When News Was New

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4051-7552-4
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 411 g

When News was New investigates how news has re-invented itself at different historical moments--from medieval storytellers to 19th century telegraph news agencies to 21st century bloggers. - Tracks the evolution of news through history

- Explores the regular reconstruction of news, the salability of news, and whether objectivity matters

- Provides an innovative approach to the history of news; clear, succinct writing; and effective use of photographs, maps, and tables which have strong appeal to the student reader

- Offers a new way of understanding news in our history and culture

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rantanen, Terhi

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables viii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: When News Was New x

1 Temporalization: How News Became New 1

2 Cosmopolitanization: An Older Phenomenon Than We Think 19

3 Globalization: When News Became Global 42

4 Commodifi cation: How To Sell News 58

5 Localization: Places in News 76

6 Nationalization: News and the Nation-states 92

7 Epilogue: Today Was Yesterday 112

Bibliography 133

Index 146

Über Autor(innen)

Terhi Rantanen is Professor and Director of the Master's Proframme in Global Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has published extensively on global news and is the author of six books and more than fifty chapters and articles published in the UK, the USA, Austria, Finland, Russia, Sweden and Taiwan.