Download or read book The Media in Britain written by Jeremy Tunstall and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British newspapers -- The Times, The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, and Financial Times -- have long been considered among the best in the world, and the BBC has become the world's most venerated television and radio organization. In this book Jeremy Tunstall, author of The Media are American, surveys British media since 1945, including television, radio, films, newspapers, and magazines, with the purpose of studying how they operate and what the future holds for them. In the course of the book he discusses such issues as the relationship of politics to the media, media audiences, media biases, control of the media by conglomerates, and policies for the future.
Download or read book Politics and the Mass Media in Britain written by Ralph Negrine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully-updated new edition of Politics and the Mass Media provides a comprehensive introduction to the role of mass communications in politics at all levels, from election campaigns, news reports and lobbying groups to the media activities of pressure groups. The relationship between politics, politicians and the media is a matter of increasingly contentious debate, as politicians' awareness of the importance of the media becomes more sophisticated amidst rapidly-advancing media technology and control. Providing a review of the nature and content of political communications and of recent theoretical developments, Negrine addresses the issues surrounding today's mass media, including cable and satellite television, investigation of the press, the relationship between the state and broadcasing institutions and the ever-present question of whether or not Britain needs a media policy. This new edition includes: * Case studies from television and the press * Fully revised text with updated sections on the press, broadcasting and media legislation * Brand new chapters on Europe and globalisation
Download or read book Power Without Responsibility written by James Curran and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth edition of this title is a guide for all those involved with the production and consumption of the media. It includes up-to-date analysis of new media and legislation, New Labour conservatism and coverage of Scottish and Welsh devolution.
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to British Media History written by Martin Conboy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to British Media History provides a comprehensive exploration of how different media have evolved within social, regional and national contexts. The 50 chapters in this volume, written by an outstanding team of internationally respected scholars, bring together current debates and issues within media history in this era of rapid change, and also provide students and researchers with an essential collection of comparable media histories. The Routledge Companion to British Media History provides an essential guide to key ideas, issues, concepts and debates in the field. Chapter 40 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315756202.ch40
Download or read book The British Media Industries written by Vincent Campbell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Media Industries offers an accessible introduction to how the media in Britain operates and the impact that recent political, economic, and technological developments have had on the nature of media industries today. Split into two parts, this book starts by exploring approaches to understanding contemporary media industries through political, economic, and technological terms. The second part delves further into issues and practices relating to individual media industries including newspapers, magazines, film, television, music, video games, and social media. The book adopts a political economy approach and is designed to engage students in an accessible way with key issues around the ownership and control of different sectors of the British media; UK and EU government regulation of the media, including content regulation and market/economic regulation; and the corporate strategies employed by leading media players, such as the BBC, Netflix, Google, and Apple. This is an essential textbook for undergraduate students approaching British media industries for the first time and will also be relevant to students undertaking introductory courses in Media Management and Media Economics.
Download or read book Power Without Responsibility written by James Curran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-10 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power Without Responsibility is a classic introduction to the history, sociology, theory and politics of the media in Britain. It is an essential guide, both for students and teachers of media and communication studies, and for all those involved in the production and consumption of the media. The new edition has been substantially revised to bring it right up-to-date with developments in the media industry, new media technologies and changes in the political and academic debates surrounding media policy. In this new edition, the authors consider: * whether we are on the threshold of a new communications revolution * the role of global media empires * the rise of video, cable and satellite * the global information society and contradictions in media policy * the BBC and broadcasting at the end of the 1990s * the evolving relationship of the press and the Conservative party. Assessing the press and broadcasting at a time of radical change, the authors suggest a manifesto for media reform.
Download or read book Politics and the Mass Media in Britain written by Ralph M. Negrine and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully revised, this comprehensive text provides an introduction to the role of mass communications in politics at all levels from election campaigns to news reports. Includes case studies and brand new chapters on Europe and globalization.
