Papers by Catherine Happer
Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Online discussion platforms can face multiple challenges of abusive behaviour. In order to unders... more Online discussion platforms can face multiple challenges of abusive behaviour. In order to understand the reasons for persisting such behaviour, we need to understand how users behave inside and outside a community. In this paper, we propose a novel methodology to generate a dataset from offline and online group discussion conversations. We advocate an empirical-based approach to explore the space Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. For all other uses, contact the owner/author(s).
Hacking the Archive: Media, memory, and history in the post-trust era
Oxford University Press, 2021
The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this p... more The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.
Foreword to “How Long Have We Got?” by Peter Ritchie Calder
McGill-Queen's University Press, Sep 1, 2021
Climate Change and the Humanities, 2017
Climate change is a collective action problem as much as a physical one and, as such, a necessary... more Climate change is a collective action problem as much as a physical one and, as such, a necessary precondition for tackling it is some level of public consensus on the urgency of doing so. Despite a general level of concern and awareness, however, there has been no sustained and effective public demand for governments to act. That the media do not simply reflect what is going on in society is widely recognised by media researchers; but the degree to which media representations may be implicated © The Author(s) 2017 A. Elliott et al. (eds.), Climate Change and the Humanities,
Election 2015: Conservatives gain in England, SNP rampant across Scotland – experts react
Results appear to be backing an exit poll for the 2015 UK election that predicted a better than e... more Results appear to be backing an exit poll for the 2015 UK election that predicted a better than expected performance for the Conservative Party. It suggested the Tories will win 316 seats – not far short to the 326 seats needed for a majority. Meanwhile, Labour has gone backwards, falling to a predicted 239 (down from 256); the SNP has made record gains in Scotland, winning 56 seats; and the Liberal Democrats are in freefall
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There may be differences between this version and the published version. You are advised to consu... more There may be differences between this version and the published version. You are advised to consult the publisher's version if you wish to cite from it. fromMedia, crime and punishment in the digital age When punishment is featured in news reporting of crime, the emphasis is almost always on prisons. Do media discussions of community sanctions change public views? The media discourse around crime and punishment is emotionally charged, often focusing on sensationalised accounts of high-level criminality, such as murders, which necessarily promote the dominance of the prison as a form of punishment. Researchers have argued that this focus on very serious crime has hardened punitive attitudes in the public– though such attitudes are perhaps not as punitive as some politicians tend to assume they are. Media reporting of community sanctions, on the other hand, has been much more limited. But research shows that there is a tendency to portray them as inferior to prison (Hayes 2013). I...
The mainstream media in a ‘post-truth’ world
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Happer, C. (2014) Who benefits from media coverage of climate change? Not the audience. The Conve... more Happer, C. (2014) Who benefits from media coverage of climate change? Not the audience. The Conversation.
Weaponizing Reality: An Introduction to Trump’s War on the Media
Trump’s Media War, 2018
Donald Trump wasn’t just a sign of a broken reality; he was the beneficiary of it. Mainstream con... more Donald Trump wasn’t just a sign of a broken reality; he was the beneficiary of it. Mainstream consensual reality had shattered a long time ago; it was just that shattering hadn’t gone mainstream.
The sociology of the mass media: Circuits of communication and structures of power
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Weaponizing Reality: An Introduction to Trump’s War on the Media
Trump’s Media War, 2018
Donald Trump wasn’t just a sign of a broken reality; he was the beneficiary of it. Mainstream con... more Donald Trump wasn’t just a sign of a broken reality; he was the beneficiary of it. Mainstream consensual reality had shattered a long time ago; it was just that shattering hadn’t gone mainstream.
Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, 2018
Although criminologists have studied public attitudes to community sanctions, and there has also ... more Although criminologists have studied public attitudes to community sanctions, and there has also been some attention to media representations of them, there has been no serious examination of the relationships between media and public understandings. This article presents an interdisciplinary analysis (drawing on sociology, media and communications and organizational studies) of the potential influence of media consumption practices on penal tastes among diverse participant groups. We aim to develop a clearer understanding of how these processes shape the public legitimacy of community sanctions. In particular, we report on original research employing innovative methodologies to explore the dynamic set of practices deployed by audiences in the process of making meaningful the media landscape on punishment and community sanctions. Our findings offer some confirmation of the primacy of the prison in the popular imagination; the media profile of community sanctions is delimited by thei...
European Journal of Communication, 2015
This article examines the role of news media on climate change and sustainable energy in the shap... more This article examines the role of news media on climate change and sustainable energy in the shaping of audience opinions and beliefs and the possible relation of these to behaviours. It reports on a series of studies conducted between 2011 and 2014 which develop existing approaches to audience reception analyses by using innovative methodologies which focus specifically on the negotiation of new information in response to existing beliefs, perceptions and behavioural patterns – both in the short and long term. Audience groups are introduced to new information, to which the range of responses is examined. This approach allows for an exploration of the interplay of socio-political and personal factors as well as the identification of the potential informational triggers for change. The findings suggest that media accounts are likely to have a shaping role in relation to behaviours under a range of specific and coinciding conditions.
Climate Change and Energy Security: Assessing the Impact of Information and its Delivery on Attitudes and Behaviour
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Science and Technology Committee: Joint Written Evidence [Communicating Climate Science]
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Communicating Climate Change and Energy Security
This book, drawing on new research conducted for the UK Energy Resource Centre (UKERC), examines ... more This book, drawing on new research conducted for the UK Energy Resource Centre (UKERC), examines the contemporary public debate on climate change and the linked issue of energy security. It analyses the key processes which affect the formation of public attitudes and understanding in these areas, while also developing a completely new method for analysing these processes. The authors address fundamental questions about how to adequately inform the public and develop policy in areas of great social importance when public distrust of politicians is so widespread. The new methods of attitudinal research pioneered here combined with the attention to climate change have application and resonance beyond the UK and indeed carry global import.
Circuits of communication and structures of power: the sociology of the mass media
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