Dr Cristina Archetti

Senior Lecturer in Politics and Media

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Tuesday 2.00-4.00pm (term time) or by appointment

Cristina Archetti is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Media. She is author of Understanding Terrorism in the Age of Global Media: A Communication Approach (Palgrave, 2012) and Explaining News: National Politics and Journalistic Cultures in Global Context (Palgrave, 2010) and won the 2008 Denis McQuail Award for Innovating Communication Theory.

Current teaching:

Politics And Democracy  (1^st year)

International Politics and the Media (2^nd year)

Terrorism and the Media (MA level; also available as DISTANCE LEARNING) 

Teaching at past institutions included:

Political Communication (2^nd year)

International Communications (2^nd year)

Communications and Global Change (MA level

Political Communication Spin and media management; strategic communication; the impact of new media on diplomatic practice and “public diplomacy 2.0”; the visual dimension of political mobilization.

International Communication and Journalism International news; foreign correspondence; the comparison of journalistic practices across different countries, information environments and urban ecologies.

Security Terrorism and the media; the role of narratives in promoting/countering extremism; the role of the media in the process of radicalization and in the construction of transnational radical identities; media coverage of extremism, conflict and war.

Qualifications

BA Honours Politics (Kingston University)

MA International Communications (Leeds University)

PhD (Leeds University)

PG Certificate in Higher Education Practice and Research (Salford University)

Membership of scholarly associations

• International Studies Association (ISA) International Communication section
• Political Studies Association (PSA) Media and Politics specialist group
• International Communication Association (ICA) Political Communication section.
• National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPP)

Membership of research networks

• Centre for Communication, Media, and Culture (CMM)
• Centre for European Security (Salford University)
• Centre for Prison Studies (Salford University)
• Terrorism and Political Violence Association (TAPVA)
• War and Media Network

Books

Archetti, C. (2012) Understanding Terrorism in the Age of Global Media: A Communication Approach (Basingstoke: Palgrave).

Archetti, C. (2010) Explaining News: National Politics and Journalistic Cultures in Global Context (New York: Palgrave).

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Archetti, C. (accepted for publication, forthcoming spring 2013) “Journalism in the Age of Globalization: The Evolving Practices of Foreign Correspondents in London,” Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism 14(2).

Archetti, C. (2012) “Which Future for Foreign Correspondence? London Foreign Correspondents in the Age of Global Media,” Journalism Studies, Special Issue on “The Future of Journalism,” 13(5-6): 847-856.

Archetti, C. (2012) “The Impact of New Media on Diplomatic Practice: An Evolutionary Model of Change,” The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 7(2): 181-206.

Archetti, C. (2011) “Friend or Foe? Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in Political Communication,” European Political Science 10(4): 1-16.

Archetti, C. (2010) “Comparing International Coverage of 9/11: Towards an Interdisciplinary Explanation of the Construction of News,” Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism 11(5): 567-588.

Archetti, C. (2008) “News Coverage of 9/11 and the Demise of the Media Flows, Globalization and Localization Hypotheses,” International Communication Gazette 70(6):  463-486. 2008 Denis McQuail Award for Advancing Communication Theory.

Archetti, C. (2008) “Unamerican Views”: Why US-Developed Models of Press-State Relations Don’t Apply to the Rest of the World, Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (WPCC), Media and Foreign Policy Special Issue 5(3): 4-26.

Archetti, C. (2007) “A Multidisciplinary Understanding of News: Comparing Elite Press Framing of 9/11 in the US, Italy, France and Pakistan,” Journal of International Communication, 13(1): 86-118.

Archetti, C. (2004) “Are the Media Globalizing Political Discourse? The War On Terrorism Case Study,” The International Journal of the Humanities 2: 1301-1308.

Book chapters

Archetti, C. (in press, forthcoming 2013) “Narrative Wars: Understanding Terrorism in the Era of Global Interconnectedness,” in A. Miskimmon, B. O’Loughlin, and L. Roselle (eds) Forging the World: Strategic Narratives and International Relations (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press).

Archetti, C. (in press, forthcoming 2013) “Which Future for Foreign Correspondence?” in B. Franklin (ed.) The Future of Journalism (Oxford: Routledge).

Archetti, C. (in press, forthcoming 2013) “(Mis)Communication Wars, Terrorism, Counterterrorism and the Media” in David Welch (ed.) Propaganda, Power and Persuasion (London: IB Tauris).

Work in progress

Archetti, C. (forthcoming, 2013) The Power of Beauty: Personal Image and the Construction of Political Identity in the UK and Italy (Basingstoke: Palgrave).

Archetti, C. (forthcoming, 2014) Constructing Britain’s Story: Policy-Makers, Diplomats and Journalists at Work (New York: Palgrave, Global Public Diplomacy Series). Contract delivery date: 1 September 2013.

Archetti, C. (forthcoming, 2014) “Terrorism and the Media,” in C. Kennedy-Pipe, G. Cubb and S. Mabon (eds) Terrorism, Insurgency and Conflict (London: Sage).

Archetti, C. (forthcoming, 2015) Introduction to Terrorism and the Media (Basingstoke: Palgrave). Contract delivery date: 1 September 2014.

Book reviews

Archetti, C. (forthcoming, 2013) Review of Alice Mattoni, Media Practices and Protest Politics: How Precarious Workers Mobilise (London: Ashgate 2012), Bulletin of Italian Politics.

Archetti, C. (2011) Review of Matthew Baum and Tim J. Groeling, War Stories: The Causes and Consequences of Public Views of War (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010), Critical Studies on Terrorism 2(4): 296-297.

Archetti, C. (2010) Review of Gianpietro Mazzoleni and Anna Sfardini, Politica Pop: Da “Porta a Porta” a l’ “Isola dei Famosi [Pop Politics: From Da “Porta a Porta” a l’ “Isola dei Famosi]” (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2010), Bulletin of Italian Politics 2(1): 196-198.

Archetti, C (2010) Review of Daya Thussu (ed.) International Communication: A Reader (London: Routledge, 2010), Journal of International and Global Studies 1(2): 175-177.