David Miller - articles by David

Editorial Work

David is on the Editorial board of Journalism Studies, Critical Studies on Terrorism and Corporate Communications: An International Journal as well as the editorial committee of the Scottish Left Review.

Book chapters and journal articles

2011

David Miller and Rizwaan Sabir (forthcoming) 'Propaganda and Terrorism: Doctrine and Practice' in D. Freedman and D. Thussu (Eds.) Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives, London: Sage.

David Miller and Rizwaan Sabir (forthcoming) 'Counterterrorism as counterinsurgency in the UK "war on terror"' in D. Whyte and S. Poynting (Eds.) Counter Terrorism and State Political Violence, London: Routledge.

Miller, D. and Mills, T. (2011) ‘Introduction: Teaching and Researching Terrorism: pressures and practice’ Critical Studies on Terrorism. 4(3): 389-92.

Miller, D., Mills, T. and Harkins, S. (2011) ‘Teaching about terrorism in the UK: how it is done and what problems it causes’ Critical Studies on Terrorism. 4(4): 405-20.

2010

David Miller and Gerry Mooney (2010) 'Introduction to the themed issue. Corporate power: Agency, communication, influence and social policy', Critical Social Policy Themed Issue on Corporate Power: Agency, Communication, Influence and Social Policy Vol. 30 (4), November: 459-471.

Leslie Sklair and David Miller (2010) 'Capitalist Globalisation, Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Policy' Critical Social Policy Themed Issue on corporate Power: Agency, Communication, Influence and Social Policy Vol. 30 (4), November: 472-495.

David Miller and Claire Harkins (2010) 'Corporate Strategy and Corporate Capture: Food and Alcohol Industry and Lobbying and Public Health', Critical Social Policy Themed Issue on Corporate Power: Agency, Communication, Influence and Social Policy Vol. 30 (4), November: 564-589.

David Miller and Idrees Ahmad (2010) 'Powerbase: A collaborative resource for monitoring power networks', Radical Statistics, No. 102, 'Whose Statistics', October 2010, p. 4-16.

David Miller and Tom Mills 'Counterinsurgency and terror expertise: the integration of social scientists into the war effort' Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Vol 23 No. 2, June 2010, 203-221.

David Miller 'How Neoliberalism Got Where It Is: Elite Planning, Corporate Lobbying and the Release of the Free Market' The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism The Collapse of an Economic Order? Edited by Kean Birch and Vlad Mykhnenko, Zed Press, June 2010.

David Miller 'Who Rules Scotland? Neoliberalism, the Scottish Ruling Class and its Intellectuals' in Neoliberal Scotland: Class and Society in a Stateless Nation, Edited by Neil Davidson, Patricia McCafferty and David Miller, Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010 pp. 93-136 (Sample extract including contents page and Introduction)

David Miller and William Dinan 'Introduction' (accessible via Amazon.com) in Jeff Klaehn (Ed), The Political Economy of Media and Power, New York, Peter Lang, March 2010, pp. 1-5. ISBN 978-1-4331-0773-3 pb

Miller, David (2010) 'Public Relations' in D. Albertazzi and P. Cobley (eds.) The Media: An Introduction, 3rd Ed. London: Longman.

2009

Miller D. and Mills, T. (2009) 'The terror experts and the mainstream media: the expert nexus and its dominance in the news media', Critical Studies on Terrorism, Volume 2, issue 3. December 2009 , pages 414 - 437 (download PDF)

Miller, David (2009) 'Corporate lobbying’s new frontier: from influencing policy-making to shaping public debate', in Dieter Zinnbauer (Ed.) Global Corruption Report, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press in association with Transparency International.

Miller, D. (2009) 'Korrumpierung der Spielregeln: Von legitimer Einflussnahme zur Eroberung von Regulierung und Politik' (Corrupting the rules of the game: lobbying and regulatory and policy capture) Forschungsjournal Neue Soziale Bewegungen (Research Journal of New Social Movements), Jg. 22 1/2009, Lucius & Lucius: Stuttgart, p. 40-47.(Abstract in German; Abstract in English)

David Miller and William Dinan REVOLVING DOORS, ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY - EMERGING REGULATORY CONCERNS AND POLICY SOLUTIONS IN THE FINANCIAL CRISIS GOV/PGC/ETH(2009)2 pdf, 1,059kb, English, Paper prepared for the OECD and the Dutch National Integrity Office organized Global Forum on Public Governance “Building a Cleaner World: Tools and Good Practices for Fostering a Culture of Integrity”on 4-5 May 2009 in Paris.

