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News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications 1900-1945 Media History Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Diana Lemberg
Published in Media History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Censored: Examining the Standards, Personnel, and Censorship Technology in the Soviet Military Press, 1944–1945 Media History Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Alemzhan Arinov, Bereket Karibaev
This article examines one of the areas of activity for restriction of information – the system of military censorship in the Soviet military press: what remained unchanged and what was transformed ...
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News from Germany. The Competition to Control World Communications 1900-1945 Media History Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Heidi J.S. Tworek
Published in Media History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Roundtable: News from Germany. The Competition to Control World Communications 1900–1945 Media History Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Tom O’Malley
Published in Media History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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News from Germany. The Competition to Control World Communications 1900–1945 Media History Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Jochen Hung
Published in Media History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Australian Newspaper Framing of the 1905 Papua Act Media History Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Belinda Beattie
Australian newspapers detailed the progress of the Papua Act (1905) through the early Australian Federal Parliaments. This article explores this reporting in two leading newspapers of the time: Mel...
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The Making of Imperial Public Sphere on Portuguese Colonialism Media History Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Isadora de Ataíde Fonseca
This article explores the concept of the Imperial Public Sphere (IPS) in the Portuguese empire as a space for confrontation and negotiation within the framework of nineteenth and twentieth-century ...
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Containing Gender Outlaws, Stigmatizing the Left Media History Pub Date : 2024-02-01 W.J. Berridge
This article analyses the formation of cisgenderist and transphobic discourses in the reporting of the Daily Mail during the Thatcher era (1979-1990). It explores the emergence of a discursive stra...
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Post-war Anglo-Irish Relations Media History Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Hanako Ishikawa
This paper explores how the broadcasts delivered by Winston Churchill on 13 May 1945 and Éamon de Valera on 17 May 1945 were portrayed in the Irish press between May and August of that year. Specif...
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Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians? Reflections on Tools, Methods and Epistemology Media History Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Thomas Smits
Published in Media History (Vol. 30, No. 1, 2024)
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Familiarity and Fear Media History Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Francine Tyler, F. Elizabeth Gray, Catherine Strong
Research into historic media coverage of child-homicide cases in New Zealand between 1870 and 1930 reveals that giving prominence to the murderer, rather than the victim, was a long-standing and co...
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British Projection in Spain During the World Wars Media History Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Marta García Cabrera
During the First and the Second World War, the international powers mobilised propaganda machinery that was employed to control the public opinion on allied, enemy, and neutral countries, such as S...
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British Photographic Propaganda in World War II Media History Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Ali A. Dashti, Yasser A. Abdelrahim, Ahmad A. Dashti, Ali A. Al-Kandari, John Hayes
The study of an Arabic newspaper published by the British during World War II shows how photographs played an important role in the propaganda campaign to gain Arab support in the Middle East. Whil...
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The Messenger is the Medium Media History Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Fredrik Stiernstedt, Anne Kaun
In this article, we explore the history of Swedish newspaper carriers through the lens of the union struggles within the Swedish Transport Workers’ Union. This focus allows us to make visible the i...
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The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons who Enabled Hitler Media History Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Wesley Kirkpatrick
Published in Media History (Vol. 29, No. 4, 2023)
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Selecting and Editing of Readers’ Letters in the Late 19th-Century Finnish Press Media History Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Satu Sorvali
This article shows that readers’ letters were selected and edited in late 19th-century Finnish newspapers for a variety of reasons. The criteria for selection and editing fit the four rules identif...
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Excavating the English-Language Press in the Ottoman Empire (1841–1923) Editors, State Actors, Readers Media History Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Stéphanie Prévost
The English-language press in the Ottoman Empire was long thought near inexistent. While this article acknowledges that most English-language press titles in that country were few compared to the F...
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Culinary Education, Food and the Tv Studio Kitchen in the 1950s French Children’s Cooking Show Le Goûter Media History Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Amélie Kratz
Drawing on the example of the French children’s cooking show Le Goûter (RTF, 1957–1958), this article examines the role of television in making cooking a question of public education for children. ...
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Before The War on Cancer Media History Pub Date : 2023-11-03 David Cantor
This paper explores how gangsters and cancers came to be metaphors of bodily and social disorder, beginning in a media world dominated by print, radio and film and ending in a world where televisio...
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Views from West Africa Media History Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Kevin E. Grimm
In the 1950s, many Ghanaians identified with African Americans as they read about events involving American racial violence in Ghanaian newspapers. Yet the transnational connections appearing in th...
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Michael Harris Media History Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Tom O'Malley
Published in Media History (Vol. 29, No. 4, 2023)
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Electric News in Colonial Algeria Media History Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Amelia Bonea
Published in Media History (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2023)
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Roundtable: Electric News in Colonial Algeria Media History Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Arthur Asseraf
Published in Media History (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2023)
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Electric News in Colonial Algeria Media History Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Thomas Smits
Published in Media History (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2023)
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Electric News in Colonial Algeria Media History Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Alejandra Bronfman
Published in Media History (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2023)
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‘The Long, Continued Dry’ Media History Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Karen Twigg, Lawrie Zion, Linden Ashcroft
Droughts are a canonical feature of Australian history and climate, and Australia’s paleoclimate and colonial past is dotted with extended periods of low rainfall. The Federation Drought was one su...
