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Alexander, Fran, Kathryn Stickley, Vicky Buser, and Libby Miller. "UDC at the BBC." UDC Consortium, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/200634.
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The BBC Archive is one of the world’s largest multimedia archives, held in 27 locations across the UK. The Archive contains over 2 million items of TV and video, 300,000 hours of audio, 6 million still photographs, over 4 million items of sheet music, and over half-a-million documents and records. It is a working media library, fulfilling some 4,000 loans per week, as well as preserving content as part of the UK’s national cultural heritage. A team of cataloguers and media managers classify a selection of current content, as well as enhancing cataloguing and classification of legacy content.
There are two major classification schemes used in the Archive, both numerical, and one based on UDC. Lonclass, based on UDC, was developed first, then Telclass, which is used by the Natural History Unit in Bristol. In addition, there are many and various controlled vocabularies that have been developed to tag content in the different nations (Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland) and the English regions.
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Garnham, Alison Mary. "Hans Keller and the BBC." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312713.
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Campbell, Greg Scott. "BBC and the Troubles, 1968-1998." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22018.
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In 1985, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared publicity to be the ‘oxygen’ of terrorism. Speaking from within a climate of domestic terrorism, such a statement draws into question the nature of contemporary media coverage. The British Broadcasting Corporation, existing as a public sector broadcaster, occupies a unique position in the context of 20th and 21st century mass media. The BBC is central to the creation and direction of national and international news agendas, in the formation of worldwide public opinion, and the brand name and reputation hold connotations of honesty, accuracy and impartiality. It can therefore be positioned as a ‘a microcosm of some larger system or a whole society' (Gomm et al., 2000, p.99). Yet, the historical visual output of the organisation in relation to domestic terrorism emanating from the environment of the Troubles — a significant period in social, cultural, political, and media history — has never been subject to rigorous academic scrutiny. Grounded in the field of media and cultural studies, and drawing upon extensive archival research, this thesis investigates the representation of domestic terror by the BBC in news and documentary format over the three-decade period of 1968-1998 through two interpretive modes of textual analysis: content analysis and semiotics. Throughout, the representation of events is contextualised in relation to media theory, with the words and pictures broadcast by the BBC analysed. The framing of acts of terror as image events is considered, as well as the visual aesthetic, codes, and values, of news reports. Ultimately, this work argues that BBC coverage of the Troubles has clear and identifiable patterns and symbols. Initial outbreaks of violence, where no corresponding representational referents existed, trended towards the vivid and graphic. Gradually, however, there was an overt movement away from this form; with the notable exception of moments where a method of perception created a disjuncture to established means, coverage was dominated by generic media templates, the rhetoric of euphemism, a concerted lack of contextualisation, and empty symbolism of the absent image.
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Chignell, Hugh. "BBC Radio 4's 'Analysis', 1970-1983 : a selective history and case study of BBC current affairs radio." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2004. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/335/.
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The 'historical turn' in British Media Studies has yielded new histories of television but little work on the history of post-television radio. This thesis hopes to contribute to that neglected area. The research, based on radio and written archives and interviews with former BBC staff, examines the BBC Radio 4 current affairs programme, Analysis between the years 1970 and 1983. It addresses a number of questions about the programme, including the precise reasons for its creation, how it evolved, and how it covered a range of current affairs topics. In addition, this history of current affairs radio provides useful, new insights into the rise of professionalism in the BBC, the existence of informal networks, impartiality and bias, the tension between elitism and populism and the specificity of current affairs. The thesis includes a full discussion of the history of current affairs radio from 1927 to 1960. In this section the relationship of the literary elite to the BBC in the 1930s is addressed and the evolution of the 'topical talk' and the post-war 'talks magazine' are described. The precise origins of Analysis in the late 1960s are explained with reference to the tension between the more journalistic and populist 1960s news sequences and the elitist and anti-journalistic talks tradition from which Analysis emerged following the publication of Broadcasting in the Seventies. The role of individual presenters of Analysis is examined and the evolution of the form of 'broadcast talk' employed on the programme. There is a chapter on Analysis in Africa and a concluding chapter which evaluates the relationship between Analysis and the emerging political ideology of Thatcherism. By focussing on one programme over a period of time, and following the careers of named individuals who worked in BBC radio, it is possible to reveal conflicting broadcasting values and ideals of professionalism and current affairs and to trace these back to their antecedents in the pre-war BBC.
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Kidd, Jenny. "Capture Wales : digital storytelling and the BBC." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2005. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/55399/.
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The research shows that the actuality of being 'captured' as a part of Capture Wales is neither standard to all participants, nor easy to evaluate in terms of measures of success. Most participants display a positive attitude to the process that is often explained by the perceived therapeutic nature of the workshop, and as a result of the experience, many participants enjoy a relationship with technology that is vastly advanced from their prior use. But on the whole the project has not changed Wales into a nation of Digital Storytellers. The limited numbers of people involved, coupled with the fairly limited space allowed by the BBC for the stories' display mean that the true public service'ness' of the project must be called into question.
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Irwin, Mary. "BBC television documentary 1960-70 : a history." Thesis, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.492389.
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In recent years British television drama of the 1960s has been the subject of significant academic scholarship and popular retrospective interest. The British television documentary of the period is, in contrast, markedly under researched. Initial investigation suggested that while the independent television network produced two very influential documentary series in Granada's World in Action (1963-1998) and ABC/Thames This Week (1956-1992), both of which have already been the subject of academic study, it was, in the main, at the BBC that the most critically acclaimed and popularly remembered documentaries of the period were produced. Beginning by tracing the televisual climate of the late 1950s and early 1960s out of which the documentaries developed, this thesis aims to construct the first scholarly narrative history of the development of the BBC television documentary between 1960 and 1970. It examines and re evaluates some of the most significant and influential BBC television documentaries or documentary series of the period, whilst examining the lack of status afforded other particular BBC television documentaries.
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Vedel, Bonnery Audrey. "La France de la BBC, 1938-1944." Dijon, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005DIJOA001.
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Cyzewski, Julie Hamilton Ludlam. "Broadcasting Friendship: Decolonization, Literature, and the BBC." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461169080.
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Woods, Anne. "A critical survey of BBC films, 1988-2013." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2015. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/a-critical-survey-of-bbc-films(da6b393f-c7fc-48f5-ac61-a9a2ee93f9fe).html.
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This thesis examines the arguments for the creation of a BBC feature film arm - BBC Films - and its development over a period of 25 years between 1988 and 2013. This followed the launch of Channel Four in 1982 and the formation of its own influential film strand Film on Four. As the role of public service broadcasters in supporting a national cinema became increasingly important, BBC Films became a key component of government film policy. Covering a period which saw increasing convergence between film and television, this historical investigation seeks to provide a greater understanding of the role of BBC Films as an alternative source of production funding, enabling a more complete picture of public support for British film to be drawn. The conflicted place of BBC Films within the corporation forms a primary focus. Including archival research, interviews and original primary sources - in the form of previously unseen internal strategy documents - this thesis contributes to existing gaps in literature. Examination of institutional influences upon the unit’s evolving strategy and its creative decisions - including individual creativity within organisational structures - brings together elements of previously distinct disciplinary fields, providing an important contribution to film and television studies. As a division of a PSB, funded by the licence fee, this study of BBC Films also adds significantly to discourses around the desirability of broadcaster involvement in British film production, and to the issue of commerce versus culture. Finally, this thesis will seek to assess BBC Films’ unique contribution to British film culture. This will be questioned by considering the output of BBC Films from the perspectives of its support for established and emerging UK talent, its depictions of Britishness, and its success in creating a complementary brand to Channel Four.
