Professor Simon Cottle
(he/him)
BA Hons (Sussex), M.Soc.Sc (Birmingham),PGCE (Cardiff), PhD (Leicester)
Professor Emeritus Media and Communication
School of Journalism, Media and Culture
- CottleS@cardiff.ac.uk
- Two Central Square, Central Square, Cardiff, CF10 1FS
Overview
Summary
Simon Cottle is Professor Emeritus, Media and Communication, in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC) at Cardiff University where he was Head of School (2013-2015) and Deputy Head of School (2008-2013). Before this he was Inaugural Chair and Head of the Media and Communications Program at the University of Melbourne and he has held honorary professorships at various universities internationally.
He is the author of 14 books and c150 articles, chapters and reports on media, conflicts and global crises and 1 further book under preparation. Recent books include: Communicating a World-in-Crisis (Ed. in press), Reporting Dangerously: Journalist Killings, Intimidation and Security (with R.Sambrook and N.Mosdell)(2016), Humanitarianism, Communication and Change (Ed. with G.Cooper)(2015), Disasters and the Media (with M. Pantti and K.Wahl-Jorgensen)(2012), Transnational Protests and the Media (Ed. with L.Lester)(2011), Global Crisis Reporting (2009), Mediatized Conflicts (2006) and The Racist Killing of Stephen Lawrence: Media Performance and Public Transformation (2004).
Current Research
Simon is now writing and lecturing on ecological and civilizational collapse and how journalism can and must perform better in communicating pathways to transition and processes of societal transformation. He is currently writing Reporting Civilizational Collapse: A Wake-Up Call (Routledge 2024) and contemplating a further volume, The Owl of Minerva takes Flight at Dusk: Communicating Deep Ecology in an Age of Transformation. Simon offers guest lectures to universities around the world on these subjects.
Global Crises and the Media Series
Simon is also Series Editor of the Global Crises and the Media series published by Peter Lang - a series of research monographs and edited volumes. The series aims to examine and theorize the complex roles and current performance of media and communications in some of the most profound challenges confronting the world today. Prospective authors are welcome to get in touch to discuss their ideas for a research monograph or edited volume (CottleS@cardiff.ac.uk).
Series titles to-date include the following:
1) Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives. (2009) (Eds.) S. Allan & E. Thorsen.
2) Terror Post 9/11 and the Media. (2009) D. Altheide.
3) Climate Change and the Media. (2009) (Eds.) T. Boyce & J.Lewis..
4) Transnational Protests and the Media. (2011) (Eds.) S. Cottle & L. Lester.
5) Migrations and the Media (2011) (Eds.) K. Moore, B. Gross & T. Threadgold.
6) Disasters and the Media. (2012) M. Pantti, K. Wahl-Jorgensen & S. Cottle.
7) Environmental Conflict and the Media (2013) (Eds.) L. Lester & B. Hutchins.
8) Global Journalism: Theory and Practice (2013) P. Berglez.
9) Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives, Volume II. (2014) (Eds.) E. Thorsen & S. Allan.
10) Pandemics and the Media (2015) M. Levina.
11) Patents, Pills and the Press: The Rise and Fall of the Global HIV/AIDS Medicines Crisis in the News. (2015) T. Owen.
12) Global News: Reporting Conflicts and Cosmopolitanism (2015) A. Robertson.
13) Worker Resistance and Media: Challenging Global Corporate Power in the 21st Century. (2015) L.Dencik & P. Wilkin.
14) The Dynamics of Mediatized Conflicts. (2015) (Eds.) M. Eskjær, S. Hjarvard & M. Mortensen.
15) Humanitarianism, Communications, and Change. (2015) (Eds.) S. Cottle & G. Cooper.
16) Human Rights and the Media. (2016) S. Dias
17) Climate Change and the Media, Volume II. (2016) (Eds.) B.Brevini & J.Lewis.
18) Communication and Political Crisis: Media and Governance in a Globalized Public Sphere. (2016) B. McNair.
19) Media and the Ukraine Crisis: Hybrid Media Practices and Narratives of Conflict, (2016)(Ed.) M. Pantti.
20) Mourning News: Reporting of Violent Death in the Global News. (2017) T. Morse.
21) Media and Transnational Climate Justice. (2018) (Eds.) A.Roosvall and M.Tegelberg.
22) Debating Migration as a Public Issue. (2018) (Eds.) C.Beciu, M, Ciocea, I.Madroane, & A. Carlan.
23) The Mediation of Financial Crises. (2020) S. Knowles.
24) The Ethics of Sustainable Communication. (2023) U.Olausson.
