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

Recent Publications and Papers

Books
Sandvoss, Cornel, Bernstein, Alina and Real, Michael (eds.) (in press) Bodies of Discourse: Sports Stars, Mass Media and the Global Public, Hampton Press: Cresskill , NJ .

Gray, Jonathan, Sandvoss, Cornel and Harrington, C. Lee (eds.) (2007) Fandon: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World , New York University Press: New York .

Sandvoss, Cornel (2005) Fans: The Mirror of Consumption , Polity Press: Cambridge and Malden , MA .

Sandvoss, Cornel (2003) A Game of Two Halves: Football, Television and Globalization , Comedia, Routledge: London and New York .

Journal Articles
Sandvoss, Cornel (2008) ‘One the Couch with Europe: The Eurovision Song Contest, the European Broadcast Union and Belonging in Europe , in Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Communication , 6(3): 253-289 .

Sandvoss, Cornel (2005) ‘One Dimensional Fan: Toward an Aesthetic of Fan Texts' , in: American Behavioural Scientist , Vol. 49(3): 822-839 .

Sandvoss, Cornel (2004) ‘Technological Evolution or Revolution? Sport Online Live Internet Commentary as Postmodern Cultural Form', in: Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies , 10 (3): 39-54.

Book Chapters
Sandvoss, Cornel (2007) ‘Celebrity Worship', in Robin Andersen and Jonathan Gray (eds.) Media Battlegrounds , Praeger: Westport , CT.

Sandvoss, Cornel, Gray, Jonathan and Harrington, C. Lee (2007) ‘Why study Fans?' in: Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss and C. Lee Harrington (eds.) Fandon: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World, New York University Press: New York .

Sandvoss, Cornel (2007) ‘The Death of the Reader: Literary Theory and the Study of Texts in Popular Culture', in: Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss and C. Lee Harrington (eds.) Fandon: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World, New York University Press: New York.

Sandvoss, Cornel (2007) ‘Public and Publicness: Media Sport in the Publics Sphere', in Richard Butsch (ed.) Media and Public Spheres , Palgrave: Houndmills, Basingstoke .

Sandvoss, Cornel (2007) ‘Public Sphere', in Robin Andersen and Jonathan Gray (eds.) Media Battlegrounds , Praeger: Westport , CT.

Sandvoss, Cornel (2006) ‘Social Constructionism', in Bryan S. Turner (ed.) Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology , Cambridge University Press: Cambridge .

Sandvoss, Cornel (2006) ‘Public Opinion', in Bryan S. Turner (ed.) Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology , Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

Sandvoss, Cornel (2006) ‘Moral Panic', in Bryan S. Turner (ed.) Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology , Cambridge University Press: Cambridge .

Sandvoss, Cornel (2006) ‘Gangs', in Bryan S. Turner (ed.) Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology , Cambridge University Press: Cambridge .

Forthcoming Publications
Sandvoss, Cornel (forthcoming 2008) ‘Fan Audiences and Belonging in a Global World', in: Bryan S. Turner (ed.) Handbook of Globalisation Studies , Routledge: London and New York .

Sandvoss, Cornel (forthcoming 2009) ‘Reception', in: Virginia Nightingale (ed.) Handbook of Media Audiences , Blackwell: Malden , MA and Oxford .

Sandvoss, Cornel (in press) ‘Liquid stars, liquid identities: political discourse in transnational media sport' in: Cornel Sandvoss, Alina Bernstein and Michael Real (eds.) Bodies of Discourse: Sports Stars, Mass Media and the Global Public, Hampton Press: Cresskill , NJ .

Sandvoss, Cornel with Bernstein, Alina and Real, Michael (in press) ‘Bodies of Discourse: Sport Stars, Globalization and the Public Sphere' in: Cornel Sandvoss, Alina Bernstein and Michael Real (eds.) Bodies of Discourse: Sports Stars, Mass Media and the Global Public, Hampton Press: Cresskill , NJ .

Sandvoss, Cornel (forthcoming) ‘Gender and Fandom in Global Soccer', in Linda K. Fuller (ed.) Sports Rhetoric Globally , Palgrave: Houndmills, Basingstoke .

