Dr Cynthia Carter - BA (Carleton) MA (Carleton) MLitt (Strathclyde) PhD (Wales)
Overview
Position:
Senior Lecturer
Email:
CarterCL@cardiff.ac.ukTelephone: +44 (0)29 208 76172
Fax: +44 (0)29 202 38832
Extension: 76172
Location: Room 0.63A, Bute Building
Dr Cynthia Carter is a Senior Lecturer in the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University.
She has published widely, with particular research interests in children and news, feminist media studies, journalism and safety issues, and violence and the media. Her books include Critical Readings: Violence and the Media (2006); Critical Readings: Media and Gender (Open University Press, 2004), Violence and the Media (Open University Press, 2003), Environmental Risks and the Media (Routledge, 2000) and News, Gender and Power (Routledge, 1998).
She is Founding Co-Editor of the journal Feminist Media Studies and is editorial board member of Critical Studies in Media Communication, Journal of Children and Media, Communication Review, Communication, Culture & Critique, Sociology Compass and Fifth Estate.
Research Interests
- Children, news and citizenship
- Children, journalism and war/conflict/terrorism
- Journalism and safety issues
- Feminist media studies
- Violence and the media
Teaching
- BA Undergraduate modules "Media and Gender" and "Mediating Childhood"
- Masters module "Research in Journalism Studies I"; Research in Journalism Studies II"
Publications
Selected Publications
Books
Weaver, C.K. and Carter, C. (eds) (2006) Critical Readings: Violence and the Media, Maidenhead and New York: Open University Press.
Carter, C. and Steiner, L. (eds) (2004) Critical Readings: Media and Gender, Maidenhead and New York: Open University Press.
Carter, C. and Weaver, C.K. (2003) Violence and the Media, Buckingham and Philadelphia: Open University Press.
Allan, S., Adam, B., and Carter, C. (eds) (2000) Environmental Risks and the Media, London and New York: Routledge.
Carter, C., Branston, G. and Allan, S. (eds). (1998) News, Gender and Power, London and New York: Routledge.
Selected Articles
Allan, S., Sonwalkar, P. and Carter, C. (2007) “Bearing Witness: Citizen Journalism and Human Rights Issues,” Globalisation, Societies and Education, vol. 5, no. 3 (in press).
Carter, C. (2007) “Talking about my Generation: Children’s BBC Newsround Website Feedback and Chat about War, Conflict and Terrorism,” in Götz, M. and Lemish, D. (eds) Children and Media in Times of Conflict and War, Creskill: Hampton Press.
Weaver, C.K. and Carter, C. (2006) “Media Violence Research in the Twenty First Century: A Critical Intervention,”Critical Readings: Violence and the Media. Maidenhead and New York: Open University Press.
Carter, C. and Allan, S. (2005) "Public Service and the Market: A Case Study of BBC's Newsround Website," Intervention Research, vol. 1, no. 2: 209-225.
Carter, C. (2005) "The Transformative Power of Cultural Criticism: bell hooks and the Media," in Berry, D., and Theobald, J. (eds), Radical Mass Media Criticism: A Cultural Genealogy, Montreal: Black Rose.
Carter, C. and Allan, S. (2005) ‘Hearing their voices: Young People, Citizenship and Online News,’ in Thurlow, C. and Williams, A. (eds) Talking Adolescence: Perspectives on Communication in the Teenage Years, New York: Peter Lang, 73-90.
Carter, C. and Messenger Davies, M. (2005) “'A Fresh Peach is Easier to Bruise': Children and Traumatic News,” in Allan, S. (ed) Journalism: Critical Issues. Maidenhead and New York: Open University Press, 224-235.
Carter, C. (2004) "Scary news: Children’s responses to news of war," Mediactive, Vol. 3: 67-84.
Ross, K. and Carter, C. (2004) "A Woman’s Place? Gender and Culture in Higher Education," Knowledge, Work and Society, Vol. 1, No. 3: 95-116.
Carter, C. and Steiner, L. (2004) "Mapping the Contested Field of Media and Gender," in Carter, C. and Steiner, L. (eds) Critical Readings: Media and Gender, Maidenhead and New York: Open University Press.
Carter, C. (2003) "Changing Men: Victorian Women’s Journalism and the (Re)formation of Masculine Identity," in Ross, K. and Derman, D. (eds) Mapping the Margins: Identity Politics and the Media, Creskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
Research
Awards
Current Funded Research
2007-2008: AHRC/BBC Knowledge Exchange Programme. Bid entitled “What Do Children Want from the BBC? Children’s Content and Participatory Environments in an Age of Citizen Media”. Joint research with the BBC for the “Children’s Content and Participatory Environments” project. Principal Investigator: Dr Cynthia Carter (Cardiff University). BBC partners Roy Milani (BBC Children's Events & Technology Projects, formerly producer of Newsround) and Louise Wass (BBC Learning). Academic partners Professor Stuart Allan (Bournemouth University - from 1 September 2007) and Professor Máire Messenger Davies (University of Ulster).
2007: "Children's Television Worldwide: Gender Representation," Bavarian Broadasting Corporation (International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television). Principal investigator for a project on representations of gender on three UK children's television channels as part of an international study in over 20 countries.
2007-2010: NHS Service and Delivery Organisation R&D Programme, “Health, medicines and self-care choices made by children, young people and their families: Information to support decision making." Principal investigator: Professor Anne Williams, RCN Professor of Nursing Research, Cardiff University. Discourse analysis of health information provided for children to help manage particular tracer conditions (e.g. diabetes, epilepsy, asthma) and ENT surgery.
Postgraduate Students
I am currently supervising PhD dissertations on:
- reporting bullying and child suicide in the British press
- a cross national historical study of representations of feminism and the women's movement in the UK and US
- the technologisation of femininity in anti-ageing skin care product advertising in UK women's magazines
- an analysis of the gendering of time management in popular self help books in South Korea
- Saudi young adults' responses to the coverage of Saudi based terrorism in the Saudi press
I am interested in supervising PhD research on children and news; children's online message board chat; children and war/conflict/terrorism; journalism and safety issues; news reporting of sexual violence; violence and the media; feminist media research on any topic.
Biography
Other Activities
Editorial Commitments:
Co-editor, Feminist Media Studies (Routledge); Editorial Board Member, Critical Studies in Media Communication (Taylor & Francis), Journal of Children and Media (Routledge), Communication Review (Taylor & Francis), Communication, Culture & Critique (forthcoming, Blackwell), Sociology Compass (forthcoming, Blackwell) and Fifth-Estate (online).
Co-Guest Editor (with Stephanie Donald), special issue of Journal of Children and Media (Routledge) "Children, Media and Conflict" (Sept 2008).
Guest Editor, special issue of Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism (Sage) “Gendered News,” Vol. 6, No. 3 (2005).
Professional Activities:
Vice-Chair (2001-2003), Chair (2003-2005) and Immediate Past Chair (2005-2007), Feminist Scholarship Division, International Communication Association; Steering Committee, MeCCSA Women's Media Studies Network; International Association for Media and Communication Research; European Communication Research and Education Association; Association for Journalism Education; Voice of the Listener and Viewer.