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Dr Cynthia Carter - BA (Carleton) MA (Carleton) MLitt (Strathclyde) PhD (Wales)

Overview

Dr Cynthia Carter Position: Senior Lecturer Email: CarterCL@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)29 208 76172
Fax: +44 (0)29 202 38832
Extension: 76172
Location: Room 0.63A, Bute Building

Dr Cynthia Carter is a Senior Lecturer in the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University.

Her books include Critical Readings: Violence and the Media (Open University Press, 2006); Critical Readings: Media and Gender (Open University Press, 2004), Violence and the Media (Open University Press, 2003), Environmental Risks and the Media (Routledge, 2000) and News, Gender and Power (Routledge, 1998). She is currently co-editing a companion on media and gender.

She is Founding Co-Editor of the journal Feminist Media Studies (Routledge) and is editorial board member of Communication, Culture & Critique (Wiley-Blackwell), Communication Review (Taylor & Francis), Communication Theory (Wiley-Blackwell), Critical Studies in Media Communication (Taylor & Francis), Fifth Estate (online), Journal of Children and Media (Routledge), Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies (online), Sociology Compass (Blackwell), and Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts (Routledge).

Research Interests

  • Children, news, journalism and citizenship
  • Feminist news media studies
  • Citizen journalism and human rights
  • Violence and the media
  • Child-centred healthcare information

Teaching

  • BA Undergraduate modules "Media and Gender" and "Mediating Childhood"
  • Masters module "Putting Research into Practice"

Publications

Selected Publications

Books

Weaver, C.K. and Carter, C. (eds) (2006) Critical Readings: Violence and the Media, Maidenhead and New York: Open University Press.

Carter, C. and Steiner, L. (eds) (2004) Critical Readings: Media and Gender, Maidenhead and New York: Open University Press.

Carter, C. and Weaver, C.K. (2003) Violence and the Media, Buckingham and Philadelphia: Open University Press.

Articles

Davies, M., Carter, C., Allan, S., and Mendes, K. (2011) “News, Children and Citizenship: User-Generated Content and the BBC’s Newsround Website,” UGC and the BBC: Crossing the Digital Divides, in Thornham, H. (ed), London: IBTaurus (forthcoming).

Ross, K. and Carter, C. (2011) “Women and news: a long and winding road,” Media, Culture & Society, Vol. 33, No. 8, 1148-1165

Carter, C. (2011) “Sex/Gender and the Media: From Sex Roles to Social Construction and Beyond,” in Ross, K. (ed) The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Noyes, J.P. Williams, A, Allen, D., Brocklehurst, P. Carter, C., Gregory, J.W., Jackson, C. Lewis, M. Lowes, L., Russell, I.T., Rycroft-Malone, J., Sharp, J. Samuels, Tudor-Edwards, J., Whitaker, R. (2010)“Evidence into practice: evaluating a child-centred intervention for diabetes medicine management:The EPIC Project,” BMC Pediatrics 10:70.

Thorsen, E., Allan, S. and Carter, C. (2010) “The First Ten Years of BBC Online,” in Monaghan, G. and Tunney, S.(eds) Web Journalism: A New Form of Citizenship? Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press.

Mendes, K., Carter, C., and Messenger Davies, M. (2010) “Young Citizens and the News,” in Allan, S. (ed), Routledge Companion to News and Journalism Studies, London: Routledge, 450-459.

Carter, C. and Allan, S. (2009) “The Visual Culture of Television News,” in Using Visual Evidence, Howells, R. and Matson, R. (eds), Maidenhead and New York: Open University Press.

Zayyan, H. and Carter, C. (2009) “Human Rights and Wrongs: Blogging News of Everyday Life in Palestine,” in Allan, S. (ed), Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives, New York: Peter Lang, 85-94.

Carter, C. (2008) “Growing up Corporate: News, Citizenship and Young People Today,” Television and New Media, Vol. 10, No. 1, 34-36.

Mendes, K. and Carter, C. (2008) “Feminist and Gender Media Studies: A Critical Overview,” Sociology Compass, Vol. 1, No. 2, October,

Carter, C. and Mendes, K. (2008) “Feminist and Gender Studies,” (6,000 words), International Enclyclopedia of Communication, Donsbach, W. (ed), Oxford and New York: Blackwell.

Allan, S., Sonwalkar, P. and Carter, C. (2007) “Bearing Witness: Citizen Journalism and Human Rights Issues,” Globalisation, Societies and Education, vol. 5, no. 3, 373-389.

Carter, C. (2007) “Talking about my Generation: A Critical Examination of Children’s BBC Newsround Web Site Discussions about War, Conflict and Terrorism,” in Lemish, D. and Götz, M. (eds) Children and Media in Times of War and Conflict, Creskill: Hampton Press, 121-142.

Weaver, C.K. and Carter, C. (2006) “Media Violence Research in the Twenty-First Century: A Critical Intervention,” in Weaver, C.K. and Carter, C. (eds), Critical Readings: Violence and the Media, Maidenhead and New York: Open University Press, 1-26.

Carter, C. and Allan, S. (2005) “Public Service and the Market: A Case Study of the BBC’s Newsround Website,” Intervention Research, vol. 1, no. 2: 209-225.

Carter, C. (2005) “The Transformative Power of Cultural Criticism: bell hooks and the Media,” in Berry, D., and Theobald, J. (eds) Radical Mass Media Criticism: A Cultural Genealogy, Montreal: Black Rose Press.

