Dr. Tamara Witschge
Position held:
Research associate in the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre
Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 7705
Fax:
+44 (0)20 7919 7616
Email:
t.witschge (@gold.ac.uk)
Tamara Witschge is a research associate at the Media and Communications Department and is working on the Leverhulme Trust funded project 'Spaces of News'. This project aims to explore the ways in which technological, economic and social change is reconfiguring news journalism and shaping the dynamics of the public sphere and public culture. For more information, see Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre: Spaces, Connections, Control.
Tamara obtained her PhD degree from the Amsterdam School of Communications Research, University of Amsterdam in May 2007. Her PhD thesis '(In)difference Online' focused on online discussions of contested issues. Through the study of the online discourse on the issue of immigration in the Netherlands she gained insight into issues of equality, diversity, and the openness of the public sphere in plural societies.
Tamara is the General Secretary of the European Communication Research and Education Association, the chair of its young scholars network YECREA and a member of the editorial board of the international journal New Media and Society and the graduate journal Platform: Journal of Media and Communication.
Selected publications
Tamara Witschge (2009) “Street journalists versus ‘ailing journalists’?” openDemocracy (24 April 2009).
Tamara Witschge and Gunnar Nygren, 2009. “Journalism: a profession under pressure?” Journal of Media Business Studies, 6 (1). pp. 37-59
James Curran and Tamara Witschge (2009) ‘Liberal Dreams and the Internet: A case study’ in N Fenton (ed.) New Media, Old News: Journalism and Democracy in the Digital Age, London: Sage.
Joanna Redden & Tamara Witschge (2009) ‘A new news order? Online news content examined’. In N. Fenton (ed.) New Media, Old News: Journalism and Democracy in a Digital Age. London: Sage (expected publication date autumn 2009).
(2008) Examining online public discourse in context: A mixed method approach. Javnost—the Public, 15(2)
(2008) In- en uitsluiting in het online publieke debat: De discussie over eerwraak [In- and exclusion in the public debate: the discussion on honour killings]. Migrantenstudies [Migrant studies], 24(1)
(2007) (In)difference online: The openness of public discussion on immigration. Doctoral Thesis. University of Amsterdam.
(2006) Representation and inclusion in the online debate: The issue of honour killings. In N. Carpentier & B. Cammaerts (Eds.), Reclaiming the media (pp.129-151). Bristol, UK: Intellect.
(2005) Normativity online: Facing the boundaries of the boundless World Wide Web. In M. Consalvo, K. O’Riordan (Eds.), AoIR Internet Research Annual Volume 3. New York: Peter Lang
(2004) Online deliberation: Possibilities of the Internet for deliberative democracy. In P. Shane (Ed.), Democracy online: The prospects for political renewal through the Internet (pp. 109-122). New York, NY: Routledge.
(2003) (With T. Graham) In search of online deliberation: Towards a new method for examining the quality of online discussions. Communications, 28(2).