Comparative Media History: An Introduction: 1789 to the Present

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Polity, 2005 M07 11 - 320 pages
Comparative Media History is a unique thematic textbook which introduces students to the key ideas underpinning media development. It is an essential first step to a better understanding of both the media industry today and the way in which it evolved over time.


The textbook compares developments and influences from a broad perspective, highlighting and contrasting different countries, industries and periods of history in order to encourage an understanding of cause and effect. In a style which is clear, accessible and provocative, Jane Chapman argues that most of the roots of today's media - even the globalizing impulse - lie in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The book emphasises continuity and certain decisive factors such as the social use of technology, the character of the institutions in which it is applied and the political approach of the specific countries involved.


The comparative element to this book, both across countries and industries, will enable students to reflect on key issues in media studies, including those of diversity, form, method and choice, both past and present. It will become an essential text for any student of the media and its history.

For more information about the book and the author, please see www.janechapman.co.uk

 

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Contents

Introduction
1
PART I ANTECEDENTS CONTINUITIES AND DISCONTINUITIES
9
Radicalism Repression and Economic Change 17891847
11
2 The Focusing of Political Communications and the Newspaper Business 18481881
43
PART II POPULARIZATION INDUSTRIALIZATION AND THE TRIUMPH OF TECHNOLOGY 18811918
69
3 Commercialization Consumerism and Technology
71
4 Politics New Forms of Communication and the Globalizing Process
101
PART III DISCOVERY AND EXPLOITATION OF THE MASSES FORMULA 19181947
141
6 War and Beyond 19391947
180
PART IV THE GLOBAL AGE 19482002
205
7 Cold War and the Victory of Commercialism 19481980
207
8 Continuity and Change since 1980
238
Notes
266
References and Bibliography
269
Index
285
Copyright

5 The Business and Ideology of Mass Culture 19181939
143

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About the author (2005)

Jane L. Chapman is Professor of Communications at University of Lincoln School of Journalism. Her books include Issues in Contemporary Documentary (2009); Broadcast Journalism: a Critical Introduction (with Marie Kinsey, 2008); Documentary in Practice (2007) and the best-selling Comparative Media History (2005). Her research interests include press history and the media's relationship to women and indigenous minorities.

Bibliographic information

TitleComparative Media History: An Introduction: 1789 to the Present
AuthorJane Chapman
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherPolity, 2005
ISBN0745632432, 9780745632438
Length320 pages
  
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