Catherine Johnson

UNITED KINGDOM

Dr Catherine Johnson is Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Huddersfield. She has published widely on television, media industries and screen marketing/promotional culture. Her most recent book, Online TV (Routledge, 2019, examines the convergence of television and the internet, arguing that the emergent internet era changes how we understand television as a medium and an industry. She is the author of Promotional Screen Industries (with Paul Grainge, Routledge, 2015), Branding Television (Routledge, 2012) and Telefantasy (BFI, 2005), and the co-editor of Transnational Television History (with Andreas Fickers, Routledge, 2012) and ITV Cultures (with Rob Turnock, Open UP, 2005).