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Lieve Gies

Lieve Gies is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Leicester, UK. Her research principally concerns the intersections between law, media and popular culture. Her publications include Law and the Media: The Future of an Uneasy Relationship (2008) and Mediating Human Rights: Media, Culture and Human Rights Law (2014). 
Maria Bortoluzzi is Associate Professor of English Language at the University of Udine, Italy. Her research interests are in the areas of critical discourse studies and teacher education. Her latest research work and publications deal with language in social media communities and ICT for language teacher education.

Trial by Media

Trial by Media

This edited collection brings together scholars from criminology, law, media and communication studies, politics and linguistics to consider the different meanings and dimensions of trial by media. Trial by media remains an under-researched and under-conceptualised phenomenon.

Trial by Media

Trial by Media

This edited collection brings together scholars from criminology, law, media and communication studies, politics and linguistics to consider the different meanings and dimensions of trial by media. Trial by media remains an under-researched and under-conceptualised phenomenon.

Transmedia Crime Stories

Transmedia Crime Stories

This collection focuses on media representations of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, defendants in the Meredith Kercher murder case. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, encompassing criminology, socio-legal analysis, critical discourse studies, cultural studies and celebrity studies, the book analyses how this case was narrated in the media and why Knox emerged as the main protagonist.

Transmedia Crime Stories

Transmedia Crime Stories

This collection focuses on media representations of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, defendants in the Meredith Kercher murder case. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, encompassing criminology, socio-legal analysis, critical discourse studies, cultural studies and celebrity studies, the book analyses how this case was narrated in the media and why Knox emerged as the main protagonist.