Dr Cornel Sandvoss
Senior Lecturer
Qualifications: MA ( Sussex ), PhD ( London School of Economics)
Email: c.sandvoss@surrey.ac.uk
Phone: Work: 01483 68 9959
Room no: 09 AD 03
Further information
Biography
Cornel joined the University of Surrey in 2004. He previously taught at the University of Cambridge and De Montfort University, Leicester.
He is Chair of the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA) and editor of Popular Communication: International Journal of Media and Culture (with C. Lee Harrington and Jonathan Gray ). The journal welcomes submissions on all aspects of popular communication, examining different media such as television, film, new media, print media, radio, music, and dance; the study of texts, events, artefacts, spectacles, audiences, technologies, and industries; and phenomena and practices, including, but not limited to, fan, youth and subcultures, questions of representation, digitalization, cultural globalization, spectator sports, sexuality, advertising, and consumer culture. The journal welcomes diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives within the tradition of media, communication, and cultural studies as well as interdisciplinary research in and across related disciplines.
Research Interests
Cornel specializes in audience research and the role of Social and Cultural Theory in contemporary media research. His research has in particular focused on the study of fan audiences in realms of spectator sports, television, popular music and film, highlighting the profound impact of fandom on the organisation of identity and citizenship in everyday life. In his current research Cornel explores the interplay between political intertextuality, media consumption and voting patters. He welcomes applications from research students interested in the interplay of media texts and consumption, including those planning to undertake qualitative audience research focusing on fandom, popular culture, spectator sport, cultural globalization or the public sphere and citizenship.
Publications
Journal articles
- . (2012) 'Editors' Note'. Popular Communication, 10 (4), pp. 251-252.
- . (2012) 'Enthusiasm, trust and its erosion in mediated politics: On fans of Obama and the Liberal Democrats'. European Journal of Communication, 27 (1), pp. 68-81.
- . (2012) 'Editors' Note'. Popular Communication, 10 (1-2), pp. 1-1.
- . (2012) 'Jeux Sans Frontières: Europeanisation and the Erosion of National Categories in European Club Football Competition'. Politique Européenne, N° 36, pp. 76-101.
- . (2010) 'Conceptualizing the Global Economic Crisis in Popular Communication Research'. Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, 8 (3), pp. 154-161.
- . (2008) 'On the Couch with Europe: The Eurovision Song Contest, the European Broadcast Union and Belonging on the Old Continent'. Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, 6 (3), pp. 190-207.
- . (2004) 'Internet Live Text Commentary and Cultural Identity'. Convergence, 10 (3)
- . (2004) 'Technological Evolution or Revolution? Sport Online Live Internet Commentary as Postmodern Cultural Form'. The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 10 (3), pp. 39-54.
Conference papers
- . (2005) 'Toward an aesthetic of fan texts'. SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC AMERICAN BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST, New Orleans, LA: Console-ing Passions Conference 48 (7), pp. 822-839.
- . (2005) 'A New Culture of Narcissism? Audiences and Mediated Texts in an Age of Tightening Expectations'. London School of Economics : Sociology: Research seminar
- . (2004) 'Counter-flows and the Decline of the National: Sports Cultures and Globalization'. International Communication Association, New Orleans, LA : Sociology: Communication in the Public Interest
- . (2004) 'Keeping the Score: Internet Live Text Commentary, Globalization and Hyperreality'. Media City Leipzig, IAMCR and Universities of Leipzig and Halle-Wittenberg, Leipzig, Germany. : Sociology: Olympic Cities
- . (2004) 'Rooting with Narcissus: Fandom as Self-Reflection'. International Communication Association, New Orleans, LA : Sociology: Communication in the Public Interest
- . (2004) 'Nation 0, Capital 1: Football Fandom, Citizenship and Identity Construction in the European Public Sphere'. European Social and Cultural Studies Centre, Sheffield University, Sheffield. : Sociology: Changing European Public Spheres: New Cultural and Media Contexts in Western and Eastern EU - Prospects and Challenges
- . (2004) 'One-Dimensional Fan?'. New Orleans, LA : Sociology: Console-ing Passions, International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media and Feminism
- . (2004) 'The Limits of Textuality: From Polysemy to Neutrosemy'. Sociology: Research seminar at the University of Cardiff
- . (2003) 'Collapsing Boundaries: Soccer Fandom and the Public Sphere'. International Communication Association, San Diego, CA : Sociology: Communication in Borderlands
- . (2002) 'Sport and Cultural Globalization'. International Association for Media and Communication Research, Barcelona : Sociology: Research seminar at the London School of Economics.
