Ebook: Scotland's Referendum and the Media: National and International Perspectives

The Scottish Referendum and its aftermath, viewed from national and international perspectives

Read an article by David Hutchison about the book on allmediascotland.com

After the Referendum on whether Scotland should become an independent country in September 2014 ¬‒ and following a momentous mobilisation of voters by both the Yes and No campaigns ‒ Scotland's political environment has been fundamentally energised. But how was the Referendum campaign reported and structured in the media in Scotland, the wider United Kingdom, and in other parts of the world, and when might ‘representation’ have turned into ‘construction’?

In this book scholars, commentators and journalists from Britain, Europe, Canada and Australia examine how the media across the world presented the debate itself and the shifting nature of Scottish ‒ and British ‒ identity which that debate revealed. Several of the contributors also explore how the emphases and interpretations placed on the Scottish debate by their national media illuminate attitudes to their own nationalism and separatism questions.

The consequences of the No majority vote are traced in the media through until the SNP landslide in the UK general election of 2015. The issues which have subsequently come to the fore will be relevant for years to come.

Contributors

• Neil Blain, University of Stirling
• Margot Buchanan, University of Stirling
• Catherine Côté, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec
• Enric Castelló, Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Tarragona
• Marina Dekavalla, University of Stirling
• Peter Golding, Northumbria University
• John Harris, Glasgow Caledonian University
• Gerry Hassan is a writer, researcher and commentator
• David Hutchison, Glasgow Caledonian University
• Anthea Irwin, University of Ulster
• Brian McNair, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
• James Mitchell, University of Edinburgh
• Klaus Peter Müller, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz
• Hugh O’Donnell, Glasgow Caledonian University
• Sian Powell, Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies
• Didier Revest, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis
• Kevin Rafter, Dublin City University
• John Robertson, University of the West of Scotland
• Fiona Skillen, Glasgow Caledonian University
• Fernando León-Solís, University of the West of Scotland
• Andrew Tolson, University of Leicester
• Christopher Waddell, Carleton University, Ottawa
• Karen Williamson, Northumbria University