Media and PowerMedia and Power addresses three key questions about the relationship between media and society. |
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... rise of parliament, the establishment of the rule of law, the erosion of monarchical power, the development of modern political parties and—in the final culmination of this teleological history—the introduction of mass democracy. The ...
... rise of the mass petition as a key instrument of politics in the second half. After 1771, newspapers were able to report the debates of parliament (previously a jailable offence). The press, concludes Bob Harris, 'was a major force ...
... rise of the press barons.12 However, if the centrepiece of the liberal narrative is lost from sight in studies of the press, it resurfaces in liberal histories of broadcasting where radio and television are portrayed as broadening and ...
... rise to neglected families, badly brought-up children, drunkenness and crime. A further, powerful conjunction was that of female domesticity and male pride. A real man, worthy of respect, could afford to keep his wife at home: an ...
... rise of the suffragette movement, with changes in economy. The shift from manufacturing to service industries in the ... rising proportion of women gained paid work and unprecedented economic independence. Traditional barriers to women's ...