J., Lilleker, D., Balaban, D., Ceron, A., Vicente, F., 2023. Divisive, Negative, and Populist Digital Advertising?! Comparing Populist and Mainstream Parties’ Communication Strategies in Facebook Campaign Messages in 10 European Countries. In: 73rd ICA Annual Conference 25/05/2023 Toronto.
  • Jackson, D., Abuali, Y., Matthews, J., Mellado, C., Nolan, D., Quinn, F., Zhao, X., 2023. Towards a model of sports journalistic role performance? Comparing the materialization of journalistic roles in 37 countries. In: Between ideals and practices: Journalistic role performance in transformative times 24/05/2023 Toronto, Canada.
  • Jackson, D., Abuali, Y., Mellado, C., Quinn, F., Nolan, D., Zhao, X., Matthews, J., Marquez-Ramirez, M., 2022. Towards a model of sports journalistic role performance? Comparing the materialisation of journalistic roles in 12 European countries. In: 9th ECREA European Communication Conference 19/10/2022 Aarhus, Denmark.
  • Jackson, D., Glück, A., Nguyen, A., 2022. Fighting against the machine: The anatomy of a solutions journalism campaign across local news outlets in the UK. In: ECREA Journalism Studies Section Annual Conference 16/06/2022 Utrecht.
  • Jackson, D., Glück, A., Nguyen, A., 2022. Appropriating new practices to newsrooms: Inside a solutions journalism campaign across local news outlets in the UK. In: 72nd Annual ICA conference 26/05/2022 Paris.
  • Zhao, X., Jackson, D., Nguyen, A., 2022. Solutions journalism, psychological empowerment, and civic engagement: Revisiting the democratic role of journalism. In: 72nd ICA Annual conference 26/05/2022 Paris.
  • Saptorini, E., Zhao, X., Jackson, D., 2022. ‘COVID-19, journalism and emotional labour: an ethnographic study of three Indonesian newsrooms’. In: Emotional labour in media work 28/04/2022 Middlesex University.
  • Zhao, X., Jackson, D., Nguyen, A., Glück, A., 2021. The Psychological Empowerment of Solutions Journalism: Perspectives from Pandemic News Users in the UK. In: The 2021 conference of The International Journal of Press/Politics 13/09/2021 Online.
  • Saptorini, E., Zhao, X., Jackson, D., 2021. Place, power and the pandemic: The disrupted material settings of television news making during COVID-19 in an Indonesian broadcaster. In: 71st Annual International Communication Association Conference 27/05/2021 Online.
  • Jackson, D., Farkas, X., Bene, M., Russmann, U., Veneti, A., 2021. Strikingly similar: Comparing visual political communication of populist and non-populist parties on Facebook across 28 countries. In: Media and the Illiberal Turn Conference 28/04/2021 Loughborough.
  • Saptorini, E., Jackson, D., Zhao, X., 2021. Freedom of press during the COVID-19 pandemic: Press-state relations dissected at three Indonesian newsrooms. In: Media and the Illiberal Turn Conference 28/04/2021 Loughborough.
  • Farkas, X., Jackson, D., Bene, M., Veneti, A., 2020. Visuals of the 2019 European Parliamentary Campaign on Party Facebook Pages. In: APSA Annual Conference 08/09/2020 Seattle.
  • Pullen, E., Jackson, D., Silk, M., 2020. Paralympic broadcasting and social change: An integrated mixed-method approach to understanding the Paralympic Audience in the UK. In: IAMCR Annual Conference 21/07/2020 Tampere, Finland.
  • Jackson, D., Murphy, J., 2020. Google News and machine gatekeepers: algorithmic personalisation, filter bubbles and homogeneity in online news search. In: IAMCR Annual Conference 12/07/2020 Tampere.
  • Maurer, P., Blanchett-Neheli, N., Jackson, D., Lecheler, S., 2020. The Validity of Surveys in Crossnational Journalism Studies: Measuring ‘Professional Roles’ Across Levels and National Contexts. In: ICA Annual Conference 21/05/2020 Gold Coast, Australia.
  • Jackson, D., Veneti, A., Lilleker, D., 2020. Between Analogue and Digital: A critical exploration of strategic social media use in Greek election campaigns. In: ECREA Political Communication Section Interim Conference 26/03/2020 Bucharest.
  • Hassler, J., Magin, M., Russmann, U., Jackson, D., Fenoll, V., Larsson, A., Lilleker, D., Veneti, A., Balaban, D., 2020. Really a European Populist Zeitgeist? How populists used Facebook posts and ads for campaigning across 11 countries in the European Election Campaign 2019. In: Workshop on European Elections 2019 30/01/2020 Amsterdam.
