Books by Jackie Harrison

Dr Jackie Harrison is Professor of Public Communication and Head of Department of Journalism Studies, The University of Sheffield. She has written extensively on European media policy and news. Her most recent works are News, Routledge 2006 and European Broadcasting Law and Policy, Cambridge University Press 2007. She is also Chair of the Centre for Freedom of the Media at The University of Sheffield. Bridgette Wessels is Lecturer in Sociology at The University of Sheffield. Her interests are broadly centred in the areas of culture and communication in a European context. She has worked on several European projects that have addressed new media communication, technology and everyday life, inclusion and exclusion and practices of citizenship and has acted as expert for the Royal Society in their research on public perceptions of ICT, and on the DTI and OST programme on Cybertrust and Crime Prevention. She was an evaluator on the EU Fifth Framework IST programme. She has published books and papers in the field of new media technologies.