Professor Stuart Allan

BAA, MA, PhD

2025

• Allan, S. 2025. Visual War Journalism. Digital Journalism (10.1080/21670811.2024.2443153)

2024

• Nieto McAvoy, E. and Allan, S. 2024. Mediations of cultural policymaking during COVID-19: British newspaper reporting of the Culture Recovery Fund. International Journal of Cultural Policy 30(6), pp. 794-814. (10.1080/10286632.2023.2268648)
• Allan, S. and Allbeson, T. 2024. Conflicting images: Histories of war photography in the news. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. (10.4324/9780203129852)
• Chivers, T. and Allan, S. 2024. A public value typology for public service broadcasting in the UK. Cultural Trends 33(2), pp. 205-221. (10.1080/09548963.2022.2151340)

2023

• Allan, S. 2023. Understanding citizen journalism as civic participation [Book Review]. Mass Communication and Society 26(3), pp. 532-534. (10.1080/15205436.2022.2074687)
• Chivers, T., Allan, S., Carter, C., Nieto Mcavoy, E. and Noonan, C. 2023. Review of the broadcasting powers and responsibilities in selected countries Report for the expert panel on a shadow broadcasting and communications authority for Wales. Welsh Government. Available at: https://www.gov.wales/sites/default/files/publications/2023-08/a-new-future-for-broadcasting-and-communications-in-wales-review-of-the-broadcasting-powers-and-responsibilities-in-selected-countries.pdf.pdf
• Allan, S. ed. 2023. The Routledge companion to news and journalism. 2nd edition.. London and New York: Routledge.
• Allan, S. 2023. Introduction: The value of truth-seeking in news and journalism. In: Allan, S. ed. The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism. 2nd edition. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 1-13.
• Allan, S. 2023. Photojournalism and the US-led invasion of Afghanistan. In: Allan, S. ed. The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism. 2nd edition. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 286-295.
• Allan, S. 2023. Incendiary images: Visual reportage of Syria’s Civil War. In: Mortensen, M. and McCrow-Young, A. eds. Social Media Images and Conflicts. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 47-62.
• Allan, S. 2023. Improving environmental reporting: Forging synergies with citizen science and citizen journalism. In: Hansen, A. and Cox, R. eds. The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication. 2nd edition. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 208-220.

2022

• Chivers, T. and Allan, S. 2022. Submission of written evidence to ‘Consultation on a change of ownership of Channel 4 Television Corporation'. Documentation. Cardiff University. Available at: https://pec.ac.uk/government-submissions/pec-submission-to-the-dcms-consultation-on-a-change-of-ownership-of-channel-4-television-corporation
• Nieto Mcavoy, E. and Allan, S. 2022. Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on the arts and cultural sector: British newspaper reporting of the Culture Recovery Fund. Available at: https://cdn2.assets-servd.host/creative-pec/production/assets/publications/Newspaper-reporting-Culture-Recovery-Fund-PEC-Discussion-Paper-May-2022.pdf
• Chivers, T. and Allan, S. 2022. Submission of written evidence to House of Lords, ‘Communications and digital select committee inquiry on BBC future funding,’. Documentation. UK Parliament - House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee. Available at: https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/39410/pdf/
• Chivers, T. and Allan, S. 2022. What is the public value of public service broadcasting? Exploring challenges and opportunities in evolving media contexts. Nesta. Available at: https://www.pec.ac.uk/assets/publications/What-is-the-Public-Value-of-Public-Service-Broadcasting-PEC-Discussion-Paper-Jan-2022.pdf
• Peters, C. and Allan, S. 2022. Weaponizing memes: the journalistic mediation of visual politicization. Digital Journalism 10(2), pp. 217-229. (10.1080/21670811.2021.1903958)

2021

• Chivers, T. and Allan, S. 2021. Submission of written evidence to ‘The future of Channel 4 Inquiry'. Documentation. UK Parliament - House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee. Available at: https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/39410/html/
• Allan, S. and Peters, C. 2021. Journalism’s digital publics: researching the “visual citizen”. In: Lievrouw, L. A. and Loader, B. D. eds. Routledge Handbook of Digital Media and Communication. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 191-203.

