ABOUT Dr. Cynthia Carter (Great Britain)

Dr. Cynthia Carter is a senior lecturer in the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, Wales. She has published widely, with particular research interests in children, news and citizenship, children and traumatic news, feminist media studies, violence and the media and journalism safety. Her books include Critical Readings: Violence and the Media (Open University Press, 2006), Critical Readings: Media and Gender (Open University Press 2004), Violence and the Media (Open University Press 2003). In 2002 she was granted extended research leave, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to study children and traumatic news. She is Founding Co-Editor of the journal Feminist Media Studies (Routledge) and is editorial board member of the Journal of Children and Media (Routledge), Critical Studies in Media Communication (Taylor & Francis), Communication Review (Taylor & Francis), Communication, Culture & Critique (forthcoming, Blackwell), Sociology Compass (forthcoming, Blackwell) and Fifth Estate (online).