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Michael Harris 1938–2022 Media History Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Tom O’Malley
Published in Media History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Free Press, Regulated Competition Media History Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Elina Kuorelahti, Niklas Jensen-Eriksen
This paper examines newspaper cartels, a largely unoccupied field in media history, from the perspective of longevity. We analyse Finnish newspaper industry from the 1910s to 1970s and show that ne...
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Roundtable: The European Illustrated Press and the Emergence of a Transnational Visual News Culture, 1842-1870 Media History Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Peter W. Sinnema
Published in Media History (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2023)
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Roundtable: The European Illustrated Press And The Emergence Of A Transnational Visual News Culture, 1842–1870 Media History Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Thomas Smits
Published in Media History (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2023)
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Roundtable: The European Illustrated Press and the Emergence of a Transnational Visual News Culture, 1842-1870 Media History Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Michael de Nie
Published in Media History (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2023)
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Roundtable: The European Illustrated Press and the Emergence of a Transnational Visual News Culture, 1842–1870 Media History Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Marguérite Corporaal
Published in Media History (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2023)
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Radio Towers Media History Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Scott Koga-Browes
Between 1930 and 1943 over 400 public radio receiver installations were erected by Japan’s national broadcaster in public parks around Japan. They were intended to bring radio broadcasting, during ...
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Media Pluralism in Latvia 2002–2020 Media History Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Elza Ungure
This paper offers an overview of specific characteristics of newspaper output and publishing trends in Latvia, aiming to assess whether the newspaper output in Latvia plays the roles theoretically ...
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Colonial Fantasies Media History Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Åsa Bharathi Larsson
This article explores exotic and orientalized motifs in the Swedish illustrated press at the end of the nineteenth century. I argue that one way to be part of the European colonial project was to e...
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Language Matters Media History Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Gioula Koutsopanagou
This essay unravels the ‘language choice’ through another parameter—specifically, that which concerns journalistic language in the presentation of news. It observes in the pages of London’s The Times—the newspaper with the larger circulation in Britain—the different ways in which their correspondents on the ground presented the Thessaly uprising of January 1878, one of revolts that occurred in various
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Sound and Literature Media History Pub Date : 2023-03-11 Matthew Rubery
Published in Media History (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2023)
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Crying Faces or Brain Scans? Media History Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Jerome Bourdon
This article explores the representation of the human body on television, and specifically on medical television, in the longue durée. It demonstrates that, from its inception, television embraced a new naturalist ontology, inaugurated in early modern Europe, whereby the human body shares with its surroundings the same physical nature but is endowed with a unique spiritual interiority. The article
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‘Absolutely Delighted’ Media History Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Richard Jones
Reporting on crime and the courts are among the classic functions of journalism. In the UK, journalists and others must abide by the Contempt of Court Act 1981, the main piece of primary legislatio...
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Suicide Reporting in the Nineteenth Century Media History Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Manina Mestas, Florian Arendt
During the nineteenth century, suicide rates rose substantially in many countries, including the geographic region of the present state of Austria. Sensational news reporting about suicides may have contributed to this rise by eliciting so-called copycat suicides, a phenomenon termed the ‘Werther effect.’ We conducted a large-scale content analysis of nineteenth-century suicide reporting (N = 14,638)
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Lajos Kossuth and the Transnational News Media History Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Jana Keck, Mila Oiva, Paul Fyfe
The scale of newspaper digitization and emergence of computational research methods has opened new opportunities for scholarship on the history of the press–as well as a new set of problems. Those problems compound for research that spans national as well as linguistic contexts. This article offers a novel methodological approach for confronting these challenges by synthesizing computational with conventional
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Roundtable: Wireless Internationalism and Distant Listening: Britain, Propaganda, and the Invention of Global Radio, 1920-1939 Media History Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Simon J. Potter
Published in Media History (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2022)
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Roundtable: Wireless Internationalism and Distant Listening: Britain, Propaganda, and the Invention of Global Radio, 1920–1939 Media History Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Arthur Asseraf
Published in Media History (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2022)
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Roundtable: Wireless Internationalism and Distant Listening: Britain, Propaganda, and the Invention of Global Radio, 1920–1939 Media History Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Christina Baade
Published in Media History (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2022)
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Roundtable: Wireless Internationalism and Distant Listening: Britain, Propaganda, and the Invention of Global Radio, 1920–1939 Media History Pub Date : 2022-11-11 David Clayton
Published in Media History (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2022)
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Breaking New Ground Media History Pub Date : 2022-08-14 Hélène Maloigne
This article explores archaeological programmes on the BBC between 1922 and 1939 through an entangled approach to broadcast and printed talks. Supported by archival sources and programme schedules in The Radio Times and The Listener, it focuses on the intertwined archaeological, broadcasting and publishing careers of Charles Leonard Woolley based on his excavation at Ur in southern Iraq. This highlights
