What is it about?

How is news made in the BBC? How do media relate to national identities and political conflict? Could the European Union ever talk to itself? How does cultural policy work? What's the role of the academic researcher today? Some of the issues discussed by a leading researcher, when reflecting on his work.

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Why is it important?

Everyone is interested in how media work and how culture and politics affect our lives. Most of us don't regularly go behind the scenes to find out. A leading researcher reflects on what's he's learned.

Perspectives

You rarely have a chance to step back and consider your work as a whole. This interview made me think about what I've done so far and how, despite its variety, it hangs together.

Professor Philip R. Schlesinger
University of Glasgow

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This page is a summary of: Intellectual practices: an interview with Philip Schlesinger, Media Culture & Society, June 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0163443716655092.
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