25) Media and the War in Ukraine. (2023)(Eds.) M.Mortensen & M.Pantti.
26) Green Lawfare: The Strategic Use of Law in Mediatized Environmental Conflict. (2024) C.Konkes.
27) Communicating a World-in-Crisis. (Ed.) S.Cottle.(in press)
28) Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives, Volume III. (Eds.) S.Allan & E. Thorsen. (forthcoming)
Publication
2023
- Cottle, S. 2023. Reporting civilizational collapse research notes from a world-in-crisis. Global Media and Communication 19(2), pp. 269-288. (10.1177/17427665231186934)
2021
- Cottle, S. 2021. Humanitarian imagery: Historical registers in the representation of atrocity. In: Chouliaraki, L. and Jorgensen, A. V. eds. Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication. Routledge International Handbooks Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 351-372.
2018
- Cottle, S. 2018. Journalism coming of (global) age, II. Journalism 20(1), pp. 102-105.
2017
- Cottle, S. 2017. Communication, human insecurity and the responsibility to protect. In: Robinson, P. ed. Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security. Routledge
2016
- Cottle, S., Sambrook, R. and Mosdell, N. 2016. Reporting dangerously: journalist killings, intimidation and security. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (10.1007/978-1-137-40670-5)
2015
- Cottle, S. 2015. Humanitarianism, human insecurity, and communications: What's changing in a globalised world?. In: Cottle, S. and Cooper, G. eds. Humanitarianism, Communications and Change. Global Crises and the Media Peter Lang Publishing Inc, pp. 19-38.
- Cottle, S. and Hughes, C. M. 2015. The United Nations' 'responsibility to protect' and the world's press: establishing a new humanitarian norm?. In: Hoffmann, J. and Hawkins, V. eds. Communication and Peace: Mapping an Emerging Field. Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 76-91., (10.4324/9781315773124-6)
- Cottle, S. and Cooper, G. eds. 2015. Humanitarianism, communication and change. New York: Peter Lang.
- Lester, L. and Cottle, S. 2015. Transnational protests, publics and media participation (in an environmental age). In: Hansen, A. and Cox, R. eds. Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication. Routledge, pp. 100-110.
2014
- Cottle, S. 2014. Rethinking media and disasters in a global age: What’s changed and why it matters. Media, War and Conflict 7(1), pp. 3-22. (10.1177/1750635213513229)
- Cottle, S. 2014. Mediating the environment: modalities of TV news. In: Hansen, A. ed. Media and the Environment. Critical Concepts in the Environment Abingdon: Routledge
- Lester, L. and Cottle, S. 2014. Visualizing climate change: television news and ecological citizenship. In: Hansen, A. ed. Media and the Environment. Critical Concepts in the Environment Abingdon: Taylor & Francis
- Cottle, S. 2014. Journalists witnessing disasters: from the calculus of death to the injunction to care. In: Chouliaraki, L. and Blaagaard, B. eds. Cosmopolitanism and the New News Media. Journalism Studies Vol. 14/2. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 83-99.
2013
- Cottle, S. and Matthews, J. 2013. U.S. TV news and communicative architecture: between manufacturing consent and mediating democracy. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 57(4), pp. 562-578. (10.1080/08838151.2013.845831)
- Cottle, S. 2013. Environmental conflict in a global, media age: beyond dualisms. In: Lester, L. and Hutchins, B. eds. Environmental Conflict and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 13. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 13-28.
- Cottle, S. 2013. Journalists witnessing disaster: From the calculus of death to the injunction to care. Journalism Studies 14(2), pp. 232-248. (10.1080/1461670X.2012.718556)
- Cottle, S. 2013. Ulrich Beck, 'risk society' and the media: a catastrophic view?. In: Hansen, A. ed. Media and the Environment: Environment, Media and Environmental Communication., Vol. 1. Routledge
2012
- Cottle, S. 2012. Mediatized disasters in the Global Age: on the ritualization of catastrophe. In: Alexander, J. C., Jacobs, R. and Smith, P. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology. Oxford Handbooks in Politics & International Relations Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 259-283.
- Cottle, S. 2012. Series Editor's Preface. In: Moore, K., Gross, B. and Threadgold, T. R. eds. Migrations and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 6. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. ix-x.
- Pantti, M., Wahl-Jorgensen, K. and Cottle, S. 2012. Disasters and the media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 7. New York: Peter Lang.
2011
- Cottle, S. 2011. Arab uprisings, media inscriptions. Re-public: Re-Imagining Democracy
- Cottle, S. 2011. Cell phones, camels and the global call for democracy. In: Mair, J. and Keeble, R. L. eds. Mirage In The Desert? Reporting The 'Arab Spring'. Bury St. Edmunds: Amina Publishing, pp. 196-210.
