This article will explore the ways in which the ‘new dailies’, the Mail, Express and Mirror, used visual content to report on the four general elections that occurred between their emergence during the early 20th century and the outbreak of global war in 1914. Existing scholarship has explored how these founders of the ‘tabloid century’ became prominent components of British culture, but little exists of their pre-Great War political significance. The article contends that the visual content of these newspapers represented a vibrant and important new form of mass political communication and an important part of the broader mass political culture of the period. Their coverage of election light shows, and cartoon election ‘races’, evoked much of their better-known ‘human-interest’ news content which had made them so commercially successful. Drawing on recent work of the popular political culture of the period, the article further contends that these newspapers’ visual political news also contributed to, and drew influence from, the wider mass culture of pre-Great War Britain in order to articulate political news in ways which were exciting and accessible to their millions of readers. The new dailies therefore helped to democratise political news through entertaining visual connections to British popular culture, which appealed successfully to mass lower-class readerships historically overlooked by traditional methods of political newspaper reporting and better included them within the vibrant, visual political culture of pre-war Britain.

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飞跃和灯光秀：爱德华时代大众出版社的视觉政治，1900-10

本文将探讨“新日报”、邮件、快递和镜子的方式，使用视觉内容报道了从 20 世纪初出现到 1914 年全球战争爆发之间发生的四次大选。现有的学术研究探索了这些“小报世纪”的创始人如何成为英国文化的重要组成部分，但它们在大战前的政治意义几乎不存在。文章认为，这些报纸的视觉内容代表了一种充满活力和重要的大众政治传播新形式，是那个时期更广泛的大众政治文化的重要组成部分。他们对选举灯光秀和卡通选举“种族”的报道，唤起了他们众所周知的“人类利益”新闻内容，这使他们在商业上如此成功。借鉴该时期流行政治文化的近期作品，这篇文章进一步认为，这些报纸的视觉政治新闻也对战前英国更广泛的大众文化做出了贡献并从中汲取了影响，以便以令人兴奋且为数百万读者所接受的方式表达政治新闻。因此，新日报通过娱乐性与英国流行文化的视觉联系帮助政治新闻民主化，这成功地吸引了历史上被传统政治报纸报道方法所忽视的大众下层读者，并更好地将他们纳入了充满活力、视觉化的前政治文化中。战争英国。战前英国更广泛的大众文化，以便以数百万读者令人兴奋和易于理解的方式表达政治新闻。因此，新日报通过娱乐性与英国流行文化的视觉联系帮助政治新闻民主化，这成功地吸引了历史上被传统政治报纸报道方法所忽视的大众下层读者，并更好地将他们纳入了充满活力、视觉化的前政治文化中。战争英国。战前英国更广泛的大众文化，以便以数百万读者令人兴奋和易于理解的方式表达政治新闻。因此，新日报通过娱乐性与英国流行文化的视觉联系帮助政治新闻民主化，这成功地吸引了历史上被传统政治报纸报道方法所忽视的大众下层读者，并更好地将他们纳入了充满活力、视觉化的前政治文化中。战争英国。