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Power without responsibility : the press, broadcasting, and new media in Britain
- Title
- Power without responsibility : the press, broadcasting, and new media in Britain / James Curran and Jean Seaton.
- Author
- Curran, James.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Seaton, Jean.
- Description
- x, 459 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- An introduction to the history, sociology, theory and politics of media and communication studies, this text is a guide for all those involved with the production and consumption of the media. It now includes new material dealing with the Internet and the rise of new media in Britain.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History (form)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-450) and index.
- Contents
- Press history / James Curran: Whig press history as political mythology -- The struggle for a free press -- The ugly face of reform -- The industrialization of the press -- The era of the press barons -- The press under public regulation -- The press in the age of globalization. Broadcasting history / Jean Seaton: Reith and the denial of politics -- Broadcasting and the blitz -- Social revolution? -- The fall of the BBC -- Class, taste, and profit -- How the audience is made -- Video, cable, and satellite -- Broadcasting roller-coaster. Rise of new media / James Curran: Scientists, capitalists, and cyberchartists -- Sociology of the internet -- New media in Britain. Theories of the media: Global futures, the information society, and broadcasting / Jean Seaton -- The sociology of the mass media / Jean Seaton -- The liberal theory of press freedom / James Curran -- Broadcasting and the theory of public service / Jean Seaton. Politics of the media: Contradictions in media policy / James Curran, Jean Seaton -- Central debates in media politics / James Curran.
- ISBN
- 0415243890
- 9780415243896
- 0415243904
- 9780415243902
- OCLC
- ocm52977283
- 52977283
- SCSB-1297926
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library