- Cottle, S. 2011. Taking global crises in the news seriously: notes from the dark side of globalization. Global Media and Communication 7(2), pp. 77-95. (10.1177/1742766511410217)
- Cottle, S. 2011. Media and the Arab uprisings of 2011: research notes. Journalism 12(5), pp. 647-659. (10.1177/1464884911410017)
- Cottle, S. 2011. Camels, cell phones and the global call for democracy. Presented at: Mirage in the Desert: Reporting the Arab Spring, Coventry, UK, 15 June 2011.
- Cottle, S. and Rai, M. 2011. Global 24/7 news providers: emissaries of global dominance or global public sphere?. In: Gripsrud, J. et al. eds. The Public Sphere. London: SAGE Publications, pp. 321-343.
- Matthews, J. and Cottle, S. 2011. Television news ecology in the United Kingdom: a study of communicative architecture, its production and meanings. Television New Media 13(2), pp. 103-123. (10.1177/1527476411403630)
- Cottle, S. and Lester, L. eds. 2011. Transnational protests and the media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 10. New York and Oxford: Peter Lang.
- Cottle, S. 2011. Afterword: Media and the Arab uprisings 2011. In: Cottle, S. and Lester, L. eds. Transnational Protests and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 10. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 293-304.
- Cottle, S. and Lester, L. 2011. Transnational protests and the media: an introduction. In: Cottle, S. and Lester, L. eds. Transnational Protests and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 10. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 3-15.
- Cottle, S. 2011. Transnational Protests and the Media: new developments, challenging debates. In: Cottle, S. and Lester, L. eds. Transnational Protests and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 10. New York ; Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 17-40.
- Cottle, S. and Lester, L. 2011. Transnational protests and the media: toward global civil society?. In: Cottle, S. and Lester, L. eds. Transnational Protests and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 10. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 287-291.
- Cottle, S. 2011. Television agora and agoraphobia post-September 11. In: Zelizer, B. and Allan, S. eds. Journalism after September 11. Communication and Society London: Routledge, pp. 232-251.
- Cottle, S. 2011. Hawkins, Virgil: Stealth conflicts: how the world’s worst violence is ignored - 234pp, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot 2008, £55.00, ISBN 978-0-7546-7506-8 [Book Review]. Journalism Studies 12(1), pp. 130-132. (10.1080/1461670X.2010.534596)
2010
- Cottle, S. 2010. Global cries and world news ecology. In: Allan, S. ed. The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism. New York, NY: Routledge, pp. 473-484.
- Cottle, S. 2010. Foreward. In: Matthews, J. ed. Producing Serious News for Citizen Children: A Study of the BBC’s Children’s Program 'Newsround'. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, pp. v-ix.
- Cottle, S. 2010. Global crises and world news ecology. In: Allan, S. ed. The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism. Oxford: Routledge, pp. 473-484.
- Cottle, S. 2010. Forward. In: Samuel-Azran, T. ed. Al Jazeera and US War Coverage. New York: Peter Lang, pp. ix-xi.
- Rai, M. and Cottle, S. 2010. Global news revisited: mapping the contemporary landscape of satellite television news. In: Cushion, S. and Lewis, J. M. W. eds. The Rise of 24-Hour News Television: Global Perspectives. New York: Peter Lang, pp. 51-79.
2009
- Nolan, D. and Cottle, S. 2009. How the media’s codes and rules influence the ways NGOs work. Nieman Journalism Lab
- Cottle, S. 2009. Series editor's preface. In: Boyce, T. and Lewis, J. M. W. eds. Climate Change and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 5. New York: Peter Lang, pp. vii-xi.
- Cottle, S. 2009. Series editor's preface. In: Allan, S. and Thorsen, E. eds. Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 1. New York: Peter Lang, pp. ix-xii.
- Cottle, S. 2009. Participant observation: researching news production. In: Hansen, A. ed. Mass Communication Research Methods. SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods London: SAGE Publications, pp. 260-285.
- Cottle, S. 2009. Analysing visuals: still and moving images. In: Hansen, A. ed. Mass Communication Research Methods. SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods London: SAGE Publications, pp. 227-254.
- Cottle, S. 2009. Global crises in the news: Staging new wars, disasters and climate change. International Journal of Communication 3, pp. 494-516.
- Lester, L. and Cottle, S. 2009. Visualizing climate change: Television news and ecological citizenship. International Journal of Communication 3, pp. 920-936.
