The Routledge companion to British media history / edited by Martin Conboy and John Steel ; with editorial assistance from Scott Eldridge II.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

British media and mediations of the past / Martin Conboy and John Steel -- pt. 1: Media history debates -- The devaluation of history in media studies / Michael Pickering -- Media products as historical artefacts / Adrian Bingham -- Doing media history: the mass media, historical analysis and the 1930s / Kevin Williams -- Media studies in question: the making of a contested formation / Graham Murdock and Peter Golding -- Media archaeology: from Turing to Abbey Road, Kentish radar stations to Bletchley Park / Jussi Parikka -- pt. 2: Media and society -- The political economy of media / Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb -- Historicizing the media effects debate / Theresa Cronin -- Citizen or consumer? Representations of class in post-war British media / Mick Temple -- Inscriptions and depictions of 'race' / Daniel Kilvington and Amir Saeed -- Home comforts? Gender, media and the family / Jilly Boyce Kay and Kaitlynn Mendes -- Sex and sexuality in British media / Clarissa Smith -- This sporting 'life-world': mediating sport in Britiain / John Steel -- Social conflict and the media: contesting definitional power / Jonathan Cable -- The media and armed conflict / Philip Hammond -- pt. 3: Newspapers -- Ballads and the development of the English newsbook / Marcus Nevitt -- Eighteenth-century newspapers and public opinion / Victoria E. M. Gardner -- The nineteenth century and the emergence of a mass circulation press / Joel H. Wiener -- Tabloid culture: the political economy of a newspaper style / Martin Conboy -- The regulation of the press / Tom O'Malley -- The provincial press in England: an overview: Rachel Matthews -- Online and on death row: historicizing newspapers in crisis / Tim Luckhurst -- pt. 4: Magazines -- The role of the literary and cultural periodical / David Finkelstein -- Specialist magazines as communities of taste / Tim Holmes and Jane Bentley -- Contexts and developments in women's magazines / Deborah Chambers -- Mapping the male in magazines / Bill Osgerby -- Magazine pioneers: form and content in 1960s and 1970s radicalism / Andrew Calcutt -- pt. 5: Radio -- The Reithian legacy and contemporary public service ethos / Sián Nicholas -- Pirates, popularity and the rise of the DJ / Richard Rudin -- Breaking the sound barrier: histories and practices of women's radio -- Radio drama / Hugh Chignell -- Radio sports news: the longevity and influence of 'sports report' / Richard Haynes -- Radio's audiences / Guy Starkey -- pt. 6: Film -- The British cinema: eras of film / Tom Ryall -- British cinema and history / James Chapman -- 'The horror!' / Matt Hills -- The documentary tradition / Peter Lee-Wright -- The censor's tools / Julian Petley -- pt. 7: Television -- The television sitcom / Brett Mills -- Drama on the box / Lez Cooke -- The origins and practice of science on British television / Timothy Boon and Jean-Baptiste Gouyon -- History on television / Ann Gray -- 'Reality TV' / Su Holmes -- Journalism and current affairs / Stephen Cushion -- pt. 8: Digital media -- Technology's false dawns: the past of media futures / Lily Canter -- Change and continuity: historicizing the emergence of online media / Scott Eldridge II -- Personal listening pleasures / Tim Wall and Nick Webber -- Futures of television / John Corner -- Video games and gaming: the audience fights back / Tristan Donovan -- From letters to tweeters: media communities of opinion / Karin Wahl-Jorgensen -- Digital memories and media of the future / Joanne Garde-Hansen.

The Routledge Companion to British Media History provides a comprehensive exploration of how different media have evolved within social, regional and national contexts. The 50 chapters in this volume, written by an outstanding team of internationally respected scholars, bring together current debates and issues within media history in this era of rapid change, and also provide students and researchers with an essential collection of comparable media histories. The Routledge Companion to British Media History provides an essential guide to key ideas, issues, concepts and debates in the field.