D. Miller and W. Dinan, (2009) ‘Journalism, Public Relations and Spin’ in Karin Wahl-Jorgensen and Thomas Hanitzsch (Eds) Handbook of Journalism Studies (New York: Routledge).

2008

David Miller and William Dinan (2008) ‘Corridors of Power : Lobbying in the UK’ in "Les Coulisses du Pouvoir" sous la direction de Susan Trouvé-Finding, special Issue of L'Observatoire de la Société Britannique Numéro 6, June 2008, 245 pages, ISBN: 2-9526-375-5-5

'Transparency in EU decision making, holding corporations to account: why the ETI needs mandatory lobbying disclosure' by William Dinan and David Miller in Corruption and democracy: Political finances - conflicts of interest - lobbying - justice , Strasbourg: Council of Europe.

2007

'Introduction: Unearthing Corporate Spin' in Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy: Corporate PR and the Assault on Democracy, Dinan, W. and Miller, D. (Eds) London: Pluto Press

'Pu blic Relations and the Subversion of Democracy' in Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy: Corporate PR and the Assault on Democracy Dinan, W. and Miller, D. (Eds), London: Pluto Press

'Spinning Farmed Salmon' in Thinker, Faker, spinner, spy: Corporate PR and the Assault on Democracy, Dinan, W. and Miller, D. (Eds) London: Pluto Press

'Public Relations as a Conspiracy Against Democracy', Miller, D. in A Complicated, Antagonistic and Symbiotic Affair: Journalsim, Public Relations and Their Struggle for Public Attention, Bernd Merkel, Stephan Russ-Mohl and Giovanni Zavaritt (eds) Lugano: Universita Della Svizzera Italiana, 2007, pp. 153-160.

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William Dinan and David Miller 'Transparancy in the EU Decision Making, Holding Corporations to Account: Why the ETI needs mandatory Lobbying Disclosure' in Tom Spencer and Conor McGrath (eds) Challenge and Response Essays on Public Affairs and Transparency, Brussels: Landmarks Publishing, 2006.

David Miller provided the foreword to Brian Murphy's The Origin and Organisation of British Propaganda in Ireland 1920, Aubane Historical Society and Spinwatch, 2006.

'Unspinning Social Inequality: An Interview with David Miller' by Jeffery Klaehn in J. Klaehn (ed.) Bound By Power: Intended Consequences, Toronto: Black Rose Books, 2006.

David Miller 'Propaganda and the 'terror threat' in the UK' in Elizabeth Poole and John E. Richardson (Eds.) Muslims and the News Media, London: I B Tauris. ISBN 1-8451-1172-9. 2006.

2005

David Miller (2005) 'Propaganda-managed democracy: the UK and the lessons of Iraq' in Colin Leys and Leo Panitch (Eds) Socialist Register 2006: Telling the Truth, London: Merlin Press. (Abstract) ISSN:

0081-0606

Gill Hubbard and David Miller 'Barbarism Inc' in Hubbard, G and Miller D. (eds) Arguments Against G8, London: Pluto.

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David Miller and Gill Hubbard 'Naming the Problem' in Hubbard, G and Miller D. (eds) Arguments Against G8, London: Pluto.

2004

David Miller (2004) 'System Failure: It's not just the media - the whole political system has failed', Journal of Public Affairs, Vol. 4(4), November 2004: 374-383

David Miller (2004) ‘Information Dominance: The philosophy of total propaganda control’, In Kamalipour, Y. and Snow, N. (Eds) War, Media and Propaganda: A global perspective, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield. pp7-16

Miller, D. (2004) 'The Propaganda Machine' in Miller, D. (Ed.) Tell Me Lies: Media and Propaganda in the attack on Iraq, London: Pluto Press

2003

Miller, D. and Dinan, W. (2003) 'Global public relations and global capitalism' in David Demers (Ed.), Terrorism, Globalization and Mass Communication (Spokane, WA: Marquette Books).

Miller, D. (2003) 'Embed with the military' in Danny Schechter Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception: How the Media Failed to Cover the War on Iraq, New York: Prometheus Books, p.73-76 http://www.mediachannel.org/giving/embedded/download.html

2002

D Miller (2002) 'Propaganda and peace in Ireland ', Media in Ireland: Issues in broadcasting DAMIEN KIBERD (Ed.), Dublin: Four Courts Press.

Miller, David (2002) 'Promotion and Power' in A. Briggs and P. Cobley (eds.) Introduction to Media, 2nd Ed. London: Longman.

Schlesinger, P, Dinan, W. and Miller, D. (2002) 'A Closed Scotland? Lobbying at Holyrood', in Hassan G. and Warhurst, C. (eds) Anatomy of the New Scotland, Edinburgh: Mainstream.

