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Gillespie, Marie (2024). A Migrant Archive: Chronicling Religious and Spiritual Experiences during the Pandemic 2020–23*. Journal of Religious History, 48(3) pp. 333–342.

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Hutchings, Stephen; Tolz, Vera; Chatterje-Doody, Precious; Crilley, Rhys and Gillespie, Marie (2024). Russia, Disinformation, and the Liberal Order: RT as Populist Pariah. NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Ithaca, NY, USA: Cornell University Press.

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Charitonos, Koula; Gillespie, Marie; Graffin, Neil; Wilding, Colin; O'Malley, Olwyn; Al-Rashid, Ahmad; Martin, Shannon; Mutwarasibo, Fidèle; Babjak, Mahlea and Dancu, Lidia (2023). Researching transitions to distance higher education with students from refugee backgrounds: A case from the Sanctuary programme at the Open University. The Open University.

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Charitonos, K.; Gillespie, M.; Dancu, L.; O'Malley, O.; Al-Rashid, A.; Martin, S.; Wilding, C.; Graffin, N.; Mutwarasibo, F. and Babjak, M. (2023). Examining transitions to distance and online higher education with students from refugee backgrounds. In: BERA 2023 Conference, 12-14 Sep 2023, Birmingham, UK.

Crilley, Rhys; Gillespie, Marie; Vidgen, Bertie and Willis, Alistair (2022). Understanding RT’s Audiences: Exposure Not Endorsement for Twitter Followers of Russian State-Sponsored Media. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 27(1) pp. 220–242.

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Aslan Ozgul, Billur; Nieto McAvoy, Eva; Gillespie, Marie and O'Loughlin, Ben (2022). Shakespeare Lives on Twitter: cultural diplomacy in the digital age. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 28(2) pp. 204–220.

Dajani, Deena; Gillespie, Marie and Crilley, Rhys (2021). Differentiated visibilities: RT Arabic’s narration of Russia’s role in the Syrian war. Media, War & Conflict, 14(4) pp. 437–458.

Crilley, Rhys; Gillespie, Marie; Kazakov, Vitaly and Willis, Alistair (2021). ‘Russia isn’t a country of Putins!’: How RT bridged the credibility gap in Russian public diplomacy during the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 24(1) pp. 136–152.

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Crilley, Rhys; Gillespie, Marie and Willis, Alistair (2020). Tweeting the Russian revolution: RT’s #1917LIVE and social media re-enactments as public diplomacy. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 23(3) pp. 354–373.

Chatterje-Doody, Precious N and Gillespie, Marie (2020). The cultural politics of commemoration: Media and remembrance of the Russian revolutions of 1917. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 23(3) pp. 305–314.

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Crilley, Rhys and Gillespie, Marie (2018). What to do about social media? Politics, populism and journalism. Journalism, 20(1) pp. 173–176.

Gillespie, Marie and Nieto McAvoy, Eva (2018). The BBC’s Corporate Cosmopolitanism: The Diasporic Voice Between Empire and Cold War. In: Gusejnova, Dina ed. Cosmopolitanism in Conflict: Imperial Encounters from the Seven Years' War to the Cold War. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 179–209.

Clark, Lynn Schofield and Gillespie, Marie (2018). Globalization and the Mediatization of Religion: From Scandinavia to the World. In: Lundby, Knut ed. Contesting Religion: The Media Dynamics of Cultural Conflicts in Scandinavia. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 315–332.

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Gillespie, Marie (2018). Refugee Waste: Death, Survival and Solidarity in Lesvos. In: Dodsworth,, Francis and Walford, Antonia eds. A World Laid Waste? Responding to the Social, Cultural and Political Consequences of Globalisation. Culture, Economy and the Social (CRESC). Routledge, pp. 147–170.

Gillespie, Marie; Osseiran, Souad and Cheesman, Margie (2018). Syrian Refugees and the Digital Passage to Europe: Smartphone Infrastructures and Affordances. Social Media + Society, 4(1) pp. 1–12.

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Gillespie, Marie; Abdel Sattar, Nesrine and Lami, Mina (2017). Social media and political participation: BBC World Service and the Arabic Spring. In: Manning, Nathan ed. Political (Dis)Engagement: The Changing Nature of the 'Political'. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 77–104.

O'Loughlin, Ben and Gillespie, Marie (2016). The Media-Security Nexus: Researching Ritualised Cycles of Insecurity. In: Robinson, Peirs; Sieb, Philip and Frohlich, Romy eds. Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 51–67.

Gillespie, Marie and Nieto McAvoy, Eva (2016). Digital networks and Transformations in the International News Ecology: A Critique of Agent-centred Approaches to Soft Power. In: Chitty, Naren; Ji, Li; Rawnsley,, Gary D. and Hayden, Craig eds. The Routledge Handbook of Soft Power. Routledge, pp. 203–219.

