Kevin Williams

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A History of the British Newspaper

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Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the evolution of the newspaper, documenting its changing form, style and content as well as identifying the different roles ascribed to it by audiences, government and other social institutions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134280537
• Artikelnr.: 43070834

Autorenporträt

Kevin Williams is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Swansea University. He is author of Get Me a Murder a Day! A History of Mass Communication in Britain (1998), Understanding Media Theory (2003) and European Media Studies (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: News, Newspapers and Society 1. Spreading the Word: the Pre
history of Newspapers 1486
1660 2. Newspapers for the Few: Politics, the Press and Partisanship 1660
1789 3. Knowledge and Power: the Radical Newspaper 1789
1850 4. Transition to Democracy: the Press as 'the Fourth Estate' 1850
1890 5. The Northcliffe Revolution: the Rise of the Commercial Newspaper 1890
1922 6. Newspaper Wars: the Press in the Inter War Years 1922
1939 7. War, Social Change and Reconstruction: Newspapers at War and Peace 1939
1967 8. The Land of the Rising Sun: the Emergence of the Tabloid Newspaper 1967
1989 9. The Long Goodbye: the Newspaper and Technological Change 1989
present