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 David Miller is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Geography and Sociology at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow Scotland and the co-founder of Spinwatch a website publishing public interest reporting on spin, deception and lobbying. David is widely known for his writings on propaganda, spin and lobbying as well as for his expertise on 'terrorism', and international conflict, global power-politics and the Scottish political scene. He is often called upon by the news media as a commentator on media issues and regularly writes for popular media outlets. His articles have appeared in the Guardian, the Observer, the Independent, the Sunday Times, the New Statesman, the Irish News, the Irish Times, the Herald (Glasgow) the Evening News (Edinburgh), the Times Higher Education Supplement, the New Zealand Herald and the Taipei Times. Articles have also appeared in magazines and on the web including Red Pepper(UK), Z Net(US) (where he has a ZSpace page) Scoop (NZ), Aporrea, Alternative News from Venezuela (in Spanish), Al Jazeera. David is co-founder and co-editor of Spinwatch (ranked on HowSociable?) a website devoted to public interest reporting on spin and propaganda (on which he maintains an occasional blog), together with associated sites such as Nuclear Spin. Spinwatch is a founding member of the UK based Alliance for Lobbying Transparency , which campaigns for regulation of lobbyists and enhanced ethics rules for politicians and civil servants.Spinwatch maintains pages on Flickr, Youtube and Upcoming Events. You can join the Friends of Spinwatch on Facebook. He is an advisor to the BRussels Tribunal on Iraq, the Centre for Investigative Journalism based at City University, London, the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) and UKWatch and a member of Naspir. He moderates the Media Watch e-mail list and maitains pages on various social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Ma.gnolia, Photobucket, Delicious, Stumbleupon , Twitter, LinkedIn, and Technorati. Recent Books (2008  ) A Century of Spin - How Public Relations Became the Cutting Edge of Corporate Power , Willian Dinan and David Miller London: Pluto Press (2007) Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy: Corporate PR and the Assault on Democracy , Edited by William Dinan and David Miller, ISBN: 9780745324449 Paperback ISBN: 9780745324456 Hardback Publication Date: June 2007, Pages: 296pp. Forthcoming in Korean (2008) with Window of Times in Seoul. (2005) Arguments Against G8 , Gill Hubbard and David Miller (Eds) London: Pluto. Also in Japanese translation: (2005) Hubbard, Gill and Miller, David Arguments Against G8, Tokyo: Transworld; Korean translation (2006) edited by Gill Hubbard and David Miller, Arguments Against G8, Sidaew: Seoul, and Arabic: (2006) Obeikan Publishers, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ISBN 0-034-54-9960 Forthcoming in Polish (2008) (2004) Tell Me lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq , London: Pluto. (ed.) Also in Arabic, (2007) published in Beirut by Educart, ISBN 009611308216_7 (2001) Open Scotland? Journalists, Spin Doctors and Lobbyists . Edinburgh: Polygon. (co-author) (2001) Market Killing: What Capitalism does and what Social Scientists can do about it. London: Longman. (co-author)
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. Research Networks In the Department of Geography and Sociology David is the Research Director and heads the research cluster on Globalisation, Communication and Democracy . David is the convenor of the Public Interest Research Network which is a collaborative research organisation involving more than one hundred researchers in and outside academia who work together to produce research in the public interest.David also co-convenes three working groups as part of the Public Interest Research Network, one on Neoliberal Scotland the second jointly with Doug Stokes of Naspir which focuses on Terrorism 'expertise', the Consortium for Research on Terrorlogy and Political Violence . The third, on Science Communication and Management, focuses on the pressures on natural and social science under neoliberalism and the communication of science issues. Research interests His current research interests include propaganda and the 'war on terror', corporate communications, corporate power, lobbying, the strategic use of science, corporate influences on academic work, spin and the decline of democratic governance. He is currently working on a project on terror experts. PhD supervision David supervises a range of engaged doctoral students working on critical media theory, lobbying, think tanks, Freedom of Information, the Sociology of Corporate Power, intellectuals and power and international politics, especially in relation to war and terrorism. David encourages prospective PhD students to get in touch directly, though he is particularly interested in supervising topics related to the following areas:  *Corporate power* Lobbying in the UK, the EU and US The rise and progress of neoliberalism Transnational governance and globalisation Transnational lobby groups Think tanks and policy planning groups Science communication Corporate Social Responsibility Public Relations industry The political economy of natural and social scientific knowledge Corporate influences on school, further and higher education and on academic disciplines Food industry lobbying and public relations *Globalisation, communication and conflict* Propaganda and government communications: History, theory and practice Communication and war Counterinsurgency theory Psychological Operations/iWar Terrorism expertise Neoconservative think tanks and policy groups *Scotland* Sectarianism/Anti Irish racism in Scotland Corporate influence on the Scottish Government Lobbying in Scotland *Media, communication and democracy* Freedom of Information, Secrecy and governance Media influences and impacts Critical media theory
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