Annette Hill is Professor of Media, and Director of Research in the
School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster. She is the
author of Shocking Entertainment: Viewer Response to Violent Movies (1997), co-author of TV Living: Television, Audiences and Everyday
Life (with David Gauntlett 1999), as well as a variety of articles on
audiences and popular culture. She is the co-editor (with Robert C
Allen) of The Television Studies Reader (Routledge 2003) and author of Reality TV: Audiences and Popular Factual Television (Routledge 2005).
Her current research interests include the reception of news and current
affairs, documentary and popular factual television. As an executive
board member of MeCCSA, she has helped to set up the first Postgraduate
Network in the UK.
Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association