  • Pullen, E., Jackson, D., Silk, M., 2020. Beyond the shadow of the supercrip: A new framework for understanding the gendered cultural (re)production of Paralympic media narratives. In: Sport, Media and Gender 2020 Annual Conference 15/01/2020 University of Northumbria, London campus..
  • Jackson, D., Veneti, A., Lilleker, D., 2019. Greek political communication and social media: Stories of order and anarchy”. In: PSA Media and Politics Group Annual Conference 12/12/2019 Leeds.
  • Jackson, D., Pullen, E., Silk, M., 2019. “(Re-)presenting the Paralympics: Sports journalism, marginal bodies and the 'able-disabled'. In: Future of Journalism Conference 12/09/2019 Cardiff.
  • Wright, S., Jackson, D., Graham, T., 2019. When journalists go ‘below the line’: Comment spaces at The Guardian (2006-2017). In: IAMCR Annual Conference 17/07/2019 Madrid.
  • Jackson, D., Wright, S., Graham, T., 2019. When journalists go ‘below the line’: Comment spaces at The Guardian (2006-2017). In: International Communication Association annual conference 24/05/2019 Washington DC.
  • Pullen, E., Jackson, D., Silk, M., 2019. “(Re-)presenting the Paralympics: Affective Nationalism and the 'able-disabled'. In: International Communication Association annual conference 24/05/2019 Washington DC.
  • Pullen, E., Hodges, C., Jackson, D., Scullion, R., Silk, M., 2018. Representing para-bodies: The mediation between production and consumption in Paralympic broadcasting. In: DIFFERENT BODIES: (SELF-)REPRESENTATION, DISABILITY AND THE MEDIA 23/06/2017 University of Westminster.
  • Pullen, E., Jackson, D., Silk, M., Scullion, R., 2018. Giving disability the ‘Hollywood treatment’: Channel 4 and the broadcasting of the Paralympic Games. In: International Communications Association 22/05/2018 Prauge.
  • Jackson, D., Thorsen, E., 2018. Live blogging across the genres: seven characteristics defining online news formats. In: Political Studies Association Annual Conference 26/03/2018 Cardiff University.
  • Thorsen, E., Jackson, D., 2017. Changing sourcing practices in live blogging vs online news. In: Future of Journalism Annual Conference 14/10/2017 Cardiff.
  • Thorsen, E., Jackson, D., 2017. Sourcing practices and the demotic voice in live blogging vs online news. In: International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Annual Conference 16/07/2017 Cartagena, Colombia.
  • Jackson, D., Thorsen, E., 2017. Mixed Feelings: Future Journalists' Perspectives on News Industries Across the World. In: International Communication Association Annual Conference 25/05/2017 San Diego, USA.
  • Wright, S., Graham, T., Jackson, D., 2017. 'Third Space' and Everyday Online Political Talk: Deliberation, Polarisation, Avoidance. In: International Communication Association Annual Conference 25/05/2017 San Diego, USA.
  • Wright, S., Jackson, D., Graham, T., 2017. When Journalists go “Below the Line”: comment fields at the Guardian (2006-2013). In: Comments, Anyone? Multidisciplinary Approaches for Analyzing Online User Comments across News and Other Content Formats 25/05/2017 San Diego, USA.
  • Jackson, D., Thorsen, E., 2016. Sourcing the crisis: live blogging, news sources and the demotic turn. In: Political Studies Association Media and Politics Group Annual Conference 12/12/2016 LSE, London.
  • Luce, A., Jackson, D., Thorsen, E., 2016. ADTV and The Big Issue: Journalism Education for Marginalised People. In: World Journalism Education Congress 13/07/2016 Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Graham, T., Carson, A., Jackson, D., Wright, S., 2016. When Journalists go “Below the Line”: Engaging with the Audience via Comment Fields at the Guardian (2006-2013). In: ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association) Annual Conference 09/11/2016 Prague.
  • Jackson, D., Thorsen, E., 2016. The only certainty is change: future journalists’ perspectives on news industries across the world. In: ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association) Annual Conference 09/11/2016 Prague.
  • Thorsen, E., Jackson, D., Luce, A., 2016. "The people must have their voices”: Empowering marginalised groups through citizen journalism’. In: International Association for Media and Communications Research World Congress 10/07/2014 Hyderabad, India.