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Morriss, Agnieszka. "The BBC Polish Service during World War II." Thesis, City, University of London, 2016. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/15839/.
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Despite considerable interest in the BBC European Service and the role of transnational broadcasting during the Second World War, surprisingly little attention has hitherto been paid to the BBC Polish language broadcasts. As the first full length academic study of the wartime BBC Polish Service, this thesis aims to provide an in-depth examination of previously unanalysed primary sources, both Polish and British, in order to establish the extent to which Polish Service broadcasts during World War II were considered as a significant and reliable source of information. The study is primarily based on the BBC Written Archives records, in particular, the scripts of the BBC Polish language bulletins, the European News Directives and Minutes of Meetings as well as the Political Warfare Executive (PWE) directives for the Polish Service from the National Archives at Kew. These directives are central in answering the principal research question, namely the extent to which the Polish Service was required to follow official British government policy. To this end, the analysis is supported by Polish government-in-exile documents and the Polish Underground reports stored at the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum and the Polish Underground Movement Study Trust in London. These archives represent a valuable resource for studies of wartime broadcasting, censorship and propaganda. Together the various archives (in conjunction with other privately held documents) offer historians a rich source of material from which the organisation and functioning of the BBC Polish Service over this period can be constructed. Given the volume of material related to World War II, the scope of the study is concentrated upon Whitehall and BBC policy with regards to the Polish Service coverage of the Polish-Soviet affairs from the period when diplomatic relations between Poland and the USSR were re-established in 1941 to the withdrawal of recognition of the Polish government-in-exile by the Allies in 1945. The analysis demonstrates that, although the Polish Service attempted to be objective, impartial and neutral, this was achieved by selectiveness rather than by presenting both Polish and Soviet sides of the argument in territorial and political disputes. In particular, after the secret agreement between the Big Three was signed at Tehran in 1943, attempts were made by British officials to use the Polish Service as a platform to convince the Polish Underground and, by extension, the Polish population, to agree to Stalin’s demands. In general, any subjects which could be perceived by Stalin as offensive were labelled as ‘sensitive’ and expunged from the broadcasts. The evidence in this thesis therefore suggests that the overall output of the Polish service was at times subject to wider constraints determined by allied foreign policy goals and in particular the relationship between Britain and the Soviet Union in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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Kristin, Hallberg. "Islam, BBC och CNN : Palestinska inbördeskriget 2006-2007." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-295888.
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The topic of this paper is how CNN and BBC, two of the largest media companies in the world, presented Islam in the Palestinian civil war during the years 2006-2007. Articles that CNN and BBC published on the Palestinian civil war have been analyzed in order to answer this question. The purpose is to see if Islam is portrayed in an Islamophobic way by CNN and BBC and if it is possible to find discursive tracks from Clash of Civilizations-theory in the analyzed articles. The findings indicate that there are elements of Islamophobia and discursive tracks of Clash of Civilizations when it comes to presenting islam during the Palestinian civil war. Another conclusion is also that CNN and BBC presented islam in different ways during the civil war.
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Mallmann, Andréia Denise. "Mídia fluida: um estudo midiológico aplicado na BBC." Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10923/2082.
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Previous issue date: 2010<br>The media has always been, since its inception, coupled with the means of communication apparatus of mass dissemination to become digital online in contemporary transforming the receiver called an active interacting individual, capable of producing, recreating, receive and impart content. The Cultural evolution and the constant adaptation to social technologies tip led the former media empire suffered the impact the new possibilities of access to information. This period is called by that Bauman Liquid Modernity did believe so-called "new media" is no longer tied to the equipment or media, but may be now considered as the very information flow that travels the highways binary platforms digital / online. Thus, understanding the concept of media receive a new look through a midiologia reteorizada and tension in practice, a laboratory study. This research doctorate has the qualitative approach method which are based on The Complex Thought of Edgar Morin.<br>A mídia sempre foi, desde seu surgimento, associada aos meios de comunicação, aparatos de difusão massiva que, na contemporaneidade, se tornaram digitais e online, transformando o chamado receptor num ativo indivíduo interagente, capaz de produzir, recriar, receber e difundir conteúdos. A evolução cultural e a constante adaptação social às tecnologias de ponta fizeram com que o antigo império midiático sofresse o impacto das novas possibilidades de acesso à informação. Esse período, que Bauman denomina Modernidade Líquida, fez crer que a chamada “nova mídia” não está mais atrelada a equipamentos ou meios de comunicação, mas pode ser considerada o próprio fluxo informativo que percorre as autoestradas binárias das plataformas digitais/online. Sendo assim, o entendimento do conceito de mídia receberá um novo olhar através de uma midiologia reteorizada e tensionada na prática, enquanto laboratório de estudo. Essa pesquisa de doutorado tem enfoque qualitativo, cujo método baseia-se no Pensamento Complexo, de Edgar Morin.
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Weir, Patrick. "Popular geopolitical assemblages : BBC radio and foreign news." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/20525.
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This thesis aims to explore strands of assemblage, actor network theory and object oriented philosophy to the study of popular culture and world politics. Specifically it focuses on the linkages to be made between radio broadcasting, travel writing and journalism, in light of these theories. It does this through the presentation of series of archival encounters with material relating to BBC radio and foreign news production during the 1960’s Cold War period, an era in which radio broadcasting and radio technologies were absolutely central to the understanding wider geopolitical environments. The opening chapters of the thesis argue for the utility of a version of relational materialist approaches hybridised with discursive analytic frameworks as interlinked ways of thinking, which are more appropriate to understanding radio as a semiotic-discursive hybrid of popular cultural construction, as read through BBC radio and foreign news during the Cold War. The empirical chapters look to a variety of archival texts produced by radio, including infrastructural and network plans, scripted news series and individual biographical archives and turns the tools from the hybrid framework to address them. The thesis then moves towards a further provocation: to imagine radio itself differently, as a geo-political force, and suggests further possibilities for research through engagement with conceptual art, experimental literature and sound recording to conceive of some of the non-representational aspects radio’s multiple fields of relations. The thesis concludes with a call, based on what has gone before, to recognise the importance of networked and assemblage ontologies to understanding further historical and contemporary formations of geopolitical media, and suggests further research based on the strategies it identifies.
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Thomas, Jeanette Ann. "A history of the BBC features department 1924-1964." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359694.
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Belair-Gagnon, Valerie. "Reconstructing crisis reporting: social media and BBC news production." Thesis, City University London, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.616929.
