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Informationen zum Autor Terhi Rantanen is Professor and Director of the Master's Proframme in Global Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has published extensively on global news and is the author of six books and more than fifty chapters and articles published in the UK, the USA, Austria, Finland, Russia, Sweden and Taiwan. Klappentext What is news, and why sell it? What is one buying when one buys news? Is it the 'objectivity' of news that matters, or is it rather its newness, and the public's appetite for the latest scoop? If so, how is news made new? When News was New investigates how news has re-invented itself at different historical moments--from medieval storytellers to 19th century telegraph news agencies to 21st century bloggers. Rantanen argues that the newness of news has been regularly reconstructed, and that news is mostly old stories made new. Reaching out from journalism and journalism studies, this book surveys the wider social implications of news. From hawkers and ballad-mongers in the 1800s, to the current moment of blogging and pod-casting, where modern bloggers 'sing' their stories alongside other performers, When News was New book tracks the evolution of the news, concluding that the era of 'pure' news is over: the difference between news and new stories has again become blurred. Zusammenfassung What makes news new? This book investigates how news has re-invented itself at different historical moments--from medieval storytellers to 19th century telegraph news agencies to 21st century bloggers. It reaches beyond traditional journalism studies to track the evolution of the news and survey its wider cultural and historical context. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures and Tables viii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: When News Was New x 1 Temporalization: How News Became New 1 2 Cosmopolitanization: An Older Phenomenon Than We Think 19 3 Globalization: When News Became Global 42 4 Commodifi cation: How To Sell News 58 5 Localization: Places in News 76 6 Nationalization: News and the Nation-states 92 7 Epilogue: Today Was Yesterday 112 Bibliography 133 Index 146 ...
