Prof Richard Collins

Professor of Media Studies

Sociology

Course Development and Teaching Commitments

DA 204 - Understanding Media.
D845 -  Research methods dissertation in social sciences

Research Interests

Media ethics; media policy and regulation; new communication technologies; the Internet; national identity and the media (especially Canada and the European Union).

Member of ESRC funded CRESC (Centre for Research On Socio-Cultural Change). See CRESC Working papers 19, 20, 28 and 34 at http://www.cresc.ac.uk/publications/papers/html

Recent Publications

Participant in Oxford Internet Institute seminar “After the digital switchover, then … what?” University of Oxford. Oxford. 26.11.2009. Webcast at http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/?view=Webcast&ID=20091126_307

Trust and trustworthiness in the fourth and fifth estates. In International Journal of Communication. 2. 1-20.

Die BBC, das Internet und “Public Value”. In Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 9-10 2009 32-38.

E-Governance and the Governance of the Global Internet. In eGovernance: Managing or Governing? P 53-70 Eds L Budd and L-J Harris. (2009) New York. Routledge.

Misrecognitions: Positive and Negative Freedom in EU Media Policy and Regulation, From Television Without Frontiers to The Audiovisual Media Services Directive. In Media, Democracy and European Culture. 334-361 Eds. Ib Bondebjerg and Peter Madsen. (2009) Bristol. Intellect.

Trilateralism, Legitimacy and the Working Group on Internet Government. In Information Polity v 12. 1-2. 15-28.

Hierarchy to Homeostasis? Hierarchy, Markets and Networks in UK Media and Communications Governance. In Media Culture and Society 30.3 295-317.

Lealdade Compulsória? Accountability, Cidadania e a BBC (Compulsory Loyalty? Accountability, Citizenship and the BBC). In Civitas [Brazil] 7.2. 81-107. At http://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/civitas/issue/view/14

Trust in the Digital World. The Return of the Kings of Old. In Communications et Strategies. N 71. 3. 57-78.

Interview with Geoff Mulgan (Director, the Young Foundation). In Communications et Strategies. N 71. 3. 125-134.

Wer bietet in der digitalen Welt zuverlaessige und vielfaeltige Informationen, und wie koennen Nutzer darauf zugreifen? Unterscheidliche Arten von Anbietern und ihre Funktion fuer die oeffentliche Kommunikation. In eds Schulz, W and T Held. Mehr Vertrauen in Inhalte. (2008) Berlin. Vistas. and Duesseldorf. Landesanstalt fuer Medien. p 59- 90.

Schlussfolgerungen aus der AG 2. (with Wolfgang Schulz) In eds Schulz, W and T Held. Mehr Vertrauen in Inhalte. (2008) Berlin. Vistas. and Duesseldorf. Landesanstalt fuer Medien. p 91-92.

Rawls, Fraser, Redistribution, Recognition and The World Summit on The Information Society. In International Journal of Communication 1. 1-23.

The BBC and Public Value. In Medien und Kommunikationswissenschaft. N 2 p 164-184. At http://www.m-und-k.info/MuK/hefte/Aufsatz_07_02.pdf

"Who offers reliable and diverse information in the digital world and how can users get access to this information? Different types of providers and their role for public communication". Keynote speech at conference (Leipzig May 2007) on European Union Media Policy organised by the Bundesregierung fuer Kultur und Medien as part of Germany’s EU Presidency. At http://www.leipzig-eu2007.de/en/downloads/dokumente.asp

Link to streamed video of 15 minute talk on "Network Governance and the Internet in the UK" delivered on December 7th 2006 at the Annenberg Center for Communications, University of Southern California, at http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/view/128/60

"Regulating the push and pull medium" in Knowledge Politics' "Settling the Frontiers: debating the EU's Audiovisual Media Services Directive" at http://www.knowledgepolitics.org.uk/KP_AMS_pamphlet.pdf

Evidence to 2007 Ofcom consultation on the "Public Service Publisher" (A new approach to public service content in the digital media age. The potential role of the Public Service Publisher). At http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/pspnewapproach/responses/collins.pdf

Evidence to House of Lords European Union Committee enquiry on Television without Frontiers 2006-2007. At
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200607/ldselect/ldeucom/27/27.pdf

Rawls, Fraser, redistribution, recognition and the World Summit on the Information Society. In International Journal of Communication 1 (2007), 1-23. At http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/view/51/16 
 
Taking the high ground: The struggle for ideas in the UK broadcasting policy. (Published in Italian as La Battaglia delle idee nella politica britannica del broadcasting 2005 In Economia della Cultura. Anno XV.3 pp 307-321).

Networks, markets and hierarchies. Governance and regulation of the UK internet. 2006 In Parliamentary Affairs. 59 pp 314-330.

Media content law and regulation in the United Kingdom. In Libertes et interet public en radiodiffusion. Eds D Giroux and F Sauvageau. (2005) Quebec. Centre d’etudes sur les medias. pp 39-70.

Internet Governance in the UK. In Media Culture and Society 28.3 pp 337-358.

