Dr Tamara Witschge
Overview
Position:
Lecturer
Email:
WitschgeT@cardiff.ac.ukTelephone: +44 (0)29 208 70630
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Extension: 70630
Location: Room 0.55b, Bute Building
Dr Tamara Witschge is a lecturer at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, and has been since September 2009. She teaches two core undergraduate modules: ‘Media Scholarship’ and ‘Doing Media Research’.
Tamara's main research interests are media and democracy, changes in the journalistic field, equality and diversity in the public sphere, and the public debate on immigration. She is currently working on the book “Changing Journalism” (working title, to be published by Routledge in 2010, co-authored with Angela Phillips and Peter Lee-Wright).
From 2007-2009 Tamara was a research associate at the Media and Communications Department and worked on the Leverhulme Trust funded project 'Spaces of News'. This project aimed to explore the ways in which technological, economic and social change is reconfiguring news journalism and shaping the dynamics of the public sphere and public culture.
She is the General Secretary of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), an organisation that with 1600 members is a significant actor in the European field of Media and Communications Studies.
Teaching
BA Modules:
- Media Scholarship
- Doing Media Research
Publications
Tamara Witschge (2011) New media in the newsroom = more democratic news? Eurozine (26 July 2011)
Peter Lee-Wright, Angela Phillips and Tamara Witschge (2011) Changing Journalism. London: Routledge.
Angela Phillips and Tamara Witschge (2011) The changing business of news: sustainability of news journalism. In: Peter Lee-Wright, Angela Phillips and Tamara Witschge (2011) Changing Journalism. London: Routledge, pp. 3-20.
Tamara Witschge (2011) The ‘tyranny’ of technology. In: Peter Lee-Wright, Angela Phillips and Tamara Witschge (2011) Changing Journalism. London: Routledge, pp. 99-114.
Tamara Witschge (2011) Changing audience, changing journalism? In: Peter Lee-Wright, Angela Phillips and Tamara Witschge (2011) Changing Journalism. London: Routledge, pp. 117-134.
Tamara Witschge (2011) What cannot be said in 900 characters. Eurozine Postpad (13 May 2011)
Tamara Witschge (2011) From confrontation to understanding: In/exclusion of alternative voices in online discussion. Global Media Journal – German Edition, Volume 1, No. 1 (Spring).
Natalie Fenton, Des Freedman and Tamara Witschge (2010) Protecting the news: Civil society and the media. Geopolitics, History, and International Relations, 2(2) 31-72.
Tamara Witschge (2010) Pluriformiteit in het online publieke domein (Plurality in the online public domain). Background study for the Dutch Council for Social Development.
Tamara Witschge, Natalie Fenton and Des Freedman (2010) Protecting the news: Civil society and the media. London: Carnegie UK. Protecting the news: Civil society and the media - Report
Natalie Fenton & Tamara Witschge (2010) “Comment is free, facts are sacred: Journalistic ethics in a changing mediascape”. In G. Meikle & G. Redden News Online: Transformations and Continuities. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Tamara Witschge (2009) “Street journalists versus ‘ailing journalists’?” openDemocracy (24 April 2009).
Tamara Witschge and Gunnar Nygren (2009). “Journalism: a profession under pressure?” Journal of Media Business Studies, 6 (1). pp. 37-59.
James Curran and Tamara Witschge (2009) “Liberal Dreams and the Internet” in N Fenton (ed.) New Media, Old News: Journalism and Democracy in the Digital Age, London: Sage.
Joanna Redden & Tamara Witschge (2009) “A new news order? Online news content examined”. In N. Fenton (ed.) New Media, Old News: Journalism and Democracy in the Digital Age. London: Sage.
Tamara Witschge (2008) Examining online public discourse in context: A mixed method approach. Javnost—the Public, 15(2).
Tamara Witschge (2008) “In- en uitsluiting in het online publieke debat: De discussie over eerwraak” [In- and exclusion in the public debate: the discussion on honour killings]. Migrantenstudies [Migrant studies], 24(1).
Tamara Witschge (2007) (In)difference online: The openness of public discussion on immigration. Doctoral Thesis. University of Amsterdam.
Tamara Witschge (2006) “Representation and inclusion in the online debate: The issue of honour killings”. In N. Carpentier & B. Cammaerts (Eds.), Reclaiming the media (pp.129-151). Bristol, UK: Intellect.
Tamara Witschge (2005) “Normativity online: Facing the boundaries of the boundless World Wide Web”. In M. Consalvo, K. O’Riordan (Eds.), AoIR Internet Research Annual Volume 3. New York: Peter Lang.
Tamara Witschge (2004) “Online deliberation: Possibilities of the Internet for deliberative democracy”. In P. Shane (Ed.), Democracy online: The prospects for political renewal through the Internet (pp. 109-122). New York, NY: Routledge.
Todd Graham & Tamara Witschge (2003) “In search of online deliberation: Towards a new method for examining the quality of online discussions”. Communications, 28(2).