Philo, G. and Miller, D. (2002) 'Circuits of communication and power: Recent developments in media sociology' in M. Holborn (ed) Developments in Sociology, Ormskirk: Causeway Press, ISBN 1-902796-42-X, June, p1-22.

Miller, D. and Philo, G. (2002) 'Developments in research on communication and power', Social Science Teacher, Vol 31, 3, Spring: 3-8.

David Miller (2002) 'World opinion opposed the attack on Afghanistan', Media Development, vol. XLIX (1): 52-54.

David Miller (2002) 'Opinion Polls and the misrepresentation of public opinion on the war with Afghanistan' Television and New Media, Vol. 3 No. 2, May: 153-161

2001

Miller, D. (2001) 'Media power and class power: Overplaying ideology', in L. Panitch and C. Leys (eds) 'A world of contradictions', Socialist Register 2002, London: Merlin Press, US, Monthly Review Press, Canada, Fernwood Publishing. (Abstract)

Philo, G. and Miller, D. (2001) 'New Labour, the Market and Meritocracy', Social Science Teacher, Vol. 30 No 2:3-10

Greg Philo and David Miller (2001) 'Corrupting Research: How the market shapes science', Sociology Review, Vol. 11 (1) September: 24-27.

Consumption, reception and power Reply to critics of "Cultural Compliance" by David Miller and Greg Philo, Soundscapes, Vol. 4, September 2001 http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/VOLUME04/Cultural_compliance_reply.html

'The active audience and wrong turns in media studies: rescuing media power' by David Miller and Greg Philo, Soundscapes, Vol. 4, September 2001 http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/VOLUME04/Active_audience.html

2000

Miller, D. and Schlesinger P. (2000) 'Public relations and the EU: changing configurations' in R. Heath (ed.) The Handbook of Public Relations, Newbury Park: Sage.

D. Miller and P. Schlesinger, (2000) 'Lobbying and public relations in Europe', pp. 331-341 in B. Baerns and J. Raupp (eds) Information und Kommunikation in Europa: Forschung und Praxis/Transnational Communication in Europe: Practice and Research, Berlin: Vistas, December 2000, ISBN 3-89158-288-9.

Miller, David and Dinan, William (2000) 'The rise of the PR industry in Britain 1979-1998' European Journal of Communication, 15(1) March: 5-35. Abstract Full (pdf)

Miller, D and Boyle, R. (2000) 'A joined up media studies', Media Education Journal, March: 3-7.

Philo, G. and Miller, D. (2000) 'Cultural Compliance', Social Science Teacher, Vol. 30 No.1 Autumn: 3-10.

Philo, G. and Miller, D. (2000) 'Cultural Compliance and Critical Media Studies', Media Culture and Society, Vol. 22: 831-839. PDF Reprinted in Soundscapes: Online Journal on Media Culture, December 2000, http://www.icce.rug.nl/%7Esoundscapes/VOLUME03/Cultural_compliance.html

1999

Miller, David (1999) Risk, Science and Policy: BSE, definitional struggles, information management and the media, Social Science and Medicine special edition 'Science speaks to policy' Vol. 49 (9): 1239-1255. Abstract PDF

Miller, D. and Philo, G. (1999) 'The Effective Media' in Philo, G. (Ed.) Message Received, London: Longman

Beattie, L., Miller, E., Miller, D. and Philo, G. (1999) 'The media and Africa: images of disaster and rebellion' in Philo, G. (Ed.) Message Received, London: Longman.

Miller, David and Macintyre, Sally (1999) 'Risk Communication: The Relationships between the Media, Public Beliefs and Policy-Making', in Calman, K. and Davies, P.(Eds) Risk Communication and Public Health, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

1998

Miller, David (1998) 'Promotional Strategies and Media Power' in A. Briggs and P. Cobley (eds.) Introduction to Media, London: Longman, p65-80, ISBN 0582 27798 1.

Macintyre, Sally, Reilly, Jacquie, Miller, David and Eldridge, John (1998) 'Explaining food scares in the media' in Anne Murcott (Ed.) The Nations Diet, August, London: Longman.

Miller, David (1998) 'Mediating Science: promotional strategies, media coverage, public belief and decision making' in Scanlon, E., Whitelegg, E. and Yates, S. (Eds.) Communicating Science: Contexts and Channels, November, London: Routledge in association with the Open University.

