
Yr Athro Simon Cottle
Professor of Media and Communication / Director, Mediatized Conflict Research Group
- cottles@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 208 74506
- 0.62A, Sgwâr Canolog, Caerdydd, CF10 1FS
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Global Crises and the Media series
Simon is Series Editor of Global Crises and the Media, a series of 20 plus books published by Peter Lang publications. The series aims to examine and theorize the complex roles and current performance of media and communications in some of the most profound challenges confronting the world today.
Series titles published to-date and in press include:
- Global Journalism: Theory and Practice. (2013) Peter Berglez
- Environmental Conflict and the Media. (2013)(Eds) Libby Lester & Brett Hutchins
- Disasters and the Media. (2012) Mervi Pantti, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen & Simon Cottle
- Transnational Protests and the Media. (2011)(Eds) Simon Cottle & Libby Lester
- Migrations and the Media. (2011)(Eds) Kerry Moore, Bernhard Gross & Terry Threadgold.
- Climate Change and the Media. (2009)(Eds) Justin Lewis & Tammy Boyce
- Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives. (2009)(Eds) Stuart Allan & Einar Thorsen
- Terror Post 9/11 and the Media. (2009) David Altheide
Forthcoming titles include:
Pandemics and the Media; Media and Governance in a Globalized Public Sphere; Humanitarian NGOs and the Media; Human Rights and the Media; World Population and the Media; Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives (Volume 2); The Arab Uprising and the Media; Violence Against Women and the Media; Transnational Crime and the Media; Financial Crises and the Media; Energy and the Media; Food and the Media; The Military Industrial Complex and the Media
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2021
- Cottle, S. 2021. Humanitarian imagery: Historical registers in the representation of atrocity. In: Chouliaraki, L. and Jorgensen, A. V. eds. Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication. Routledge International Handbooks Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 351-372.
2018
- Cottle, S. 2018. Journalism coming of (global) age, II. Journalism 20(1), pp. 102-105.
2017
- Cottle, S. 2017. Communication, human insecurity and the responsibility to protect. In: Robinson, P. ed. Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security. Routledge
2016
- Cottle, S., Sambrook, R. and Mosdell, N. 2016. Reporting dangerously: journalist killings, intimidation and security. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (10.1007/978-1-137-40670-5)
2015
- Cottle, S. 2015. Humanitarianism, human insecurity, and communications: What's changing in a globalised world?. In: Cottle, S. and Cooper, G. eds. Humanitarianism, Communications and Change. Global Crises and the Media Peter Lang Publishing Inc, pp. 19-38.
- Cottle, S. and Hughes, C. M. 2015. The United Nations' 'responsibility to protect' and the world's press: establishing a new humanitarian norm?. In: Hoffmann, J. and Hawkins, V. eds. Communication and Peace: Mapping an Emerging Field. Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 76-91., (10.4324/9781315773124-6)
- Cottle, S. and Cooper, G. eds. 2015. Humanitarianism, communication and change. New York: Peter Lang.
- Lester, L. and Cottle, S. 2015. Transnational protests, publics and media participation (in an environmental age). In: Hansen, A. and Cox, R. eds. Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication. Routledge, pp. 100-110.
2014
- Cottle, S. 2014. Rethinking media and disasters in a global age: What’s changed and why it matters. Media, War and Conflict 7(1), pp. 3-22. (10.1177/1750635213513229)
- Cottle, S. 2014. Mediating the environment: modalities of TV news. In: Hansen, A. ed. Media and the Environment. Critical Concepts in the Environment Abingdon: Routledge
- Lester, L. and Cottle, S. 2014. Visualizing climate change: television news and ecological citizenship. In: Hansen, A. ed. Media and the Environment. Critical Concepts in the Environment Abingdon: Taylor & Francis
- Cottle, S. 2014. Journalists witnessing disasters: from the calculus of death to the injunction to care. In: Chouliaraki, L. and Blaagaard, B. eds. Cosmopolitanism and the New News Media. Journalism Studies Vol. 14/2. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 83-99., (10.1080/1461670X.2012.718556)
2013
- Cottle, S. and Matthews, J. 2013. U.S. TV news and communicative architecture: between manufacturing consent and mediating democracy. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 57(4), pp. 562-578. (10.1080/08838151.2013.845831)
- Cottle, S. 2013. Environmental conflict in a global, media age: beyond dualisms. In: Lester, L. and Hutchins, B. eds. Environmental Conflict and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 13. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 13-28.
- Cottle, S. 2013. Journalists witnessing disaster: From the calculus of death to the injunction to care. Journalism Studies 14(2), pp. 232-248. (10.1080/1461670X.2012.718556)
- Cottle, S. 2013. Ulrich Beck, 'risk society' and the media: a catastrophic view?. In: Hansen, A. ed. Media and the Environment: Environment, Media and Environmental Communication., Vol. 1. Routledge
2012
- Cottle, S. 2012. Mediatized disasters in the Global Age: on the ritualization of catastrophe. In: Alexander, J. C., Jacobs, R. and Smith, P. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology. Oxford Handbooks in Politics & International Relations Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 259-283.
