'Agnes' research interests include local media and journalism, comparative media studies, digital news and communication, and social media research.
Current and recent research
- With Professor Ilona Biernacka. 'Digital Local Public Sphere and Local Communication Online’, European Commission (Horizon 2020, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships for Prof Biernacka to work at the Centre for Research on Communities and Cultures)
- ‘Social Media and Journalism: International Comparative Study’ (annual survey projects, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017) with Kristine Pole and Gorkana/Cision
- 'Social Media Adoption among Small Non-Profit Organisations' (2015-2016) funded by Communities & Culture Network+, funded by UK Research Councils
- ‘Researching online news and communication in local communities’ October 2015-June 2016
- 'Social Media and Community Volunteering' (2014-2015) funded by Communities & Culture Network+, funded by UK Research Councils
- 'Museums in the Digital Age' (in partnership with Museum Development Service for Kent & Medway; 2013-2014) funded by Arts Council England
- 'Communities, Third Sector Organisations and Social Media' (in partnership with Canterbury Voluntary Alliance, 2012-2014) funded by HEIF
- 'Neighbours Online' (2010-2011)
- 'Corporate Social Responsibility of Multinational Media Companies' (2010)
- 'Changing Production Ecology of Local Newspapers in Britain' (2009-2010)
Supervision
I welcome PhD proposal in the following areas: digital transformations, communities, media organisations and industries, journalism, social media, local media and communication, European media and media systems, comparative media studies.
Publications and research outputs
Selected publications include:
(in progress) co-editor with David Baines Routledge Companion to Local Media and Journalism, Routledge (estimated date of publication is 2020)
with Sarah O’Hara and Jon Eilenberg (2018) ‘Experiencing local news online: audience practices and perceptions’, in: Journalism StudiesDOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2018.1539345
‘Hybridity and social media adoption by journalists’ in: Digital Journalism first published: 28 September 2016, DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2016.1232170
‘Social Media and Journalism: Hybridity, Convergence, Changing Relationship with the Audience and Fragmentation’ in Eldridge and Franklin (2016) (eds.) Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies, Routledge.
Final project report and Policy recommendation report, 'Social media and Small non-profit organisations’, project funded by Communities and Cultures Network+, March 2016, http://www.communitiesandculture.org/projects/outputs/
Gulyás and Hammer (2013) (eds) Public Service Media In The Digital Age: International Perspectives¸ Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
'The influence of professional variables on social media use and views about the tools among UK journalists' in: Digital Journalism, 2013, DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2012.744559.
'Changing Business Models and Adaptation Strategies of Local Newspapers' in John Mair, Neil Fowler, Ian Reeves (eds by) What Do We Mean By Local?, 2012, Arima publishing.
'Public service media in local communities: a case study from England' in: Gulyas and Hammer (2013) (eds) Public Service Media In The Digital Age: International Perspectives¸ Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
‘Corporate social responsibility in the British media industries — preliminary findings’ in:Media, Culture & Society, July 2009, Volume 31, No. 4; pp657-668.
’Western influences in the Print Media of Post-Communist East-Central Europe’ in: The Journal of International Communication, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2004, pp 108-130.
‘Print Media in Post-Communist East Central Europe’ in: European Journal of Communication, Vol. 18. No.1, 2003, pp 81-106.
Communist Media Economics and the Consumers - The Case of Print Media of East Central Europe’, in: JMM- The International Journal on Media Management, 2001, Vol 3, Issue 2, pp74-81.