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Locating Medical Television Media History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Tricia Close-Koenig, Lukas Herde, Alex Mold, Philipp Stiasny
Medical television programmes, across their history, have had specific relationships to places and spaces. On one level, they have represented medical and health places, such as, consulting rooms, ...
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‘I cannot give the name of the source to the court’ Media History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Kevin Rafter
This article examines the case of the first Irish journalist to be imprisoned for refusing to reveal his sources. In his capacity as political correspondent with the Irish Press, Joseph Dennigan (1...
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The Broadcasted Operating Room Early Medical Television as a Telemedicine Device in the United States, 1939–1960 Media History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-29 Laura Niebling
This article examines the role of medical television in surgical procedures in the United States from 1939 to 1960. It reads medical television within the history of telemedicine and its infrastruc...
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Enlivening Wit Media History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Andrea Lombardinilo
The birth of such innovative newspapers as The Tatler and The Spectator enables the readers to observe and join the public debate through a new intellectual lens. The use of Latin epigrams opening ...
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The Inconspicuous Epidemic: Spanish Flu Discourse in National Newspapers of Soviet Russia (1918–1919) Media History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Petr Gulenko
This research investigates the discourse of the so-called ‘Spanish flu’ in the national Soviet newspapers Pravda (Truth) and Izvestia (News) during the epidemic period of 1918–1919. Our analysis re...
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Reporting Kalgoorlie and Broken Hill Prostitution 1896–1903 Media History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-15 Belinda Beattie
At the time of Federation (1901), Kalgoorlie, (Western Australia), and Broken Hill (New South Wales) promoted themselves as civilized and respectable living communities now that mining had become a...
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Crimean War to Empire’s Fall: The English Periodicals of Late Ottoman Capital Media History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-15 Burhan Çağlar
This study investigates the impact of English-language periodicals in the Ottoman Empire from the mid-19th to early 20th centuries, offering an overview of their inception, development, varied cont...
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Sketched with an ‘Oracular Pencil’: Predictive Drawing and the Manipulation of Time in Nineteenth-century Illustrated Weeklies Media History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 Petra S. McGillen
Pictorial journalism in the latter nineteenth century faced a temporal conundrum: whereas words could travel by telegraph and hence at the speed of electricity, the accompanying illustrations had t...
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Colombian Television in the 1980S Media History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 Carlos Gutiérrez-González, Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed
This article examines the claims that the unique public-private television system of the 1980s provided space for the development of a national sense of community-based on common narratives and dec...
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British-Chilean Newspapers: from Informal Empire to Hybridity in Print Media History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Jennifer Hayward, Michelle Prain-Brice
This article situates the Anglophone newspapers published in nineteenth-century Valparaíso, Chile, within global information networks, highlighting Valparaíso's role as an influential hub in the de...
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A FEMALE JOURNALIST REPORTER IN 1930s PALESTINE: DOROTHY KAHN BAR-ADON AND THE PALESTINE POST Media History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Ouzi Elyada
The article follows the footsteps of the American Jewish newspaperwoman Dorothy Kahn Bar-Adon, who immigrated to Palestine in 1933 and became a central field reporter of the most important English-...
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News Over Five Millennia: News Reporters, Historians, Messengers and Dramatists Media History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Martin Conboy
Published in Media History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Activating Displaced Radio Archives: The German ‘Loot Collection’ (Kořistní Fond) At Czech Radio Media History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Erica Harrison
This paper examines the obstacles to studying and using displaced radio archives, taking as a case study a collection of historic recordings from Nazi Germany that is held at the Czech Radio archiv...
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Censored: Examining the Standards, Personnel, and Censorship Technology in the Soviet Military Press, 1944–1945 Media History (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Diana Lemberg
Published in Media History (Vol. 30, No. 2, 2024)
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News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications 1900-1945, Media History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Heidi J.S. Tworek
Published in Media History (Vol. 30, No. 2, 2024)
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News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications 1900–1945 Media History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Tom O’Malley
Published in Media History (Vol. 30, No. 2, 2024)
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News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications 1900–1945 Media History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Jochen Hung
Published in Media History (Vol. 30, No. 2, 2024)
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Australian Newspaper Framing of the 1905 Papua Act Media History (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Marguérite Corporaal
Published in Media History (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2023)
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Radio Towers Media History (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) 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 (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Michael Harris
Published in Media History (Vol. 28, No. 3, 2022)