David Gauntlett
Professor of Media and Communications
Email: d.gauntlett@wmin.ac.uk
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Biography
David Gauntlett was previously a Lecturer at the University of
Leeds (1996-2002) and a Professor at Bournemouth University
(2002-2006). His first book Moving Experiences (1995)
sparked controversy throughout the British press for its rejection
of ‘media effects’ studies. Since then he has been developing
studies which seek to enable a more sophisticated understanding of
the place of media in people’s lives, taking a particular interest
in people’s everyday creativity. This approach is represented, in
different ways, in the books Video Critical (1997), TV
Living (with Annette Hill, 1999), Web Studies (2000
and 2004), Media, Gender and Identity (2002 and
2008).
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In particular Gauntlett has been developing new creative
research methods, in which people are asked to make things (using,
for example, video, drawing, collage, Lego) as a central part of an
expressive research process. This work is covered in detail in
Creative Explorations: New approaches to identities and
audiences (2007).
In 2007 he was shortlisted for the Times Higher
Award, 'Young Academic Author of the Year'.
He is Principal Investigator on the research project Young
people’s creative understanding of their mediaworlds, awarded
£188,365 from the AHRC Research Grants Scheme
(Ref: AH/F009682/1). The project runs from 1 September 2008 to
31 August 2010.
He is also Principal Investigator (with Jeanette Steemers,
Co-Investigator) on the research project Audience and producer
engagement with immersive worlds, awarded £74,243 from the
AHRC & BBC Pilot Knowledge Exchange Programme Scheme
(Ref: AH/F006756/1), which runs from 1 July 2007 to 30
June 2008.
Further information about research interests and current
projects appears at:
Websites
Selected Publications
- Media, Gender and Identity: Second
edition (Routledge, 2008).
- Creative Explorations: New approaches to identities and
audiences (Routledge, 2007).
- Moving Experiences, Second edition: Media effects and
beyond (John Libbey, 2005).
- Web.Studies, Second edition (edited with Ross Horsley,
Arnold and Oxford University Press, 2004).
- Media, Gender and Identity: An Introduction
(Routledge, 2002).
- Web.Studies: Rewiring Media Studies For The Digital
Age (Arnold and Oxford University Press, 2000). Chinese
translation published in the series 'Western Journalism and
Communications Classics' by Xinhua Publishing (2003).
- TV Living: Television, Culture and Everyday Life (with
Annette Hill, Routledge, 1999).
- Video Critical: Children, The Environment and Media
Power (John Libbey, 1997).
- Moving Experiences: Understanding Television's Influences
and Effects (John Libbey, 1995).
Teaching
David teaches on modules which include Social Theory and the
Media, Media Consumption, and Understanding Broadcasting, as well
as dissertation supervision.
PhD Supervision
David has supervised a number of PhD students on projects
about media audiences and users.