History And The Media

Author : David Cannadine
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-18
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015059101629

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History and the Media by David Cannadine Pdf

History is everywhere in the media. Television viewers can spend every evening watching a different historian expound upon Empire, Witchcraft, the Civil War or Royal Mistresses or go to the cinema and watch reconstructions of the Second World War, American Civil War or Imperial China. Even current affairs reporting on television, radio or in newspapers implicitly or explicitly includes historical explanations. This book examines the boom in history in television and film, newspapers and radio and the constraints and opportunities it offers. Leading historians and high profile broadcasters, such as Melvyn Bragg, Simon Schama, Tristram Hunt, Ian Kershaw and David Puttnam, drawn on their personal experiences to explore the problems and highlights of representing history in the media.

Author : Asa Briggs
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000058469170

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A Social History of England by Asa Briggs Pdf

Author : Nick Hall,John Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351247399

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Hands on Media History by Nick Hall,John Ellis Pdf

Hands on Media History explores the whole range of hands on media history techniques for the first time, offering both practical guides and general perspectives. It covers both analogue and digital media; film, television, video, gaming, photography and recorded sound. Understanding media means understanding the technologies involved. The hands on history approach can open our minds to new perceptions of how media technologies work and how we work with them. Essays in this collection explore the difficult questions of reconstruction and historical memory, and the issues of equipment degradation and loss. Hands on Media History is concerned with both the professional and the amateur, the producers and the users, providing a new perspective on one of the modern era’s most urgent questions: what is the relationship between people and the technologies they use every day? Engaging and enlightening, this collection is a key reference for students and scholars of media studies, digital humanities, and for those interested in models of museum and research practice.

Author : Gabriele Balbi,Paolo Magaudda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351807234

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A History of Digital Media by Gabriele Balbi,Paolo Magaudda Pdf

From the punch card calculating machine to the personal computer to the iPhone and more, this in-depth text offers a comprehensive introduction to digital media history for students and scholars across media and communication studies, providing an overview of the main turning points in digital media and highlighting the interactions between political, business, technical, social, and cultural elements throughout history. With a global scope and an intermedia focus, this book enables students and scholars alike to deepen their critical understanding of digital communication, adding an understudied historical layer to the examination of digital media and societies. Discussion questions, a timeline, and previously unpublished tables and maps are included to guide readers as they learn to contextualize and critically analyze the digital technologies we use every day.

Author : Asa Briggs,Peter Burke
Publisher : Polity
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745635118

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A Social History of the Media by Asa Briggs,Peter Burke Pdf

It will be an ideal text for students in history, media and cultural studies and journalism, but it will also appeal to a wide general readership.

Author : Wendy Hui Kyong Chun,Thomas Keenan
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Digital media
ISBN : 0415942241

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New Media, Old Media by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun,Thomas Keenan Pdf

In this history of new media technologies, leading media and cultural theorists examine new media against the background of traditional media such as film, photography, and print in order to evaluate the multiple claims made about the benefits and freedom of digital media.

Author : John Theobald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367604507

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The Media and the Making of History by John Theobald Pdf

While the huge impact of the mass media on everyday social life is acknowledged, it has generally been assigned a peripheral role in the historical process. This intriguing book demonstrates that, far from being a footnote, media discourse has been a critical factor in recent European history, and indeed one that distinguishes the twentieth century from all previous ones. John Theobald looks back to the First World War, analyzing the use and abuse of journalistic discourse in the portrayal of events to the public and to decision-makers. He goes on to present a series of case studies demonstrating the active mass media role in a selection of key events from the twentieth century including: the Cold War, the collapse of Communism in the GDR and German unification, debates over the European Union and the impact of September 11, 2001. He sets these studies within the context of traditions of radical mass media criticism from early analysts such as Kraus, Tönnies and Tarde through to contemporaries such as Chomsky, Bourdieu and Pilger.

Author : Michael Bailey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134112104

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Narrating Media History by Michael Bailey Pdf

Based on the work of media historian, James Curran, Narrating Media History explores British media history as a series of competing narratives. This unique and timely collection brings together leading international media history scholars, not only to identify and contrast the various interrelationships between media histories, but also to encourage dialogue between different historical, political, and theoretical perspectives including: liberalism, feminism, populism, nationalism, libertarianism, radicalism and technological determinism. Essays by distinguished academics cover television, radio, newspaper press and advertising (among others) and illustrate the particularities, affinities, strengths and weaknesses within media history. Each section includes a brief introduction by the editor, with discussion topics and suggestions for further reading, making this an invaluable guide for students of media history.

Author : Craig Robertson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317983170

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Media History and the Archive by Craig Robertson Pdf

By the time readers encounter academic history in the form of books and articles, all that tends to be left of an author’s direct experience with archives is pages of endnotes. Whether intentionally or not, archives have until recently been largely thought of as discrete collections of documents, perhaps not neutral but rarely considered to be historical actors. This book brings together top media scholars to rethink the role of the archive and historical record from the perspective of writing media history. Exploring the concept of the archive forces a reconsideration of what counts as historical evidence. In this analysis the archive becomes a concept that allows the authors to think about the acts of classifying, collecting, storing, and interpreting the sources used in historical research. The essays included in this volume, from Susan Douglas, Lisa Gitelman, John Nerone, Jeremy Packer, Paddy Scannell, Lynn Spigel, and Jonathan Sterne, focus on both the theoretical and practical ways in which the archive has affected how media is thought about as an object for historical analysis. This book was published as a special issue of The Communication Review.

