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Punchlines and conclusionsphotos.com

By Professor Marie Gillespie (The Open University)

19 January 2009

During the Lenny's Britain series, we asked for your help with some research. We wanted to understand British humour - and you responded with your...  Read more : Punchlines and conclusions

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Just a bit of fun: A survey of British jokesProduction team

By Professor Marie Gillespie (The Open University)

11 June 2007

Jokes may be just a bit of fun in our day-to-day lives, lightening a moment or breaking the ice, but they can also offer us...  Read more : Just a bit of fun: A survey of British jokes

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By Professor Marie Gillespie (The Open University)

01 June 2007

So, what do the jokes we've been told tell us about the sort of people we are?  Read more : In conclusion

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O'Loughlin, Ben and Gillespie, Marie (2012). Dissenting citizenship? Young people and political participation in the media-security nexus. Parliamentary Affairs, 65(1), pp. 115–137.

Skuse, Andrew; Gillespie, Marie and Power, Gerry eds. (2011). Drama for Development: Cultural Translation and Social Change. Sage.

Gillespie, Marie; Mackay, Hugh and Webb, Alban (2011). Special issue editorial: Designs & devices: towards a genealogy of audience research methods at the BBC World Service, 1932-2011. Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, 8(1),

Gillespie, Marie; Mackay, Hugh and Webb, Alban (2011). Designs & devices: towards a genealogy of audience research methods at the BBC World Service, 1932-2011. Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, 8(1), pp. 1–20.

Webb, Alban; Gillespie, Marie and Mackay, Hugh (2011). BBC World Service Audience Research, 1932-2011. Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies.

Skuse, Andrew and Gillespie, Marie (2011). Broadcasting ‘the State’: Tribe, Citizenship and the Politics of Radio Drama Production in Afghanistan. In: Skuse, Andrew; Gillespie, Marie and Power, Gerry eds. Drama for Development: Cultural Translation and Social Change. Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd.

Skuse, Andrew and Gillespie, Marie (2011). Gossiping for Change: Dramatising ‘Blood Debt’ in Afghanistan. In: Skuse, Andrew; Gillespie, Marie and Power, Gerry eds. Drama for Development: Cultural Translation and Social Change. Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd.

Baumann, Gerd; Gillespie, Marie and Sreberny, Annabelle (2011). Transcultural journalism and the politics of translation: Interrogating the BBC World Service. Sage.

Gillespie, Marie (2011). Our ground zeros: diaspora, media, memory. In: Zelizer, Barbie and Allan, Stuart eds. Journalism After September 11 (2nd ed). Communications and Society. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 2252–271.

Gillespie, Marie; Gow, James; Hoskins, Andrew; O' Loughlin, Ben and žveržhanovski , Ivan (2010). Shifting securities: news cultures, multicultural society and legitimacy. Ethnopolitics, 9(2), pp. 239–253.

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Marie Gillespie is professor of sociology at The Open University. Her main research interests revolve around issues of migration and media, social and cultural change. She is the academic advisor for Lenny's Britain and as part of the series she directed a nationwide joke survey.

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