Faculty of Social Sciences

Gordon Neil Ramsay

Associate Professor

Location

  • B204
  • Sólborg

Specialisation

Political communication Media studies Social Media Journalism Politics
Research portal - Gordon Neil Ramsay 

General information

Courses 2025 - 2026

ÁBÐ0176090
The Status and Responsibility of Media Personnel
NMI0176190
Digital communication: Internet and social media
NMI0176190
Digital communication: Internet and social media
FJR0176120
Journalism and Democracy
RHF0176220
Research Methods in Humanities & Social Science

Education

2011
, Doctorate
2005
, MPhil
2004
, BA (Hons)

Research

2025
Local News in National Elections: An “Audit” Approach to Assessing Local News Performance During a National Election Campaign. Journal article
2022
Media accountability: A cross-country comparison of content monitoring instruments and institutionalised mechanisms to control news media performance. Book chapter
2021
The United Kingdom: Consolidation and fragmentation. Book chapter
2021
IPSO: Regulator or Complaints Handler? How UK News Publishers Set Up Their Own Regulator to Avoid Scrutiny. Journal article
2021
United Kingdom. Book chapter
2020
Research into recent dynamics of the press sector in the UK and globally. Report
2019
The Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) - Five Years On. Report
2019
How Fake Stories Fuel Propaganda. Journal article
2019
Weaponising News. Report
2019
Press Repeat. Book chapter
2019
The explosion of the public sphere. Book chapter
2019
Who Owns the UK Media? Report
2018
The gender balance of expert sources quoted by UK news outlets online. Report
2017
Using data to track mainstream and social media during the 2017 UK election campaign. Book chapter
2017
Brexit and discrimination in the UK press. Book chapter
2017
Mapping changes in local news, 2015-2017. Report
2017
Caught in the middle. Book chapter
2017
UK media coverage of the 2016 EU Referendum campaign. Journal article
2016
Uganda: Online News and Twitter Coverage of the 2016 Election. Report
2016
Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power submission to ´Consultation of the Leveson Inquiry and its Implementation, Department of Culture, Media and Sport and the Home Office. Report
2016
Digital Agenda-Setting. Journal article
2016
Monopolising local news: Is there an emerging local democratic deficit in the UK due to the decline of local newspapers? Journal article
2015
Who Owns the UK Media? Report
2015
Election Unspun. Report
2015
The Election Spin, Unspun. Journal article
2015
Data Journalism and the 2015 UK General Election. Book chapter
2015
UK Election 2015: Setting the Agenda. Report
2014
How Newspapers Covered Press Regulation after Leveson. Report
2013
The Independent Press Standards Organization (IPSO): An Assessment. Report
2013
Media Standards Trust Analysis: Press coverage of Leveson part 1 - The Inquiry. Report
2013
How the press reported Leveson. Journal article
2012
The impact of interventionist regulation in reshaping news agendas: A comparative analysis of public and commercially funded television journalism. Journal article
2012
Media Convergence and its Public Policy Impact. Report
2012
A Free and Accountable Media. Report
2012
From Callaghan to Credit Crunch. Report
2011
The evolution of election coverage on British television news, 1979-2005. Dissertation
2010
Four Nations Impartiality Review Follow-up. Report