The Mass Media and Power in Modern Britain (Oxford Modern Britain)

The Mass Media and Power in Britain is a thorough, lievely introduction to the role, importance, and power of the mass media in contemporary British society. What is the mass media, and how does it help shape life in modern Britain? After introducing the student to discussions around these questions, the authors examine the historical development of the mass media, issues of ownership, and the roots of its power in the public and political sphere. Contemporary questions surrounding todays media are also addressed. What is the role of the audience? How do people take pleasure from media culture? What are the issues surrounding the news, advertising, public services broadcasting, the shaping of public understanding, censorship, violence, and 'moral panics'? The authors also look towards the future, considering prospects for a global media and the possible effects of the information superhighway. An invaluable introduction and point of reference for students of sociology, media studies, politics and human geography, The Mass Media and Power in Modern Britain will be essential reading for anyone interested in our mass media.

Politics & Social Sciences

Kitzinger, Jenny

WILLIAMS, Kevin

Eldridge, John

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

This book is a thorough and lively introduction to the role, importance, and power of the mass media in contemporary British spciety. What is the mass media, and how does it help shape life in modern Britain?: After introducing the student to discussions around these questions, the authors examine the historical development of the mass media, issues of ownership, and the roots of its power in the public and political sphere.Contemporary issues surrounding today's media are also addressed. What is the role of the audience? How do people take pleasure from media culture? What are the issues surrounding the news, advertising, public services broadcasting, the shaping of public understanding, censorship, violence, and `moral panics'? the authors also finally look towards the future, considering prospects for a global media and the possible effects of the information superhighway. This book will be an invaluable introduction and point of reference for students of sociology, media studies, politics and human geography, and for anyone interested in our mass media.

History

Europe

Tracing the histories of the print, broadcasting, and film industries, this is a thoroughly readable introduction to mass communication in Britain.

Get Me a Murder a Day!: A History of Mass Communication in Britain

Hodder Education Publishers

This book provides a basic introduction to the development of mass communication in Britain. It examines the emergence of media industries and audiences in the context of issues of regulation and control. The focus is on the histories of the print, broadcasting and film media. The main landmarks in the development of these media are outlined as well as the key factors that have shaped the changing nature of their industrial organisation and structure and the character of their audiences. The book also examines how the growth of new forms of mass communication has always been accompanied by fears of their impact on popular opinions and behaviour. The concerns of powerful elites, news and information managers and moral entrepreneurs are treated as an integral part of the history of mass communication. Changing forms of censorship and control are examined throughout different historical periods. It begins with the birth of printing in the fifteenth century and traces emergence of the modern newspaper from the struggles of the nineteenth century radical press to the Wapping Revolution of the 1980s. The development of visual media is explored from the advent of the silent movies to the contemporary world of cable, satellite and the internet.

Mass media studies in Britain and the USA are dominated by an Anglo-American framework. This unique book seeks to redress this imbalance by looking at the mass media in a European context and exploring the distinctly European understanding of the role of the mass media in society.

European Media Studies

Business & Money

Industries

Bloomsbury Academic

Understanding Media Theory is an accessible introduction to the different theories of the mass media. It seeks to emphasize the importance of using theory not only to make sense of the role of media in society but also to understand particular aspects of mass communication.

Understanding Media Theory

Humor & Entertainment

Understanding Media Theory is an accessible introduction to mass media theory. The book emphasizes the importance of using theory not only to make sense of the role of the media in society but also to understand particular aspects of the process of mass communication. This is an introduction to theory which students can understand and enjoy.

Understanding Media Theory (Hodder Arnold Publication)

'Get Me A Murder A Day!' the famous motto of Lord Northcliffe, founder of the Daily Mail, says it all. Murder, sex and scandal seem to be the mass media's staple diet in Britain. Now we have 24-hour news television, podcasts and blogs enabling constant communication and consumer comment. To understand how we got to this, we need to start from the beginning. 
 Tracing the history of the print, broadcast and film industries, this book offers a concise and enjoyable introduction to mass communication in Britain. It outlines the main landmarks in the development of the media, the changing nature of their industrial organisation and the resulting impact on audiences. This new edition discusses all the key events and developments of the last decade, including the changing content of Tv, the growth of 'spin', the Hutton inquiry and the establishment of the Bbc Trust. 
 Get Me A Murder A Day! is an essential read for media and journalism students and anyone with an interest in understanding the media landscape in the Uk.

Get Me a Murder a Day!: A History of Media and Communication in Britain

Read All About It!: A History of the British Newspaper

This Text-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.   Starting with the early 17th century, when the first prototype newspapers emerged, through Dr Johnson, the growth of the radical press in the early 19th century, the Lord Northcliffe revolution in the early 20th century, the newspapers wars of the 1930s and the rise of the tabloid in the 1970s, right up to Rupert Murdoch and the online revolution, the book explores the impact of the newspapers on our lives and its role in British society. Using lively and entertaining examples, Kevin Williams illustrates the changing form of the newspaper in its social, political, economic and cultural context. As well as telling the story of the newspaper, he explores key topics in detail, making this an ideal text for students of journalism and the British newspaper. Issues include:    newspapers and social change   the changing face of regional newspapers   the impact of new technology development of reporting techniques forms of press regulation

Read All About It!

Routledge

This Text-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. Starting with the early 17th century, when the first prototype newspapers emerged, through Dr Johnson, the growth of the radical press in the early 19th century, the Lord Northcliffe revolution in the early 20th century, the newspapers wars of the 1930s and the rise of the tabloid in the 1970s, right up to Rupert Murdoch and the online revolution, the book explores the impact of the newspapers on our lives and its role in British society. Using lively and entertaining examples, Kevin Williams illustrates the changing form of the newspaper in its social, political, economic and cultural context. As well as telling the story of the newspaper, he explores key topics in detail, making this an ideal text for students of journalism and the British newspaper. Issues include: <ul>
<li>newspapers and social change</li> <li>the changing face of regional newspapers</li> <li>the impact of new technology</li> <li>development of reporting techniques</li> <li>forms of press regulation</li> </ul>

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The Mass Media and Power in Modern Britain (Oxford Modern Britain)

The Mass Media and Power in Modern Britain (Oxford Modern Britain)

Get Me a Murder a Day!: A History of Mass Communication in Britain

Get Me a Murder a Day!: A History of Mass Communication in Britain

European Media Studies

Understanding Media Theory

Understanding Media Theory (Hodder Arnold Publication)

Get Me a Murder a Day!: A History of Media and Communication in Britain

Read All About It!

Read All About It!: A History of the British Newspaper