Comparative media history :
Chapman, Jane, 1950-
Comparative media history : an introduction, 1789 to the present / Jane Chapman. - Malden : Polity, 2005. - 302 p. : ill. b&w ; 25 cm.
1. Newspapers: radicalism, repression and economic change, 1789-1847 --
2. The focusing of political communications and the newspaper business, 1848-1881 --
3. Commercialization, consumerism and technology --
4. Politics, new forms of communication and the globalizing process --
5. The business and ideology of mass culture, 1918-1939 --
6. War and beyond, 1939-1947 --
7. Cold War and the victory of commercialism, 1948-1980 --
8. Continuity and change since 1980.
Argues that most of the roots of today's media - even the globalizing impulse - lie in the late 18th and 19th centuries. Emphasises continuity and certain decisive factors such as the social use of technology, the character of the institutions in which it is applied and the political approach of the specific countries involved.
9780745632438
Mass media--History
302.23
Comparative media history : an introduction, 1789 to the present / Jane Chapman. - Malden : Polity, 2005. - 302 p. : ill. b&w ; 25 cm.
1. Newspapers: radicalism, repression and economic change, 1789-1847 --
2. The focusing of political communications and the newspaper business, 1848-1881 --
3. Commercialization, consumerism and technology --
4. Politics, new forms of communication and the globalizing process --
5. The business and ideology of mass culture, 1918-1939 --
6. War and beyond, 1939-1947 --
7. Cold War and the victory of commercialism, 1948-1980 --
8. Continuity and change since 1980.
Argues that most of the roots of today's media - even the globalizing impulse - lie in the late 18th and 19th centuries. Emphasises continuity and certain decisive factors such as the social use of technology, the character of the institutions in which it is applied and the political approach of the specific countries involved.
9780745632438
Mass media--History
302.23