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Powers of the Press - Newspapers, Power and the Public in Nineteenth-Century England (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Powers of the Press - Newspapers, Power and the Public in Nineteenth-Century England (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: The Nineteenth Century Series
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The power of the popular press presents all modern societies with
difficulties. It is, however, a problem with a history: the hold of
the press over public opinion was debated with urgency throughout
the 19th century. This book looks at the ways in which individuals,
pressure groups, political organisations and the state sought to
understand the mass communications media of the 19th century, and
use them to influence public opinion and effect moral and social
reform. Aled Jones addresses the problem by using three approaches:
first he considers the 19th century theories of the influence of
communications media on patterns of social thought and behaviour;
then he examines attitudes towards the press in both high and
popular culture; finally he explores the social and intellectual
world of the reader, the consumer both of the press as a commodity
and of the hidden moral strategies that were built into it. The
tensions between Victorian moral imperatives and the operation of
the free commercial market raised issues of great public concern,
such as whether the mass media should be under private or public
control. These tensions have dominated the way in which Britain and
other western societies have thought about the newer broadcasting
media, but their origins are older and more complex than studies of
contemporary media acknowledge.
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