Dr Daniel Chandler

Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies (part-time)
BA Hons (Bangor), PGCE (Cantab), PhD (Aberystwyth) Photograph of Dr Daniel Chandler.

Contact

Email: d.chandler@aber.ac.uk
Office: C61 Hugh Owen Building
Phone: 01970 621820
Fax: 01970 622831
Personal Web Site:http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/

Responsibilities

Coordinator of various modules on undergraduate degree in Media and Communications, PhD supervisor


Biography

I joined the university academic staff in 1989 and have been based in TFTS since 2001. My best-known publication is Semiotics: The Basics (Routledge: 1st edn. 2002, 2nd edn. 2007), which has become an international academic bestseller and is set reading for countless university courses. More recently, I co-authored (with Rod Munday) the Dictionary of Media and Communication (Oxford University Press, 2011) of which Professor Laurie Taylor (BBC Radio 4) declared: ‘How on Earth have I managed for so long without having such a volume?’. I was trained as a schoolteacher at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and for seven years I taught English, becoming heavily involved in the early use of computers in education, authoring several books in this field. In 1981 I set up an independent consultancy, initially in relation to new media and later focusing on semiotics in marketing. I have been using the internet since 1978 and I have been very active on the Web since its early days. Credit must go to the eminent British philosopher Professor A. C. Grayling for originally encouraging me to submit my popular online ‘Semiotics for Beginners’ for print publication. My teaching has straddled the spectrum of communication studies, though a significant focus of my work has been on contemporary philosophies of communication. I have a particular interest in the visual semiotics of gender and advertising and an enduring passion for teaching. Having established the undergraduate degree in Media and Communications at Aberystwyth in 2001, I went part-time in 2007.

For more, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Chandler

Publications

Daniel Chandler: Selected Publications since 1997

  • Chandler, Daniel (1997) 'Children's Understanding of What's "Real" on TV: A Review of the Literature', Journal of Educational Media 23(1): 67-82
  • Chandler, Daniel (1998) Semiótica para Principiantes (‘Semiotics for Beginners’ translated by Vanessa Hogan Vega and Iván Rodrigo Mendizábal). Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala/Escuela de Comunicación Social de la Universidad Politéchnica Salesiana
  • Chandler, Daniel and Dilwyn Roberts-Young (2000) 'The Construction of Identity in the Personal Home Pages of Adolescents in Wales', Welsh Journal of Education 9(1): 78-90
  • Chandler, Daniel and Merris Griffiths (2000) 'Gender-Differentiated Production Features in Toy Commercials', Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 44(3): 503-20
  • Chandler, Daniel (2002/2007) Semiotics: The Basics, Routledge, London, UK, 1st edn 2002; 2nd edn 2007
  • Chandler, Daniel (2004) 'Osobne web-stranice i stvaranje identiteta na webu' (Personal Home Pages and the Construction of Identities on the Web, in Croatian). In Reana Senjkovic & Iva Plese (Eds.) Etnografije Interneta. Zagreb: Institut za Etnologiuu i Folkloristiku Ibis Grafika, pp. 219–235
  • Chandler, Daniel and Merris Griffiths (2004) 'Who is the Fairest of them All? Gendered readings of Big Brother 2 (UK)' In Ernest Mathijs & Janet Jones (Eds.) (2004) Big Brother International: Format, Critics and Publics. London: Wallflower Press, pp. 40–61
  • Chandler, Daniel (2005a) 'Identities Under Construction'. In Janet Maybin and Joan Swann (Eds) (2006) The Art of English: Everyday Creativity. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 303–10
  • Chandler, Daniel (2005b) Entries on Roland Barthes, Umberto Eco, markedness, paradigm and syntagm, Ferdinand de Saussure, semiotics, sign, signifier and signified. In John Protevi (Ed.) (2005) Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press
  • Chandler, Daniel (2008) 'Advertising'. In Glen Creeber (Ed) The Television Genre Book (2nd Edn). London: Palgrave Macmillan/BFI, pp. 178–180
  • Chandler, Daniel and Rod Munday (2011) A Dictionary of Media and Communication. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Additional Interests

http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/publish.html

The second edition of my book Semiotics: The Basics was published by Routledge in January 2007. The Dictionary of Media and Communication, compiled with Rod Munday, was published by Oxford University Press in February 2011