- Cottle, S. 2009. Journalism studies: coming of (global) age?. Journalism 10(3), pp. 309-311. (10.1177/1464884909102573)
- Cottle, S. 2009. Analysing visuals. Still and moving images. In: Hansen, A. et al. eds. Mass Communication Research Methods. SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods Vol. 3. SAGE Publications, pp. 227-254.
- Cottle, S. 2009. New(s) times: towards a "Second Wave" of news ethnography. In: Hansen, A. et al. eds. Mass Communication Research Methods. SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods Vol. 1. London: SAGE Publications, pp. 366-386.
2008
- Cottle, S. 2008. Humanitarian NGOs and news media: Relations of communicative power in the global age. Presented at: The Mediatisation of Humanitarian Crises, London, UK, 13 November 2008.
- Cottle, S. 2008. Global crisis reporting: Journalism in the global age. Issues in Cultural and Media Studies. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
- Cottle, S. 2008. Journalism and globalization. In: Wahl-Jorgensen, K. and Hanitzsch, T. eds. Handbook of Journalism Studies. International Communication Association Handbook London: Routledge, pp. 341-356.
- Cottle, S. 2008. Reporting demonstrations: The changing media politics of dissent. Media, Culture & Society 30(6), pp. 853-872. (10.1177/0163443708096097)
- Cottle, S. and Rai, M. 2008. Global 24/7 news providers: emissaries of global dominance or global public sphere?. Global Media and Communication 4(2), pp. 157-181. (10.1177/1742766508091518)
- Cottle, S. and Rai, M. 2008. Television news in South Africa: Mediating an emerging democracy. Journal of South African Studies 34(2), pp. 343-358. (10.1080/03057070802038017)
- Cottle, S. and Rai, M. 2008. Television news in India: mediating democracy and difference. International Communication Gazette 70(1), pp. 76-96. (10.1177/1748048507084579)
- Cottle, S. 2008. 'Mediatized rituals': a reply to Couldry and Rothenbuhler. Media, Culture & Society 30(1), pp. 135-140. (10.1177/0163443707084351)
- Cottle, S. 2008. Social drama in a mediatized world: The racist murder of Stephen Lawrence. In: St. John, G. ed. Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 109-124.
- Cottle, S. 2008. Conflict as media content. In: Donsbach, W. ed. The International Encyclopedia of Communication., Vol. III. Oxford and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 915-917., (10.1111/b.9781405131995.2008.x)
- Cottle, S. and Rai, M. 2008. Television news in Singapore: mediating conflict and consent. Asian Journal of Social Science 36(3 - 4), pp. 638-658. (10.1163/156853108X327137)
2007
- Cottle, S. and Nolan, D. 2007. Global humanitarianism and the changing aid-media field: "Everyone was dying for footage". Journalism Studies 8(6), pp. 862-878. (10.1080/14616700701556104)
- Cottle, S. 2007. Ethnography and news production: new(s) developments in the field. Sociology Compass 1(1), pp. 1-16. (10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00002.x)
- Cottle, S. 2007. Mediatized recognition and the “Other”. Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy 123, pp. 34-38.
2006
- Cottle, S. 2006. Mediatized conflict: Developments in media and conflict studies. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
- Cottle, S. and Rai, M. 2006. Between display and deliberation: analyzing TV news as communicative architecture. Media Culture Society 28(2), pp. 163-189. (10.1177/0163443706061680)
2004
- Cottle, S. 2004. The racist murder of Stephen Lawrence: media performance and public transformation. Praeger.
- Cottle, S. 2004. Producing nature(s): on the changing production ecology of natural history TV. Media Culture & Society 26(1), pp. 81-101. (10.1177/0163443704039494)
1998
- Cottle, S. 1998. Ulrich Beck, "Risk Society" and the Media: A Catastrophic View?. European Journal of Communication 13(1), pp. 5-32. (10.1177/0267323198013001001)
Articles
- Cottle, S. 2023. Reporting civilizational collapse research notes from a world-in-crisis. Global Media and Communication 19(2), pp. 269-288. (10.1177/17427665231186934)
- Cottle, S. 2018. Journalism coming of (global) age, II. Journalism 20(1), pp. 102-105.
