Journalism today: a themed history
The aim of this book is to use history to reveal underlying trends, causes and conditions that affect modern journalism and its practice. The approach to history is thematic rather than strictly chronological and by definition selective. Social histories of the press have shown how institutional and technological factors have shaped news over the last 200 years, reinforcing the doctrine that news is, more than anything else, a culturally constructed category. This book traces some of these influences, not as an all-embracing chronological history (for these exist elsewhere), but more as a thematic ‘potpourri’, highlighting in particular those journalistic functions that relate to and interact with wider society. In doing so, we take a long view, stressing continuities as well as change.
History
School affiliated with
- Lincoln School of Film Media and Journalism (Research Outputs)
Publisher
Wiley-BlackwellISBN
9781405179539Date Submitted
2010-06-08Date Accepted
2011-04-05Date of First Publication
2011-04-05Date of Final Publication
2011-04-05Date Document First Uploaded
2013-03-13ePrints ID
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Categories
- P210 - Public relations
- P300 - Media studies
- P301 - Television studies
- P302 - Radio studies
- P304 - Electronic media studies
- P305 - Paper-based media studies
- P390 - Media studies not elsewhere classified
- P500 - Journalism
- P510 - Factual reporting
- P590 - Journalism not elsewhere classified
- P900 - Others in mass communications & documentation
- P990 - Mass communications & documentation not elsewhere classified
- V144 - Modern history 1800-1899
- V145 - Modern history 1900-1919
- V146 - Modern history 1920-1949
- V147 - Modern history 1950-1999
- V148 - Modern history 2000-2099
- V210 - British history
- V230 - American history
- V271 - International history
- V390 - History by topic not elsewhere classified