Miller, D. (1998) 'Colonialism and Academic Representations of the Troubles', in Miller, D. (Ed.) Rethinking Northern Ireland: Colonialism, Power and Ideology, November, London: Longman

1997

Miller, David and McLaughlin, Greg (1996) 'Reporting the peace in Ireland' in Rolston, Bill and Miller, David (eds.) War and Words: The Northern Ireland Media Reader, Belfast: Beyond the Pale.

Miller, David (1996) 'The History Behind a Mistake', Rolston, Bill and Miller, David (eds.) War and Words: The Northern Ireland Media Reader, Belfast: Beyond the Pale.

Miller, David (1996) 'The Northern Ireland Information Service and the Media: Aims, Strategy, Tactics' Rolston, Bill and Miller, David (eds.) War and Words: The Northern Ireland Media Reader, Belfast: Beyond the Pale.

Reilly, Jacquie and Miller, David (1997) 'Scaremonger or scapegoat: The role of the media in the emergence of food as a social issue' in P. Caplan (Ed.) Food, Health and Identity, London: Routledge, August, p234-251, ISBN 0415156807.

Miller, David (1997) 'Dominant Ideologies and Media Power: The Case of Northern Ireland' in Mary Kelly and Barbara O'Connor (eds.) Media Audiences in Ireland: Power and Cultural Identity, Dublin: University College Dublin Press, September, p126-145 ISBN 1 900621 096.

1996

Miller, David and McLaughlin, Greg (1996) 'The Media Politics of the Peace in Ireland' Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics. 1(4) Fall: 116-134

Miller, David and Philo, Greg (1996) 'Against Orthodoxy: The media do influence us', Sight and Sound, December: 18-20.

1995

Williams, Kevin and Miller, David (1995) 'AIDS News and News Culture' in J. Downing, A.Mohammadi and A. Sreberny-Mohammadi (eds.) Questioning the Media, 2nd Ed. Newbury Park: Sage, p413-427.

Miller, David and Jacquie Reilly (1995) 'Making an Issue of Food Safety: The media, pressure groups and the public sphere' in Donna Maurer and Jeffrey Sobal (eds.) Eating Agendas: Food, Eating and Nutrition as Social Problems, New York: Aldine De Gruyter, pp 305-336.

Miller, David (1995) 'The media and Northern Ireland: Censorship, information management and the broadcasting ban', in Greg Philo (ed.), Glasgow Media Group Reader, Volume II, London: Routledge.

Miller, David, (1995) 'Introducing the "gay gene": media and scientific representations', Public Understanding of Science, 4: 264-284. PDF

1994

Miller, David (1994) 'Auntie gets a whiff of glasnost', Index on Censorship, 23(6), November/December: 50-53.

Miller, David (1994) 'Understanding "Terrorism" :contrasting audience interpretations of the televised conflict in Ireland' in Meryl Aldridge and Nicholas Hewitt (eds), Controlling Broadcasting: Access, Policy and Practice in North America and Europe, Fulbright Papers 13, Manchester: Manchester University Press in association with the Fulbright Commission.

1993

Miller, David (1993) 'The Northern Ireland Information Service and the Media: Aims, Strategy, Tactics' in Eldridge, J. (ed.), Getting the Message, London: Routledge.

Miller, David and Williams, Kevin (1993) 'Negotiating HIV/AIDS Information: Agendas, Media Strategies and the News' in Eldridge, J. (ed.), Getting the Message, London: Routledge.

Miller, David (1993) 'The Beeb at bay', British Journalism Review, Vol. 4 No. 1: pp 20-26

Miller, David (1993) 'Official Sources and Primary Definition: The Case of Northern Ireland', Media, Culture and Society, 15(3) July: 385-406.

Miller, David (1993) 'Why the public needs to know', Index on Censorship, Vol. 22 No. 8&9, September-October:5-6. reprinted as 'Intervention möglich', Die Tageszeitung, 25 September 1993: 14.

Miller, David (1993), 'The New Battleground? Community Relations and Cultural Traditions in Northern Ireland' Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, 102, December/January: 74-79.

1992

Kitzinger, Jenny, and Miller, David (1992) '"African AIDS": The Media and Audience Beliefs', in P Aggleton, P Davies and G Hart, AIDS: Rights, Risk and Reason, London: Falmer Press.

Judge, K., Solomon, M., Miller, D and Philo, G. (1992) 'Public Opinion, the NHS and the Media: Changing Patterns and Perspectives', British Medical Journal, Vol. 304, No. 6831:892- 895

Miller, David (1992) 'Contesting Political Violence: 'Terrorism', Propaganda and the Media', Linenhall Review, 9 (1) Spring:37-39.

1991

Miller, David (1991) 'The Media on the Rock: The Media and the Gibraltar Killings', in Bill Rolston (ed.), The Media and Northern Ireland: Covering the Troubles, London: Macmillan, ISBN 0-333-51575-7.