2020

• Allan, S. 2020. Im/partial inflections of 9/11 in photo-reportage. Digital War 1, pp. 131-137. (10.1057/s42984-020-00011-0)
• Allan, S. and Peters, C. 2020. The visual citizen in a digital news landscape. Communication Theory 30(2), pp. 149-168. (10.1093/ct/qtz028)
• Healy, A. et al. 2020. Domestic groundwater sbstraction in Lagos, Nigeria: A disjuncture in the science-policy-practice interface?. Environmental Research Letters 15(4), article number: 45006. (10.1088/1748-9326/ab7463)

2019

• Allan, S. 2019. [Book Review] Deciding what’s true: The rise of political fact-checking in American journalism. Media, Culture and Society 41(8), pp. 1279-1281. (10.1177/0163443718764804)
• Allan, S. 2019. Book Review: Becoming the news: How ordinary people respond to the media spotlight. International Journal of Press/Politics 24(4), pp. 553-556. (10.1177/1940161219868435)
• Allan, S. and Hintz, A. 2019. Citizen journalism and participation. In: Wahl-Jorgensen, K. and Hanitzsch, T. eds. The Handbook of Journalism Studies. Taylor & Francis, pp. 435-451.
• Zeng, X., Jain, S., Nguyen, A. and Allan, S. 2019. New perspectives on citizen journalism: Introduction to special issue. Global Media and China 4(1), pp. 3-12. (10.1177/2059436419836459)
• Carter, C., Steiner, L. and Allan, S. eds. 2019. Journalism, gender and power. Abingdon and New York: Routledge.
• Allan, S. 2019. Women and war photography: en/gendering alternative histories. In: Carter, C., Steiner, L. and Allan, S. eds. Journalism, Gender and Power. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 312-330.
• Allan, S. 2019. Recovering the real for news photography. Journalism 20(1), pp. 126-129. (10.1177/1464884918806731)
• Allbeson, T. and Allan, S. 2019. The war of images in the age of Trump. In: Happer, C., Hoskins, A. and Merrin, W. eds. Trump’s Media War. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 69-84.
• Carter, C., Steiner, L. and Allan, S. 2019. Introduction. In: Carter, C., Steiner, L. and Allan, S. eds. Journalism, Gender and Power. London and New York: Routledge, pp. xvi-xxii.
• Gormley, A. and Allan, S. 2019. ‘Re-imagining human rights photography: Ariella Azoulay’s intervention'. In: Shaw, I. S. and Selvarajah, S. eds. Reporting Human Rights, Conflicts, and Peacebuilding: Critical and Global Perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan-Springer, pp. 203-220.

2018

• Bennett, L., Berry, M. and Allan, S. 2018. Introduction. Journalism Studies 19(13), pp. 1849-1853. (10.1080/1461670X.2018.1502922)
• Allan, S. et al. eds. 2018. The future of journalism: risks, threats and opportunities. London and New York: Routledge.
• Peters, C. and Allan, S. 2018. Everyday imagery: Users' reflections on smartphone cameras and communication. Convergence 24(4), pp. 357-373. (10.1177/1354856516678395)
• Allan, S. 2018. Review of Z.D. Gürsel’s image brokers: visualizing world news in the age of digital circulation. Media, War and Conflict 11(1), pp. 172-176. (10.1177/1750635218759392)
• Allan, S. 2018. Epilogue: redefining crisis reporting. In: Patrona, M. ed. Crisis and the Media Narratives of Crisis across Cultural Settings and Media. Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 261-266.
• Healy, A. et al. 2018. Resilience in groundwater supply systems: integrating resource based approaches with agency, behaviour and choice. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/519947/
• Allan, S. 2018. Foreword. In: Nguyen, A. ed. News, Numbers and Public Opinion in a Data-Driven World. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. xv-xvi.

2017

• Mortensen, M., Allan, S. and Peters, C. 2017. The iconic image in a digital age: editorial mediations over the Alan Kurdi photographs. Nordicom Review 38(s2), pp. 71-86. (10.1515/nor-2017-0415)
• Dencik, L. and Allan, S. 2017. In/visible conflicts: NGOs and the visual politics of humanitarian photography. Media, Culture and Society 39(8), pp. 1178-1193. (10.1177/0163443717726865)
• Allan, S. and Redden, J. 2017. Making citizen science newsworthy in the era of big data. Journal of Science Communication 16(2), pp. 1-12., article number: C05. (10.22323/2.16020305)
• Allan, S. 2017. Citizen witnessing of human rights abuses. In: Tumber, H. and Waisbord, S. eds. The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 347-356.
• Allan, S. and Dencik, L. 2017. 'It's not a pretty picture': visualising the Baltimore crisis on social media. In: Steiner, L. and Waisbord, S. eds. News of Baltimore: Race Rage and the City. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 103-119.
• Allan, S. ed. 2017. Photojournalism and citizen journalism: co-operation, collaboration and connectivity. London and New York: Routledge.