Author : Janet Staiger,Sabine Hake
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135842741

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Convergence Media History by Janet Staiger,Sabine Hake Pdf

Convergence Media History explores the ways that digital convergence has radically changed the field of media history. Writing media history is no longer a matter of charting the historical development of an individual medium such as film or television. Instead, now that various media from blockbuster films to everyday computer use intersect regularly via convergence, scholars must find new ways to write media history across multiple media formats. This collection of eighteen new essays by leading media historians and scholars examines the issues today in writing media history and histories. Each essay addresses a single medium—including film, television, advertising, sound recording, new media, and more—and connects that specific medium’s history to larger issues for the field in writing multi-media or convergent histories. Among the volume’s topics are new media technologies and their impact on traditional approaches to media history; alternative accounts of film production and exhibition, with a special emphasis on film across multiple media platforms; the changing relationships between audiences, fans, and consumers within media culture; and the globalization of our media culture.

Author : Jennifer Holt,Alisa Perren
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781444360233

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Media Industries by Jennifer Holt,Alisa Perren Pdf

Media Industries: History, Theory and Method is among the first texts to explore the evolving field of media industry studies and offer an innovative blueprint for future study and analysis. capitalizes on the current social and cultural environment of unprecedented technical change, convergence, and globalization across a range of textual, institutional and theoretical perspectives brings together newly commissioned essays by leading scholars in film, media, communications and cultural studies includes case studies of film, television and digital media to vividly illustrate the dynamic transformations taking place across national, regional and international contexts

Author : Lisa Gitelman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262572477

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Always Already New by Lisa Gitelman Pdf

In Always Already New, Lisa Gitelman explores the newness of new media while she asks what it means to do media history. Using the examples of early recorded sound and digital networks, Gitelman challenges readers to think about the ways that media work as the simultaneous subjects and instruments of historical inquiry. Presenting original case studies of Edison's first phonographs and the Pentagon's first distributed digital network, the ARPANET, Gitelman points suggestively toward similarities that underlie the cultural definition of records (phonographic and not) at the end of the nineteenth century and the definition of documents (digital and not) at the end of the twentieth. As a result, Always Already New speaks to present concerns about the humanities as much as to the emergent field of new media studies. Records and documents are kernels of humanistic thought, after all—part of and party to the cultural impulse to preserve and interpret. Gitelman's argument suggests inventive contexts for "humanities computing" while also offering a new perspective on such traditional humanities disciplines as literary history. Making extensive use of archival sources, Gitelman describes the ways in which recorded sound and digitally networked text each emerged as local anomalies that were yet deeply embedded within the reigning logic of public life and public memory. In the end Gitelman turns to the World Wide Web and asks how the history of the Web is already being told, how the Web might also resist history, and how using the Web might be producing the conditions of its own historicity.

Author : Jesse Drew
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781135117559

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A Social History of Contemporary Democratic Media by Jesse Drew Pdf

The last few decades have helped dispel the myth that media should remain driven by high-end professionals and market share. This book puts forward the concept of "communications from below" in contrast to the "globalization from above" that characterizes many new developments in international organization and media practices. By examining the social and technological roots that influence current media evolution, Drew allows readers to understand not only the Youtubes and Facebooks of today, but to anticipate the trajectory of the technologies to come. Beginning with a look at the inherent weaknesses of the U.S. broadcasting model of mass media, Drew outlines the early 1960s and 1970s experiments in grassroots media, where artists and activists began to re-engineer electronic technologies to target local communities and underserved audiences. From these local projects emerged national and international communications projects, creating production models, social networks and citizen expectations that would challenge traditional means of electronic media and cultural production. Drew’s perspective puts the social and cultural use of the user at the center, not the particular media form. Thus the structure of the book focuses on the local, the national, and the global desire for communications, regardless of the means.

Author : Bonnie Brennen,Hanno Hardt
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 025206769X

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Picturing the Past by Bonnie Brennen,Hanno Hardt Pdf

Explores the relations between photo-journalism and history, investigating how photographs shape both, what we remember and how we remember. This book provides insight into how photographs, generate a sense of national community, and reinforce prevailing social, cultural, and political values.

Author : Espen Ytreberg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509545421

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Media and Events in History by Espen Ytreberg Pdf

The most intense hopes and fears of our collective lives centre around large-scale events – from competitions, celebrations and festivals to environmental disasters, pandemics and terror attacks. The media are a crucial part of this process: they enable the planning, resource allocation and circulation of the vital information needed to mount major events. They are also where traces of events are stored for history. In short, large-scale and collective events have been, and still are, mediated. Starting from nineteenth-century industrialisation, Media and Events in History explains how contemporary life has become saturated with events. It discusses how they have come to involve extensive infrastructures, forms of control and anticipation, attention and participation, contingency and transformation, and articulations of the past and the future. Synthesising and developing insights from history, media studies, philosophy and the social sciences, Ytreberg surveys the rise of event-planning via mediation, and exposes the historical driving forces behind ‘media events’, global ‘mega-events’ and ‘pseudo-events’. Revealing the importance of events in history, this eye-opening book will be of interest to students of media studies, history, historical sociology and cultural history, as well as the general reader.