- Cottle, S. 2014. Rethinking media and disasters in a global age: What’s changed and why it matters. Media, War and Conflict 7(1), pp. 3-22. (10.1177/1750635213513229)
- Cottle, S. and Matthews, J. 2013. U.S. TV news and communicative architecture: between manufacturing consent and mediating democracy. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 57(4), pp. 562-578. (10.1080/08838151.2013.845831)
- Cottle, S. 2013. Journalists witnessing disaster: From the calculus of death to the injunction to care. Journalism Studies 14(2), pp. 232-248. (10.1080/1461670X.2012.718556)
- Cottle, S. 2011. Arab uprisings, media inscriptions. Re-public: Re-Imagining Democracy
- Cottle, S. 2011. Taking global crises in the news seriously: notes from the dark side of globalization. Global Media and Communication 7(2), pp. 77-95. (10.1177/1742766511410217)
- Cottle, S. 2011. Media and the Arab uprisings of 2011: research notes. Journalism 12(5), pp. 647-659. (10.1177/1464884911410017)
- Matthews, J. and Cottle, S. 2011. Television news ecology in the United Kingdom: a study of communicative architecture, its production and meanings. Television New Media 13(2), pp. 103-123. (10.1177/1527476411403630)
- Cottle, S. 2011. Hawkins, Virgil: Stealth conflicts: how the world’s worst violence is ignored - 234pp, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot 2008, £55.00, ISBN 978-0-7546-7506-8 [Book Review]. Journalism Studies 12(1), pp. 130-132. (10.1080/1461670X.2010.534596)
- Nolan, D. and Cottle, S. 2009. How the media’s codes and rules influence the ways NGOs work. Nieman Journalism Lab
- Cottle, S. 2009. Global crises in the news: Staging new wars, disasters and climate change. International Journal of Communication 3, pp. 494-516.
- Lester, L. and Cottle, S. 2009. Visualizing climate change: Television news and ecological citizenship. International Journal of Communication 3, pp. 920-936.
- Cottle, S. 2009. Journalism studies: coming of (global) age?. Journalism 10(3), pp. 309-311. (10.1177/1464884909102573)
- Cottle, S. 2008. Reporting demonstrations: The changing media politics of dissent. Media, Culture & Society 30(6), pp. 853-872. (10.1177/0163443708096097)
- Cottle, S. and Rai, M. 2008. Global 24/7 news providers: emissaries of global dominance or global public sphere?. Global Media and Communication 4(2), pp. 157-181. (10.1177/1742766508091518)
- Cottle, S. and Rai, M. 2008. Television news in South Africa: Mediating an emerging democracy. Journal of South African Studies 34(2), pp. 343-358. (10.1080/03057070802038017)
- Cottle, S. and Rai, M. 2008. Television news in India: mediating democracy and difference. International Communication Gazette 70(1), pp. 76-96. (10.1177/1748048507084579)
- Cottle, S. 2008. 'Mediatized rituals': a reply to Couldry and Rothenbuhler. Media, Culture & Society 30(1), pp. 135-140. (10.1177/0163443707084351)
- Cottle, S. and Rai, M. 2008. Television news in Singapore: mediating conflict and consent. Asian Journal of Social Science 36(3 - 4), pp. 638-658. (10.1163/156853108X327137)
- Cottle, S. and Nolan, D. 2007. Global humanitarianism and the changing aid-media field: "Everyone was dying for footage". Journalism Studies 8(6), pp. 862-878. (10.1080/14616700701556104)
- Cottle, S. 2007. Ethnography and news production: new(s) developments in the field. Sociology Compass 1(1), pp. 1-16. (10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00002.x)
- Cottle, S. 2007. Mediatized recognition and the “Other”. Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy 123, pp. 34-38.
- Cottle, S. and Rai, M. 2006. Between display and deliberation: analyzing TV news as communicative architecture. Media Culture Society 28(2), pp. 163-189. (10.1177/0163443706061680)
- Cottle, S. 2004. Producing nature(s): on the changing production ecology of natural history TV. Media Culture & Society 26(1), pp. 81-101. (10.1177/0163443704039494)
- Cottle, S. 1998. Ulrich Beck, "Risk Society" and the Media: A Catastrophic View?. European Journal of Communication 13(1), pp. 5-32. (10.1177/0267323198013001001)
Book sections
- Cottle, S. 2021. Humanitarian imagery: Historical registers in the representation of atrocity. In: Chouliaraki, L. and Jorgensen, A. V. eds. Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication. Routledge International Handbooks Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 351-372.
- Cottle, S. 2017. Communication, human insecurity and the responsibility to protect. In: Robinson, P. ed. Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security. Routledge
- Cottle, S. 2015. Humanitarianism, human insecurity, and communications: What's changing in a globalised world?. In: Cottle, S. and Cooper, G. eds. Humanitarianism, Communications and Change. Global Crises and the Media Peter Lang Publishing Inc, pp. 19-38.
