One of the big problems a researcher faces when dealing with 'the internet' is how to capture and keep a record, this is a recent attempt to develop a practical technique... Read More ›
David Kaye, UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression, has just finished a visit to Japan and has pointed to a number of worrying issues for reporting and the mass media. Read More ›
Every quarter Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication (MIC) asks commercial broadcasters to evaluate their outlook for the next six months. Read More ›
Newspaper sales and the press in Japan. This paper looks at how the way newspapers are sold in Japan has a significant (negative) effect on the ability of the press to carry out its role as a political 'watchdog'. Read More ›
While attempting to manage my so-called online presence (actually trying to get rid of as many old photos as possible) I stumbled across an article in an online mag called Hazlitt Read More ›
Book chapter: Camera angles as visual communication in news. The semiotic approach to visual communication assumes that images are created with a communicational intention. What if they are primarily the result of other types of decision-making processes? Read More ›
Most of the images on this site are details of photographs I have taken over the past few years. Some of the full images are in the gallery below. Read More ›
About my PhD from 2009, which was a study of the semiotic features of new TV images in Japan. It is based on an empirical survey of over 1500 news images which are coded and analysed using readings and categories suggested by 'social semiotics'. Read More ›
