Politics and the Mass Media in Britain

Politics and the Mass Media in Britain
Author: Ralph Negrine
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134868316

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

Politics and the Media in Britain

Politics and the Media in Britain
Author: Raymond Kuhn
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2017-09-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137107286

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.

Power Without Responsibility

Power Without Responsibility
Author: James Curran
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2002-09-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1134823312

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.

Politics and the Media in Britain

Politics and the Media in Britain
Author: Raymond Kuhn
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2007-08-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780333926895

This important new text provides an up-to-date account of the complex interrelationship between politics and the media in Britain, from ownership and globalization to pressure groups and the role of the media in elections.

Come on Down?

Come on Down?
Author: Dominic Strinati
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2004-02-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134923686

Come on Down represents an introduction to popular media culture in Britain since 1945. It discusses the ways in which popular culture can be studied, understood and appreciated, and covers its key analytical issues and some of its most important forms and processes. The contributors analyse some of popular culture's leading and most representative expressions such as TV soaps, quizzes and game shows, TV for children, media treatment of the monarchy, Pop Music, Comedy, Advertising, Consumerism and Americanization. The diversity of both subject matter and argument is the most distinctive feature of the collection, making it a much-needed and extremely accessible, interdisciplinary introduction to the study of popular media culture. The contributors, many of them leading figures in their respective areas of study, represent a number of different approaches which themselves reflect the diversity and promise of contemporary theoretical debates. Their studies encompass issues such as the economics of popular culture, its textual complexity and its interpretations by audiences, as well as concepts such as ideology, material culture and postmodernism.

Power Without Responsibility

Power Without Responsibility
Author: James Curran
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2003
Genre: Broadcasting
ISBN: 0415243904

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.

Election Politics and the Mass Press in Long Edwardian Britain

Election Politics and the Mass Press in Long Edwardian Britain
Author: Christopher Shoop-Worrall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2022-01-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1000570649

This book explores the ways in which the emergence of the ‘new’ daily mass press of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries represented a hugely significant period in histories of both the British press and the British political system. Drawing on a parallel analysis of election-time newspaper content and archived political correspondence, the author argues that the ‘new dailies’ were a welcome and vibrant addition to the mass political culture that existed in Britain prior to World War 1. Chapters explore the ways in which the three ‘new dailies’ – Mail, Express, and Mirror – represented political news during the four general elections of the period; how their content intersected with, and became a part of, the mass consumer culture of pre-Great War Britain; and the differing ways political parties reacted to this new press, and what those reactions said about broader political attitudes towards the worth of ‘mass’ political communication. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of media history, British popular politics, journalism history, and media studies.