Crime and News Media

About the lecture

In this lecture, we think about the representation of crime in news media, focusing in particular on: (i) the factors which influence the selection of events to become news, such as production processes and agenda setting; (ii) the ways in which individuals and groups try to shape news selection to suit their interests, known as agenda setting, as interpreted by pluralist and Marxist theoretical approaches; (iii) the role of new values - the features of incidents which make them valuable to news agencies - in shaping news selection; (iv) some recent developments which are changing how scholars have traditionally thought about news selection, such as the rise of social media.

About the lecturer

Dr Francesca Menichelli is Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Surrey. Her research focuses on crime prevention, policing and social control, and her teaching covers a broad range of criminological issues. She is author of Order and Conflict in Public Space (2016).