Dr Jean K. Chalaby

Reader in Sociology

Department of Sociology

Overview/research interests

Dr Jean Chalaby obtained his first degree from the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland. Following a PhD at the LSE in 1994 he became a post-doctoral fellow of te Swiss National Science Foundation, joining City University as a lecturer in 2000.

His initial research focused on historical sociology. He published a book on the 19th-century British press (The Invention of Journalism, Macmillan, 1998) and another on media and politics in 1960s France (The de Gaulle Presidency and the Media: Statism and Public Communications, 2002, Palgrave Macmillan). Comparative sociology was another important strand of his work, bringing together research conducted in France, Britain and Eastern Europe.

Since the early 2000s, his work has focused on international communication and the global remapping of media spaces. He has published numerous articles on transnational television in Europe and edited Transnational Television Worldwide (2005, I.B. Tauris). He is the author of Transnational Television in Europe (2009, I.B. Tauris) and is currently writing a book on the European television marketplace.

Dr Chalaby's work has been published in leading academic journals in nine countries and translated into five different languages. He regularly delivers papers abroad and has frequently been invited as guest speaker at seminars and colloquia across Europe. He has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Geneva for the past eight years. At City, Dr Chalaby teaches media history to first-year undergraduates, and comparative media systems and international communication to third-year undergraduates. He is Director of the MA Transnational Media & Globalisation.

Dr Chalaby welcomes inquiries from prospective PhD students in his fields of expertise.

Publications

Books

(2009) Transnational Television in Europe: Reconfiguring Global Communications Networks. London: I.B. Tauris.

(2002) The de Gaulle Presidency and the Media: Statism and Public Communications, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

(1998) The Invention of Journalism, Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin Press

Journal articles

(2009) 'Broadcasting in a Post-National Environment: The Rise of Transnational TV Groups', Critical Studies in Television, 4(1): 39-64

(2008) 'Advertising in the Global Age: Transnational Campaigns and pan-European television channels', Global Media and Communication, 4(2): 139-156

(2007) 'Beyond Nation-Centrism: Thinking International Communication from a Cosmopolitan Perspective', Studies in Communication Sciences - Journal of the Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research, 7(1): 61-83

(2006) 'American Cultural Primacy in a New Media Order: A European Perspective', Gazette: The International Journal for Communication Studies, 68(1) 35-61

(2005) 'French Political Communication in a Comparative Perspective: The Media and the Issue of Freedom', Modern & Contemporary France, 13(3): 273-290

(2005) 'Deconstructing the Transnational: A Typology of Cross-Border Television Channels in Europe', New Media & Society, 7(2): 155-175

(2005) 'From Internationalization to Transnationalization', Global Media and Communication, 1(1): 28-33

(2005) 'Pour une philologie sociologique : Analyse des mutations discursives de la presse anglaise au 19e siècle' ['Towards a Sociological Philology: An Analysis of the Discursive Mutations of the British Press in the 19th Century'], Médias & Culture, 1(1): 147-172

(2004) 'Scandal and the Rise of Investigative Reporting in France', American Behavioral Scientist, 47(9): 1194-1207

(2003) 'Television for a New Global Order: Transnational Television Networks and the Formation of Global Systems', Gazette: The International Journal for Communication Studies, 65(6): 457-472

(2003) 'O jornalismo como invenção anglo-americana: Comparação entre o desenvolvimento do jornalismo francês e anglo-americano, 1830-1920' ['Journalism as an Anglo-American Invention: A Comparison of the Development of French and Anglo-American Journalism, 1830s-1920s'], Media & Jornalismo (Centro de Investigação Media e Jornalismo, Portugal), 2(3): 29-50

(2002) 'Transnational Television in Europe: The Role of Pan-European Channels', European Journal of Communication, 17(2): 183-203

(2002) 'Freedoms of Intimacy and the Internet', Communicare: Journal for Communication Sciences in Southern Africa, 21(1): 1-16

(2000) 'Le Journalisme: une invention moderne et anglo-américaine'
['Journalism as an Anglo-American and modern invention'],
Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie/Revue suisse de sociologie/Swiss Journal of Sociology, 27(2): 281-295

(2000) 'Discourse and History', Iletisim: The Journal of the Faculty of Communications of Gazi University (Turkey), 2000(7): 228-234

(2000) '"Smiling Pictures Make People Smile": Northcliffe's Journalism', Media History 6(1): 33-44 (2000) 'Journalism Studies in an Era of Transition in Public Communications', Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 1(1): 33-39

(2000) 'New Media, New Freedoms, New Threats', Gazette: The International Journal for Communication Studies, 62(1): 19-29.

Book chapters

(2007) 'Journalism and the Two Industrial Revolutions of the Twentieth Century', in M. Broersma (ed.) Form and Style in Journalism: European Newspapers and the Representation of News, 1880-2005, pp. 235-243. Leuven: Peeters

(2007) 'One Nation, One State, One Television: Making Sense of de Gaulle's Broadcasting Policy', in J. Wardhaugh (ed.) Paris and the Right in the Twentieth Century, pp. 86-103. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

(2006) 'Television for a New Global Order: Transnational Television Networks and the Formation of Global Systems' [in Mandarin], pp. 272-291 in S. Sun (ed.) Global Media Policies: New Perspectives. Shangai: Shangai Joint Press

(2005) 'Introduction: Towards an Understanding of Media Transnationalism', pp. 1-13 in J. Chalaby (ed.) Transnational Television Worldwide London: I.B. Tauris

(2005) 'The Quiet Invention of a New Medium: Twenty Years of Transnational Television in Europe', pp. 43-65 in J. Chalaby (ed.) Transnational Television Worldwide London: I.B. Tauris

(2004) 'L'adaptation des programmes européens aux marchés nationaux : L'exemple d'Eurosport en Grande-Bretagne' ['The Adaptation of European programming to national markets: The case of Eurosport in Great Britain'], pp. 231-241 in D. Marchetti (ed.) En quête d'Europe : Médias européens et médiatisation de l'Europe Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes

(2003) 'Transnational television in Europe: Affluence without influence', pp. 13-30 in M. Bond (ed.) Europe, Parliament and the Media London: The Federal Trust for Education and Research

(2000) 'Northcliffe: Proprietor as Journalist', pp. 25-41 in P. Catterall, C., Seymour-Ure and A. Smith (eds) Northcliffe's Legacy: Apects of the British Press, 1896-1996 Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin Press; London: Institute of Contemporary British History.