Brian McNair

4.9k citations
69 papers · 2.5k indexed · h-index 23

Impact in

  • Communication top 0.2%
    • Media Studies and Communication
    • Social Media and Politics
    • Public Relations and Crisis Communication
    • Gender, Feminism, and Media
    • Media, Gender, and Advertising

Papers in

    • Media Studies and Communication 13
    • Social Media and Politics 9
    • Public Relations and Crisis Communication 4
    • Gender, Feminism, and Media 7
    • Media, Gender, and Advertising 3

Brian McNair

63 papers receiving 2.1k citations

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Brian McNair
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  • Communication 1.2k
  • Gender Studies 707
  • Sociology and Political Science 1.2k
  • Clinical Psychology 428
  • Museology 54
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The 12 scholars most cited alongside Brian McNair, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 201714
2
Politics, Media and Democracy in Australia: Public and Producer Perceptions of the Political Public Sphere
20179
3
Fake News: Falsehood, Fabrication and Fantasy in Journalism
201778
4 201754
5
Understanding the civic impact of journalism
20161
6
Book Review: "Engin Isin and Evelyn Ruppert, Being Digital Citizens. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015"
20165
7
ERA 2012: Worrying picture of the state of the field
20132
8
The empire goes to war: News Corporation and Iraq
20122
9 20124
10
Porno? Chic!: how pornography changed the world and made it a better place
201230
11 20114
12 20112
13
Journalists in film : heroes & villains
20102
14 200913
15 20071
16 200677
17 200631
18
Cultural Chaos: Journalism and Power in a Globalised World
200670
19 20050
20 19923

About Brian McNair

Brian McNair is a scholar working on Communication, Gender Studies, Clinical Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory and Political Science and International Relations, having authored 69 papers that have together received 2.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Media Studies and Communication (13 papers), Social Media and Politics (9 papers), Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (8 papers), Gender, Feminism, and Media (7 papers), Public Relations and Crisis Communication (4 papers), Media, Gender, and Advertising (3 papers), Cinema and Media Studies (3 papers) and Eastern European Communism and Reforms (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Communication (1.2k citations), Gender Studies (707 citations), Sociology and Political Science (1.2k citations), Clinical Psychology (428 citations) and Museology (54 citations). Brian McNair has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Russia and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Philip Schlesinger, Stephen Harrington, Adam Swift, Feona Attwood, Terry Flew, Margaret Simons, Andrea Carson, Rodney Tiffen, Helen Sullivan and Graham Meikle. Their work appears in journals such as Journalism Practice, Journalism Studies, Media Culture & Society, Media International Australia and Journalism.

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