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Since the emergence of social media, the BBC has sought to produce reporting more connected to its audience while retaining its authority as a public broadcaster in crisis reporting. On the one hand, news production studies theorists argue that mainstream news organisations have had difficulties adapting to social media and become closer to Its audience. On the other hand, crisis ' reporting research claim that the emergence of social media has led these news organisations to adopt a more "sensitive" and "collaborative" type of reporting. Using a comprehensive empirical analysis of crisis news production at the BBC since the London bombing attacks pf 7 July, 2005, this dissertation presents an alternative argument. It shows that the emergence of social media at the BBC and the need to manage this kind of material led to a new media logic in which tech-savvy journalists take on a new centrality in the newsroom. In this changed context, the politico-economic and socio-cultural logic have led to a more connected newsroom involving this new breed of journalists and BBC audience. This examination of news production events shows that in the midst of theses transformations in journalistic practices and norms, including news-gathering, sourcing, distribution and impartiality, the BBC has reasserted its authority as a public broadcaster.
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Willcocks, Tamsin Elisabeth. "The BBC Domesday Project : an evaluation of its aims." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311553.
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Wegg-Prosser, Victoria. "BBC producer choice and the management of organisational change." Thesis, Brunel University, 1998. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/4380.
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Producer Choice was the title given to the trading system, designed around an internal market, which was introduced at the BBC in the years between 1991 and 1994. The initiative represented the biggest organisational change in the BBC's history. The political background to Producer Choice was conditioned by the perceived need of the BBC to ensure renewal of its ten-year Charter in 1996. Producer Choice helped to secure Charter Renewal because it provided the means whereby new accountability and cost measurements were set in place. The 'command economy' of the old BBC was to be replaced with an internal market, and the organisation given an enhanced managerial focus. Using a combination of participant observation, semi-structured interviews, an analysis of all relevant documentation, and the application of theory concerning processual models of change, the nature of bureaucracy, changes in public sector management and the shift from hierarchy to marketisation, the thesis answers three questions: What is Producer Choice? How has it been implemented? What have been its outcomes? The thesis concludes by drawing out some analytical generalisations about the management of change regarding the 'process of sanctification', the effects of divisionalisation on organisational cohesion, and the characteristics of internal markets.
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Nicoli, Nicholas. "Creativity management in original television production at the BBC." Thesis, City University London, 2010. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/1153/.
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The primary concern of this thesis is to explore how creativity is managed in original television production at the BBC, and to that end, it seeks to make an original contribution to both organisational creativity management and television production discourses. The thesis offers an extensive literature review that connects cultural production, television production and creativity discourses. The thesis is consequently divided in two sections. In the first, it addresses the major theoretical frameworks of organisational creativity management and television production, and also includes a chapter on methodology. The second aims to explore BBC creativity from three viewpoints. These are, from a historical perspective, from how the BBC is affected by external factors, and from how it attempts to manage creativity of original television production from 2004 onwards. Findings suggest that despite the efficacy of numerous policies regarding how creativity is stimulated at the broadcaster, others are open to criticism. One such policy is the Window of Creative Competition (WoCC). The WoCC requires BBC’s in-house production units and the independent production sector to openly compete for approximately 250 million pounds of annual commissions for original television production. The thesis concedes that the WoCC will lead to a progressive decline in in-house television production and possibly to a decline in UK television creativity. The thesis draws on a wide range of primary and secondary sources. It combines case study explanatory analysis with long-term historical perspectives on organisational changes at the BBC.
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McQueen, David. "BBC TV's Panorama, conflict coverage and the 'Westminster consensus'." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2010. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/16428/.
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The BBC's 'flagship' current affairs series Panorama, occupies a central place in Britain's television history and yet, surprisingly, it is relatively neglected in academic studies of the medium. Much that has been written focuses on Panorama's coverage of armed conflicts (notably Suez, Northern Ireland and the Falklands) and deals, primarily, with programmes which met with Government disapproval and censure. However, little has been written on Panorama's less controversial, more routine war reporting, or on the programme's more recent history, its evolving journalistic practices and place within the current affairs form. This thesis explores these areas and examines the framing of war narratives within Panorama's coverage of the Gulf conflicts of 1991 and 2003.' One accusation in studies looking beyond Panorama's more contentious episodes is that the series has, traditionally, (over)represented 'establishment' or elite perspectives in its reporting. This charge has been made by media scholars (Williams 1968; Hall et al. 1981; Born, 2004), champions ofrival current affairs programmes (see Goddard et al. 2007) and even by a number ofsenior figures within the BBC and Panorama itself (Day 1990; Dyke 2004a). This thesis tests that view in relation to an archive ofPanorama programmes made between 1987 and 2004, with particular reference to its coverage of the First and Second Gulf Wars. The study aims to establish if Panorama has, in fact, patrolled the 'limits ofdebate', largely confined itself to 'elite views' and predominantly reflected the 'Westminster consensus' in its coverage of conflict. The thesis is supported by interviews with current and former Panorama staff and contains discussion of working practices at Panorama, particularly as they relate to reporting conflicts involving British armed forces. There is an assessment of the BBC's journalistic culture and developments within the News and Current Affairs directorate in the period under discussion; the legal and institutional constraints under which the series operated; challenges and threats to the current affairs tradition; wider concerns relating to television's coverage ofwar in general, and the two wars against Iraq specifically. Questions of indexing and framing are foregrounded in textual and content analysis of forty-two episodes dealing with the Gulf Wars to assess whether Panorama's coverage was overdetermined by official sources and elite perspectives or if it gave adequate space to a diversity of opinions and explanations for the conflicts and thereby fulfilled its legal obligations and Public Service role.
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Aldadah, Yasmin. "CDA analysis of Jerusalem Conflict in BBC and AJE." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-67498.
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This research aims at finding how BBC and AJE media represented the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The study examines the news website, which reported the recent escalation of Jerusalem conflict in December 2017, where US President Trump have recognized Jerusalem as Israeli capital, and declared to move the US embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem. The study uses qualitative research, where it investigated the impact of ideology on media discourse by means of critical discourse analysis (DHA, Topoi, and Social actor’s representation). CDA was carried out for a sample of 8 news articles published on the websites of two networks: the British Broadcasting Corporation World news "BBCWN" and the Middle Eastern Qatari owned "Al Jazeera English". The articles were chosen within the month of December 2017. Articles were analyzed by means of the two-level analysis method, including the thematic and in-depth analysis. On the first, entry-level analysis, I focus on contents of texts and outline the discourse topics. While in the second phase I analyze the means of discursive strategies and the representation of social actors utilized throughout the text. The thematic analysis revealed that, both BBC and AJE have covered the incident similarly in general look. However, in-depth analysis showed that each network had portrayed the images of Israelis and Palestinians differently. On contrast of AJE, BBC tends to perceive Palestinians as a threat and the Israeli one as victims of the Palestinian violation. Moreover, the analysis revealed that each network had different ideologies and aims. The study concludes that AJE articles was biased pro-Palestinians, while BBC articles was biased pro-Israelis.