- Cottle, S. 2012. Series Editor's Preface. In: Moore, K., Gross, B. and Threadgold, T. R. eds. Migrations and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 6. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. ix-x.
- Pantti, M., Wahl-Jorgensen, K. and Cottle, S. 2012. Disasters and the media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 7. New York: Peter Lang.
2011
- Cottle, S. 2011. Arab uprisings, media inscriptions. Re-public: Re-Imagining Democracy
- Cottle, S. 2011. Cell phones, camels and the global call for democracy. In: Mair, J. and Keeble, R. L. eds. Mirage In The Desert? Reporting The 'Arab Spring'. Bury St. Edmunds: Amina Publishing, pp. 196-210.
- Cottle, S. 2011. Taking global crises in the news seriously: notes from the dark side of globalization. Global Media and Communication 7(2), pp. 77-95. (10.1177/1742766511410217)
- Cottle, S. 2011. Media and the Arab uprisings of 2011: research notes. Journalism 12(5), pp. 647-659. (10.1177/1464884911410017)
- Cottle, S. 2011. Camels, cell phones and the global call for democracy. Presented at: Mirage in the Desert: Reporting the Arab Spring, Coventry, UK, 15 June 2011.
- Cottle, S. and Rai, M. 2011. Global 24/7 news providers: emissaries of global dominance or global public sphere?. In: Gripsrud, J. et al. eds. The Public Sphere. London: SAGE Publications, pp. 321-343.
- Matthews, J. and Cottle, S. 2011. Television news ecology in the United Kingdom: a study of communicative architecture, its production and meanings. Television New Media 13(2), pp. 103-123. (10.1177/1527476411403630)
- Cottle, S. and Lester, L. eds. 2011. Transnational protests and the media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 10. New York and Oxford: Peter Lang.
- Cottle, S. 2011. Afterword: Media and the Arab uprisings 2011. In: Cottle, S. and Lester, L. eds. Transnational Protests and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 10. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 293-304.
- Cottle, S. and Lester, L. 2011. Transnational protests and the media: an introduction. In: Cottle, S. and Lester, L. eds. Transnational Protests and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 10. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 3-15.
- Cottle, S. 2011. Transnational Protests and the Media: new developments, challenging debates. In: Cottle, S. and Lester, L. eds. Transnational Protests and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 10. New York ; Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 17-40.
- Cottle, S. and Lester, L. 2011. Transnational protests and the media: toward global civil society?. In: Cottle, S. and Lester, L. eds. Transnational Protests and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 10. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 287-291.
- Cottle, S. 2011. Television agora and agoraphobia post-September 11. In: Zelizer, B. and Allan, S. eds. Journalism after September 11. Communication and Society London: Routledge, pp. 232-251.
- Cottle, S. 2011. Hawkins, Virgil: Stealth conflicts: how the world’s worst violence is ignored - 234pp, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot 2008, £55.00, ISBN 978-0-7546-7506-8 [Book Review]. Journalism Studies 12(1), pp. 130-132. (10.1080/1461670X.2010.534596)
2010
- Cottle, S. 2010. Global cries and world news ecology. In: Allan, S. ed. The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism. New York, NY: Routledge, pp. 473-484.
- Cottle, S. 2010. Foreward. In: Matthews, J. ed. Producing Serious News for Citizen Children: A Study of the BBC’s Children’s Program 'Newsround'. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, pp. v-ix.
- Cottle, S. 2010. Global crises and world news ecology. In: Allan, S. ed. The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism. Oxford: Routledge, pp. 473-484.
- Cottle, S. 2010. Forward. In: Samuel-Azran, T. ed. Al Jazeera and US War Coverage. New York: Peter Lang, pp. ix-xi.
- Rai, M. and Cottle, S. 2010. Global news revisited: mapping the contemporary landscape of satellite television news. In: Cushion, S. and Lewis, J. M. W. eds. The Rise of 24-Hour News Television: Global Perspectives. New York: Peter Lang, pp. 51-79.
2009
- Nolan, D. and Cottle, S. 2009. How the media’s codes and rules influence the ways NGOs work. Nieman Journalism Lab
- Cottle, S. 2009. Series editor's preface. In: Boyce, T. and Lewis, J. M. W. eds. Climate Change and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 5. New York: Peter Lang, pp. vii-xi.
- Cottle, S. 2009. Series editor's preface. In: Allan, S. and Thorsen, E. eds. Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 1. New York: Peter Lang, pp. ix-xii.
- Cottle, S. 2009. Participant observation: researching news production. In: Hansen, A. ed. Mass Communication Research Methods. SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods London: SAGE Publications, pp. 260-285.
- Cottle, S. 2009. Analysing visuals: still and moving images. In: Hansen, A. ed. Mass Communication Research Methods. SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods London: SAGE Publications, pp. 227-254.
- Cottle, S. 2009. Global crises in the news: Staging new wars, disasters and climate change. International Journal of Communication 3, pp. 494-516.
- Lester, L. and Cottle, S. 2009. Visualizing climate change: Television news and ecological citizenship. International Journal of Communication 3, pp. 920-936.