From monopolies, virtual monopolies and oligopolies to ... what? Media policy and convergence in South Africa and the United Kingdom. In South African Journal of Information and Communication. 2005 N 5 pp 23-30.

Public service broadcasting too much of a good thing? In From Public Service Broadcasting to Public Service Communications. Eds D Tambini and J Cowling. (2004) London. IPPR. pp 130-150.

Trade policy. In BFI Television Handbook 2005. Ed A McGown (2004) London. British Film Institute. pp 86-87.

Collins, R., (2004) 'Digital Dilemmas for South African TV', (with Chris Armstrong) pp. 32. LINK Centre Public Policy Research Paper 6. LINK Graduate School of Public and Development Management. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. http://link.wits.ac.za/papers/ddtvcarc.pdf

Collins, R., (2004) 'The United Kingdom : A dog that has fallen silent'. In La propriete etrangere en radio-diffusion: le debat canadien a la lumiere de l'experience etrangere. Eds D Giroux, F Sauvageau and G Tremblay. Quebec. Centre d'etudes sur les medias. pp. 93-102.

Collins, R., (2004) 'Three myths of internet governance considered in the context of the UK'. In Prometheus 22.3, pp. 267-291. http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/collaboration/?rq=seminars/20041021

Collins, R. with Cave, M and Crowther, P. (2004) 'Regulating the BBC' in Telecommunications Policy 28 pp. 249-272
http://www.llgm.com/article.asp?article=882

Collins, R. (2003), Eds. Calabrese, A. and Sparks, C. 'The fight for proportionality in broadcasting' In Towards a Political Economy of Culture. (Festschrift for Nicholas Garnham). Boulder, CO, Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 151-177.

Collins, R. (2003), Eds. Allen, R. and Hill, R. 'Public service broadcasting'. (revised from Chapter 3 in Collins 1998) In The Television Studies Reader, Routledge, London.

Collins, R. (2003) 'Identity and television Europe on screen' in OpenDemocracy 29.5.2003 http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article-8-1252.jsp

Collins, R. (2003) 'Enter the Grecian horse? Regulation of foreign ownership of the media in the UK', Policy Studies, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 17-31.

Collins, R. (2003) 'The BBC, too big, too small or just right?', Political Quarterly, vol. 74, no. 2, pp. 164-173.

Collins, R. (2002) 'Digital television in the United Kingdom', In Javnost. The Public, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 5-18.

Collins, R. (2002) Media and Identity in Contemporary Europe, Bristol, Intellect

Collins, R. (2001) 'Bringing oxygen into the magic circle', openDemocracy, 14 June (www.opendemocracy.net).

Collins, R., Alvarado, M. and Buscombe, E. (eds) (2001) Representation and Photography. A Screen Education Reader, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave, p. 237.

Collins, R., Finn, A., McFadyen, S. and Hoskins, C. (2001) 'Public service broadcasting beyond 2000: is there a future for public service broadcasting?', Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 3-15.

Collins, R. (2000) 'Associative or communal society. The globalisation of media and communications and the claim for communality' in Askonas, P. and Stewart, A. (eds) Social Inclusion: Possibilities and Tensions, Basingstoke, Macmillan, pp. 186-204. *

Collins, R. (2000) 'Realising social goals in connectivity and content: the challenge of convergence' in Marsden, C. (ed.) Regulating the Global Information Society, London, Routledge, pp. 108-15.

Collins, R. (1998) From Satellite to Single Market. The Europeanisation of Television 1982-1992, London, LSE Books/Routledge.

Collins, R. and Murroni, C. (1996) New Media, New Policies, Cambridge, Polity Press.

Papers
One of 4 “issue mentors” and keynote speakers at conference (Leipzig May 2007) on European Union Media Policy organised by the Bundesregierung fuer Kultur und Medien as part of Germany’s EU Presidency. Paper (publication forthcoming from conference organisers see http://www.leipzig-eu2007.de/en/downloads/dokumente.asp ) titled “Who offers reliable and diverse information in the digital world and how can users get access to this information? Different types of providers and their role for public communication”.

From Television without Frontiers to the Audiovisual Media Services Directive. European Union Broadcasting Policy. Invited seminar presentation at the Federal Communications Commission. Washington DC. July 2007.

Keynote speech “TV 3.0 Jurisdictional and Economic Challenges” at the Medien-Fachkonferenz “TV 3.0 Journalistche und politische Herausforderung des Fernsehens im digitalen Zeitalter” Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Berlin. 11 March 2008.

Invited participant in Global Strategic Trends seminars (“Beliefs” and “Global Inequality”) at the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre, Defence Academy (MoD). Shrivenham. April 17th and June 18th 2008.

“Medias en ligne” at the conference “Nouvelles frontiers de l’economie de la culture”. Organised as part of la Presidence francaise de l’Union Europeen. Paris. Musee du Quai Branley. October 2-3. 2008.

Speech "Media in Transition. Social changes, economic upheavals, content developments" to the DLM (Direktorenkonferenz der Landesmedienanstalten) Symposium, Berlin, March 11th 2009.

A repository of research publications and other research outputs can be viewed at The Open University's Open Research Online.