David Machin

David has published eight books and over sixty journal articles and book chapters mainly around topics relating to linguistic analysis of media and institutional texts and also around systematic analyses of both visual design and sound as communication. He is Co-Editor of the journal Social Semiotics and of the website SemiotiX.

Research Overview

David has particular research interests in visual communication, visual design, strategic language use and globalisation. His current research includes uses of sound for specific communicative purposes, uses of language in social media and public relations and the linking of visual design to market criteria particularly in the field of visual journalism and web design, and the techniques of localisation in language for transnational magazines.

Teaching Activity

Issues in Journalism, dissertations and research methods.

Books

Machin, D. and Polzer, L. In preparation Visual Journalism, London, Palgrave

Mayr, A. and Machin, D. (2012) Language of Crime and Deviance, London, Continuum

Machin, D. and Mayr, A. (2012) Critical Discourse Analysis: A Multimodal Approach, London, Sage

Hansen, A. and Machin, D. (2013) Mass Communication Research Methods, London, Palgrave

Machin, D. (2010) Analysing popular Music, London, Sage

Gunter, B and Machin, D (2009) Media Audiences 4 volume collection, London, Sage

Machin, D. (2007) Introduction to Multimodality, London Arnold

Machin, D. and Van Leeuwen, T. (2007) Global Media Discourse, London, Routledge.

Machin, D. and Niblock, S. (2006) News Production: Theory and Practice, London Routledge.

Machin, D. (2002) Ethnographic Research for Media Studies. London: Arnold.

Tunstall, J. and Machin, D. (1999) The Anglo-American Media Connection, Oxford, Oxford University Press

Book Chapters

Machin, D. and Van Leeuwen, T. (2013) ‘Genre and Media Discourse’, in Coupland, N. and Jaworski, A. Discourse: A Reader, London, Routledge

Machin, D. and Van Leeuwen, T. (2010) ‘Global Media and the Regime of Lifestyle’, in Coupland, N. Handbook of Language and Globalization, London Blackwell 625-643

Abousnnouga, G. and Machin, D. (2010) ‘War Monuments and the Changing Discourses of Nation and Soldiery’, in Jaworski, A. and Thurlow, C. Semiotic Landscapes, London, Continuum, 219-240

Machin, D. and Niblock, S. (2010) ‘Branding Newspapers’, in Richardson, J.E. Language and Journalism, London, Routledge, 93-108

Machin, D. (2009) ‘Multimodality and theories of the Visual’, in Jewitt, C. Handbook of Multimodality, Sage 181-190

Machin, D. and Van Leeuwen. T. (2008) ‘Branding the Self’, in Identity Trouble: Critical Discourse and Contested Identities, Caldas Coulthard, C. and Iedema, R, 43-57

Abousnnouga, G. and Machin, D. (2008) ‘The Visual Institutionalisation of Discourses in War Monuments’, in Mayr, A. Language and Power: and introduction to institutional Discourse, London, Continuum 115-137

Machin, D. (2008) Understanding the Social Goings On Behind News Texts, in Mayr, A. Language and Power: and introduction to institutional Discourse, London, Continuum 62-89

Machin, D. (2007) Visual discourses of war: a multimodal analysis of the Iraq occupation, in Discourse, War and Terrorism, A Hodges, and C, Nilep, John Benejemins. 123-142

Machin, D and Van Leeuwen, T. (2006) From Regimes of Rule to Regimes of Choice in Linguistics Consumerism and Identity in The Abduction of Language. Essays in English Studies. Navarro i Ferrando, I. and N. Alberola Crespo(eds.), Universitat Jaume I ISBN: 84-8021-545-3

Machin, D. and Messenger Davis, M. (2001) The Reithian Agenda: Setting Good Examples, in Messenger Davis Dear BBC: Children. Television, Storytelling and the Public Sphere, Cambridge University Press.

