This is a history of broadcasting and its impact on modern life in Britain from its origins in the 1920s to the outbreak of the Second World War. Its concerns are with programmes and their makers and with the audiences for which they were made. It is a pioneering work of cultural and social history.

A Social History of British Broadcasting: Volume 1 - 1922-1939, Serving the Nation

Business & Money

Scannell, Paddy

Cardiff, David

Industries

Wiley/Blackwell

Radio, Television and Modern Life

Written by one of the foremost and widely-respected writers in the field, this volume sheds new light on the forms and premises of the communicative experience. In doing so, it challenges the theoretical positions of marxist and "political economy of media" analysts who focus largely on the structure of economic and social power within the media. Instead, Scannell explores the structuring of engagement of the viewer/listener with the broadcaster by analysing the communicative intentions of the broadcaster and the understanding by the audience of those intentions. This powerful and accessible book makes an important contribution to media studies in showing students how the history of the media can be enriched by communications theory.

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Written by one of the foremost and widely-respected writers in the field, this volume sheds new light on the forms and premises of the communicative experience. In doing so, it challenges the theoretical positions of marxist and "political economy of media" analysts who focus largely on the structure of economic and social power within the media. Instead, Scannell explores the structuring of engagement of the viewer/listener with the broadcaster by analysing the communicative intentions of the broadcaster and the understanding by the audience of those intentions. This powerful and accessible book makes an important contribution to media studies in showing students how the history of the media can be enriched by communications theory.

Mass Communications: A Comparative Introduction

The rise of mass communications has fundamentally reshaped the modern world. In this comparative introduction, Lorimer surveys not only the different types of media and their attendant technologies, but the theories used to understand the subject. He provides an international perspective, drawing on examples from the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Japan and various European countries. The study begins with an examination of the historical and contemporary roles of communication in society, followed by an analysis of the mass media in modern society. Four fundamentals of mass media - law and policy, ownership, professionalism and technology - are explored in detail. This is followed with key sections on audience response and media content. Aimed at first-year undergraduates in media and communication studies, this work intends to explain the geopolitics of mass communication and the likely impact of modern media systems on national cultures in the future.

History

Lorimer, Rowland

World

Manchester Univ Pr

Book by Lorimer, Rowland, Scannell, Paddy

Television and the Meaning of 'Live': An Enquiry into the Human Situation

This book is about the question of existence, the meaning of ‘life’. It is an enquiry into the contemporary human situation as disclosed by television.   The elementary components of any real-world situation are place, people and time. These are first examined as basic existential phenomena drawing on Heidegger’s fundamental enquiry into the human situation in Being and Time. They are then explored through the technological and production care-structures of broadcast television which, routinely and exceptionally, display the situated experience of being alive and living in the world today. It shows routinely in the live self-enactments of persons being themselves and the liveness of their ordinary talk on television. It shows exceptionally in television coverage of great occasions and catastrophes as they unfold live and in real time. Case studies reveal the existential role of television in salvaging the possibility of genuine experience, and in revealing the world-historical character of life today. To explore these questions, the agenda of sociology - its concern with economic, political and cultural life - is set aside. Being in the world is not, in the first (or last) instance, a social but an existential question, as an existential enquiry into television today discovers.   Passionate and sweeping in scale, this new book from a leading media scholar is a major contribution to our understanding of the media today.

Television

Polity

This book is about the question of existence, the meaning of ‘life’. It is an enquiry into the contemporary human situation as disclosed by television. The elementary components of any real-world situation are place, people and time. These are first examined as basic existential phenomena drawing on Heidegger’s fundamental enquiry into the human situation in Being and Time. They are then explored through the technological and production care-structures of broadcast television which, routinely and exceptionally, display the situated experience of being alive and living in the world today. It shows routinely in the live self-enactments of persons being themselves and the liveness of their ordinary talk on television. It shows exceptionally in television coverage of great occasions and catastrophes as they unfold live and in real time. Case studies reveal the existential role of television in salvaging the possibility of genuine experience, and in revealing the world-historical character of life today. To explore these questions, the agenda of sociology - its concern with economic, political and cultural life - is set aside. Being in the world is not, in the first (or last) instance, a social but an existential question, as an existential enquiry into television today discovers. Passionate and sweeping in scale, this new book from a leading media scholar is a major contribution to our understanding of the media today.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Media and Communication

′…a great book, exciting, and very clearly written′ - Klaus Schönbach, University of Amsterdam ′This is an excellent book that provides students with a broad series of summary outlines of key thinkers on media and communication, without conflating the two terms′ - Michael Pickering, University of Loughborough Magisterial in scope, Media and Communication traces the historical development of media and communication studies. Media Studies itself has a short history but many antecedents, and in this comprehensive and compelling book, Paddy Scannell sets out to describe and analysize its formulation in North American and Europe. ′This is an excellent book that provides students with a broad series of summary outlines of key thinkers on media and communication, without conflating the two terms′ Magisterial in scope, traces the historical development of media and communication studies. Media Studies itself has a short history but many antecedents, and in this comprehensive and compelling book, Paddy Scannell sets out to describe and analysize its formulation in North American and Europe. Media and Communication:- Offers an accessible and comprehensive analysis of the development of media and communication theory - Includes a summary outline of all the key thinkers - Looks at the study of communication across a range of disciplines―history, literature, sociology, philosophy and linguistics- Challenges readers to engage with the central importance of communication.

Sage Publications Ltd.

′…a great book, exciting, and very clearly written′ - Klaus Schönbach, University of Amsterdam 
′This is an excellent book that provides students with a broad series of summary outlines of key thinkers on media and communication, without conflating the two terms′ - Michael Pickering, University of Loughborough 
Magisterial in scope, Media and Communication traces the historical development of media and communication studies. Media Studies itself has a short history but many antecedents, and in this comprehensive and compelling book, Paddy Scannell sets out to describe and analysize its formulation in North American and Europe. ′This is an excellent book that provides students with a broad series of summary outlines of key thinkers on media and communication, without conflating the two terms′ Magisterial in scope, traces the historical development of media and communication studies. Media Studies itself has a short history but many antecedents, and in this comprehensive and compelling book, Paddy Scannell sets out to describe and analysize its formulation in North American and Europe. Media and Communication:
- Offers an accessible and comprehensive analysis of the development of media and communication theory 
- Includes a summary outline of all the key thinkers 
- Looks at the study of communication across a range of disciplines―history, literature, sociology, philosophy and linguistics
- Challenges readers to engage with the central importance of communication.

Media and Communication&nbsp;traces the historical development of media and communication studies in the 20th century.&nbsp;Paddy Scannell explores how the field formed and developed in both North America and in Europe, expertly introducing and explaining a host of essential media thinkers, ideas and concepts along the way.Including a new chapter on media events, this second edition of a classic text provides a comprehensive yet personal - and always accessible - analysis of media and communication theory and history. It is an invaluable resource for students across media and communication studies, cultural studies, and sociology.

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A Social History of British Broadcasting: Volume 1 - 1922-1939, Serving the Nation

Radio, Television and Modern Life

Radio, Television and Modern Life

Mass Communications: A Comparative Introduction

Mass Communications: A Comparative Introduction

Television and the Meaning of 'Live': An Enquiry into the Human Situation

Television and the Meaning of 'Live': An Enquiry into the Human Situation

Media and Communication

Media and Communication

Media and Communication