Media, Myth and Terrorism

Dr Darren Kelsey is Lecturer in Journalism and Discourse Studies in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University, UK. Darren's primary research interests are in the fields of journalism, media, politics, mythology, ideology, power and critical discourse studies. His research has focused on war, propaganda and mythology in media responses to terrorism. He has also written about moral storytelling during the London riots, news coverage of bankers after the financial crisis, and journalism education after the Leveson Inquiry. Darren's research interests in power and digital media have examined surveillance cultures on social media; developing and applying critical frameworks of discourse, ideology, context, and surveillance theory to analyse digital media technologies in the field of critical discourse studies. He is the founding editor of the journal, Journalism and Discourse Studies, and a co-convenor of the Newcastle Critical Discourse Group.