Media and the Empire

ISBN-13: 9781138309357 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 206 str.

Ruth Teer-Tomaselli; Donal P. McCracken

Opis

This volume on print and broadcast media in the 19^th and 20^th centuries highlights the pivotal role that the media played in the establishment and maintenance of imperial power, bolstering the ideological and financial objectives of the empire in a myriad of ways. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Arts.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Broadcasting  1. In service of Empire: the South African Broadcasting Corporation during World War II  2. Broadcasting to the ‘last outpost of the British Empire’: Anthony Lejeune, the man behind the SABC’s English Service London Letter (1965-1995)  3. Broadcasting to the Portuguese Empire in Africa: Salazar’s singular broadcasting policy  4. Imperial foundations of 20^th-century media systems in the Caribbean  5. In service of two masters: a political history of radio in pre-independence Botswana 6. Empire and broadcasting in the interwar years: towards a consideration of public broadcasting in the British dominions  Part II: Newspapers  7. The imperial British newspaper, with special reference to South Africa, India and the ‘Irish model’  8. English newspapers in British colonial Hong Kong: the case of the South China Morning Post (1903-1941)  9. Reuters and the South African press at the end of Empire  10. Friends or foes? A critique of the development of the media and the evolving relationship between press and politics in Kenya

O autorze

Ruth Teer-Tomaselli is Director of the Centre for Communication, Media and Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Howard College), Durban, South Africa.

Donal McCracken is Acting Dean and Head of the School of Applied Human Sciences in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.