The Routledge companion to British media history / edited by Martin Conboy and John Steel ; contributors, Jane Bentley [and fifty-four others].
Publisher: Oxfordshire, [England] ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (629 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resource001: 44971ISBN: 9781315756202 (e-book)Subject(s): Mass media -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Mass media -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Routledge companion to British media history.DDC classification: 302.230941 LOC classification: P92.G7 | .R68 2014Online resources: Click to View| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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
Includes bibliographical references and index at the end of each chapters.
Description based on print version record.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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CHOICE Review
This impressively comprehensive compilation of essays on British media history comprises 50 essays by a wide range of scholars from universities throughout the UK. More than a typical historical analysis, the book problematizes (in Karen Weekes's definition) media history in considering whether media are a cause or a symptom of a larger cultural phenomenon. This cultural contextualization and interdisciplinary approach to media history offers an invaluable contrast to the more economically induced pressures of time and space created by the diverse digital media market environment. Another strength of the book is that the editors (both, Univ. of Sheffield, UK) planned it to reach "the widest possible range of readers"; at that, the book is a brilliant success. Ranging across the disciplines from communication studies, journalism, and critical theory to politics and more, the book is organized into eight sections: two broad sections, "Media History Debates" and "Media and Society," are followed by sections devoted to individual media ("Newspapers," "Magazines," "Radio," "Film," "Television," and "Digital Media"). This volume is an invaluable resource for the study of British media history. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. --Myrna R. Grant, emerita, Wheaton CollegeThere are no comments on this title.