Machin, D and Messenger Davis, M. (2001) Media Literacy and the Understanding of Narrative, in Messenger Davis Dear BBC: Children. Television, Storytelling and the Public Sphere, Cambridge University Press.

Journal Special Editions

Forthcoming (2012) special edition on visual representation of environmental issues with A. Hansen in journal Environmental Communication

Machin, D. And Richardson, J. (2008) Discourse and Class, Special edition of Critical Discourse Studies

International Reviewed Journals

Machin, D. and Richardson, J. E. (2012) Discourses of Unity and Purpose it the Sounds of Fascist Music: A Multimodal Approach, Critical Discourse Studies, 1-7

Machin, D. and Mayr (2012) Corporate Crime and the Discursive Deletion of Responsibility: A case study of Paddington Rail Crash, Crime, Media &Culture

Machin, D. (2012) ‘Towards a social semiotic approach of the analysis of emotion in sound and music’, Public Journal of Semiotics

Machin, D. (2013) ‘Towards a social semiotic approach to the analysis of rhythm in popular music’, Semiotica

Abousnnouga, G. and Machin, D. (2011) ‘Visual discourses of the role of women in war commemoration: a multimodal analysis of British war monuments’ Journal of Language and Politics, 10/3

Abousnnouga, G. and Machin, D. (2011) ‘The changing spaces of war commemoration: a multimodal analysis of the discourses of British monuments’ Social Semiotics, 21/2, 175-196

Machin, D and Niblock, S. (2010) ‘The New Breed of Business Journalism for Niche Global News’ Journalism Studies 28

Abousnnouga, G. and Machin, D (2010) ‘Analysing the Language of War Monuments’, Visual Communication, 9/2

Machin, D. & Van Leeuwen, T.J. (2009), 'Toys as discourse: children's war toys and the war on terror', Critical Discourse Studies, 6/ 1, 51-64.

Hansen, A., & Machin, D. (2008). Visually branding the environment: climate change as a marketing opportunity. Discourse Studies, 10/6, 777-794.

Niblock, S. and Machin, D. (2008) ‘Branding Newspapers, Visual texts as social practice’, Journalism Studies 9/2 244-259

Machin, D. & Richardson, J.E. (2008) Renewing an academic interest in structural inequality, Critical Discourse Studies, 5(4): 281-288

Machin, D. and Griffiths, T. (2007) ‘A semiotic analysis of the music of Britpop: A phrasebook for signification in popular music’, International Journal of Applied Semiotics, Vol. 5, Nos. ¾

Niblock, S. and Machin, D. (2007) News production in a Digital Newsroom, Inside Independent Radio News, Journalism 8/2 184-204

Machin, D. and Mayr, A. (2007) Antiracism in the British Government’s model regional newspaper: the ‘talking cure’ Discourse and Society 8/4 453-478

Niblock, S and Machin (2007 March) News production in a digital newsroom: Inside Independent Radio News, Journalism

Machin, D. and Jaworski, A. (2006) ‘The use of film archive footage to symbolise news events’ Visual Communication 5/3 345-366

Machin, D and Suleiman, U. (2006) Arab and American Computer War Games: the influence of a global technology on discourse, in press Critical Discourse Studies 3 (1) 1-22 ISSN 1740-5904

Machin, D. and Thornborrow, J. (2006) ‘Lifestyle and the depoliticisation of agency: Sex as power in women’s magazines’, Social Semiotics, 16 (1)

Machin, D. and Van Leeuwen, T (2005) ‘Language style and lifestyle: the case of a global magazine’ Media Culture & Society 27: 577-600

Machin, D. and Van Leeuwen T. (2005) ‘Computer games as political discourse: the case of Black Hawk Down’ Journal of Language and Politics 4/1

Machin, D. and Van Leeuwen, T (2004) ‘Global Media: Generic Homogeneity and Discursive Diversity’ Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 18/1

