Television debate,`interactivity' and public opinion: the case of the BBC's `Asylum Day'

Allan, S. (1998) `(En)gendering the Truth Politics of News Discourse' , pp. 121—37 in C. Carter , G. Branston and S. Allan (eds) News, Gender and Power. London : Routledge.

Allport, F.H. (1937) `Toward a Science of Public Opinion', Public Opinion Quarterly 1(1): 7—23.

`Asylum Day', BBC, 23 July 2003. URL (consulted January 2006): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/asylum_day/default.stm

Bailey, O.G. and R. Harindranath (2005) `Racialized “Othering”: The Representation of Asylum Seekers in the News Media', pp. 274—86 in S. Allan (ed.) Journalism: Critical Issues . Maidenhead: Open University Press .

Bakhtin, M. (1984 [1963]) Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics , ed. and trans. C. Emerson. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Benhabib, S. (1992) Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Blumer, H. (1948) `Public Opinion and Public Opinion Polling', American Sociological Review 13: 542—9.

Born, G. (2004) Uncertain Vision: Birt, Dyke, and the Reinvention of the BBC. London: Secker and Warburg .

Bourdieu, P. (1979 [1972]) `Public Opinion Does Not Exist' , pp. 124—30 in A. Mattelart and S. Siegelaub (eds) Communication and Class Struggle, vol. 1: Capitalism, Imperialism. Bagnolet: IG/IMMRC .

Coole, C. (2002) `A Warm Welcome? Scottish and UK Media Reporting of an Asylum-Seeker Murder', Media, Culture & Society 24(6): 839—52.

Crawley, H. (2005) `Evidence on Attitudes to Asylum and Immigration: What We Know, Don't Know and Need to Know', Working Paper no. 23, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, Oxford. URL (consulted January 2006): http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/publications/papers/Heaven%20Crawley%20WP0523.pdf

Dewey, J. (1954 [1927]) The Public and its Problems . Athens, OH: Swallow Press.

Downes, E.J. and S.J. McMillan (2000) `Defining Interactivity', New Media & Society 2(2): 157—79.

Faulkner, S. (2003) ` “Asylum Seekers”, Imagined Geography and Visual Culture', Visual Culture in Britain 4(1): 93—114.

Fraser, N. (1992) `Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy', pp. 109—42 in C. Calhoun (ed.) Habermas and the Public Sphere . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Habermas, J. (1989 [1962]) The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, trans. T. Burger with the assistance of F. Lawrence. Cambridge : Polity Press. (First published in German as Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit.)

Horton, D. and R.R. Wohl (1956) `Mass Communication and Para-social Interaction' , Psychiatry 19: 215—29.

Kaye, R. (2001) ` “Blaming the Victim”: An Analysis of Press Representation of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the United Kingdom in the 1990s', pp. 53—70 in R. King and N. Wood (eds) Media and Migration . London: Routledge.

Kim, P. and H. Sawhney (2002) `A Machine-like New Medium — Theoretical Examination of Interactive TV', Media, Culture & Society 24(2): 217—33.

Kundnani, A. (2001) `In a Foreign Land: The New Popular Racism', Race & Class 43(2): 41—60.

Lewis, J. , S. Inthorn and K. Wahl-Jorgensen (2005) Citizens or Consumers? What The Media Tell Us About Political Participation. Maidenhead : Open University Press.

Lippmann, W. (1998 [1922]) Public Opinion. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.

McCombs, M. and D. Shaw (1972) `The Agenda-setting Function of Mass Media', Public Opinion Quarterly 36(2): 176—87.

McLaren, L. and M. Johnson (2004) `Understanding the Rising Tide of Anti-immigrant Sentiment', pp. 169—200 in A. Park , J. Curtice , K. Thomson , C. Bromley and M. Phillips (eds) British Social Attitudes (the 21st Report). London: Sage.

McMillan, S.J. (2002) `Exploring Models of Interactivity From Multiple Research Traditions: Users, Documents, and Systems', pp. 163—82 in L.A. Lievrouw and S. Livingstone (eds) Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Consequences of ICTs. London: Sage.

McNair, B. (2000) Journalism and Democracy: An Evaluation of the Political Public Sphere. London: Routledge.

McNair, B. , M. Hibberd and P. Schlesinger (2003) Mediated Access: Broadcasting and Democratic Participation in the Age of Mediated Politics. Luton: University of Luton Press.

MediaWise, URL (consulted January 2006): http://www.mediawise.org.uk

MigrationWatch UK, URL (consulted January 2006): http://www.migrationwatch.org

Mori (2002) `Attitudes Towards Asylum Seekers', survey conducted for Refugee Week, 17—23 June. URL (consulted January 2006): http://www.mori.com/polls/2002/refugee.shtml

Polat, R.K. (2005) `The Internet and Political Participation: Exploring the Explanatory Links', European Journal of Communication 20(4): 435—59.

Press Complaints Commission, URL (consulted January 2006): http://www.pcc. org.uk

Rafaeli, S. (1988) `Interactivity: From New Media to Communication' , pp. 110—34 in R.P. Hawkins , J.M. Wiemann and S. Pingree (eds) Advancing Communication Science: Merging Mass and Interpersonal Processes. London: Sage.

Renton, D. (2003) `Examining the Success of the British National Party, 1999—2003', Race & Class 45(2): 75—85.

Sivanandan, A. (2001) `Poverty is the New Black', Race & Class 43(2): 1—5.

Splichal, S. (ed.) (2001) Public Opinion and Democracy: Vox Populi — Vox Dei? Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Statham, P. (2003) `Understanding Anti-asylum Rhetoric: Restrictive Politics or Racist Publics?', Political Quarterly 74(1) (supplement): 163—77.

Tyler, I. (2006) ` “Welcome to Britain”: The Cultural Politics of Asylum', European Journal of Cultural Studies 9(2): 185—202.

Zaller, J.R. and S. Feldman (1992) `A Simple Theory of the Survey Response: Answering Questions Versus Revealing Preferences', American Journal of Political Science 36(3): 579—616.