Peter Lunt is Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Leicester. His
research interests include audience research, popular television, the public
understanding of media regulation and media and social theory. He is currently
working on a project on media, history and memory and on the changing
understanding of public service broadcasting. He is the author of five books
including Talk on Television (with
Sonia Livingstone, Routledge, 1994) and Stanley
Milgram (Palgrave, 2010) and many academic papers and chapters.