Machin, D. and Van Leeuwen, T. (2003) ‘Global Schemas and Local Discourses in Cosmopolitan’, Journal of Sociolinguistics, 7/4 493-512

Machin, D. (2004) ‘Building the world’s visual language: the increasing global importance of image banks in corporate media’, Visual Communication Vol 3/3

Machin, D. and Messenger Davies, M. (2003) ‘Future Generations: The Implied Importance of the Fantasy World in Development of a Child's Imagination’, Childhood : A Global Journal of Child Research, 10. 1 105-117

Papatheodorou, F. and Machin, D (2003) ‘The Umbilical Cord That Was Never Cut: The Post-Dictatorial Intimacy between the Political Elite and the Mass Media in Greece and Spain’ European Journal of Communication 18: 31-54.

Griffiths, M. and Machin, D. (2003) ‘Television and playground games as part of children’s symbolic culture’, Social Semiotics, 13, 2, 147 160

Machin, D. and Papatheodorou, F. (2003) ‘Commercialisation and Tabloid Television in Southern Europe : Disintegration or Democratisation of the Public Sphere’, Journal of European Area Studies, 10. 1 (2003) 31-48

Machin, D. and Thornborrow, J, (2003) ‘Branding and Discourse: the case of Cosmopolitan’. Discourse and Society, 14/4

Davies, M. M. & Machin, D. ( 2000)’’It helps people make their decisions’: dating games, public service broadcasting and the negotiation of identity in middle childhood’, Childhood, 7/2 173-191

Davies, Maire Messenger & David Machin (2000), 'Children's Demon TV--reality, freedom, panic: children's discussions of The Demon Headmaster', Continuum:

Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 14/1.

Richardson, G. & Machin, D. (2000) ‘Doctors on tribunals. A confusion of roles’ British Journal of Psychiatry, 176, 110-115.

Richardson, G. and Machin, D. (2000) ‘Judicial Review and Tribunal Decision Making: A Study of the Mental Health Review Tribunal’, Journal of Public Law, Autumn 2000 494-514

Mackay, R. and Machin, D. (2000) ‘The operation of Section 48 of the Mental health Act 1983’, British Journal of Criminology, 40, 727-745

Richardson, G. and Machin, D. (1999) ‘A Clash of values? Mental Health Review Tribunals and Judicial Review’, Journal of Mental Health Law, Feb, 3-12

Machin, D and Scamell, A (1998) ‘Using ethnographic research to examine effects of 'informed choice' British Journal of Midwifery, 6 (5) pp 304 – 309

Machin D & Scamell M, (1997) ‘The experience of labour: using ethnography to explore the irresistible nature of the bio-medical metaphor during labour’, Midwifery, 13: 78-84

Machin, D. and Carrithers M.B. (1996) From 'interpretative communities' to 'communities of improvisation'. Media, Culture and Society 18(2): 343-352.

Machin, D. (1995) ‘Cultural Narratives and a Media Spectacle in South West Spain’ Journal of Mediterranean Studies 5(1): 50-67.

Machin, D. (1996) ‘ Morbo, personhood, and the absence of a sensationalist press in Spain’ Journal of Mediterranean Studies. 6:2 pp 247-55

Journal Papers that have been included into Readers

Machin, D. and Thornborrow, J (2003) ‘Branding and Discourse: the case of Cosmopolitan’. Discourse and Society; 14/4 453-473 has appeared in a collection on Discourse of Advertising edited by Guy Cook published (2007) by Benjemins

Machin, D. and Van Leeuwen, T (2004) ‘Global Media: Generic Homogeneity and Discursive Diversity’, Continuum: Journal of Media and Culture 18/1 99-120 has appeared in Communication Theories (2006) edited by Paul Cobley, by Routledge

Machin, D. (2004) ‘Building the world’s visual language: the increasing global importance of image banks in corporate media’, Visual Communication 3/3 316-336 in Hansen, A. (2009) Mass Communication Research Methods, London, Sage