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Frost, Rebecca Ruth. "English Cathedral Music and the BBC, 1922 to 1939." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2011. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.658081.
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English Cathedral Music has come to be regarded as an integral part of English identity both within the UK and indeed throughout the world. Its role is defined par excellence by the Nine Lessons and Carols Christmas broadcast from King's College, Cambridge. Many imagine this broadcast to be part of an enduring tradition stretching back unbroken to an idealised English past. This thesis examines the way in which the BBC broadcast cathedral music between 1922 and 1939 and assesses the impact that these broadcasts had on the way in which cathedral music was received. The main part of the thesis undertakes a detailed examination of the policies, procedures, personnel and working practices of the BBC departments responsible for the broadcasting of cathedral music. For this, the extensive collection of papers and working documents held at the BBC's Written Archive Centre was the main source. In assessing the impact of programmes on listeners, much use was made of published articles from BBC and non-BBC publications, as well as other accounts by those involved in broadcasting. The study identifies developing trends that can be found in the broadcasting of cathedral music first through the BBC's religious broadcasts and later in the Corporation's music programmes. It charts the rise in popularity of cathedral music as a broadcast genre. It identifies the consequences of the broadcasting of cathedral music for that music's perceived context and focus. The BBC's policy of broadcast excellence is shown to be a key influence in first highlighting and later transfonning the aesthetic context of the music, in particular in its identification with a national cultural life and history. This thesis argues that these policies ultimatcJy furthered the development of a secular narrative for cathedral music in parallel to and in competition with its original liturgical context.
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Wang, Shuman. "Investigating BBC's and FT's operations in China through comparison between their Chinese and English online news portals." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25677.
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This study addresses the issue of overseas news production of foreign news media when they enter the market of the Mainland China. By making an in-depth investigation of BBC’s and the FT’s operations in China and comparing the news texts of the two news media’s Chinese online portals with that of their British online portals, differences in terms of narratives, semantics, plot emphasis, and ideologies are identified and analysed, thus revealing the cross-cultural behaviour patterns of the two prominent British news media in terms of balancing between British journalistic ideology and Chinese regulations, western journalistic style and Chinese readers’ tastes, and between moral standards and commercial profit. The four online portals are compared through three Chinese news events that took place in the year 2012: the downfall of Chinese high ranking official Bo Xilai; the large-scale anti-Japan protests in the summer of 2012; and Chinese writer Mo Yan winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. The three news events covered the fields of politics, economy, society and culture. The investigating methods include quantitative analysis and framing analysis of the news reports on the three news events produced by the four online portals, translation study of the translated news reports of the four online portals and semi-structured interviews with journalists and editors of BBC Chinese and the FT. The central argument is that BBC and the FT act differently in China and in the UK so as to cater to local media markets on many aspects including journalistic practice, coverage of local news, and media policy. Such changes in some cases do not remain consistent with their claims to represent the same news media. Consequently, the Chinese branches of the two prominent British news media become neither a British journalistic ideology carrier nor a copycat of a Chinese native news producer but rather a mixture of both cultures.
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Noonan, Caitriona. "The production of religious broadcasting : the case of the BBC." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2009. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/614/.
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This thesis examines the way in which media professionals negotiate the occupational challenges related to television and radio production. It has used the subject of religion and its treatment within the BBC as a microcosm to unpack some of the dilemmas of contemporary broadcasting. In recent years religious programmes have evolved in both form and content leading to what some observers claim is a “renaissance” in religious broadcasting. However, any claims of a renaissance have to be balanced against the complex institutional and commercial constraints that challenge its long-term viability. This research finds that despite the BBC’s public commitment to covering a religious brief, producers in this style of programming are subject to many of the same competitive forces as those in other areas of production. Furthermore those producers who work in-house within the BBC’s Department of Religion and Ethics believe that in practice they are being increasingly undermined through the internal culture of the Corporation and the strategic decisions it has adopted. This is not an intentional snub by the BBC but a product of the pressure the Corporation finds itself under in an increasingly competitive broadcasting ecology, hence the removal of the protection once afforded to both the department and the output. Those who informed this study have responded to these challenges in a number of different ways. Of these, the two most important are the adoption of a discourse of ‘professionalism’ designed to underscore their creativity, knowledge and value to the BBC and overcome the ghettoisation of religious broadcasting and second, in the opening up of religion to a range of new formats and conventions which are designed to make the programming more audience, and thus commissioner, friendly. However, despite both these responses the long-term future of religious broadcasting and its suppliers is still far from clear. Therefore, using historical analysis, interviews with media professionals and a period of observational research this thesis offers critical insights into the private world of religious broadcasting at the BBC.
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Lee, Joong Won 1972. "A church and family housing for Berkland Baptist Church (BBC)." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68367.
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Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2001.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 104-107).<br>Creating a sound church is totally different from designing a fabulous poetic space. Major problem of current built form of a church is that it is built mostly in a liturgical form to serve sacred ordinances that does not address the importance of activities among the members. Church has turned into a liturgical space only to serve once-a-week spiritual purgation. This causes serious problems to Christians. There is a big dichotomy between their actual life and religious life. It is a constant struggle for Christians to figure out on what values -Christian or Daily-to make decision to perform their life. A church is a body of Christ where one not only finds the eternal life by faith, but also gathers to lead a life based on Christian values. Therefore, a church has to be a part of actual living. Berkland Baptist Church (BBC) is one of the leading churches that address to return to the spirit of early churches where religious life and daily life are fully integrated. This thesis, thus, explores a new concept of what a built form of a church would be. The final product has informed that a church is not a single building with well contrived light to arouse spiritual excitement, but an assemblage of functions - church & housing - that invigorate communal activities among the faithful.<br>Joong Won Lee.<br>M.Arch.
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Mallmann, Andr?ia Denise. "M?dia fluida : um estudo midiol?gico aplicado na BBC." Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2010. http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/4422.
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Previous issue date: 2010-06-24<br>A m?dia sempre foi, desde seu surgimento, associada aos meios de comunica??o, aparatos de difus?o massiva que, na contemporaneidade, se tornaram digitais e online, transformando o chamado receptor num ativo indiv?duo interagente, capaz de produzir, recriar, receber e difundir conte?dos. A evolu??o cultural e a constante adapta??o social ?s tecnologias de ponta fizeram com que o antigo imp?rio midi?tico sofresse o impacto das novas possibilidades de acesso ? informa??o. Esse per?odo, que Bauman denomina Modernidade L?quida, fez crer que a chamada nova m?dia n?o est? mais atrelada a equipamentos ou meios de comunica??o, mas pode ser considerada o pr?prio fluxo informativo que percorre as autoestradas bin?rias das plataformas digitais/online. Sendo assim, o entendimento do conceito de m?dia receber? um novo olhar atrav?s de uma midiologia reteorizada e tensionada na pr?tica, enquanto laborat?rio de estudo. Essa pesquisa de doutorado tem enfoque qualitativo, cujo m?todo baseia-se no Pensamento Complexo, de Edgar Morin.
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Lindner, Julianne. "Branding Images : White Saviorism and Shock Appeals by BBC Three." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-39674.
