Biography
Roger Dickinson joined Leicester's Centre for Mass Communication Research in 1982 and rose to a chair in sociology focused on newswork, health communication and media industries. Co-editor, with Ramaswami Harindranath and Olga Linné, of Approaches to Audiences: A Reader (Arnold, 1998), he framed the volume's sections on media influence, ethnographic audience study and community-level reception. His later externally funded projects examined journalists' use of social media, food-risk reporting and Arab-world news systems.
Published writings & editorial work
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Edited or co-edited
- Approaches to Audiences: A Reader
First published 1998 · Edward Arnold
Co-editor
A teaching anthology of audience-research theory and method, bringing together foundational essays and contemporary critiques of how media audiences have been studied. Includes David Gauntlett's widely-cited chapter 'On the continuing problems of media effects research' — a st…