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Research output per year
Personal profile
Contact Details
Room: MB732(b)
Phone: 0121 204 3332
Email: t.mills@aston.ac.uk
Biography
I am a sociologist with an interest in media and communications, elite institutions and networks, and the use of digital methods. I am the author of The BBC: Myth of a Public Service (Verso, 2016), a book which examines the BBC’s relationship with the state and the ways in which the rise of neoliberalism impacted on its organisational structure and culture. Among other things, I am currently working on a British Academy funded project using data from Who's Who to map the structure of the UK 'Establishment'.
Research Interests
- Media and Communications
- Elites
- Think tanks and policy network
- Sociology of knowledge and expertise
- Counter-terrorism and Islamophobia
- Digital methods, social network analysis, investigative research.
Teaching Activity
- Identities and Inequalities I (LK1009)
- From Social Problems to Public Policies (LK1021)
- Racisms (LK2030)
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, University of Bath
2008 → 2015
External positions
Senior Research Fellow, De Montfort University Media Discourse Centre
31 Oct 2015 → …
Chair, Media Reform Coalition
Keywords
- HM Sociology
- Elites
- Media Communications
- Corporate power
- Social Network Analysis
- Knowledge and Expertise
- HT Communities. Classes. Races
- Islamophobia
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Guardian Journalists and Twitter Circles
Mills, T., Apr 2021, Capitalism's Conscience: 200 Years of the Guardian. Freedman, D. (ed.). Pluto Press, p. 207-230Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Chapter
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Impartiality on Platforms: The Politics of BBC Journalists’ Twitter Networks
Mills, T., Mullan, K. & Fooks, G. J., 2021, In: Journalism Studies. 22, 1, p. 22-41 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Movements and Gatekeepers in a Hybrid Media Environment: A Comparison of the Twitter Networks of Corbynism and the People's Vote Movement
Bassett, L. & Mills, T., Jun 2021, In: Political Quarterly. 92, 2, p. 229-238 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Secrecy, coercion and deception in research on ‘terrorism’ and ‘extremism’
Massoumi, N., Mills, T. & Miller, D., 2 Apr 2020, In: Contemporary Social Science. 15, 2, p. 134-152Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The ethics of researching ‘terrorism’ and political violence: a sociological approach
Mills, T., Massoumi, N. & Miller, D., 2020, In: Contemporary Social Science. 15, 2, p. 119-133 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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