2016

• Wahl-Jorgensen, K. et al. 2016. The future of journalism: risks, threats and opportunities. Journalism Studies 17(7), pp. 801-807. (10.1080/1461670X.2016.1199486)
• Allan, S. 2016. Afterword: Revisioning journalism and the “pictures in our heads”. In: Peters, C. and Broersma, M. eds. Rethinking Journalism Again: Societal Role and Public Relevance in a Digital Age. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 216-230.
• Wahl-Jorgensen, K. et al. 2016. Introduction: The future of journalism: risks, threats and opportunities. Digital Journalism 4(7), pp. 809-815. (10.1080/21670811.2016.1199469)
• Wahl-Jorgensen, K. et al. 2016. Introduction: the future of journalism: risks, threats and opportunities. Journalism Practice 10(7), pp. 808-814. (10.1080/17512786.2016.1199485)
• Blaagaard, B. B. and Allan, S. 2016. Citizen mediations of connectivity: narrowing the “culture of distance” in television news. In: Baker, M. and Blaagaard, B. B. eds. Citizen Media and Public Spaces. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 58-75.
• Allan, S. 2016. Citizen witnesses. In: Witschge, T. et al. eds. The SAGE Handbook of Digital Journalism. London: Sage, pp. 266-279.
• Allan, S. 2016. Foreword. In: Mutsvairo, B. ed. Participatory Politics and Citizen Journalism in a Networked Africa: A Connected Continent. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. viii-xi.
• Allan, S. 2016. Documentare la guerra, visualizzare la pace: Verso una fotografia di pace. In: Salio, N. and De Michelis, S. eds. Giornalismo di Pace. Torino: Edizioni GruppoAbele, pp. 191-210.
• Allan, S. 2016. Photojournalism and citizen witnessing. In: Franklin, B. and Eldridge, S. eds. The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 487-497.
• Allan, S. and Sreedharan, C. 2016. Visualising war: Photojournalism under fire. In: Robinson, P., Seib, P. and Frohlich, R. eds. Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 93-105.

2015

• Farrell, N. and Allan, S. 2015. Redrawing boundaries: WITNESS and the politics of citizen videos. Global Media and Communication 11(3), pp. 237-253. (10.1177/1742766515606291)
• Allan, S. 2015. Afterword. In: Thorsen, E. et al. eds. Media, Margins and Civic Agency. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 209-213.
• Allan, S. 2015. London is burning: politics, protest and participation in newsmaking. In: Meso Ayerdi, K., Agirreazkuenaga Onaindia, I. and Larrondo Ureta, A. eds. Active Audiences and Journalism. Bilbao: Universidad del Pais Vasco, pp. 7-16.
• Allan, S. 2015. Visualizing human rights: The video advocacy of WITNESS. In: Cottle, S. and Cooper, G. eds. Humanitarianism, Communications and Change. Global Crises and the Media New York: Peter Lang, pp. 197-210.
• Allan, S. 2015. "iPhone-wielding amateurs”: The rise of citizen photojournalism. In: Atton, C. ed. The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 357-366.
• Allan, S. and Peters, C. 2015. ‘The “public eye” or “disaster tourists”: investigating public perceptions of citizen smartphone imagery. Digital Journalism 3(4), pp. 477-494. (10.1080/21670811.2015.1034517)
• Allan, S. 2015. Introduction: Photojournalism and citizen journalism. Journalism Practice 9(4), pp. 455-464. (10.1080/17512786.2015.1030131)
• Jukes, S. and Allan, S. 2015. Guarding the guardians: The Leveson Inquiry and the future of independent journalism. In: Bennett, J. and Strange, N. eds. Media Independence. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 31-51.
• Allan, S. 2015. Reconsidering “the report” in a digital age. Journalism and Discourse Studies 1(1), pp. 5-6.
• Allan, S. and Ewart, J. 2015. Citizen science, citizen journalism: New forms of environmental reporting. In: Hansen, A. and Cox, R. eds. The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication. London: Routledge, pp. 186-196.
• Allan, S. 2015. Media history. In: Donsbach, W. ed. The Concise Encyclopedia of Communication. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, pp. 358-360.
• Allan, S. and Peters, C. 2015. Visual truths of citizen reportage: Four research problematics. Information, Communication & Society 18(11), pp. 1348-1361. (10.1080/1369118X.2015.1061576)