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This research has focused on the representation of foreign cultures in four BBCdocumentaries. To be more precise, it looked into how public documentariesportray foreign cultures, specifically within a frame of development aid and whitesaviourism when watching documentaries by BBC Three, a channel which iscentred towards a young audience. Previous research on white saviourism andshock appeals analysed movies, documentaries and aid campaigns. Barely anyhave so far researched representation of minorities, foreign cultures and aid topicsin public documentaries. BBC Three is additionally focused only on a youngaudience and blends tv with social media engagement. This is an interesting angleas youth will be the next policy makers and as they are starting to create theirworldview. The research is based upon a visual and textual analysis, followingHall’s encoding/decoding model. It showed that all four documentaries (2016-2018) misrepresent their “subjects” by focusing more on the presenter’sperspective, e.g. concentrating on their emotional responses, asking loadedquestions, giving their opinions and solutions. All four documentaries alsopresented a simplified local situation through Scott’s shock appeals and a badgood guy perspective (where the presenters address the local government andstand up for the helpless subjects). One can therefore state that youth learn aboutforeign cultures through the eyes of a “North” girl/boy next door presenter basingupon a white saviourism perspective. The research additionally related thefindings to Goodman’s theory on iCare capitalism, the emphasis on creating abrand and self-value out of caring for others so that other’s suffering is turned intoa theatre play. This is also visible through BBC Three’s and the presenters’ socialmedia presence. This research opens the discussion and defines a need toresearch the responsibilities of public channels and the impact on youth whendeveloping opinions, views and stereotypes.
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Switalski, Jean-Luc. "La BBC pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale : rôle et fonction." Lille 3, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996LIL3A002.
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Noonan, Caitriona. "The production of religious broadcasting the case of the BBC /." Connect to e-thesis, 2008. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/614/.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 2008.<br>Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Faculty of Arts, Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.
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Skoog, K. "The 'responsible' woman : the BBC and women's radio 1945-1955." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2010. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/98wyw/the-responsible-woman-the-bbc-and-women-s-radio-1945-1955.
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The BBC's women's radio in the British post-war period (1945 – 1955) is still a very much neglected area of historical research, although the BBC after the Second World War continued to produce many talks and programmes that were specifically aimed at women, such as the factual Woman’s Hour (1946) and the fictional Mrs. Dale’s Diary (1948). By building on archival research conducted mainly at the BBC Written Archives Centre, and further work carried out at the Mass Observation Archive, this thesis addresses the production side, as well as the text, and the audience; in a sense a very multifaceted approach. Focus has been laid on women's programmes such as Woman’s Hour and Mrs. Dale’s Diary. But other talks and discussions have also been considered not necessarily with just a focus on women. Throughout the research the editorial process has been of major interest; the thinking behind; the production process. The thesis will demonstrate the importance played by BBC women's programmes in this period but also in the general development of British broadcasting. The thesis also offers a detailed insight into the internal culture of the BBC, and its women's programmes, at a time when questions about culture and taste were surfacing. The thesis will therefore be an original contribution to knowledge to British broadcasting history, but due to its interdisciplinary nature using radio as a 'Historian', this work is further challenging previous assumptions about the post-war housewife, and the perception of the immediate post-war years as a particular stifling and conservative period, with no feminism.
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Linfoot, Matthew. "A history of BBC local radio in England, c1960-1980." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2011. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/8zz18/a-history-of-bbc-local-radio-in-england-c1960-1980.
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The story of BBC Local Radio in England, from the days of its conception around 1960, through to the launch of the first stations in 1967 and the finalisation of how to complete the chain in 1980 is a neglected area of research in media history. This thesis tells this story, using previously undocumented research from the BBC Written Archive Centre, and supplemented by oral history interviews with key participants. The approach is multi-faceted. Part of the investigation lies in gaining a greater understanding of how the BBC operated as an institution during these years. The internal culture of the BBC presents a series of complex issues, and the evolution of local radio illustrates this in many ways, in matters concerning management, autonomy, technology, the audience and finance. Linked to this are the differing notions and definitions of what „local‟ meant, in terms of the original concept and the output in practice. For local radio, this had a crucial impact on station location, the size of the transmission area and the degree to which the stations were able to represent and embody their communities. This history also assesses the impact the stations made, often in contrast to the popular image and perception of local broadcasting. The original contribution to knowledge that this thesis makes is in narrating this history for the first time, and in doing so, challenging previous assumptions about the nature of local broadcasting as part of the BBC and as part of the wider community.
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Richards, Morgan. "Realizing animals at the BBC : new media technology and wildlife documentary." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/265503.
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This thesis examines recent shifts in wildlife documentary by way of a detailed analysis of the genre's conception and evolution in Britain. Its title, Realizing Animals, relates to the ~ notion that the "reality" of wildlife documentary is a continually changing process, in which diversifying media technologies, the historical action of genre, and particular production institutions (in line with the uneven distribution of power to influence representations of "reality") all play a role. Realizing Animals addresses a number of inter-linked research goals. Firstly, it presents a rigorous account of the BBC's central role in the construction of wildlife documentary in Britain. It examines both how and why the BBC had such an important role in the development of this genre, and why depictions of wildlife have been so important to the BBC's evolving public service ethos. This approach emphasises the importance of linking the dynamics of genre to the actions and histories of particular institutions (such as the BBC) within a wider social space. Secondly, this thesis argues against the prevalent view that digitization, understood narrowly in terms of computer-generated imagery (CGI), is inherently destructive in its effects, severing photography and documentary's claim to the real. Instead, the effects of CGI are re-conceptualised both against the background of the histo1y of photography's origins in science and documentary, and in terms of a broader understanding of digital media in contemporary culture, which includes digital video, high-definition (HD) technologies and digital editing. Within this framework, digital media can be understood to displace (rather than destroy) wildlife documentary's claim to the real, and even to be productive in its effects (allowing the creation of previously impossible "realities"). The wildlife genre's contemporary milieu in the digital age is also analysed in terms of the rise of digital and satellite broadcasting. It is argued that the resulting shift to an increasingly global multi-channel environment (marked by both competitive and co-operative institutional relationships) is linked to the increasing divergence of the wildlife genre between, on the one hand, cheaper presenter-led series shot on digital video, and, on the other hand, hugely expensive, high-end wildlife series, some of which use CGI and HD technologies. To this end, these themes are explored in the central chapters of this thesis which each comprise one of four inter-linked case histories: the development of wildlife film in Britain, the birth of wildlife television and Attenborough's landmark series (1979-2008), the wildlife docusoap Big Cat Diary (1996) and Walking With Dinosaurs (1999). The empirical backbone of this study is formed by over forty interviews with wildlife documentary makers, extensive archival research and a short observational study of a wildlife documentary in production at the BBC. Above all, Realizing Animals sets out to show that the dynamics of genre, together with the development of new media technologies and the shifting politics of institutions, have conditioned the evolution of the wildlife genre.
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Leonard, Glen Stewart. "'The last utterances of the civilized' : E.M. Forster and the BBC." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609445.
