This report presents the findings of an extensive audit of media coverage of
the 2005 UK General Election conducted by the Communication Research
Centre, Loughborough University on behalf of the Electoral Commission. The
report is organised into the following chapters:
Chapter 1: Mapping Media Coverage of the 2005 UK General Election: the
results of the quantitative analysis of media content (pages 7-43)
(David Deacon, Dominic Wring & Peter Golding).
Chapter 2: Politics as an Appearance and Reality Show: the results of the
analysis of qualitative aspects of coverage (pages 44-59) (Michael
Billig).
Chapter 3: The Internet and the UK General Election (pages 60 - 71) (John
Downey and Scott Davidson).
Chapter 4: Women’s Magazines during the election (pages 72 - 75) (Dominic
Wring and David Deacon).
Funding
The Electoral Commission
History
School
Social Sciences
Department
Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Citation
DEACON, D. ... et al, 2005. Reporting the 2005 U.K. General Election. Loughborough : Loughborough University