2014

• Allan, S. 2014. D. Bennett, Digital media and reporting conflict: Blogging and the BBC’s coverage of war and terrorism [Book Review]. European Journal of Communication 29(5), pp. 628-631. (10.1177/0267323114539430b)
• Allan, S. 2014. Witnessing in crisis: photo-reportage of terror attacks in Boston and London. Media, War and Conflict 7(2), pp. 133-151. (10.1177/1750635214531110)
• Montgomery, M. and Allan, S. 2014. Ideologia, discurso e estudos culturais: A contribuição de Michel Pêcheux. EID&A - Revista Eletrônica de Estudos Integrados em Discurso e Argumentação 6, pp. 245-281.
• Allan, S. 2014. Foreword. In: Mabweazara, H. M., Mudhai, O. F. and Whittaker, J. eds. Online Journalism in Africa: Trends, Practices and Emerging Cultures. Routledge advances in internationalizing media studies Vol. 12. New York: Routledge, pp. ix-x.
• Allan, S. 2014. Reformulating photojournalism: Interweaving professional and citizen photo-reportage of the Boston bombings. In: Thorsen, E. and Allan, S. eds. Citizen Journalism: Global perspectives., Vol. 2. Global Crises and the Media New York: Peter Lang
• Allan, S. 2014. Photo-reportage of the Libyan conflict. In: Kennedy, L. and Patrick, C. eds. The Violence of the Image: Photography and International Conflict. London and New York: I.B. Taurus, pp. 167-192.
• Allan, S. and Thorsen, E. 2014. Citizen journalism: global perspectives. Global Crises and the Media. New York: Peter Lang.
• Messenger-Davies, M., Carter, C., Allan, S. and Mendes, K. 2014. News, children and citizenship: User-generated content and the BBC’s Newsround website. In: Thornham, H. and Popple, S. eds. Content Cultures: Transformations of User Generated Content in Public Service Broadcasting. London: I.B. Taurus & Co Ltd, pp. 15-36.
• Hajek, R., Stefanikova, S. and Allan, S. 2014. Citizen journalism is as old as journalism itself: An interview with Stuart Allan. Medialní Studia 2, pp. 174-181.

2013

• Allan, S. 2013. Book review: Adrienne Russell, Networked: a Contemporary History of News in Transition, and, Ansgard Heinrich, Network Journalism: Journalistic Practice in Interactive Spheres. Media, Culture & Society 35(3), pp. 411-414. (10.1177/0163443712473416d)
• Allan, S. 2013. Reconnecting science and journalism post-Leveson. Three-D(20), pp. 9.
• Allan, S. 2013. 'Humane truth-telling': photojournalism and the Syrian uprising. In: Moschovi, A., McKay, C. and Plouviez, A. eds. The Versatile Image: Photography, Digital Technologies and the Internet. Leuven: Leuven University Press, pp. 107-126.
• Allan, S. 2013. Citizen witnessing: revisioning journalism in times of crisis. Key concepts in journalism. Cambridge: Polity Press.
• Allan, S. 2013. The emerging ecology of online news. In: Lee, F. L. . et al. eds. Frontiers in New Media Research. Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society Vol. 15. New York: Routledge, pp. 153-172.
• Allan, S. and Matheson, D. 2013. War reporting in a digital age. In: Orton-Johnson, K. and Prior, N. eds. Digital Sociology: Critical Perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 151-168.
• Allan, S. 2013. The new politics of protest: young people, social media and news l literacy. Global Media Journal: Slovak Edition 1(1), pp. 10-25.
• Allan, S. 2013. Afterword. In: Scullion, R. et al. eds. The Media, Political Participation and Empowerment. Routledge Research in Political Communication Vol. 8. London: Routledge, pp. 255-262.
• Fowler-Watt, K. and Allan, S. eds. 2013. Journalism: new challenges. Bournemouth: Centre for Journalism & Communication Research, Bournemouth University.
• Allan, S. 2013. Blurring boundaries: professional and citizen photojournalism in a digital age. In: Lister, M. ed. The Photographic Image in Digital Culture (2nd ed.). Comedia Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 183-200.
• Thorsen, E., Sreedharan, C. and Allan, S. 2013. Wikileaks and whistle-blowing: the framing of Bradley Manning. In: Brevini, B., Hintz, A. and McCurdy, P. eds. Beyond WikiLeaks: Implications for the Future of Communications, Journalism and Society. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 101-122.