- Cottle, S. 2009. Journalism studies: coming of (global) age?. Journalism 10(3), pp. 309-311. (10.1177/1464884909102573)
- Cottle, S. 2009. Analysing visuals. Still and moving images. In: Hansen, A. et al. eds. Mass Communication Research Methods. SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods Vol. 3. SAGE Publications, pp. 227-254.
- Cottle, S. 2009. New(s) times: towards a "Second Wave" of news ethnography. In: Hansen, A. et al. eds. Mass Communication Research Methods. SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods Vol. 1. London: SAGE Publications, pp. 366-386.
2008
- Cottle, S. 2008. Humanitarian NGOs and news media: Relations of communicative power in the global age. Presented at: The Mediatisation of Humanitarian Crises, London, UK, 13 November 2008.
- Cottle, S. 2008. Global crisis reporting: Journalism in the global age. Issues in Cultural and Media Studies. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
- Cottle, S. 2008. Journalism and globalization. In: Wahl-Jorgensen, K. and Hanitzsch, T. eds. Handbook of Journalism Studies. International Communication Association Handbook London: Routledge, pp. 341-356.
- Cottle, S. 2008. Reporting demonstrations: The changing media politics of dissent. Media, Culture & Society 30(6), pp. 853-872. (10.1177/0163443708096097)
- Cottle, S. and Rai, M. 2008. Global 24/7 news providers: emissaries of global dominance or global public sphere?. Global Media and Communication 4(2), pp. 157-181. (10.1177/1742766508091518)
- Cottle, S. and Rai, M. 2008. Television news in South Africa: Mediating an emerging democracy. Journal of South African Studies 34(2), pp. 343-358. (10.1080/03057070802038017)
- Cottle, S. and Rai, M. 2008. Television news in India: mediating democracy and difference. International Communication Gazette 70(1), pp. 76-96. (10.1177/1748048507084579)
- Cottle, S. 2008. 'Mediatized rituals': a reply to Couldry and Rothenbuhler. Media, Culture & Society 30(1), pp. 135-140. (10.1177/0163443707084351)
- Cottle, S. 2008. Social drama in a mediatized world: The racist murder of Stephen Lawrence. In: St. John, G. ed. Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 109-124.
- Cottle, S. 2008. Conflict as media content. In: Donsbach, W. ed. The International Encyclopedia of Communication., Vol. III. Oxford and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 915-917., (10.1111/b.9781405131995.2008.x)
- Cottle, S. and Rai, M. 2008. Television news in Singapore: mediating conflict and consent. Asian Journal of Social Science 36(3 - 4), pp. 638-658. (10.1163/156853108X327137)
2007
- Cottle, S. and Nolan, D. 2007. Global humanitarianism and the changing aid-media field: "Everyone was dying for footage". Journalism Studies 8(6), pp. 862-878. (10.1080/14616700701556104)
- Cottle, S. 2007. Ethnography and news production: new(s) developments in the field. Sociology Compass 1(1), pp. 1-16. (10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00002.x)
- Cottle, S. 2007. Mediatized recognition and the “Other”. Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy 123, pp. 34-38.
2006
- Cottle, S. 2006. Mediatized conflict: Developments in media and conflict studies. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
- Cottle, S. and Rai, M. 2006. Between display and deliberation: analyzing TV news as communicative architecture. Media Culture Society 28(2), pp. 163-189. (10.1177/0163443706061680)
2004
- Cottle, S. 2004. The racist murder of Stephen Lawrence: media performance and public transformation. Praeger.
- Cottle, S. 2004. Producing nature(s): on the changing production ecology of natural history TV. Media Culture & Society 26(1), pp. 81-101. (10.1177/0163443704039494)
1998
- Cottle, S. 1998. Ulrich Beck, "Risk Society" and the Media: A Catastrophic View?. European Journal of Communication 13(1), pp. 5-32. (10.1177/0267323198013001001)
Addysgu
Simon currently teaches the following Masters degree modules:
- MCT503 Mediatized Conflicts: The Politics of Conflict Reporting
- MCT494 Global Crisis Reporting
- Plus guest lectures, BA, MA and PhD supervision
Simon’s research interests broadly follow his publications to date, that include 11 books and many journal articles (see publications). He is currently preparing two new books, Humanitarian NGOs and the Media, and, with colleagues, Reporting Dangerously: Journalist Killings and Insecurity in the 21st Century. Recent research includes studies of:
- global crisis reporting with particular reference to climate change, new wars, major disasters and humanitarian crises;
- globalization, humanitarian NGOs and the changing media and communications environment;
- journalist witnessing, changing media and communications and the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P);
- the mediated politics of dissent with reference to protests, demonstrations and the Arab Spring.
Simon’s views on the unprecedented and catastrophic nature of global crises and their critical dependence on rapidly changing media and communications are found in his book Global Crisis Reporting: Journalism in the Global Age (Open University Press 2009) (Global Crisis Reporting flyer) and article, ‘Taking Global Crises in the News Seriously: Notes From the Dark Side of Globalization’, Global Media and Communication, (2011), 7(2): 77-95.