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Nicholls, Peter Leonard. "Employment restructuring in public sector broadcasting : the case of the BBC." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.431156.
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This thesis examines the nature and impact of a set of policies formulated during the 1980s upon the labour process of television production. It locates both the nature of the reforms and the details of their impact within a broader account of the BBC which had become the special target for the government of Margaret Thatcher during the 1980s. The study reports upon the emergence and development of a particular set of work practices associated with television production within the BBC. Working within a set of ideas called 'public service broadcasting,' the workforce had relied upon a unique set of operating procedures that had survived well into the 1980s. This so-called "privileged" organisation, reliant upon a license fee for its income, became the object of intense interest when an expanding media industry was looking for additional opportunities for growth including the advertising industry. For those seeking to restructure this powerful organisation, often considered to represent many of the core values of British society, such as free speech and a liberal tradition resulting in high quality creative programmes, the challenge was to depict an organisation that was in need of modernisation. The form that modernisation took, under a government claiming to want to reduce the scale of the state, was an adoption of neo-liberalism. Instead of a heavy bureaucratic state machine, open Inarkets would allocate resources in television in the fonn of consumer choice. Policies would be devised to replace centralised bureaucracy with devolved budgets Inonitored by accurate financial information systems. This it was clailned would place the BBC within a dynamic market place where a burgeoning independent sector would supply a fresh source of creative talent and drive down costs. Such claims made for the legislation and a number of management policies which sought to reinforce these statutory reforms within the Corporation, appear not to be supported by the findings where there is strong evidence of the growth of temporary non-standard employment in place of secure full-time jobs. This has resulted in lowered commitment and motivation in the workforce. The new procedures for the production process of television Inanufacturing resulted in unforeseen inefficiencies which held the potential to increase costs. Alongside these problems, the role of the producer had been redefined to the point where informal social and political skills were required and supplemented the core creative skills which had traditionally defined this role. The introduction of market-driven reforms has redefined the nature of the television labour process. From the results of this research, it appears that a series of contradictions and unanticipated outcomes makes many of the original claims for these policies appear hollow. If this public sector broadcaster as an agency of the central state is to survive and flourish, it will have to create a role for its producers which allows for sustaining trust, open and honest cOlnmunications and creativity. The teams with which they work will need security, training and careers for sustaining motivation and ambition.
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Waymark, Peter Astley Grosvenor. "Television and the cultural revolution: the BBC under Hugh Carleton Greene." Thesis, Open University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.424650.
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Lo, Biundo Ester. "London calling Italy : BBC broadcasts between occupation and liberation (1942-45)." Thesis, University of Reading, 2017. http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/77541/.
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In September 1938 the BBC broadcast in French, German and Italian for the first time. The Second World War would break out the following year. The ambiguity of the British propaganda aimed at Italy during the Second World War is clearly reflected in the broadcasts of the BBC Italian Service as well as in the relationships between the British Foreign Office and the Italian broadcasters at the BBC. Radio Londra, as the BBC was known in Italy during the conflict, was concurrently the voice of an occupier and a liberator of Italy from the Nazi-Fascist yoke. Despite this, the station is mainly remembered as the authentic voice of anti-Fascism and Resistance. Drawing on unexplored archival material collected in Italy and the United Kingdom, this thesis aims to understand why the BBC programmes have become one of the myths of Italian cultural heritage of the Second World War. The work takes into account both British and Italian perspectives by answering three main research questions: to what extent the Italian exiles working at the BBC were allowed to operate independently from the British Foreign Office; what the programmes said during the most delicate phases of the Allied Italian campaign in order to engage with as many Italians as possible; and how the programmes were received by the Italian civilians. While answering these questions the research focuses on two key elements: the role played by transnational broadcasts in both creating a European identity and offering ordinary people a window onto a foreign world; and the contribution of the foreigners living in the United Kingdom during the conflict to the development of the BBC as a leading global broadcaster. The thesis argues that the corporation did play an ambiguous role but it was the reception of the programmes in Italy at the time that created the myth of the BBC as an authentic supporter of the Italian antiFascist cause. It also claims that one of the key reasons for the success of the Italian Service was its ability to engage with ordinary people and address their concerns during the difficult years of the war.
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Jones, A. C. "Speaking of science : BBC science broadcasting and its critics, 1923-64." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2010. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/19988/.
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Several times in the BBC’s history, from the 1920s to the 1960s, scientific organisations (mainly the British Association) and numerous eminent scientists attempted to influence the management of science broadcasting. These attempts usually consisted of visits by scientific deputations to the BBC to argue for the reorganisation of science broadcasting. The historical part of the thesis narrates the so-far unpublished story of these interventions at the BBC, drawing on archival primary sources. The thesis sets these interventions in their historical context, and also in the context of BBC science production. The historical context of science production at the BBC, described here, is another little researched and largely unknown topic. The interventions are shown to have been strikingly consistent over several decades. Scientists argued that the public should be better informed about science, and that the BBC had a duty to promote the public understanding of science. To facilitate this, scientists argued that science production should be centralised, and that scientists should be given significant control over science programme planning. The responses of BBC managers to these interventions are shown also to have been strikingly consistent. Managers reiterated the professionalism and competence of production staff, and presented evidence of the BBC’s commitment to science programming. The thesis draws on several bodies of scholarship in concert to gain theoretical insight into these interventions. Specifically, theoretical ideas relating to science communication, boundary work, and the construction of scientific authority give analytical purchase on the conduct of the scientists. Similarly, theoretical ideas on the nature of professionalism, public-service broadcasting, and the relationship of organisational structure to behaviour give insight into the conduct of BBC managers, and into the conduct of the scientists. This theoretical background shows how the resolution of the issue in 1964 served a strategic function for the BBC.
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Dugnani, Bruna Lopes Fernandes. "A BBC News online e a imigração irregular: uma abordagem dialógica." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2012. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13595.
