Piers Robinson

Piers Gregory Robinson (born September 1970) is a British academic. He is Professor of Politics, Society and Political journalism at Sheffield University.

Earlier in his career, Robinson was a Lecturer in Political Communication (1999 to 2005) at Liverpool University and Senior Lecturer in International Politics at Manchester University (2005 to 2011).[1]

Robinson is co-director of the Organisation for Propaganda Studies which conducts academic research and analysis of both historical and contemporary propaganda.[2]

He is also one of the founders of the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media, an academic group that studies the Syrian Civil War. The group was established to facilitate research into propaganda and media coverage of the Syrian conflict. It aims to examine the various accounts of the conflict in Syria to build an empirically grounded account of the conflict and the content of propaganda in relation to the conflict.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Professor Piers Robinson". Department of Journalism Studies, University of Sheffield. 21 April 2018.
  2. ↑ http://www.propagandastudies.ac.uk/
  3. ↑ "About". Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media. Retrieved 8 June 2018.

Selected publications

  • Robinson, Piers (2005). The Policy - Media Intraction Model: Measuring Media Power During Humanitarian Crisis. Sage Publications.
  • Robinson, Piers (2005). The CNN Effect: The Myth of News, Foreign Policy and Intervention. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-13-451314-7.
  • Robinson, Piers; Goddard, Peter; Parry, Katy; Murray, Craig (2013). Pockets of resistance: British news media, war and theory in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-1-84-779472-7.
  • Robinson, Piers; Philip Seib; Romy Frohlich, eds. (2013). Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-41-571291-0.
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