Power Without Responsibility
Subtitle: the Press and Broadcasting in Britain
Contributors: Seaton, Jean
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9780203380413
Subjects: Press; Great Britain; Mass media
Description: 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.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; About the authors; Acknowledgements; Preface to the sixth edition; Press history; 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; 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.; title: Rise of new mediaScientists, capitalists, and cyberchartists; Sociology of the internet; New media in Britain; Theories of the media; Global futures, the information society, and broadcasting; The sociology of the mass media; The liberal theory of press freedom; Broadcasting and the theory of public service; Politics of the media; Contradictions in media policy; Central debates in media politics; Bibliography; Index.