2012

• Allan, S. ed. 2012. The Routledge companion to news and journalism (Rev. ed.). Routledge Companions. London: Routledge.
• Allan, S. 2012. Journalism as interpretive performance: the case of Wikileaks. In: Peters, C. and Broersma, M. J. eds. Rethinking Journalism: Trust and Participation in a Transformed News Landscape. New York: Routledge, pp. 144-159.
• Allan, S. 2012. Online news reporting of crisis events: investigating the role of citizen witnessing. In: Veglis, A. and Siapera, E. eds. The Handbook of Global Online Journalism. Handbooks in Communication and Media Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 331-352., (10.1002/9781118313978.ch18)
• Allan, S. 2012. Civic voices: social media and political protest. In: Mihailidis, P. ed. News Literacy: Global Perspectives for the Newsroom and the Classroom. Mass communication and journalism Vol. 7. New York: Peter Lang, pp. 21-39.
• Allan, S. 2012. Citizen journalism and the rise of 'mass self-communication': reporting the London bombings. In: Wall, M. ed. Citizen Journalism: Valuable, Useless, or Dangerous?. London: International Debate Education Association, pp. 11-26.
• Allan, S. 2012. Foreword. In: Shaw Seaga, I. S. ed. Human Rights Journalism: Advances in Reporting Distant Humanitarian Interventions. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. xi-xiii.
• Sreedharan, C., Thorsen, E. and Allan, S. 2012. WikiLeaks and the changing forms of information politics in the "Network Society". In: Downey, E. and Jones, M. A. eds. Public Service, Governance and Web 2.0 Technologies: Future Trends in Social Media. Premier reference source Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference,, pp. 167-180., (10.4018/978-1-4666-0071-3.ch011)

2011

• Allan, S. 2011. Introduction: Science journalism in a digital age. Journalism 12(7), pp. 771-777. (10.1177/1464884911412688)
• Allan, S. 2011. Book review: Vincent Kiernan, Embargoed Science. Public Understanding of Science 20(2), pp. 287-288. (10.1177/0963662510381199a)
• Zelizer, B. and Allan, S. eds. 2011. Journalism after September 11 (2nd ed.). Communication and Society. London: Routledge.
• Allan, S. 2011. Documenting war, visualizing peace: towards peace photography. In: Shaw, I. S., Lynch, J. and Hackett, R. A. eds. Expanding Peace Journalism: Comparative and Critical Approaches. Sydney: University of Sidney Press, pp. 147-167.
• Allan, S. 2011. Amateur photography in wartime: early histories. In: Andén-Papadopoulos, K. and Pantti, M. eds. Amateur Images and Global News. Bristol: Intellect, pp. 41-60.
• Allan, S. 2011. 'When discourse is torn from reality': Bakhtin and the principle of chronotopicity. In: Delamont, S. and Atkinson, P. A. eds. SAGE Qualitative Research Methods., Vol. 3. SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods London: Sage, pp. 307-330.
• Walsh, M., Allan, S. and Nyre, L. 2011. Book reviews. Journalism Practice 5(2), pp. 249-254. (10.1080/17512786.2010.550411)
• Allan, S. 2011. Citizen journalism. In: Downing, J. ed. Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media. Thousand Island, CA: Sage, pp. 98-99.
• Allan, S. 2011. Book review: Natalie Fenton (ed.): New Media, Old News: Journalism and Democracy in the Digital Age. London: Sage, 2010. 220 pp. ISBN 978-1-84787-574-7 (pbk). Journalism 12(1), pp. 129-131. (10.1177/1464884910390272)
• Allan, S. 2011. Book Review: Islam Dot Com: Contemporary Islamic Discourses in Cyberspace (2009). Mohammed el-Nawawy and Sahar Khamis. New York. Palgrave Macmillan. Journal of Middle East Media 7(1)

