Wednesday 28 April, 3pm, Studio 55, Keyworth Street

Pockets of Resistance: British media, war, theory and the 2003 invasion of Iraq

Piers Robinson is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Manchester and author of the influential book The CNN Effect (Routledge, 2002). He previously taught Political Communication in the School of Politics and Communication Studies at the University of Liverpool, and his publications include articles for the European Journal of Communication, Review of International Studies, and Media, War & Conflict. Piers is currently completing a two-year ESRC funded project on ‘News Media Performance and Media Management During the 2003 Iraq War’ – the topic of this paper.