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Professor Maire Messenger Davies
Research
Research Specialisms
Children, young people and media; television in the UK and US, especially drama; media policy and regulation
Previous Projects
Children and television drama, funded by the BBC, 1997, published in 'Dear BBC: Children, television storytelling and the public sphere, Cambridge University Press, 2001. Fake Fact and Fantasy: CHildren's Understanding of Television reality, published Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997, based on research on media literacy as a funded Scholar at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennyslvania
Current research
Review of the BBC's digital provision for children, for the DCMS (just completed). Research on Star Trek as television, partly based on interviews at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, for book for University of California Press, Small Screen, Big Universe: Star Trek as Television, co-authored with Professor Roberta Pearson, University of Nottingham.
Publications
see above. Also 'Television is Good for Your Kids' published Hilary Shipman, 1989, 2nd edition, 2001. Next publication: 'Mickey and Mr Gumpy: The Global and the Universal in children's media' to be published in European Journal of Cultural Studies, Autumn 2004
Other
No information available.
Email and website
Email: m.messenger-davies@ulster.ac.uk
Website
Primary institution
Position
Professor of Media Studies, Director of Centre for Media Research
Department
School of Media & Performing Arts
Faculty
Arts
Institution
University of Ulster
Address
- Cromore Rd
- Coleraine
- Londonderry
- BT52 1SA
- Tel: 02870324069
- Fax: 028 7032 4964
