KAY RICHARDSON is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and Communication Studies at the University of Liverpool,UK. Her other books include
Nuclear Reactions: A Study in Public Issue Television (co-authored with Natalie Fenton),
Researching Language: Issues of Power and Method (co-authored with Deborah Cameron, Elizabeth Frazer, Penelope Harvey and Ben Rampton),
Text, Discourse and Context: Representations of Poverty in Britain (co-edited with Ulrike H. Meinhof) and
Worlds in Common: Television Discourses in a Changing Europe
(coauthored with Ulrike H. Meinhof).