  • Jackson, D., Thorsen, E., 2016. UK Journalism Students: Uncertain times, uncertain identities. In: IAMCR Annual Conference 27/07/2016 Leicester, UK.
  • Jackson, D., Thorsen, E., 2016. "Have your say" and then what? Re-conceiving the civic turn in political journalism. In: Political Studies Association Annual Conference 21/03/2016 Brighton.
  • Luce, A., Thorsen, E., Jackson, D., 2016. ADTV and The Big Issue: journalism education for marginalised people. In: Annual MeCCSA Conference 06/01/2016 Canterbury Christ Church University.
  • Jackson, D., Wright, S., Graham, S., 2015. Online lifestyle communities and ‘strong politics’: a new stage of e-democracy? In: ECREA Communication and Democracy Section annual conference 09/10/2015 Copenhagen Business School.
  • Jackson, D., Moloney, K., 2015. "A bit of me dies when I see that": PR perspectives on churnalism. In: Future of Journalism Conference 10/09/2015 Cardiff.
  • Jackson, D., Lilleker, D., 2015. Online mobilisation and persuasion in the 2015 campaign. In: Parties Media Voters: the 2015 Campaign 13/07/2015 London.
  • Jackson, D., Graham, T., Wright, S., 2015. Everyday online conversation, emotion and political action. In: Politics, Emotion and Protest 09/07/2015 Bournemouth University.
  • Feigenbaum, A., Thorsen, E., Jackson, D., 2015. Data Stories: Visualising Sensitive Subjects. In: Data Power 22/06/2015 University of Sheffield.
  • Wright, S., Graham, T., Jackson, D., 2015. From everyday conversation to political action. In: International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Conference 21/05/2015 San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  • Wright, S., Jackson, D., Graham, T., 2015. Third Space and Formal Politics: Consultations, web-chats and data-mining. In: Political Studies Association Annual Conference 30/03/2015 Sheffield.
  • Jackson, D., Molesworth, M., Goode, G., 2015. Generating Entrepreneurs? Understanding Media Students’ Involvement with University Enterprise Activities. In: MeCCSA Annual Conference 07/01/2015 University of Northumbria.
  • Jackson, D., Molesworth, M., Goode, G., 2014. Understanding university students’ involvement with business consultancy: an audit and review of barriers and motivations. In: Annual SRHE Research Conference 10/12/2014 Celtic Manor.
  • Wright, S., Graham, T., Jackson, D., 2014. From online third spaces to political action: Everyday political talk and civic engagement in times of austerity. In: ECREA Annual Conference 12/11/2014 Lisbon.
  • Jackson, D., Thorsen, E., Luce, A., 2014. Citizen journalism for empowerment: Moving in from the margins? In: ECREA Annual Conference 12/11/2014 Lisbon.
  • Theofilou, A., Jackson, D., Jenkins, R., 2014. Calculated indifference: Stakeholder perceptions of CSR in Higher Education. In: Annual ISCR Conference 08/10/2014 Barcelona.
  • Graham, T., Jackson, D., 2014. Exposing themselves? The Intimatization of tweeting behaviour during the 2010 British and Dutch general election campaigns. In: ECPR General Conference 04/09/2014 University of Glasgow.
  • Thorsen, E., Jackson, D., Luce, A., 2014. “The People Must Have Their Voices”: Empowering Marginalised Groups Through Citizen Journalism. In: IAMCR Annual Conference 15/07/2014 Hyderabad, India.
  • Jackson, D., 2014. Mobilization and mundaneness: talking politics in online third spaces. In: Political Studies Association Annual Conference 14/04/2014 Manchester.
  • Thorsen, E., Jackson, D., Luce, A., 2014. Empowering disabled and older people through citizen journalism. In: Annual MeCCSA Conference 08/01/2014 Bournemouth University.
  • Thorsen, E., 2013. Routinisation of audience participation: BBC news online, citizenship and democratic debate. , 116-129.
  • Graham, T., Jackson, D., Wright, S., 2013. Online third spaces and political action: not just talking the talk? In: (Mis)understanding political participation 11/10/2013 Munich.
  • Graham, T., Jackson, D., Broersma, M., 2013. New platform, old habits? Candidates’ use of Twitter during the 2010 British and Dutch general election campaigns. In: ECREA Political Communication Section annual conference 19/09/2013 Milan.
  • Graham, T., Jackson, D., Wright, S., 2013. Austerity in everyday talk. An analysis of three online 'third spaces'. In: IAMCR Annual Conference 25/06/2013 Dublin.
