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Care, Values and an Uncaring Media

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2004

Angela Phillips
Angela Phillips
Affiliation:
Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Evidence of ‘dissemination’ is now seen as part of research delivery by grant-giving bodies such as the ESRC and Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Drawing on the growing body of research into media sources (Manning 2001, Davis, 2000) and relating it to debates on the public sphere (Habermas 1989), the paper will ask what (if anything) researchers have to gain from involvement with the mass media and whether specialised help can assist in bringing social policy research from the margins into the mainstream of media discourse. It will look in particular at the special difficulties of disseminating ‘fuzzy’ qualitative research findings which do not lend themselves to obviously eye-catching headlines. The paper will draw on an ESRC funded experiment at the University of Leeds as a case study with which to explore these issues.

Type
Themed Section on Care, Values and the Future of Welfare
Information
Social Policy and Society , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , October 2004 , pp. 439 - 446
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2004

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