When News Was New

ISBN-13: 9781405175517 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 168 str.

Terhi Rantanen

Opis

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

Recenzje

"A well structured analysis of journalism and what actually entails news, this is both an educational and thought provoking exploration into the purity of news. ( M/C Reviews, March 2010)

"Terhi Rantanen′s When News Was New is much more than a narrative of journalism history. This is an investigation into the very nature of journalism as it changes through the centuries." (Polis Journalism and Society, April 2009)

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.

Blurb

What is news, and why sell it? What is one buying when one buys news? Is it the objectivity of news that matters, or is it rather its newness, and the public s appetite for the latest scoop? If so, how is news made new?

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. Rantanen argues that the newness of news has been regularly reconstructed, and that news is mostly old stories made new. Reaching out from journalism and journalism studies, this book surveys the wider social implications of news.

From hawkers and ballad–mongers in the 1800s, to the current moment of blogging and pod–casting, where modern bloggers sing their stories alongside other performers, When News was New book tracks the evolution of the news, concluding that the era of pure news is over: the difference between news and new stories has again become blurred.