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Previous issue date: 2012-10-19<br>Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico<br>The great amount of immigrants and the several attempts to legislate on immigration in the United Kingdom arouse controversies and involve several social sectors. Those sectors are given voice on the BBC News online news, which produces news not only to inform but also to unveil its own opinions and position. This aspect assures BBC‟s influential role on society. Taking this into account, our goal is to understand the ideological position underlying BBC News online news towards irregular immigration in the United Kingdom. The criteria adopted for the corpus selection were: the news about irregular immigration in the United Kingdom had to be published from 12th April to 6th May of 2010 and signed by a journalist; the material forwarded by the anchors available on the news was to be related to irregular immigration, and the other selected content had to work as non-verbal element to the news selected by the first aforementioned criterion. Those criteria were established in order to relate the selected utterances to BBC‟s editorial policies and to the electoral process for the new British parliament when irregular immigration issue acquired great importance and to assure that the said and the unsaid on the news could be properly understood. This way we collected five pieces of news published from 12th April to 6th May of 2010, which led us to four source documents, one blog post and one piece of news. Futhermore, the said and unsaid on the five selected news was materialized on three pieces of news and one BBC News transcript of the British parties‟ leader debate. In order to achieve the objective of this research, we adopted the Bakhtinian dialogic approach, sharing with Bakhtin and The circle their language conception and, more specifically, the concepts of Speech genre, Non-verbal, Other speakers‟ speech, and Ideology. The corpus specifity made us adopt the NURC/ SP oral language transcription method, some links and hypertext classifications and a conception that enabled the analysis of the corpus‟ verbal-visual dimension. For the corpus analysis, we followed the Bakhtinian methodological order of describing, analyzing, and interpreting, taking in consideration the wider and the more specific social contexts and the genre and linguistic materiality of every piece of news. The analysis result pointed to a xenophobic conservative political position and indifference towards human rights<br>A grande quantidade de imigrantes e as diversas tentativas de legislar sobre a imigração no Reino Unido geram controvérsias que envolvem vários segmentos da sociedade. Esses segmentos ganham voz nas news da BBC News online, ou seja, nos informativos e opinativos que os utilizam não apenas para informar, mas também para desvelar suas próprias opiniões e posições. Isso faz com que o papel exercido pela BBC tenha grande influência na sociedade. Levando isso em consideração, objetivamos compreender quais são os posicionamentos ideológicos presentes nas matérias da BBC News online sobre a imigração irregular existente no Reino Unido. Definimos como critérios de seleção do corpus que as news fossem assinadas, tratassem da questão da imigração irregular no Reino Unido e tivessem sido veiculadas no período compreendido entre 12 de abril e 6 de maio de 2010; que o material a que fomos remetidos pelas âncoras disponíveis nas news se relacionassem à imigração irregular; e que o restante do conteúdo coletado funcionasse como elemento extraverbal para as news selecionadas. Tais critérios foram estabelecidos para relacionar os enunciados selecionados às políticas editoriais da BBC e ao processo eleitoral para a escolha do novo parlamento britânico esse foi um momento em que a questão da imigração irregular adquiriu grande relevância , e para garantir que os ditos e não-ditos pudessem ser compreendidos adequadamente. Dessa forma, chegamos a cinco news publicadas entre 12 de abril e 6 de maio de 2010, que nos remeteram a quatro documentos-fonte, uma postagem em blog e uma news. Além disso, os não-ditos dessas cinco news materializaram-se em três outras news e em uma transcrição da BBC News do último debate dos líderes dos partidos britânicos. Para atingir o objetivo traçado, adotamos a abordagem dialógica bakhtiniana, compartilhando de Bakhtin e do Círculo a concepção de linguagem e, mais especificamente, os conceitos de Gênero do discurso , Extralinguístico/Extraverbal , Discurso de outrem e Ideologia . A especificidade do corpus nos conduziu ainda à adoção do método de transcrição da linguagem oral do NURC/SP, e ainda à adoção tanto de algumas classificações de links e de hipertextos, como de uma noção que permitisse a análise da dimensão verbo-visual de nosso objeto. Para a análise, seguimos a ordem metodológica bakhtiniana de descrever, analisar e interpretar, contemplando o contexto social mais amplo e o mais imediato, o gênero e a materialidade linguística de cada news. Os resultados apontaram para uma posição política conservadora de nacionalismo xenófobo e indiferente aos direitos humanos
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Smith, Kieron. "John Ormond and the BBC Wales Film Unit : poetry, documentary, nation." Thesis, Swansea University, 2014. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa42379.
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This thesis is a detailed examination of the films of Swansea-born poet and BBC Wales documentary filmmaker John Ormond. It examines the uses of the documentary form within the context of a broadcasting institution that many have argued has been one of the central agents in the political and cultural development of this small nation. Given that the thesis is concerned with the work a decidedly creative figure, it seeks throughout to keep in focus Ormond's unique contribution to the documentary form. It begins with an interpretation of Ormond's broad cultural and philosophical framework as embodied in his poetry, and from here goes on to explore the ways in which this thinking impacted upon his approach to film as a medium and, particularly, the documentary as a cultural form. It positions Ormond's approach to documentary within the tradition of the Griersonian 'British Documentary Movement', in particular its post-war manifestations on British television as pioneered by producers such as Denis Mitchell, Norman Swallow and Philip Donnellan. Indeed, the thesis is, in part, an attempt to align Ormond's work with these better-known figures in British television history. The major aim of the thesis, however, is to explore the uses of this peculiarly civic cultural form within a minority national broadcasting context. To this end, it utilizes Jurgen Habermas's notion of the 'public sphere' as a lens through which to examine the ways in which Ormond's wide-ranging oeuvre interacted with and impacted upon a Welsh public sphere at a time of unprecedented political, economic, social, and cultural change. It distinguishes three broad areas of thematic concern - "culture", "historiography" and the "ethnographic" - and examines the ways in which Ormond's films reflect and contribute to a wide and shifting range of national discourses in this pivotal era in the history of Wales.
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Pawley, Laurence David. "Culture and citizenship : a case study of practice in the BBC." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.517891.
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ABSTRACT: This thesis constitutes a critique of current citizenship theory, focussed on the ways in which various definitions of `culture' have gained recognition as part of citizenship's theoretical terrain. Through a qualitative case study of practice within the BBC, the thesis reflects on the limitations and potentialities of current scholarship, and suggests how a pragmatic cultural citizenship might offer a way forward. The thesis begins through an engagement with existing literature which produces distinct `models' of citizenship: liberal, liberal cosmopolitan, multi-cultural, and `deep cultural'. These models function as a conceptual `toolkit', and the following chapter demonstrates how, via public sphere theory, they can be applied to understand the relationship between communicative institutions and citizens. The relationship between citizenship theory and media practice is thereby made explicit, laying the foundations for subsequent empirical work. The empirical chapters take the form of a qualitative case study of policy and practice in the BBC. This begins with a brief analysis of the institution's policy history with respect to citizenship, and subsequently focuses on the 2006 broadcast Manchester Passion. The case study reveals how policy relating to issues including identity and participation was implemented at the micro-level. In doing so, the thesis explores how which different conceptualisations of citizenship function in concert with practical `logics' (including economy, cultural difference, and genre). Building on this analysis, the thesis concludes by suggesting that the BBC's practice was most effective when it adopted a pragmatic approach to cultural conflicts. This argument (described in terms of `cultural balance') is mapped back onto the models developed earlier in the theses, and used to propose that citizenship theory should seek to reimagine itself on a more fluid basis; one that recognises that citizenship is inevitably realised in socially and culturally specific circumstances.
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Phillips, Wendy. "Television sitcom production at the BBC 1973-1984 : an integrated approach." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2005. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/92xy3/television-sitcom-production-at-the-bbc-1973-1984-an-integrated-approach.