  • Higgins, M., Jackson, D., Savigny, H., Temple, M., 2013. Media and Politics Futures: Agendas and Institutions. In: Political Studies Association Annual Conference 25/03/2013 Cardiff.
  • Hodges, C., Jackson, D., Scullion, R., Molesworth, M., 2013. From the distant sidelines: stories of experiencing the 2012 Paralympics from disabled people. In: PSA Media and Politic Group Annual Conference 13/11/2013 Bournemouth University.
  • Berger, R., Jackson, D., 2012. Empowering the learner, liberating the teacher? Collaborative lectures using old and new technologies. In: Exploring Collaborative Learning in Media Studies Programmes 03/05/2012 University of Winchester, England.
  • Jackson, D., 2012. Strategic news, politics and democracy: putting citizens first. In: ECREA Annual Conference 24/10/2012 Istanbul.
  • McQueen, D., Jackson, D., Moloney, K., 2011. The ‘PRisation’ of news and media literacy: an audience reception study. In: Future of Journalism Conference 08/09/2011 Cardiff University.
  • Scullion, R., Jackson, D., Molesworth, M., 2011. Civic culture and everyday discussion online: a netnography of three ‘non-political’ online spaces. In: Civic Cultures Conference 31/03/2011 Lund University, Sweden.
  • Jackson, D., 2010. Mediatised politics: Framing the press and publicity process in UK policy debates. In: 60th Political Studies Association Annual Conference. Sixty Years of Political Studies: Achievements and Futures 29/03/2010 Edinburgh University, Scotland.
  • Jackson, D., 2009. News Media Performance Under the Spotlight: The Case of Metacoverage in the UK News. In: Trust, Truth, and Performance: Diverse Journalisms in the 21st Centur 09/12/2009 University of Groningen, Netherlands.
  • Jackson, D., 2007. Strategic media, cynical public? Exploring the impact of strategic news frames on political cynicism and policy support. In: 4th Wales and South-West England Postgraduate Conference, in association with the Political Studies Association 28/04/2007 Cardiff University.
  • Jackson, D., 2007. Time to get serious? Process news and British Politics. In: The Political Studies Association (PSA), Media and Politics Group Annual Conference 11/2007 Staffordshire University, England.
  • Jackson, D., 2005. Back into the Malaise? The Effects of Strategic News Frames on Voter Learning, Political Cynicism, and Policy Support. In: Political Studies Association Annual Conference 05/04/2005 University of Leeds.
  • Jackson, D., 2005. What’s Best for Tracking Media Effects? Analysing the Latest Experimental Techniques on the Impact of News Framing. In: Annual joint conference of MeCCSA and AMPE 05/01/2005 University of Lincoln.
  • Jackson, D., 2004. The Mass Media and Youth Participation in Politics: a Love/ Hate Relationship? In: 8th annual Central And Northern England (CANE) conference, in association with the Political Studies Association 20/11/2004 University of Manchester.
  • Jackson, D., 2004. Fragmentation, Distortion and Conflict: Media Coverage of the British Euro Debate. In: Campaigning for Europe: Media, Parties, and the European Parliamentary Elections 2004 01/10/2004 University of Koblenz, Landau Germany.
  • Jackson, D., 2004. Manufacturing Mistrust? News Frames and the Strategy Agenda. In: Communication in the age of Suspicion: A Conference on Trust, Communication and Culture 20/02/2004 Bournemouth University, Poole.
  • Jackson, D., 2003. The Great Euro Debate: Where were you? In: Centre for Public Communication Research (CPCR) Research Seminar 03/11/2003 Bournemouth University, Poole.
  • Jackson, D.. Time to get serious? Process news and political speechwriting. In: UK Speechwriters Guild Spring Conference 23/02/2012 London.
  • Jackson, D., Molesworth, M., Scullion, R.. ‘Did you read about that bloody politician in the papers?’ Mediated political events and how they penetrate everyday discussion online: an analysis of three ‘non-political’ online spaces. In: Media and Politics Group Annual Conference 03/11/2011 Bournemouth University.
  • Jackson, D., Hodges, C., Scullion, R., Molesworth, M.. How mediated disabled sport unintentionally reinforces the distance between ‘them and us’. In: MeCCSA Annual Conference 11/01/2012 University of Bedfordshire.