Download or read book The Media in Britain written by Jane C. Stokes and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection by leaders in the field of media is divided into three sections providing an overview of the media industries, discussions of the significance of government policy, and analyses of media content. It is an excellent general introduction to the British media aimed at a global audience.
Download or read book Power Without Responsibility written by James Curran and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of this well established text, first published in 1981, breaks new ground in two ways. Its provides a critical account of all the major proposals for reforming the media in the post-Peacock era, from the new right's programme for "electronic publishing" to the new left's plan for the international regulation of satellite TV. It also offers the only available, up-to-date analysis of recent media developments from the launch of the first quality daily in over a century to the rise and fall of Eddy Shah. The book is divised into four parts : press history, broadcasting history, theories of the media, and politics of the media. It is a standard book for media studies students, and is widely used on politics, sociology and social history courses. It has also acquired a reputation outside academic circles for being an exceptionally well written and authoritative guide to the issues raised by the contemporary press and broadcasting. -4ème de couv.
Download or read book The Media in British Politics written by Jean Seaton and published by Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Avebury. This book was released on 1987 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Politics and the Media in Britain written by Raymond Kuhn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new text provides an up-to-date account of the complex interrelationship between politics and the media in Britain. It starts by setting key policy areas in the context of technological convergence, globalization and initiatives at European level. It then addresses the key issues the role of the media in politics and elections.
Download or read book Media and the British Empire written by C. Kaul and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-03-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The only true history of a country', wrote Thomas Macaulay, 'is to be found in its newspapers'. This book explores how the media shaped and defined the economic, social, political and cultural dynamics of the British Empire by viewing it from the perspective of the colonised as well as the colonisers.
Download or read book The English Press written by Jeremy Black and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this succinct one-volume account of the rise and fall of the English press, Jeremy Black traces the medium's history from the emergence of the country's newspaper industry to the Internet age. The English Press focuses on the major developments in the world of print journalism and sets the history of the press in wider currents of English history, political, social, economic and technological. Black takes the reader through a chronological sequence of chapters, with a final chapter exploring possible scenarios for the future of print media. He investigates whether we are witnessing the demise or simply a crisis of the press in the aftermath of the News of the World scandal and Levinson Inquiry. A new title by one of the most eminent historians of Britain and a leading expert on the history of the press, The English Press will appeal to undergraduate students of British and media history and journalism, as well as to the general reader with an interest in the history of England and the media.
Download or read book The Media in Britain written by Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book News and Journalism in the UK written by Brian McNair and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: News and Journalism in the UK is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the political, economic and regulatory environments of press and broadcast journalism in Britain and Northern Ireland. Surveying the industry in a period of radical economic and technological change, Brian McNair examines the main trends in journalistic media in the last two decades and assesses the challenges and future of the industry in the new millennium. Integrating both academic and journalistic perspectives on journalism, topics addressed in this revised and updated edition include: *'tabloidization', Americanization and the supposed 'dumbing down' of journalistic standards *changing work patterns and the feminization of journalism *trends in media ownership and editorial allegiances *the impact of technological innovations such as digitalization, online media and 24 hour news *the implications of devolution for regional journalists.
Download or read book Women and the Media written by Maggie Andrews and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The media have played a significant role in the contested and changing social position of women in Britain since the 1900s. They have facilitated feminism by both providing discourses and images from which women can construct their identities, and offering spaces where hegemonic ideas of femininity can be reworked. This volume is intended to provide an overview of work on Broadcasting, Film and Print Media from 1900, while appealing to scholars of History and Media, Film and Cultural Studies. This edited collection features tightly focused and historically contextualised case studies which showcase current research on women and media in Britain since the 1900s. The case studies explore media directed at a particularly female audience such as Woman’s Hour, and magazines such as Vogue, Woman and Marie Claire. Women who work in the media, issues of production, and regulation are discussed alongside the representation of women across a broad range of media from early 20th-century motorcycling magazines, Page 3 and regional television news.
Download or read book Politics and Mass Media in Britain written by Ralph M. Negrine and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