- Cottle, S. and Hughes, C. M. 2015. The United Nations' 'responsibility to protect' and the world's press: establishing a new humanitarian norm?. In: Hoffmann, J. and Hawkins, V. eds. Communication and Peace: Mapping an Emerging Field. Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 76-91., (10.4324/9781315773124-6)
- Lester, L. and Cottle, S. 2015. Transnational protests, publics and media participation (in an environmental age). In: Hansen, A. and Cox, R. eds. Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication. Routledge, pp. 100-110.
- Cottle, S. 2014. Mediating the environment: modalities of TV news. In: Hansen, A. ed. Media and the Environment. Critical Concepts in the Environment Abingdon: Routledge
- Lester, L. and Cottle, S. 2014. Visualizing climate change: television news and ecological citizenship. In: Hansen, A. ed. Media and the Environment. Critical Concepts in the Environment Abingdon: Taylor & Francis
- Cottle, S. 2014. Journalists witnessing disasters: from the calculus of death to the injunction to care. In: Chouliaraki, L. and Blaagaard, B. eds. Cosmopolitanism and the New News Media. Journalism Studies Vol. 14/2. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 83-99.
- Cottle, S. 2013. Environmental conflict in a global, media age: beyond dualisms. In: Lester, L. and Hutchins, B. eds. Environmental Conflict and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 13. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 13-28.
- Cottle, S. 2013. Ulrich Beck, 'risk society' and the media: a catastrophic view?. In: Hansen, A. ed. Media and the Environment: Environment, Media and Environmental Communication., Vol. 1. Routledge
- Cottle, S. 2012. Mediatized disasters in the Global Age: on the ritualization of catastrophe. In: Alexander, J. C., Jacobs, R. and Smith, P. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology. Oxford Handbooks in Politics & International Relations Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 259-283.
- Cottle, S. 2012. Series Editor's Preface. In: Moore, K., Gross, B. and Threadgold, T. R. eds. Migrations and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 6. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. ix-x.
- Cottle, S. 2011. Cell phones, camels and the global call for democracy. In: Mair, J. and Keeble, R. L. eds. Mirage In The Desert? Reporting The 'Arab Spring'. Bury St. Edmunds: Amina Publishing, pp. 196-210.
- Cottle, S. and Rai, M. 2011. Global 24/7 news providers: emissaries of global dominance or global public sphere?. In: Gripsrud, J. et al. eds. The Public Sphere. London: SAGE Publications, pp. 321-343.
- Cottle, S. 2011. Afterword: Media and the Arab uprisings 2011. In: Cottle, S. and Lester, L. eds. Transnational Protests and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 10. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 293-304.
- Cottle, S. and Lester, L. 2011. Transnational protests and the media: an introduction. In: Cottle, S. and Lester, L. eds. Transnational Protests and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 10. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 3-15.
- Cottle, S. 2011. Transnational Protests and the Media: new developments, challenging debates. In: Cottle, S. and Lester, L. eds. Transnational Protests and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 10. New York ; Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 17-40.
- Cottle, S. and Lester, L. 2011. Transnational protests and the media: toward global civil society?. In: Cottle, S. and Lester, L. eds. Transnational Protests and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 10. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 287-291.
- Cottle, S. 2011. Television agora and agoraphobia post-September 11. In: Zelizer, B. and Allan, S. eds. Journalism after September 11. Communication and Society London: Routledge, pp. 232-251.
- Cottle, S. 2010. Global cries and world news ecology. In: Allan, S. ed. The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism. New York, NY: Routledge, pp. 473-484.
- Cottle, S. 2010. Foreward. In: Matthews, J. ed. Producing Serious News for Citizen Children: A Study of the BBC’s Children’s Program 'Newsround'. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, pp. v-ix.
- Cottle, S. 2010. Global crises and world news ecology. In: Allan, S. ed. The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism. Oxford: Routledge, pp. 473-484.
- Cottle, S. 2010. Forward. In: Samuel-Azran, T. ed. Al Jazeera and US War Coverage. New York: Peter Lang, pp. ix-xi.
- Rai, M. and Cottle, S. 2010. Global news revisited: mapping the contemporary landscape of satellite television news. In: Cushion, S. and Lewis, J. M. W. eds. The Rise of 24-Hour News Television: Global Perspectives. New York: Peter Lang, pp. 51-79.
- Cottle, S. 2009. Series editor's preface. In: Boyce, T. and Lewis, J. M. W. eds. Climate Change and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 5. New York: Peter Lang, pp. vii-xi.
- Cottle, S. 2009. Series editor's preface. In: Allan, S. and Thorsen, E. eds. Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 1. New York: Peter Lang, pp. ix-xii.
- Cottle, S. 2009. Participant observation: researching news production. In: Hansen, A. ed. Mass Communication Research Methods. SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods London: SAGE Publications, pp. 260-285.