Połońska-Kimunguyi, Eva and Gillespie, Marie (2016). Terrorism discourse on French international broadcasting: France 24 and the case of Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris. European Journal of Communication, 31(5) pp. 568–583.

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Połońska-Kimunguyi, Eva and Gillespie, Marie (2016). European international broadcasting and Islamist terrorism in Africa: The case of Boko Haram on France 24 and Deutsche Welle. International Communication Gazette, 79(3) pp. 245–275.

Bell, Simon; Gillespie, Marie and Wilding, Colin (2016). Rethinking Models of Evaluation: Sustainability as the Goal of International Cultural Organisations. In: International Sustainable Development Research Conference, 13-15 Jul 2016, Lisbon, Portugal.

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Burchell, Kenzie; O’ Loughlin, Ben; Gillespie, Marie and Nieto McAvoy, Eva (2015). Soft power and its audiences: Tweeting the Olympics from London 2012 to Sochi 2014. Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, 12(1) pp. 413–437.

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Gillespie, Marie; Bell, Simon; Wilding, Colin; Webb, Alban; Fisher, Ali; Voss, Alex; Smith, Andrew W. M.; Macfarlane, Jess; Martin, Nat; Foster, Tot and Lvov, Ilia (2014). Understanding the Changing Cultural Value of the BBC World Service and the British Council. Arts and Humanities Research Council, Swindon.

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Gillespie, Marie (2013). BBC Arabic, social media and citizen production: an experiment in digital democracy before the Arab Spring. Theory, Culture & Society, 30(4) pp. 92–130.

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Gillespie, Marie and Webb, Alban eds. (2012). Diasporas and Diplomacy: Cosmopolitan Contact Zones at the BBC World Service (1932-2012). Culture, Economy and the Social. Abingdon: Routledge.

Gillespie, Marie and Webb, Alban (2012). Corporate cosmopolitanism: diasporas and diplomacy at the BBC World Service, 1932-2012. In: Gillespie, Marie and Webb, Alban eds. Diasporas and Diplomacy: Cosmopolitanism Contact Zones at the BBC World Service (1932-2012). CRESC. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 1–20.

Ismailov, Hamid; Gillespie, Marie and Aslanyan, Anna eds. (2012). Tales From Bush House. London: Hertfordshire Press.

Abdel Sattar, Nesrine; Gillespie, Marie; Lami, Mina; Sayed, Nermeen and Wissam, Maryam (2012). Social Media and BBC Arabic: A case study of ‘Nuqtat Hewar’. The Open University, Milton Keynes.

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O'Loughlin, Ben and Gillespie, Marie (2012). Dissenting citizenship? Young people and political participation in the media-security nexus. Parliamentary Affairs, 65(1) pp. 115–137.

Herbert, David and Gillespie, Marie (2011). Editorial, special issue on religion, media and social change. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 14(6) pp. 601–609.

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Skuse, Andrew; Gillespie, Marie and Power, Gerry eds. (2011). Drama for Development: Cultural Translation and Social Change. Sage.

Gillespie, Marie; Mackay, Hugh and Webb, Alban (2011). Special issue editorial: Designs & devices: towards a genealogy of audience research methods at the BBC World Service, 1932-2011. Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, 8(1)

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Gillespie, Marie; Mackay, Hugh and Webb, Alban (2011). Designs & devices: towards a genealogy of audience research methods at the BBC World Service, 1932-2011. Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, 8(1) pp. 1–20.

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Webb, Alban; Gillespie, Marie and Mackay, Hugh (2011). BBC World Service Audience Research, 1932-2011. Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies.

Skuse, Andrew and Gillespie, Marie (2011). Broadcasting ‘the State’: Tribe, Citizenship and the Politics of Radio Drama Production in Afghanistan. In: Skuse, Andrew; Gillespie, Marie and Power, Gerry eds. Drama for Development: Cultural Translation and Social Change. Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd.

Skuse, Andrew and Gillespie, Marie (2011). Gossiping for Change: Dramatising ‘Blood Debt’ in Afghanistan. In: Skuse, Andrew; Gillespie, Marie and Power, Gerry eds. Drama for Development: Cultural Translation and Social Change. Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd.

Baumann, Gerd; Gillespie, Marie and Sreberny, Annabelle (2011). Transcultural journalism and the politics of translation: Interrogating the BBC World Service. Sage.

Gillespie, Marie (2011). Our ground zeros: diaspora, media, memory. In: Zelizer, Barbie and Allan, Stuart eds. Journalism After September 11 (2nd ed). Communications and Society. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 2252–271.

Gillespie, Marie; Gow, James; Hoskins, Andrew; O' Loughlin, Ben and žveržhanovski, Ivan (2010). Shifting securities: news cultures, multicultural society and legitimacy. Ethnopolitics, 9(2) pp. 239–253.

