Public Understanding of Regimes of Risk Regulation

This project examines the implications for audiences and publics - or citizens and consumers - of the changing regimes of regulation in the media and communications, and financial services sectors, following the establishment in the UK of Ofcom and the FSA.

New book to be published in December: Lunt, P., and Livingstone, S. (2012) Media Regulation: Governance and the interests of citizens and consumers. London: Sage. See also:

• Livingstone, S., Lunt, P., and Miller, L. (2007) Citizens and consumers: Discursive debates during and after the Communications Act 2003. Media, Culture & Society, 29(4): 613-638.
• Livingstone, S., Lunt, P., and Miller, L. (2007) Citizens, consumers and the citizen-consumer: Articulating the interests at stake in media and communications regulation. Discourse and Communication, 1(1): 85-111.
• Livingstone, S., and Lunt, P. (2007) Representing citizens and consumers in media and communications regulation. In 'The Politics of Consumption/ The Consumption of Politics, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 611: 51-65.
• Lunt, P., and Livingstone, S. (2007) Regulating markets in the interest of consumers? On the changing regime of governance in the financial service and communications sectors. In M. Bevir and F. Trentmann (Eds.), Governance, citizens, and consumers: Agency and resistance in contemporary politics (139-161). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Lunt, P., Livingstone, S., and Malik, S. (2008) Public understanding of regimes of risk regulation: A report on focus group discussions with citizens and consumers. Social Contexts and Responses to Risk Network (SCARR) Working Paper series (WP26). http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/21445
• Lunt, P., and Livingstone, S. (2008) Final project report: public understanding of regimes of risk regulation. London: Brunel/LSE.
• Lunt, P., and Livingstone, S. (2009) The regulator, the public and the media: Imagining a role for the public in communication regulation. InterMedia, 37(1): 26-29. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/24556/