- Cottle, S. 2009. Analysing visuals: still and moving images. In: Hansen, A. ed. Mass Communication Research Methods. SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods London: SAGE Publications, pp. 227-254.
- Cottle, S. 2009. Analysing visuals. Still and moving images. In: Hansen, A. et al. eds. Mass Communication Research Methods. SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods Vol. 3. SAGE Publications, pp. 227-254.
- Cottle, S. 2009. New(s) times: towards a "Second Wave" of news ethnography. In: Hansen, A. et al. eds. Mass Communication Research Methods. SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods Vol. 1. London: SAGE Publications, pp. 366-386.
- Cottle, S. 2008. Journalism and globalization. In: Wahl-Jorgensen, K. and Hanitzsch, T. eds. Handbook of Journalism Studies. International Communication Association Handbook London: Routledge, pp. 341-356.
- Cottle, S. 2008. Social drama in a mediatized world: The racist murder of Stephen Lawrence. In: St. John, G. ed. Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 109-124.
- Cottle, S. 2008. Conflict as media content. In: Donsbach, W. ed. The International Encyclopedia of Communication., Vol. III. Oxford and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 915-917., (10.1111/b.9781405131995.2008.x)
Books
- Cottle, S., Sambrook, R. and Mosdell, N. 2016. Reporting dangerously: journalist killings, intimidation and security. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (10.1007/978-1-137-40670-5)
- Cottle, S. and Cooper, G. eds. 2015. Humanitarianism, communication and change. New York: Peter Lang.
- Pantti, M., Wahl-Jorgensen, K. and Cottle, S. 2012. Disasters and the media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 7. New York: Peter Lang.
- Cottle, S. and Lester, L. eds. 2011. Transnational protests and the media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 10. New York and Oxford: Peter Lang.
- Cottle, S. 2008. Global crisis reporting: Journalism in the global age. Issues in Cultural and Media Studies. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
- Cottle, S. 2006. Mediatized conflict: Developments in media and conflict studies. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
- Cottle, S. 2004. The racist murder of Stephen Lawrence: media performance and public transformation. Praeger.
Conferences
- Cottle, S. 2011. Camels, cell phones and the global call for democracy. Presented at: Mirage in the Desert: Reporting the Arab Spring, Coventry, UK, 15 June 2011.
- Cottle, S. 2008. Humanitarian NGOs and news media: Relations of communicative power in the global age. Presented at: The Mediatisation of Humanitarian Crises, London, UK, 13 November 2008.
Research
Current Research
Simon's current research builds on his work on global crisis reporting. He now writes and lectures on ecological and civilizational collapse in a world-in-crisis, and how journalism can and must perform better in communicating pathways to transition and processes of societal transformation. He is currently writing Reporting Civilizational Collapse: A Wake-Up Call (Routledge - forthcoming), and has recently completed Communicating a World-in-Crisis (in press - Peter Lang 2024). Recent publications also include articles on the deepening and accelerating convergence of systemic global crises in today's unprecedented world-in-crisis, ecological dissimulation in war reporting, communicative and creative resilience, and journalism and emotions in a world-in-crisis, and before this on historically changing registers of represented atrocity. Simon offers guest lectures to universities around the world on these and other subjects.
Simon’s views on the unprecedented and catastrophic nature of global crises and their critical dependence on rapidly changing media and communications, are found in his book Global Crisis Reporting: Journalism in the Global Age (Open University Press 2009) and, in respect of today's world-in-crisis (or planetary emergency, global polycrisis, permacrisis, meta-crisis or civilisational collapse), in the following:
(2026) Reporting Civilizational Collapse: A Wake-Up Call.' (Routledge, forthcoming)
(2024) Communicating a World-in-Crisis. (Ed. Peter Lang, 2024, in press)
(2024) 'Reporting a World-in-Crisis: It's Going to be Emotional!' in M.Safiel and V.Salojarvi (Eds.) Handbook of Journalism and Emotion. London: Routledge (in press)
(2023) 'Reporting Civilisational Collapse: Research Notes from a World-in-Crisis.' Global Media and Communication, 19(2): 269-288. https://doi.org/10.1177/17427665231186934
(2024) 'Communicative Resilience in a World-in-Crisis. It Gets Personal! Part 1' Resilience. https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-07-05/communicative-resilience-in-a-world-in-crisis-it-gets-personal-part-1/
(2024) 'Creative Resilience in a World-in-Crisis. It's more than Doomerism! Part 2.' Resilience. https://www.resilience.org/.../creative-resilience-in-a.../
(2023) 'Living in a World-in-Cisis: Thinking Beyond Catastrophism. Part 1.' Resilience. https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-10-16/living-in-a-world-in-crisis-thinking-beyond-catastrophism-part-1/
(2023) 'Reporting a World-in-Crisis: The Axial Crisis of Perception and Beyond. Part 2.' Resilience. https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-10-18/reporting-a-world-in-crisis-the-axial-crisis-of-perception-and-beyond-part-2/
(2023) 'Reporting the War in Ukraine: Ecological Dissimulation in a Dying World.' pp.195-213. In M.Mortensen and M.Pantti (Eds.) Media and War in Ukraine. New York: Peter Lang.