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Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork Media History Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Michael Harris
Published in Media History (Vol. 28, No. 3, 2022)
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Empire News: The Anglo-Indian Press Writes India / The Spread of Print in Colonial India: Into the Hinterland Media History Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Clare Pettitt
Published in Media History (Vol. 28, No. 3, 2022)
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Rise and Demise of the Zimbabwe Times Media History Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Brooks Marmon
This article explores the emergence and destruction of the Zimbabwe Times, a weekly, later daily newspaper in Rhodesia. Covertly aligned to the Patriotic Front, an uneasy coalition of Zimbabwe’s two leading liberation movements, it primarily backed Joshua Nkomo’s ZAPU. Financed by Lonrho, a London-based conglomerate, this nationalist friendly title dramatically altered Rhodesia’s media landscape. The
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Reflecting on a painful Past Media History Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Kristy Hess, Kerry McCallum
This study examines the role of a local newspaper in shaping a community’s collective memory of child sexual abuse by documenting changing representations of a former rural orphanage and its custodians where such horrific crimes took place. The paper conducts an across-time analysis of news coverage (1944–1954 and 2010–2020) to map these changing representations in their media, policy and social contexts
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The Development of Commercial Literacy Media History Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Charlotte Nilsson
This article examines the role of Swedish mail-order catalogues in the everyday life of the early twentieth century, and in the development of consumer culture. The study deals with the materiality, content and distribution of the mail-order catalogues as well as their use in everyday life. The case of Åhlén & Holm, a major Swedish mail-order company, and its audience is relevant beyond the national
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Russel Ward on Staniforth Smith Media History Pub Date : 2022-05-27 Belinda Beattie
Russel Ward claimed that Miles ‘Staniforth Smith, a radical Protectionist, who later joined the Labor Party, was perhaps the most rabidly racist member of either House’11 Ward, A Nation for a Continent, 31–32. of the first parliament. It has gone unchallenged in the literature, a case of sans aucun doubte.22 Translated as ‘without a doubt’ or nothing to doubt about. This article inquiries into the
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Indonesian English-language Magazine Reports on the British Occupation of Indonesia Media History Pub Date : 2022-05-26 Muhammad Yuanda Zara
This study explores how an English-language magazine affiliated with the Indonesian government, The Voice of Free Indonesia (TVFI), conveyed to foreigners Indonesia’s views of the British occupation in Indonesia in October–December 1945. By using historical method, this study argues that for TVFI providing Indonesia’s perspectives to global readers was crucial for Indonesia’s struggle for maintaining
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Modeling Media History Media History Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Pelle Snickars
In an explorative manner, this article uses a data-driven digital history set-up to focus on media political issues in Sweden during the second half of the twentieth century. By distant reading and topic modeling a dataset of 3100 Swedish Government Official Reports between 1945 and 1989—a corpus of some 87 million tokens—the article gives a new perspective of how the Swedish state examined and discussed
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From the Comics Strip to the Airwaves Media History Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Richard Legay, Jessica Burton
Thought as a case study illustrating the connections between comics (bandes dessinées) and radio, this article analyses the short-lived radio show ‘Le Feu de camp du dimanche matin’ (Sunday Morning Campfire). It aired for 13 episodes in 1969 on the waves of Europe n°1 and was presented by members of the comics magazine Pilote. This article is based on the two surviving episodes and a few issues of
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Stillness and Motion on the Coffee Table Media History Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Amy Elizabeth Borden
My research suggests that in addition to local practices, American film historians should continue to be attentive to mass experiences determined not only by location but, in this case, by 19th century periodical reading habits. I focus on the first four years of US public photochemical motion picture exhibition to consider the similarities I found in the use of still photographs to explain and introduce
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A Clash of Ideals Media History Pub Date : 2022-05-21 Emil Stjernholm
In 1969, a government report concluded that there was a need for closer contact between the citizens and Swedish government agencies. Television, at this time still considered a new medium, was highlighted in the report as a valuable form of mass communication with great yet unfulfilled promise as a disseminator of government information. A heated debate about the role and function of government information
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A Partition of The Public Sphere Media History Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Aritra Majumdar
Historians of Partition have focused upon the bitterly polarized yet vibrant public sphere of the last days of the British Raj, wherein newspapers representing Congress, Muslim League and Akali opinion vied for influence through increasingly hostile propaganda targeted at the ‘other/s’. Such studies’ focus on ideological battles and propaganda results in relatively less attention being given to what
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Shielding Democracy Media History Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Christopher D. Tulloch
The role of the international press as an external contributing agent to the consolidation of democratic regime change within emerging democracies is a growing research area within the field of media history and political communication. Within the context of these press/power dynamics, this article analyses the intense coverage made by the influential transatlantic weekly magazines, Time, Newsweek
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The Making of a Media Category Media History Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Colette Colligan
As early as the late eighteenth century, there were English-language periodicals published from Paris. But it was only at the end of the nineteenth century, when well-capitalised American periodicals began to be launched from the city, that a transnational English-language press in the city began to develop into a distinctive media category. This essay examines the activities surrounding these periodicals