Chris Greer is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at City University, London. His primary research interests lie at the intersections between crime, media and culture, and he has published widely in this area. Chris is also founder and co-editor of the award-winning Crime Media Culture: An International Journal.

Introduction Part 1: Understanding Media 1. The Public Sphere: An Encyclopaedia Article 2. The Medium is the Message3. A Propaganda Model4. Encoding/Decoding 5. An Introduction to the Information Age 6. Simulacra and Simulations 7. NeuromancerPart 2: Researching Media 8. Research Approaches9. Reading the News 10. The Determination of News11. Dimensions of Genre12. Frame Analysis13. The Debate About Media Influence 14. Researching Cybercultures Part 3: Crime, Newsworthiness and News 15. Press Ideology: The Politics of Professionalism 16. The Construction of News 17. What Makes Crime News? 18. The Social Production of News 19. The Media Politics of Crime and Criminal Justice 20. Recovering Blackness - Repudiating Whiteness: The Daily Mail's Construction of the Five White Suspects Accused of the Racist Murder of Stephen Lawrence 21. She Should be Punished': The 1983-1984 New Bedford 'Big Dan's' Gang Rape' Part 4: Crime, Entertainment and Creativity 22. The Typology of Detective Fiction 23. The Dialectics of Dixon: The Changing Image of the TV Cop 24. From the Hard-Boiled Detective to the Pre-Crime Unit25. Casino Culture: Media and Crime in a Winner-Loser Society 26. The Gangster Film: Genre and Society27. Monsters Inc.: Serial killers and Consumer Culture 28. Crimes of Style Part 5: Effects, Influence and Moral Panic 29. Imitation of Film-Mediated Aggressive Models 30. The Worrying Influence of 'Media Effects' Studies 31. From Bad Media Violence Research to Good: A Guide for the Perplexed 32. Living with Television: The Violence Profile 33. From Imitation to Intimidation: A Note on the Curious and Changing Relationship Between the Media, Crime and Fear of Crime34. Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers35. Rethinking "Moral Panic" for Multi-Mediated Social Worlds' Part 6: Cybercrime, Surveillance and Risk 36. Panopticism 37. The Viewer Society 38. The Maximum Surveillance Society: The Rise of CCTV 39. (S)talking in Cyberspace, Virtuality, Crime and Law 40. Governance and the Internet 41. Communicating the Terrorist Risk: Harnessing a Culture of Fear Mythen 42. Regarding the Torture of Others