(2022) 'On the Edge of the World: Peace and Conflict Reporting in a World-in-Crisis' pp.10-31. In K.Orgeret (Ed.) Insights on Peace and Conflict Reporting.' London: Routledge.
(2011) ‘Taking Global Crises in the News Seriously: Notes From the Dark Side of Globalization’, Global Media and Communication, 7(2): 77-95.
Other recent publications include:
(2023) ‘Protests, Publics and Participation (still in an Environmental Age)’ With L. Lester in A. Hansen and R. Cox (Eds.) Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication. London: Routledge 2nd revised edition.
(2021) ‘Humanitarian Imagery: Historical Registers in the Representation of Atrocity’ pp. 351-372 in L.Chouliaraki and A.Vestergaard (Eds.) Handbook of Humanitarian Communication. London: Routledge.
(2021) ‘COVID-19: A Wake-Up Call. But Who’s Listening?’ Three-D Issue 35, Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA), pp.5-6 (10.3.21) https://www.meccsa.org.uk/nl/three-d-issue-35-a-wake-up-call-but-whos-listening/
or: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2om9icsxet2ewu5/MeCCSA-ThreeD-Issue35-v1.pdf?dl=0
(2020) ‘Reporting Covid-19: A Wake-Up Call? InPublishing 14/12/2020 (https://www.inpublishing.co.uk/articles/reporting-covid-19-a-wake-up-call-17028)
(2020) ‘Reporting COVID-19: A Wake-Up Call to our World-In-Crisis?’ in J. Mair. (Ed) The Pandemic, Where are we still Going Wrong: A Very Public Inquiry ? pp.187-192. Goring: Bite Sized Books.
(2019) ‘Journalism Coming of (Global) Age? II.’ Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, 20(1): 102-105.
(2019) ‘Beyond Rwanda? Reporting Atrocity in a Changing Communication Environment.’ pp. 159-181. In A. Thompson (Ed.) Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond. Canada: CIGI Press.
(2017) ‘Journalist Killings and the Responsibility to Report’ pp.21-32 in Ulla Carlson and Reeta Pöyhtäri (Eds.) The Assault on Journalism. Building Knowledge to Protect Freedom of Expression. Gothenburg: Nordicom.
(2017) ‘Communication, Human (In)Security and the Responsibility to Protect’ pp.321- 333 in P. Robinson, P. Seib & R. Fröhlich, (Eds.) Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security. London: Taylor and Francis.
Teaching
Simon has taught and written extensively on conflict and global crisis reporting, including environment, ecology and climate change; transnational protests and demonstrations; riots and civil insurrection; wars and terror; ethnicity and racism; and disasters and humanitarian catastrophes. He now lectures and writes on ecological and civilizational collapse and how journalism can and must perform better in communicating pathways to transition and processes of societal transformation. He is currently writing Reporting Civilizational Collapse: A Wake-Up Call (Routledge 2026) and Communicating a World-in-Crisis (Peter Lang 2024) and contemplating writing a third volume, The Owl of Minerva takes Flight at Dusk: Communicating Deep Ecology in an Age of Transformation. Simon offers guest lectures to universities around the world on these subjects.
Biography
Simon Cottle is Professor Emeritus of Media and Communication in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC) at Cardiff University where he was formerly Head of School (2013-2015) and Deputy Head of School (2008-2013). Before this he was Inaugural Chair and Head of the Media and Communications Program at the University of Melbourne and has held honorary professorships at various universities internationally.
As well as writing, lecturing and series editing, Simon is also part of the musical duo - Kahlo - After Frida - playing flamenco inspired guitar and performing original songs about ecology and climate change at festivals and select venues around Wales and the UK South West. ( http://www.kahloafterfrida.com ) He is also performs as guitarist in residence across the summer months at the Wye Valley Sculpture Garden. For a personal take on song writing as creative resilience see:
(2024) 'Creative Resilience in a World-in-Crisis: It's more than Doomerism! Part 2.' https://www.resilience.org/.../creative-resilience-in-a.../
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