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Between 1973 and 1984 BBC Television produced and transmitted a number of popular situation comedies. These were designed to be light-hearted, inoffensive entertainment, but they nevertheless explored, reflected and reinforced changing public attitudes to private sexual behaviour. Central to the emergence of these series at this time was the ethos of the BBC's Light Entertainment Department under the successive leadership of Bill Cotton and James Gilbert. They espoused and developed attitudes of creative excellence, competitive success and benevolent patronage, and took a liberal, non-polemical, middle-brow approach to material. The thesis adopts a multi-faceted approach to reveal the relationships between the individual contributors and the public feedback for four of the most successful series: Are You Being Served (1973-1985), The Good Life (1975-1978), Butterflies (1978- 1983) and The Young Ones (1982-1984). It concludes that their central creative impulse initially came from the four writer-producer teams: David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd; John Esmonde, Bob Larbey and John Howard Davies; Carla Lane, Sydney Lotterby and Gareth Gwenlan; and Rik Mayall, Lise Mayer, Ben Elton and Paul Jackson. These four series offered audiences a range of comedic situations, namely: a fading department store, an ecologically-aware suburban household, a more traditional suburban household and a student flat in a large metropolitan city. Audiences had several points of identification with the various characters and were able to adjust their own individual attitude to the private sexual behaviour of the characters, thus allowing the public as a whole to reach a new consensus about emerging changes in public attitudes. Particularly noticeable was the positive public response to the portrayal of two characters who challenged traditional gender norms: Mr Humphries (John Inman) and Margo Leadbetter (Penelope Keith), which for a short while gave both actor and character a life beyond each series. Other notable developments were the public acceptance of a more open portrayal of sexual desire in women, the decline of innuendo and a more public discussion of deviant sexual behaviour, the open acceptance of pre-marital sexual relationships and the tentative recognition of extra-marital sexual relationships.
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Jackson, Elizabeth Helen Anthea. "Participatory public service media : presenters and hosts in BBC New Media." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2009. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/90xqy/participatory-public-service-media-presenters-and-hosts-in-bbc-new-media.
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Camporesi, Valeria. "Mass culture and the defence of national traditions : the BBC and American broadcasting 1922-1954 /." [Italy] : V. Camporesi, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb355906531.
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Owen, Jenny. "Crisis or renewal : the origins, evolution and future of public service broadcasting 1922 to 1996." Thesis, University of Westminster, 1996. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/948yy/crisis-or-renewal-the-origins-evolution-and-future-of-public-service-broadcasting-1922-to-1996.
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In the 1980s the future of public service broadcasting in Britain was called into doubt. Technological developments in cable, satellite and digital technologies were, it was argued, poised to end the condition known as 'spectrum scarcity'; while the emergence of a neo-liberal Conservative government, pledged to rolling back the frontiers of the state', was of the opinion that the current system of public service broadcasting provision was no longer necessary given the number of broadcasting channels now available; broadcasting, in its view, would increasingly be able to mirror the publishing industry in its structure and future regulation. Critics however, were loathe to accept the argument that technological considerations alone ought to drive broadcasting policy; and two key questions emerged. Firstly, how was public service broadcasting to be defended in a climate increasingly hostile to public service ideals and institutions in general; and secondly, and as a result of the first question, how was public service broadcasting to be understood? This thesis seeks to answer both these questions and argues that in the process of clarifying the nature of public service broadcasting in the past, that solutions for its defence in the future will be found. Public service broadcasting, was not, it will be argued, simply about institutions like the BBC, but evidence of a much broader and widely shared (across the political divides) understanding of the proper role of broadcasting in a democratic society (at least until the 1980s). In short, public service broadcasting in the past was never simply a response to a set of technological conditions; instead it was forged from a set of political, economic, Administrative and cultural ideas about the nature of society and broadcasting's role in it; and hence its ability to respond to the new conditions of the 1990s and beyond.
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Berg, Ann-Christin. "Unbiased news ? : news from the BBC and CNN on September 11, 2001." Thesis, University West, Department of Social and Behavioural Studies, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-1476.
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Sallans, Bonnie Jean. ""I am not Winston Smith" : Orwell, the BBC, and Nineteen eighty-four." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=56915.
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The subject of this thesis is the influence of George Orwell's experience as a war-time BBC radio broadcaster on the author as he created the world of NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR. In 1985 W. J. West published the transcripts of Orwell's wartime broadcasts. West suggested in his introductory preface that Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR was based directly on his BBC experience and problems encountered with the Ministry of Information at that time. This thesis argues that, though Orwell probably drew on his BBC experience for the psychological content of NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR, Winston's treatment at the hands of Big Brother is not based on anything the author endured during his tenure at the BBC. To this end Orwell's personal and political reasons for both joining and leaving the BBC are discussed. The connection between reality and fiction in Orwell's works, both documentary and fictional, is examined, and the literary nature of all of Orwell's writing taken into consideration in an exploration of the creative dynamic shaping Orwell's expression.
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Smith, David Mark. "Politics through the microphone : BBC radio and the 'New Jerusalem' 1940-1945." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390616.
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Hinnells, Duncan. "The making of a national composer : Vaughan Williams, OUP and the BBC." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323543.
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Nicholas, Siân. "The BBC, British morale, and the Home Front war effort 1939-1945." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334282.
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Turner, William Lewis. "Language ideologies and the BBC Voices website : hypermodal and practice-oriented perspectives." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.549734.
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This thesis offers a contribution to the study of language representation in on line media. Taking a social-semiotic perspective, it argues that critical techniques of hypermodal textual analysis can be fruitfully [nforrned by attending to situated media practice. This approach is shown to provide an empirically grounded basis from which to unpack the ideological complexity that such mediatization entails. An interactive website produced in 2004 as part of the BBC's language-focussed Voices project (www.bbc.co.ukfvoices) is analysed in order to illustrate the utility of such a practice-oriented hypermodal approach to on line discourse analysis. Five case studies demonstrate how Voices promoted a metadiscursive regime of language as part of a move to satisfy more tangible institutional agendas. Linguistic indexicalities are shown to have been manipulated in an ideologically loaded and politically driven promotion of equality and inclusivity. The rhetorical management of affect in relation to different forms of interactivity is exposed as a key dimension of that programme. Attending to the motivated deployment of multiple semiotic modes within the project's various domains of practice allows a complex web of ideological tensions to be unpacked and understood in terms of their ongoing effects.
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Thompson, Ann Georgina. "Mastering BBC Voices : control and early deployment of a large lexical dataset." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.590153.
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This thesis documents the acquisition, ordering and deployment of lexical material collected for the BBC Voices project, which was conducted during 2004 - 2005. It seeks to present a record of the way in which extensive raw data, generated through an interactive website, were first organised in order to create a coherent and usable database and then applied to initial lexical studies. The work is constructed in two parts. The first part describes the way in which the BBC Voices lexical data were liberated from the encoded format in which they had been collected from respondents, subsequently systematised and finally transferred to a viable database for analysis. Theoretical issues pertaining to the use of the lexical items are identified and discussed in Part 1 and applied in Part 2. The second part of this thesis takes as its focus two studies, using samples of the data in different contexts in order to illustrate their value, accessibility and relevance to linguistic research. The first study is an application to metaphor use in the UK, and the other is geographically based, assessing issues of language stability. The two parts together constitute a synthesis of the formulation and application of a large lexical database. The creation of an accessible lexical resource of this magnitude is of immense value to lexicologists and dialectologists worldwide.