2010

• Allan, S. 2010. News culture (3rd ed.). Issues in Cultural and Media Studies. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill/Open University Press.
• Zelizer, B. and Allan, S. 2010. Keywords in news and journalism studies. Open University Press.
• Allan, S. ed. 2010. Rethinking communication: keywords in communication research. The ICA Conference Theme Book Series. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
• Allan, S. 2010. Professionalism: journalism without professional journalists?. In: Steiner, L. and Christians, C. G. eds. Key Concepts in Critical Cultural Studies. The History of Communication Urbana: University of Illinois Press, pp. 145-157.
• Allan, S. and Matheson, D. 2010. Images in wartime: the mediation of power. In: Klaehn, J. ed. The Political Economy of Media and Power. New York: Peter Lang, pp. 143-160.
• Allan, S. and Thorsen, E. 2010. Journalism, public service and BBC News Online. In: Meikle, G. and Redden, G. eds. News Online: Transformation and Continuities. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 20-37.
• Allan, S. and Zelizer, B. 2010. Rules of engagement: journalism and war. In: Williams, K. ed. A Media Studies Reader. San Diego, CA: Cognella, pp. 25-42.
• Allan, S. 2010. OhmyNews (Korea). In: Downing, J. D. H. ed. Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, pp. 373-374.
• Allan, S., Delano, A., Muthukumaraswamy, K., Mendes, K., Dupagne, M., Youm, K. H. and Rupar, V. 2010. Book reviews. Journalism Studies 11(5), pp. 764-778. (10.1080/1461670X.2010.503026)
• Allan, S., Anderson, A. and Petersen, A. 2010. Framing risk: nanotechnologies in the news. Journal of Risk Research 13(1), pp. 29-44. (10.1080/13669870903135847)
• Allan, S. 2010. Journalism and the culture of othering. Brazilian Journalism Review 6(2), pp. 26-40.
• Matheson, D. and Allan, S. 2010. War blogs and the war in Iraq. In: Murdock, G. and Golding, P. eds. Digital Dynamics: Engagements and Connections. New York: Hampton Press, pp. 45-62.
• Matheson, D. and Allan, S. 2010. Social networks and the reporting of conflict. In: Keeble, R. L., Tulloch, J. and Zollman, F. eds. Peace Journalism, War and Conflict Resolution. New York: Peter Lang, pp. 173-192.
• Allan, S. and Andén-Papadopoulos, K. 2010. "Come on, let us shoot!": WikiLeaks and the cultures of militarization. TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies(23-24), pp. 244-253.

2009

• Petersen, A., Anderson, A., Allan, S. and Wilkinson, C. 2009. Opening the black box: scientists' views on the role of the news media in the nanotechnology debate. Public Understanding of Science 18(5), pp. 512-530. (10.1177/0963662507084202)
• Carter, C. and Allan, S. 2009. The visual culture of television news. In: Howells, R. and Matson, R. W. eds. Using Visual Evidence. Maidenhead: Open University Press, pp. 139-152.
• Anderson, A., Petersen, A., Wilkinson, C. and Allan, S. 2009. Nanotechnology, risk and communication. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Allan, S. and Thorsen, E. eds. 2009. Citizen journalism: global perspectives. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 1. New York: Peter Lang.
• Allan, S. 2009. Making science newsworthy: exploring the conventions of science journalism. In: Holliman, R. et al. eds. Investigating Science Communication in the Information Age: Implications for Public Engagement and Popular Media. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 149-165.
• Thorsen, E., Allan, S. and Carter, C. 2009. Citizenship and public service: the case of BBC news online. In: Tunney, S. and Monaghan, G. eds. Web Journalism : a New Form of Citizenship?. Brighton: Sussex Academic, pp. 116-125.
• Matheson, D. and Allan, S. 2009. Digital war reporting. Digital Media and Society Series. Cambridge: Polity Press.
• Allan, S. 2009. The future of science journalism. Journalism 10(3), pp. 280-282. (10.1177/1464884909102570)

2008

• Allan, S. 2008. The cultural politics of news discourse. In: Ryan, M. ed. Cultural Studies: an Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 936-957.
• Anderson, A., Allan, S., Petersen, A. and Wilkinson, C. 2008. Nanoethics: the role of news media in shaping debate. In: Luppicini, R. and Adell, R. eds. Handbook of Research on Technoethics., Vol. 1. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, pp. 373-390., (10.4018/978-1-60566-022-6.ch025)
• Allan, S. 2008. Coffee houses as public sphere. In: Donsbach, W. ed. The International Encyclopedia of Communication., Vol. 3. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 539-541.
• Allan, S. 2008. Media history. In: Donsbach, W. ed. The International Encyclopedia of Communication. Volume VII. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 2915-2926.