Gillespie, Marie; Gow, James; Hoskins, Andrew; O'Loughlin, Ben and Žveržhanovsk, Ivan (2010). Shifting securities: theory, practice and methodology: a response to powers, croft and noble. Ethnopolitics, 9(2) pp. 269–274.

Denselow, Jadzia; Taussig, Andrew and Gillespie, Marie (2010). Career trajectories at the BBC World Service: managing diversity. Confidential report for the BBC World Service. The Open University & BBC World Service.

Andersson, Matilda; Gillespie, Marie and Mackay, Hugh (2010). Mapping digital diasporas @ BBC World Service: users and uses of the Persian and Arabic websites. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 3(2) pp. 256–278.

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Sreberny, Annabelle; Gillespie, Marie and Baumann, Gerd (2010). Editorial The BBC World Service and the Middle East: comparisons, contrasts, conflicts. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 3(2) pp. 129–136.

Gillespie, Marie; Herbert, David and Andersson, Matilda (2010). The Mumbai attacks and diasporic nationalism: BBC World Service online forums as conflict, contact and comfort zones. South Asian Diaspora, 2(1) pp. 109–129.

Gillespie, Marie; Pinkerton, Alasdair; Baumann, Gerd and Thiranagama, Sharika (2010). South Asian diaspora and the BBC World Service: contacts, conflicts and contestations. South Asian Diaspora, 2(1) pp. 3–25.

Gillespie, Marie (2010). Diasporic creativity: refugee intellectuals, exiled poets and corporate cosmpolitanism at the BBC World Service. In: Knott, K. and McLoughlin, S. eds. Diasporas: Concepts, Intersections, Identities. London: Zed Books, pp. 236–243.

Sreberny, Annabelle; Gillespie, Marie and Baumann, Gerd eds (2010). The BBC and the Middle East (SPECIAL ISSUE of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication). Brill, Leiden.

Gillespie, Marie and O'Loughlin, Ben (2009). News media, threats and insecurities: an ethnographic approach. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 22(4) pp. 667–687.

Gillespie, Marie and O'Loughlin, Ben (2009). Precarious citizenship: multiculturalism, media and social insecurity. In: Noxolo, Pat and Huysmans, Jef eds. Community, Citizenship and the War on Terror: Security and Insecurity. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 89–112.

Gillespie, Marie (2009). 'Anytime, anyplace, anywhere’: digital diasporas and the BBC World Service. Journalism, 10(3) pp. 322–325.

Gillespie, Marie; Rizvi, Sadaf; Andersson, Matilda; Michael, Lucy and West, Sophie (2009). Pakistan connection: diasporas at the BBC World Service. Open University & BBC World Service Confidential Report.

Gillespie, Marie; Webb, Alban and Baumann, Gerd (2008). Broadcasting britishness, strategic challenges and the ecology of overseas broadcasting by the BBC. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 28(4) pp. 453–458.

Gillespie, Marie; Webb, Alban and Baumann, Gerd eds (2008). The BBC World Service, 1932-2007: Cultural Exchange and Public Diplomacy (SPECIAL ISSUE of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television). Taylor & Francis, Abingdon.

Gillespie, Marie and Webb, Alban (2008). Tuning in: researching diasporas at the BBC World Service. The Open University.

Gillespie, Marie (2007). Media, security and multicultural citizenship: a collaborative ethnography. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 10(3) pp. 275–294.

Gillespie, Marie (2006). Security, media, legitimacy: multi-ethnic media publics and the Iraq War 2003. International Relations, 20(4) pp. 467–486.

Gillespie, Marie (2006). Transnational Television Audiences after September 11. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 32(6) pp. 903–921.

Gillespie, Marie and Toynbee, Jason eds. (2006). Analysing Media Texts. Understanding Media, 4. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Gillespie, Marie (2006). “L’umorismo reconquistato”: la comedia televisiva anglo-asiatica. In: Bodo, Simona and Cifarelli, Maria eds. Quando la Cultura fa la Differenza: Patrimonia, Arti e Media nella Sociata Multiculturale. Rome: Meltemi, pp. 156–175.

Gillespie, Marie and McLaughlin, Eugene (2005). Consuming Crime and Avoiding Punishment: Media Influence in the Shaping of Public Perceptions of Crime and Sentencing. In: Emsley, Clive ed. The Persistent Prison: Problems, Images and Alternatives. London, UK: Francis Bootle Publications, pp. 113–143.

Gillespie, Marie (2003). From Comic Asians to Asian Comics: 'Goodness Gracious Me', British Television Comedy and representations of Ethnicity. In: Scriven, Michael and Roberts, Emily eds. Group Identities on French and British Television. Oxford, UK: Berghahn Books, pp. 93–107.

Cheesman, Tom and Gillespie, Marie (2002). Talking diasporas: diaspora dialogue. Index on Censorship, 31(3) pp. 4–7.

Gillespie, Marie and Cheesman, Tom (2002). Media Cultures in India and the South Asian Diaspora. Routledge, London, U.K..