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Power Without Responsibility attacks the conventional history of the press as a story of progress; offers a critical defence and history of public service broadcasting; provides a myth-busting account of the internet; a subtle account of the impact of social media and explores key debates about the role and politics of media.
List of contents
PART IPress history JAMES CURRAN
1. Press history as political mythology
2. The struggle for a free press
3. Janus face of reform
4. Industrialisation of the press
5. Era of the press barons
6. Press under public regulation
7. Post-war press: fable of progress
8. Press and the remaking of Britain
9. Moral decline of the press
PART IIBroadcasting history JEAN SEATON
10. Reith and the denial of politics
11. Broadcasting and the Blitz
12. Public service commerce: ITV, new audiences and new revenue
13. Foreign affairs: the BBC, the world and the government
14. Class, taste and profit
15. Managers, regulators and broadcasters
16. Public service under attack
17. Broadcasting roller-coaster
PART IIIRise of new media 18. New media in Britain
JAMES CURRAN
19. History of the internet
JAMES CURRAN
20. Sociology of the internet
JAMES CURRAN
21. Social media: making new societies or polarisation merchants?
JEAN SEATON
PART IVTheories of the media JEAN SEATON
22. Metabolising Britishness
23. Public service understanding: moonshot time for the BBC and public service broadcasting
24. Broadcasting and the theory of public service
PART VPolitics of the media 25. Industrial folklore and press reform
JAMES CURRAN
26. Contradictions in media policy
JAMES CURRAN AND JEAN SEATON
27. Media reform: democratic choices
JAMES CURRAN
About the author
James Curran is Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Jean Seaton is Professor of Media History at the University of Westminster, Director of the Orwell Foundation and Co-Director of the Chevening South Asia Journalism Fellowship programme.
Summary
Power Without Responsibility attacks the conventional history of the press as a story of progress; offers a critical defence and history of public service broadcasting; provides a myth-busting account of the internet; a subtle account of the impact of social media and explores key debates about the role and politics of media.