Past Conference Papers and Invited Lectures
Sandvoss, Cornel (2008) ‘ From Flow to Overflow: Texts and textual fields in television and personal media consumption '. Communicating for Social Impact : 58th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Montreal , Canada , 23 rd May 2008.

Sandvoss, Cornel (2008) ‘ The Other Melting Pot: Sports Stardom and Identity in Liquid Modernity '. Communicating for Social Impact : 58th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Montreal , Canada , 24 th May 2008.

Sandvoss, Cornel (2007) ‘ Critical Theory Revisited: Herbert Marcuse's Analysis of Advanced Industrial Society and the Study of Media Audiences '. Creating Communication: Content, Control, and Critique : 57th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, San Francisco.

Sandvoss, Cornel (2007) ‘Reading Political Parties as Mediated Texts: The Disappearance of Meaning in Audience Democracies'. Creating Communication: Content, Control, and Critique : 57th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, San Francisco.

Sandvoss, Cornel (2007) ‘Texts, Audience Activity and Non-Communication'. Creating Communication: Content, Control, and Critique : 57th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, San Francisco.

Sandvoss, Cornel (2007) ‘Reception Aesthetics, Fans the Study of Media Texts'. Media, Communication, Information: Celebrating 50 Years of Theories and Practices , annual conference of the International Association of Media and Communication Research, UNESCO, Paris.

Sandvoss, Cornel (2007) ‘Identity and Discourse in Transnational Sports Consumption'. Media, Communication, Information: Celebrating 50 Years of Theories and Practices , annual conference of the International Association of Media and Communication Research, UNESCO, Paris.

Sandvoss, Cornel (2006) ‘Herbert Marcuse's Critique of Advanced Industrial Societies and the Study of Mass Communication', Media Change and Social Theory , 2006 Conference of Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, St Hugh's College Oxford.

Sandvoss, Cornel (2006) ‘Media and Sport in the Internet Age', Keynote address at the World Cup conference: Football, Media and Everyday Life , IAMCR and Universität Leipzig, Leipzig .

Sandvoss, Cornel (2006) ‘Between Club and Country: The Diminishing Relevance of the Nation State in International Football'. Networking Communication Research : 56th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Dresden .

Sandvoss, Cornel (2006) ‘ From Contests to Contestations: Challenges to 'Europeanness' in the Eurovision Song Contest '. Networking Communication Research : 56th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Dresden.

Sandvoss, Cornel (2005) ‘A New Culture of Narcissism? Audiences and Mediated Texts in an Age of Tightening Expectations'. Research seminar at the London School of Economics.

Sandvoss, Cornel (2004) ‘Nation 0, Capital 1: Football Fandom, Citizenship and Identity Construction in the European Public Sphere'. Changing European Public Spheres: New Cultural and Media Contexts in Western and Eastern EU - Prospects and Challenges', European Social and Cultural Studies Centre, Sheffield University , Sheffield .

Sandvoss, Cornel (2004) ‘One-Dimensional Fan?'. Console-ing Passions, International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media and Feminism, New Orleans , LA.

Sandvoss, Cornel (2004) ‘Counter-flows and the Decline of the National: Sports Cultures and Globalization'. Communication in the Public Interest , International Communication Association, New Orleans , LA.

Sandvoss, Cornel (2004) ‘Rooting with Narcissus: Fandom as Self-Reflection'. Communication in the Public Interest , International Communication Association, New Orleans , LA. 

Sandvoss, Cornel (2004) ‘Keeping the Score: Internet Live Text Commentary, Globalization and Hyperreality' . Olympic Cities , Media City Leipzig , IAMCR and Universities of Leipzig and Halle-Wittenberg, Leipzig , Germany. 

Sandvoss, Cornel (2004) ‘The Limits of Textuality: From Polysemy to Neutrosemy'. Invited lecture at the University of Cardiff.

Sandvoss, Cornel (2003) ‘Collapsing Boundaries: Soccer Fandom and the Public Sphere' . Communication in Borderlands , International Communication Association, San Diego , CA .

Sandvoss, Cornel (2002) ‘Television Football and Globalization' . Intercultural Communication , International Association for Media and Communication Research, Barcelona .

Sandvoss, Cornel (2001) ‘Global Fandom between Place and Space', Inaugural International Media Conference , British Film Institute, London.

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.