Public Presentations
2011
“Changing audience, changing journalism?” Paper presented at the ICA conference, Boston, MA, 26-30 May
Invited keynote speech at Eurozine “Changing Media – Media in Change”, Linz, Austria, 14 May
Invited lecture: “Changing media, changing democracy?” MA Programme. University of Vienna, 10 May
2010
Invited keynote speech at the conference "Journalistiek onderzoek onderzocht" (Examining Journalism studies), University of Amsterdam, 12 November
‘Putting the future of news up for discussion: An analysis of the debate on the “end of news-as-we-know-it”’. Paper presented at European Communication Conference 2010, 12-15 October, Hamburg, Germany.
Invited participant to the Young Scholars' Network Workshop "Planning an Academic Career," European Communication Conference 2010, 12-15 October, Hamburg, Germany.
Invited panellist at the Carnegie Festival of Politics, Edinburgh: ‘Solutions to the Crisis in News Media and Representative Democracy’, 18 August.
Invited keynote speech at the International Conference on Communication and Deliberation, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, 14-16 May.
“Doing your doctoral degree in Europe.” Invited address to PhD students at the graduate school “Media and Communication,” University of Hamburg, 20 April.
2009
‘The tyranny of technology’? Examining the role of new media in news journalism. Paper to be presented at Journalism in Crisis Conference, Westminster University (19-20 June 2009).
All that remains is change? News journalism cultures and new media technology. Paper presented at the German Communication Association (DGPuK) Conference (29 April - 1 May 2009).
(Invited speaker) A new news order? Online news content examined. Paper presented at Seminar held at the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster (28 January 2009).
All that remains is change? News journalism cultures and new media technology. Paper presented at MeCCSA 2009 (14-16 January 2009).
2008
Building international civil society: New media case study. Paper presented at the ECC08, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (25-28 November 2008).
Comment is free, facts are sacred: Journalistic ethics in a changing mediascape. Paper presented at the End of Journalism Conference, University of Bedfordshire (18-19 October 2008).
Practices in the field of regional journalism: Examining the future of the news. Paper presented at IAMCR, Stockholm (21-25 July 2008).
(Invited speaker) Recycling journalism: The return to professional ethics in times of administrative news cultures. Paper presented at the workshop News Organization and News Work, Jönköping (28-29 April 2008).
(Invited speaker) Seminar ‘Credibility in the new news: Opportunities and challenges to building public trust in online news making’, openDemocracy, London School of Economics & de MacArthur Foundation (29 February 2008)
2007
The Spaces of News project: Examining the future of the news. Presentation at Symposium The Futures of the News, (24 November 2007).
From confrontation to understanding: In/exclusion of alternative voices in online discussion. Paper presented at the ICA, San Francisco (24-28 May 2007).
Research
My main research interests are media and democracy, changes in the journalistic field, equality and diversity in the public sphere, and the public debate on immigration. I obtained my PhD degree from the Amsterdam School of Communications Research, University of Amsterdam in May 2007.
The PhD thesis '(In)difference Online' focused on online discussions of contested issues. Through the study of the online discourse on the issue of immigration in the Netherlands I gained insight into issues of equality, diversity, and the openness of the public sphere in plural societies.
As a research associate at Goldmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre (2007-2009) I explored the ways in which technological, economic and social change is reconfiguring news journalism and shaping the dynamics of the public sphere and public culture.
I have just finished a report commissioned by Carnegie UK, looking into the role that Civil Society Associations can play in enhancing media diversity, dialogue and dissent. I am also writing a report for the Dutch Council for Social Development (RMO) examining the position of citizens in the online public sphere.
I am currently working on a book on changing journalism (co-authored by Angela Phillips and Peter Lee-Wright), to be published by Routledge in 2010. I will also continue working on the issues surrounding, citizenship, immigrants and diaspora and the role of the media.
I am part of the research groups ‘Journalism Studies’ and ‘Race, Representation and Cultural Politics’.
Biography
Tamara Witschge is a lecturer at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, and has been since September 2009. She teaches two core undergraduate modules: ‘Media Scholarship’ and ‘Doing Media Research’. Tamara obtained her PhD degree from the Amsterdam School of Communications Research, University of Amsterdam in May 2007.
Her PhD thesis '(In)difference Online' focused on online discussions of contested issues. Through the study of the online discourse on the issue of immigration in the Netherlands she gained insight into issues of equality, diversity, and the openness of the public sphere in plural societies.
From 2007-2009 Tamara was a research associate at the Media and Communications Department and worked on the Leverhulme Trust funded project 'Spaces of News'. This project aimed to explore the ways in which technological, economic and social change is reconfiguring news journalism and shaping the dynamics of the public sphere and public culture.
For more information, see Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre: Spaces, Connections, Control. Currently she is working on a book on changing journalism (co-authored by Angela Phillips and Peter Lee-Wright).
Tamara is the General Secretary of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), an organisation that with 1500 members is a significant actor in the European field of Media and Communications studies. She is a member of the editorial board of the international journal New Media and Society and the newly established journal Platform: Journal of Media and Communication.
She is a member of the organising committee of the European Communication Conferences (ECC), and has as such been central in the organisation of the first ECC in Amsterdam in 2005, the second in Barcelona in 2008 (with almost 1000 participants) and the upcoming ECC in Hamburg in 2010. She was the chair of the Young Scholars network of ECREA from 2008-2009, which she co-founded in 2006.