How will Scottish independence affect the media?
Answer:
Print and broadcast media are largely independent of government. Social media is controlled by multinational companies although the content is largely out of any control.
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Scotland must seek to reform its media
Author / Creator: Martin Roche
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation has seen the mainstream media reveal its bias, ignorance and insularity
Scotland’s Sustainable Media Future: Challenges and Opportunities: a Stakeholder Analysis
Author / Creator: Catherine Happer
Media type: Article
Date published: 2022
Scotland’s media are still firmly rooted in older conceptions of print and broadcasting
Scottish TV industry should double following independence
Author / Creator: Believe in Scotland
Media type: Article
Date published:
An independent Scotland would be in a position to rethink how public service broadcasting is regulated, funded and supported. It could consider creative suggestions, such as replacing the licence fee with a universal broadband package which could include funding for content production.
Scotland’s Referendum and the Media: National and International Perspectives
Author / Creator: Neil Blain
Media type: Book
Date published:
The consequences of the Referendum's No result are traced in the media...until the May general election of 2015.
Scotland’s Dual Public Sphere and the Media
Author / Creator: Philip Schlesinger
Date published: 2020
The Scottish media contain content for Scottish audiences. These media are being challenged by digital offerings and present regulatory difficulties.
The British media’s progressives are coming round to Scottish independence
Author / Creator: Simon Pia
Media type: News Media
Date published:
Will the UK commentators fall into line and back unionism once a timetable for a vote has been agreed, or is a more permanent split developing?
Media Matters; how the media reports on indepencence matters
Author / Creator: David Patrick
Media type: Podcast
Date published: 2021
Craig talks to David Patrick, author of recently published book Front-Page Scotland which looks at how stories about Scottish independence were reported in the newspapers throughout the 2014 independence referendum campaign.
Constructing the Visual Online Political Self: An Analysis of Instagram Use by the Scottish Electorate
Author / Creator: Jamie Mahoney
Media type: Academic Paper
Date published:
The Scottish electorate used image-sharing for self-expression. They posted a variety of visual content. It showed a diversity of political opinion. People used Instagram to craft and present their "political selves".
Whose voices are heard in the news? A study of sources in television coverage of the Scottish independence referendum
Author / Creator: Marina Dekavalla
Media type: Academic Paper
Date published:
Male-dominated political elites are the main focus in the news. The coverage represents the views of politicians to the public. It provides limited public participation in the political debate.
Online Allies and Tricky Freelancers: Understanding the Differences in the Role of Social Media in the Campaigns for the Scottish Independence Referendum
Author / Creator: Ana Ines Langer
Media type: Research article
Date published:
Some campaigns – like Better Together – selectively adopt digital tools that fit with the command and control model; in other cases – like Yes Scotland – the application of digital communications technologies and the dynamics created by linking to other (digital-enabled) grassroots organizations can have transformative effects.
The Media and National Identity: Local Newspapers’ Coverage of Scottish Independence during the Campaign of the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum
Author / Creator: Jan-Philipp Wagner
Media type: Academic Paper
Date published: 2017
Local Scottish papers frame “Scottishness” in a way that differs from independence. The patterns of news content point to the possibility that the local papers did not perceive Scottish independence as consistent with their idea of Scottish national identity.
Bella Caledonia
Author / Creator: Mike Small
Media type: News Media
Date published: 2007 -
"We’re not aligned to any one political party but believe in self-determination for Scotland. Only then will a country disfigured by poverty and inequality be re-born. Only independence can bring democracy. The British State is irredeemable and is structurally corrupt, broken and riven with hierarchy."