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Image Credit Header image: Artwork by Professor Lubaina Himid, CBE. Photo: @Denise Swanson

Amy Binns

senior lecturer

School of Arts and Media

journalism, social media, online behaviour, anonymity, trolling

Amy Binns trained as a photographer before spending ten years as a newspaper reporter. She teaches print and digital journalism. Her research is largely around finding practical solutions for difficult behaviour online, which involves working with a wide range of people including media industry professionals, and fellow academics. She still loves a good story and recently researched, wrote and self-published a local history book, Valley of the Chapels, which led her to a new field in feminist history scholarship.

1994 BA Photography, Film and TV, Napier University 2006 PGCert in Higher Ed, University of Huddersfield 2013 MA Journalism, UCLan Fellow of Higher Education Academy External examiner for Nottingham Trent University Editorial board of the Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies, edited by Leon Barkho Referee for various journals including Feminist Media Studies.

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  1. Binns, Amy orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-9173-3108 (2014) Twitter city and Facebook village: Teenage girls’ personas and experiences influenced by choice architecture in social networking sites. Journal of Media Practice, 15 (2). pp. 71-91. ISSN 1468-2753
  2. Binns, Amy orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-9173-3108 (2017) Fair game? Journalists’ experiences of online abuse. Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies, 6 (2). pp. 183-206. ISSN 2001-0818
  3. Binns, Amy orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-9173-3108 (2017) New Heroines for New Causes: How provincial women promoted a revisionist history through post-suffrage pageants. Women's History Review, 27 (2). pp. 221-246. ISSN 0961-2025
  4. Binns, Amy orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-9173-3108 (2017) Silenced by Free Speech: How cyberabuse affects debate and democracy. In: New Perspectives on Cybercrime. Palgrave Studies in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity . Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 159-174. ISBN 978-3-319-53855-6
  5. Binns, Amy orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-9173-3108 and Bateman, Martin (2017) Preliminary findings of hostility towards MPs on Twitter using sentiment analysis. Project Report. Committee for Standards in Public Life, London.
  6. Binns, Amy orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-9173-3108 (2020) Nobility, Duty and Courage: Propaganda and Inspiration in Interwar Women’s and Girls’ Pageants. In: Restaging the Past: Historical Pageants, Culture and Society in Modern Britain. UCL Press, London, pp. 132-157. ISBN 9781787354050
  7. Binns, Amy orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-9173-3108, Bateman, Martin and Mair, John (2018) The remoaner queen under attack: the trolling of Gina Miller. In: Anti-Social Media?: The Impact on Journalism and Society. Abramis, pp. 10-16. ISBN 978-1-84549-729-3
  8. Binns, Amy orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-9173-3108 and Bateman, Martin (2018) What makes a target: politicians and abuse on social media [Note: The chapter “What makes a target: politicians and abuse on social media” from the edited collection “Anti Social Media?” was reprinted in the British Journalism Review under the title “And they thought papers were rude.”]. In: Anti-Social Media?: The Impact on Journalism and Society. Abramis, pp. 34-41. ISBN 978-1-84549-729-3
  9. Binns, Amy orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-9173-3108 and Arnold, Sophie (2021) Death of a Watchdog: Reduced Coverage of Coroners’ Inquests by Local Media. Journalism Practice, 14 (10). pp. 1460-1478. ISSN 1751-2786
  10. Binns, Amy orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-9173-3108 (2019) Hidden Wyndham: Life, Love, Letters. Grace Judson Press, United Kingdom. ISBN 9780992756710
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