The News Revolution in England: Cultural Dynamics of Daily InformationOxford University Press, 05/09/1996 - 208 من الصفحات The News Revolution in England: Cultural Dynamics of Daily Information is the first book to analyze the essential feature of periodical media, which is their periodicity. Having to sell the next issue as well as the present one changes the relation between authors and readers--or customers--and subtly shapes the way that everything is reported, whether politics, the arts and science, or social issues. So there are certain biases that are implicit in the dynamics of news production or commodified information, quite apart from the intentions of journalists. With the birth of the commercial periodical in late seventeenth century England, news became a commodity. What constituted news, how it was presented and received, and how people responded to it underwent a fundamental change. Rather than any democratic print revolution, in which the masses suddenly had access to cheap and accessible information, C. John Sommerville shows that the arrival of the commercial press was in fact restrictive, dictating what was discussed and ultimately how it was discussed. The News Revolution in England looks at the history of journalism from an entirely different angle--the effect of the medium rather than the intentions of the journalists. It will be of interest to historians of England, journalism, and news, along with anyone interested in how the media shapes our world and how we come to relate to it. |
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Inventing Periodical Publication 162040 | 17 |
Organizing a News Industry 164060 | 34 |
Creating and Dividing the Audience 164060 | 46 |
Developing Despite Monopoly 166080 | 57 |
The Coffeehouse as a Periodical Medium 166080 | 75 |
Periodicity and Press Freedom 167090 | 85 |
Turning Culture into News Science | 98 |
Turning Culture into News Literature | 109 |
Turning News into Politics | 119 |
Turning Religion Upside Down | 135 |
The Club Image and Vicarious Community | 146 |
Living in a Permanent Revolution | 161 |
Notes | 171 |
Index | 193 |
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الصفحة 28 - A vast confusion of vows, wishes, actions, edicts, petitions, lawsuits, pleas, laws, proclamations, complaints, grievances are daily brought to our ears. New books every day, pamphlets, currantoes, stories, whole catalogues of volumes of all sorts, new paradoxes, opinions, schisms, heresies, controversies in philosophy, religion, etc.
الصفحة 28 - I hear new news every day, and those ordinary rumours of war, plagues, fires, inundations, thefts, murders, massacres, meteors, comets, spectrums...
الصفحة 142 - It is incredible to conceive the effect his writings have had on the town ; how many thousand follies they have either quite banished, or given a very great check to; how much countenance they have added to virtue and religion ; how many people they have rendered happy, by showing them it was their own fault if they were not so...
الصفحة 141 - It would have been a jest some time since, for a man to have asserted that anything witty could be said in praise of a married state; or that devotion and virtue were any way necessary to the character of a fine gentleman.
الصفحة 131 - It is impossible for this ingenious sort of men to subsist after a peace : every one remembers the shifts they were driven to in the reign of king Charles the Second, when they could not furnish out a single paper of news, without lighting up a comet in Germany, or a fire in Moscow.
الصفحة 15 - Such histories as these do, in reality, very much resemble a newspaper, which consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
الصفحة 64 - Those however who aspire not to guess and divine, but to discover and know; who propose not to devise mimic and fabulous worlds of their own, but to examine and dissect the nature of this very world itself; must go to facts themselves for everything.
الصفحة 28 - Now come tidings of weddings, maskings, mummeries, entertainments, jubilees, embassies, tilts and tournaments, trophies, triumphs, revels, sports, plays : then again, as in a new shifted scene, treasons, cheating tricks, robberies, enormous villanies in all kinds, funerals, burials, deaths of Princes, new discoveries, expeditions ; now comical then tragical matters.
الصفحة 151 - After this declaration, if a fine lady thinks fit to giggle at church, or a great beau come in drunk to a play, either shall be sure to hear of it in my ensuing paper. For, merely as a well-bred man, I cannot bear these enormities.
الصفحة 114 - Some time before the Revolution, the press was again set to work ; and such a furious itch of novelty has ever since been the epidemical distemper, that it has proved fatal to many families ; the meanest of shopkeepers and handicrafts spending whole days in coffee-houses, to hear news and talk politicks,- whilst their wives and children wanted bread at home...