Henderson, L. Miller, D., and Reilly, J. (1991) 'When Silence is No Answer', Index on Censorship, Vol. 20 No 2, February: 2-3.

1990

Miller, David (1990) 'The History Behind a Mistake', British Journalism Review, Vol. 1 No 2 : 34-43.

Evidence to government bodies

Dr Joe Bradley, Prof. Mary Hickman, Dr. Robbie McVeigh, Dr. David Miller, Prof Bill Rolston 'Sectarianism and Racism: Response to the consultation on the report of the cross-party working group on religious hatred', Submitted to the Scottish Executive, 31 March 2003

David Miller Commercialisation of government communications: Submission to the Government Communications Review Group, Stirling Media Research Institute, May 2003, http://archive.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/gcreview/evidence/miller.pdf

Reviews

Miller, David (1989) 'The Boys in Green: Review of The RUC: A Force Under Fire by Chris Ryder', The Scotsman, July 22.

Miller, David (1993) 'Walls of fire' Review of Drawing Support: Murals in the North of Ireland, Bill Rolston, Belfast: Beyond the Pale Publications, Scotsman Weekend, 20 March: 6

Miller, David (1994) 'Review of Women Viewing Violence by P. Schlesinger et al', Critical Social Policy, No. 40, Summer: 97-101.

Miller, David (1994) 'The media: A user's manual', Review of Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media Edited by Mark Achbar and Censored: The news that didn't make the news and why, edited by Carl Jensen and Project Censored, Index on Censorship, Vol 23, July/August: 122-124.

Miller, David (1994) 'A Critic Who Speaks Out: Heresy: The Battle of Ideas in Modern Ireland, by Desmond Fennell, Belfast: Blackstaff Press', Planet: The Welsh Internationalist August/September,106: 96-98.

Miller, David (1995) 'Review of Broadcasting It! An Encyclopaedia of Homosexuality on Film, Radio and TV in the UK, 1923-1993, London: Cassell', Media, Culture and Society, 17(2) April: 348-351.

Miller, David (1995) 'Review of Moral Threats and Dangerous Desires: AIDS and the News Media, by Deborah Lupton', AIDS Care, 7(1): 101-102.

Miller, David (1995) 'Another Neo-Colonial History' Review of Michael Hughes Ireland Divided: The roots of the conflict in Ireland, University of Wales Press in Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, No. 111, June/July: 94-95.

Miller, David (1995) 'A Public Relations Job' Review of Edna Longley The Living Stream, Bloodaxe Books, in Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, No 114, December/January: 102-103.

Miller, David, (1996) 'Background answers to the Irish question' Review of Liz Curtis, The Cause of Ireland, Beyond the Pale, Belfast; Pamela Clayton, Enemies and Passing Friends: Settler ideologies in 20th century Ulster, Pluto; Andrew Wilson, Irish America and the Ulster conflict, 1968-1995, Blackstaff, Belfast, The Scotsman, 6 January: 19.

Miller, David (1996) 'Ulsterised Broadcasting' Review of David Butler, The Trouble with Reporting Northern Ireland, Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, No. 118, August/September: 108-109.

Web of Deceit: Britain's real role in the world, Mark Curtis, Vintage, £7.99. Reviewed by David Miller, Scottish Left Review, Issue 18, Sept/Oct 2003 http://www.scottishleftreview.org/Currentissue/I18reviews.htm

Research reports

William Dinan, David Miller, Cari Malcolm, Andrew Watterson (2004) Openness in Scottish Water: A review of consultation, customer relations and communications in the Scottish Water Industry Final report prepared for the Water Customer Consultation Panels Accessible from http://www.strath.ac.uk/~his04105/Water.html

David Miller, Britons Oppose war: poll evidence contradicts media reports , 3 October 2001.

David Miller and Greg Philo (1995) Communicating Change in the NHS : A review of health communication campaigns, media coverage of health care issues and the process of public opinion and belief formation, Report for the NHS Executive, August 1995.

David Miller and Jacquie Reilly (1994) FOOD 'SCARES' IN THE MEDIA , Glasgow: Glasgow University Media Group in association with the MRC Medical Sociology Unit, Glasgow University, ISBN 0 9521669 4 1

DAVID MILLER, JACQUIE REILLY AND LESLEY HENDERSON, (1992) NHS in the News : An Analysis of News Coverage of the Health Service August 1991 - May 1992 A Report for the King's Fund Institute, July 1992 Glasgow: GLASGOW UNIVERSITY MEDIA GROUP.

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