| The Routledge Companion to British Media History Contributor(s): Conboy, Martin (Editor), Steel, John (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0815395485 ISBN-13: 9780815395485 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $61.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies |
| Dewey: 302.23 |
| Series: Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions |
| Physical Information: 628 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Routledge Companion to British Media History provides a comprehensive exploration of how different media have evolved within social, regional and national contexts. The 50 chapters in this volume, written by an outstanding team of internationally respected scholars, bring together current debates and issues within media history in this era of rapid change, and also provide students and researchers with an essential collection of comparable media histories. The first two parts of the Companion comprise a series of thematic chapters reflecting broadly on historiography, providing historical context for discussions of the power of the media and their social importance, arranged in the following sections:
The subsequent parts are made up of in-depth sections on different media formats, exploring various approaches to historicizing media futures, divided as follows:
The Routledge Companion to British Media History provides an essential guide to key ideas, issues, concepts and debates in the field. Chapter 40 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at www.tandfebooks.com/openaccess. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. |