Gwen Bouvier earned her Ph.D. from Aberystwyth University, UK in broadcast journalism. Her main areas of research interest are social media, the Middle East region and news representation. Dr Bouvier's publications have focused on 9/11 and representation, discourse analysis, social media, and the visual (mis)representation of crises in news.
Recent publications include:
Bouvier, G. (2014) "British Press Photographs and the Misrepresentation of the 2011 Uprising in Libya: A Content Analysis" In: Machin, D. (ed.) Visual Communication. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 281-299; Bouvier, G. and Machin, D. (2013)
"How Advertisers Use Sound and Music to Communicate Ideas, Attitudes and Identities: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Approach" In: Pennock-Spek, B. & Del Saz Rubiom M. M. (eds.) The Multimodal Analysis of Television Advertising, University of Valencia Press, Valencia; Bouvier, G. (2012)
"How Facebook Users select Identity Categories for Selfpresentation" In: Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 7:1, 37-57; and Barry, W. and Bouvier, G. (2011)
"Cross-Cultural Communication: Arab and Welsh students' Use of Facebook" In: Journal of Arab and Muslim Research, 4:2-3, 159-178.
She is an Editorial Assistant for the international peer-reviewed journalSocial Semioticsand a member of the editorial board of theJournal of Media, War & Conflict.
Dr Bouvier is also affiliated with the University of Leicester, UK's distance learning MA programme in Communication.