ISBN:
9780415880688
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (205 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Cultural History
Parallel Title:
Print version History of Participatory Media : Politics and Publics, 1750-2000
DDC:
302.2309
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book argues for a historical perspective on issues relating to the notion of participatory media. Working from a broad concept of media - including essays on the 19th century press, early sound media, photography, exhibitions, television and the internet - the book offers a broad empirical approach to different modes of audience participation from the mid 19th century to the present. Using the insights from the historical case studies, the book also explores some of the key concepts in discussions on the politics of participation, arguing for a theoretical perspective sensitive to the
Abstract:
This book argues for a historical perspective on issues relating to the notion of participatory media. Working from a broad concept of media - including essays on the 19th century press, early sound media, photography, exhibitions, television and the internet - the book offers a broad empirical approach to different modes of audience participation from the mid 19th century to the present. Using the insights from the historical case studies, the book also explores some of the key concepts in discussions on the politics of participation, arguing for a theoretical perspective sensitive to the asy
Description / Table of Contents:
History of Participatory Media Politics and Publics, 1750-2000; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Participatory Media in Historical Perspective: An Introduction; 2 From Enlightened Participation to Liberal Professionalism: On the Historiography of the Press as a Resource for Legitimacy; 3 Knowing Audiences, Knowing Media: Performing Publics at the Early Twentieth-Century Fun Fair; 4 Civic Media: City Exhibitions and the Visual Culture of Community, c. 1900; 5 Creating Audiences, Making Participants: The Cylinder Phonograph in Ethnographic Fieldwork
Description / Table of Contents:
6 The Interactivity of the Model Home7 Touring the Congo: Mobility and Materiality in Missionary Media; 8 Say Milk, Say Cheese! Inscribing Public Participation in the Photographic Archives of the National Milk Propaganda; 9 Daniel Ellsberg and the Lost Idea of the Photocopy; 10 Fetal Photography in the Age of Cool Media; 11 Expedition Robinson, Reality TV, and the History of the Social Experiment; 12 History on the Web: Museums, Digital Media, and Participation; Bibliography; Contributors; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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