- . (2002) 'Television Football and Globalization'. Sociology: Intercultural Communication
- . (2001) 'Global Fandom between Place and Space'. British Film Institute, London : Sociology: Inaugural International Media Conference
Books
- . (2012) Bodies of Discourse. Lang, Peter, Publishing Incorporated
- . (2007) Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World. New York Edition. NYU Press : 450 pp
- . (2005) Fans: The Mirror of Consumption. Cambridge : Polity Press
- . (2003) A Game of Two Halves: Football, Television and Globalization. London : Routledge, Comedia
Book chapters
- . (2013) '“I ♥ Ibiza”: Music, Place and Belonging”'. in Duffett M (ed.) Popular Music Fandom Routledge
- . (2012) 'The Politics of Transnational Sports Stardom'. in Sandvoss, C, Bernstein, A and Real, M (eds.) Bodies of Discourse: Sports Starts, Mass Media and the Global Public New York : Peter Lang
- . (2012) 'Liquid starts, liquid identities: political discourse in transnational media sport'. in Sandvoss, C, Bernstein, A and Real, M (eds.) Bodies of Discourse: Sports Starts, Mass Media and the Global Public New York : Peter Lang
- . (2011) 'Popular Culture and Globalisation’'. in Turner PBS (ed.) The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies Routledge
- . (2011) 'Reception'. in Nightingale V (ed.) The Handbook of Media Audiences Wiley-Blackwell
- . (2011) 'Fans Online: Affective Media Consumption and Production in the Age of Convergence'. in Christensen M, Jansson A, Christensen C (eds.) Online Territories Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
- . (2008) 'Celebrity Worship'. in Andersen R, Gray JA (eds.) Battleground: A-N Greenwood Publishing Group
- . (2008) 'Public Sphere'. in Andersen R, Gray JA (eds.) Battleground: A-N Greenwood Publishing Group
- . (2007) 'Public and Publicness: Media Sport in the Publics Sphere'. in Butsch R (ed.) Media and Public Spheres Basingstoke : Palgrave
- . (2007) 'The Death of the Reader: Literary Theory and the Study of Texts in Popular Culture'. in Gray, J and Sandvoss, C and Harrington, C (eds.) Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World New York : New York University Press
- . (2007) 'Gender and Fandom in Global Soccer'. in Fuller LK (ed.) Sports Rhetoric Globally Basingstoke : Palgrave
- . (2007) 'Why study Fans?'. in Gray, J and Sandvoss, C and Harrington, C (eds.) Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World New York : New York University Press
- . (2006) 'Social Constructionism'. in Turner B (ed.) Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
- . (2006) 'Public Opinion'. in Turner B (ed.) Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
- . (2006) 'Moral Panic'. in Turner B (ed.) Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
- . (2006) 'Gangs'. in Turner B (ed.) Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Teaching
Cornel teaches a range of modules focusing on the social and cultural context and consequences of modern mass media, qualitative research methods, popular culture and cultural globalization on our undergraduate programmes. He is programme director of our BSc Sociology, Culture and Media and BA Media Studies .
Affiliations
International Communications Association (ICA)
Chair of the Popular Communication Division (since 2008), formerly Vice Chair of the Division (2006-2008)
British Sociological Association (BSA)
Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA)
Editorships and Editorial Board Memberships
Popular Communication: International Journal of Media and Culture
Co-editor with Lee Harrington and Jonathan Gray
Culture, Communication & Critique
Editorial Board Member.
Transformative Works and Cultures
Editorial Board Member.
