- Justin Lewis
Justin Lewis is Professor of Communication and Head of the [http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/ Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies] . He returned to Britain in 2000, having worked for 12 years in the United States at the [http://www.massachusetts.edu/ University of Massachusetts] .
He has written widely about media, culture and politics. Recent books include Constructing Public Opinion (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001), Citizens or Consumers: What the media tell us about political participation (Open University Press, 2005) and Shoot First and Ask Questions Later: Media Coverage of the War in Iraq (Peter Lang, in press). He is also the Series Editor for the list in Media and Culture for [http://www.peterlang.com/ Peter Lang Publishers] , and has produced edited collections for Blackwell’s and Westview Press.
He has written articles for
The Guardian ,The Los Angeles Times andThe Boston Globe , and is a regular commentator on media, politics and cultural issues for regional and national US and UK media, includingBBC Radio Five , the Today Programme, BBC TV News,The Independent ,The Washington Post , the NBC Today Show and National Public Radio. He has written and presented two videos: Getting The Message Across and Constructing Public Opinion for the Media Education Foundation.Publications
* Art - Who Needs It? , co-authored with
David Morley andRussell Southwood . London: Comedia, 1986.* Art, Culture and Enterprise: the Politics of the Cultural Industries, London: Routledge, 1990.
* The Ideological Octopus: An Exploration of Television and its Audience, New York: Routledge, 1991.
* Enlightened Racism: The Cosby Show, Audiences and the Myth of the American Dream, co-authored with
Sut Jhally . Boulder: Westview Press, 1992.* Viewing, Reading, Listening: Essays in Cultural Reception, co- edited with
Jon Cruz . Boulder: Boulder: Westview Press, 1994.* Constructing Public Opinion, New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Bookcover by Professor Justin Lewis
* Television Studies: The Key Concepts, co-authored with
Bernadette Casey ,Neil Casey ,Ben Calvert andLiam French , London: Routledge, 2001.* Cultural Policy: A Critical Reader, co-written and edited with
Toby Miller , Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002.* Citizens or Consumers: The Media and the Decline of Political Participation, co-authored with
Sanna Inthorn andKarin Wahl-Jorgensen , Open University Press, 2005.* Shoot First and Ask Questions Later: Media Coverage of the War in Iraq, co-authored with
Rod Brookes ,Nick Mosdell andTerry Threadgold , Peter Lang, 2006.* Television Studies: The Key Concepts, co-authored with
Bernadette Casey ,Neil Casey ,Ben Calvert andLiam French , London: Routledge, 2001, 2nd edition, 2008.References
* http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec/contactsandpeople/profiles/lewis-justin.html
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
