Professor / Head of School - LSAP / Anthropology Postgraduate CoordinatorLindaJean Kenix
Elsie Locke Building 601
Phone: +6433695926
Internal Phone: 95926
Professor Kenix explores the representation of marginal groups in the news of mass and alternative media.
Qualifications & Memberships
Research Interests
My research gives specific attention to the agenda setting function of both mass and alternative media in the process of social change. I am very interested in how the media portray different groups and how that representation informs how societies shift.
Recent Publications
- Kenix LJ. (2011) Alternative and Mainstream Media: The Converging Spectrum. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic. 216pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781849665421.
- Atkinson J; Kenix LJ (Ed.) (2019) Alternative Media Meets Mainstream Politics: Activist Nation Rising. London and New York: Lexington Books. 230.
- Kenix LJ. and Lopez JB. (2021) Representations of refugees in their home countries and abroad: A content analysis of la caravana migrante/the migrant caravan in Central America and the United States. Newspaper Research Journal http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0739532921989490.
- Kenix L. (2019) Exploring national culture through international media: The publication of a viral pro-LGBT image compared against a nation’s wealth, level of religion, and democracy. Journal of Intercultural Communication 49.
- Kenix L. and Abikanlu O. (2019) A comparative analysis of social media messaging by African-centred LGBT refugee NGOs. Journal of African Media Studies 11(3): 313-329. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jams_00003_1.