Reports

Scholarly Editions

Theses

  • Jackson, D., 2009. Framing democratic politics: An investigation into the presence and effects of 'strategy' news frames in the UK. Bournemouth University; Media School.

Artefacts

  • Russmann, U., Magin, M., Hassler, J., Baranowski, P., Bene, M., Ceron, A., Farkas, X., Venoll, V., Jackson, D., Kruschinski, S., Larson, A.O., Lilleker, D., Maurer, P., Schlosser, K., Veneti, A., Wurst, A.K., 2021. “Populists” communication on Facebook during the 2019 EP Elections. Brussels.

Preprints

Others

PhD Students

  • Nyarwi Ahmad. Professionalisation and marketisation of political campaigning in Post-Soeharto Indonesia
  • Nyarwi Ahmad. Political Marketing in Indonesia
  • Yoav Dubinsky. London 2012: Images of Great Britain in the global media

Profile of Teaching UG

  • Experiencing Politics
  • Contemporary Media and Popular Culture
  • Global Current Affairs
  • Media, Journalism and Society

Grants

  • COJO for COVID-19 Recovery: Constructive Solutions-Focused Journalism as a Pandemic Exit Strategy for the UK's Local/Regional Communities (Arts and Humanities Research Council, 14 Jan 2021). In Progress
  • Mapping changes in local news, 2015-2017 (Political Studies Association, 06 Feb 2017). Completed
  • Paralympics, Social Change, and Cultural Legacy (Arts and Humanities Research Council, 22 Jan 2017). In Progress
  • EUROPARL: Engaging the Public in the 2014 European Parliamentary Elections (Bournemouth University, 01 Sep 2014). Awarded
  • Access Dorset TV (ADTV) Citizen Journalism Project (Bournemouth University). Awarded
  • Co-creating and Co-producing Research Outputs with final year U/grad students (Bournemouth University). Awarded
  • A Question Time organised by and for young people in the local community (Bournemouth University). Awarded
  • Amilla: a national competition for PR students (Bournemouth University). Awarded

External Responsibilities

Qualifications

  • PhD in Political Communication (Bournemouth University, 2009)
  • PG Cert in Education Practice (Bournemouth University, 2009)
  • MA in European Journalism (Cardiff University, 2001)
  • BA (Hons) in History and Social Science (The University of Birmingham, 2000)

Honours

  • Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning (Bournemouth University, 2008)

Memberships

  • Political Studies Association, Member,
  • Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA), Member,
  • European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), Member,
  • Higher Education Association (HEA), Fellow,

Networks

  • Political Studies Association (PSA)
  • Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA)
  • European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)
  • International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)
  • European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR)
  • International Communication Association (ICA)
  • PSA Media and Politics Group (Co-Convenor)
  • International Conferences on Social Responsibility, Ethics and Sustainable Business
The data on this page was last updated at 22:00 on February 14, 2026.