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This edited collection brings together a range of contemporary expertise to discuss the development and impact of tabloid news around the world.
List of contents
- Tabloid culture: Parameters and debates
Martin Conboy
- Digital impacts on the tabloid sphere: Blurring and diffusion of a popular form and its power
Scott A. Eldridge II
- 'Tabloidization' in the Internet age
Julia Lefkowitz
- Is Facebook driving tabloidization?: A cross-channel comparison of two German newspapers
Melanie Magin, Miriam Steiner, Andrea Häuptli, Birgit Stark and Linards Udris
- Tabloids in Zimbabwe: A moral-ethical research agenda
Khulekani Ndlovu
- Trivializing entertainment news in India: Elements of tabloidization in the news coverage of Bollywood celebrities
Sreedevi Purayannur
- Tabloid and populist sensitivities in Denmark
Henrik Bødker
- Recent shifts in the Australian tabloid landscape: Fissures and new formations
Stephen Harrington
- The post-communist "hybrid" tabloid: Between the serious and the "yellow"
Lada Trifonova Price
- From baby bumps to border walls: Celebrity gossip magazines and the post-truth politic
Andrea McDonnell
- Dispatches from la Crónica Roja: Why sensationalism and crime still matter in the new Latin America media ecology
Marcela F. Pizarro and Jairo Lugo-Ocando
- The rise and fall of tabloid journalism in post-Mao China: Ideology, the market, and the new media revolution
Chengju Huang
- Reclaiming and tabloidizing "truth" in Turkey
Mine Gencel Bek
About the author
Martin Conboy is Emeritus
Professor of Journalism History and the co-director of the Centre for the Study of Journalism and History at the University of Sheffield. He has produced ten books on the language and history of journalism. Specific to this project he wrote
Tabloid Britain (2006) and with Professor Adrian Bingham
Tabloid Century (2015). His 2002 book
The Press and Popular Culture has recently been translated into Czech with a new introduction. He is on the editorial boards of
Journalism Studies;
Media History;
Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism; and
Memory Studies.
Scott A. Eldridge II, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen. His research addresses digital journalism and the changing journalistic field, focusing on antagonistic journalistic actors. He is the author of numerous studies on these changes, including
Online Journalism from the Periphery: Interloper Media and the Journalistic Field (2018), and is co-editor with Bob Franklin of
The Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies (2019) and
The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies (2017). He is an associate editor for the journal
Digital Journalism.
Summary
This edited collection brings together a range of contemporary expertise to discuss the development and impact of tabloid news around the world.
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"This book brings together a rich array of perspectives on tabloid culture. With examples gathered from around the world, and perspectives ranging from the ethical to the political and technological, located within a variety of social settings and economic systems, this collection is set to become a standard reference point for students of this much-maligned yet perennially influential cultural form" - Herman Wasserman, University of Cape Town, Author of Tabloid Journalism in South Africa – True Story!