Carter, C. and Allan, S. (2005) “Hearing their Voices: Young People, Citizenship and Online News” in Thurlow, C. and Williams, A. (eds), Talking Adolescence: Perspectives on Communication in the Teenage Years, New York and London: Peter Lang.

Carter, C. and Messenger Davies, M. (2005) “’A Fresh Peach is Easier to Bruise’: Children, Young People and the News,” in Allan, S. (ed) Journalism: Critical Issues. Maidenhead and New York: Open University Press, 224-238.

Selected Other Major Research Publications

Williams, A., Noyes, J., Chandler-Oatts J., Allen, D., Brocklehurst, P., Carter, C., Gregory, J. W., Lenton, S, Lewis, M., Lowes, L., Threadgold, T. (2011) “Health, Medicines and Self-Care Choices made by Children, Young People and their Families - Information to Support Decision making: ‘The Information Matters Project’,” NIHR SDO, Queen’s Printer and Controller of HMSO, Project Number 08/1718/145.

Carter, C., Allan, S., Messenger Davies, M. and Mendes, K. Milani, R.(2009) AHRC/BBC Knowledge Exchange Programme, “What do Children Want from the BBC? Children’s Content and Participatory Environments in an Age of Citizen Media,” end of project report for the BBC, June.

Research

Awards

Recent Funded Research

2007-2008: AHRC/BBC Knowledge Exchange Programme. Bid entitled “What Do Children Want from the BBC? Children’s Content and Participatory Environments in an Age of Citizen Media”. Joint research with the BBC for the “Children’s Content and Participatory Environments” project. Principal Investigator: Dr Cynthia Carter (Cardiff University). BBC partners: Roy Milani (former Editor, Newsround) and Louise Wass (BBC Learning). Academic partners: Professor Stuart Allan (Bournemouth University - from 1 September 2007) and Professor Máire Messenger Davies (University of Ulster).

Report: www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/knowledgeexchange [1.41MB]

2007: "Children's Television Worldwide: Gender Representation," Bavarian Broadasting Corporation (International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television). Principal investigator for a project on representations of gender on three UK children's television channels as part of an international study in over 20 countries.

2007-2010: NHS Service and Delivery Organisation R&D Programme, “Health, medicines and self-care choices made by children, young people and their families: Information to support decision making." Principal investigator: Professor Anne Williams, RCN Professor of Nursing Research, Cardiff University. Discourse analysis of health information provided for children to help manage particular tracer conditions (e.g. diabetes, epilepsy, asthma) and ENT surgery.

(2008-2011) NHS Service and Delivery Organisation - `Evidence into practice: evaluating a child-centred intervention for diabetes medicine management'. Consultant for CDA of information provided for children on diabetes. Principal investigator: Professor Anne Williams, RCN Professor of Nursing Research, Cardiff University. (£399,993- £1,600 to JOMEC for consultation).

(2008-2009) Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation, International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television. Project entitled “Children’s Television Worldwide: Gender Representation.” Twenty-country study, monitoring children television channels. Follow up study using initial data to undertake an international comparison of English language children’s TV introduction songs and non-fiction programming (€ 5,540). Principal Investigator: Dr Cynthia Carter with RA Ms Ann Luce.

(2009) ARHC/BBC Knowledge Exchange Programme, Knowledge Infusion – Investigating the Transitional and Teen News Audience. Principal Investigator: Dr Cynthia Carter with colleagues Professor Stuart Allan (Bournemouth University); Professor Máire Messenger Davies (University of Ulster); Dr Kaitlynn Mendes (De Montfort University); Mr Ian Prince (BBC). (£10,000)

Postgraduate Students

I have recently supervised PhD dissertations on:

  • reporting the suicides of young people in Bridgend in the British press
  • a cross-national historical study of representations of feminism and the women's movement in the UK and US
  • the technologisation of femininity in anti-ageing skin care product advertising in UK women's magazines
  • an analysis of the gendering of time management in popular self help books in South Korea

I am interested in supervising PhD research on children and news or general topics on children and media; children, citizenship and online news/chat; children, media and war/conflict/terrorism; citizen journalism and human rights issues; news reporting of sexual violence; violence and the media; feminist media research on any topic.

Biography

Other Activities

Editorial Commitments:
Bookcover of Feminist Media Studies by Cynthia Carter

She is Founding Co-Editor of the journal Feminist Media Studies (Routledge) and is editorial board member of Communication, Culture & Critique (Wiley-Blackwell), Communication Review (Taylor & Francis), Communication Theory (Wiley-Blackwell), Critical Studies in Media Communication (Taylor & Francis), Fifth Estate (online), Journal of Children and Media (Routledge), Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies (online), Sociology Compass (Blackwell), and Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts (Routledge).

Co-Guest Editor (with Stephanie Donald), special issue of Journal of Children and Media (Routledge) "Children, Media and Conflict" (Sept 2008).

Guest Editor, special issue of Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism (Sage) “Gendered News,” Vol. 6, No. 3 (2005).

Professional Activities:

Vice-Chair (2001-2003), Chair (2003-2005) and Immediate Past Chair (2005-2007), Feminist Scholarship Division, International Communication Association; Steering Committee, MeCCSA Women's Media Studies Network; International Association for Media and Communication Research; European Communication Research and Education Association; Association for Journalism Education; Voice of the Listener and Viewer.