A Two-Sided History of the Media Article Review by Dafne

A Two-Sided History of the Media
A discussion and comparison of John Nerone's "Approaches to Media History. In: Angharad Valdivia (ed.), A Companion to Media Studies" and Asa Briggs and Peter Burke's "A Social History of the Media. From Gutenberg to the Internet."
# 115429 | 1,075 words | 2 sources | APA | 2009 | FR
Published on Jul 20, 2009 in Communication (Mass Media) , English (Analysis) , English (Comparison)


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This paper reviews two articles that discuss the history, theory and concepts of media culture. It examines John Nerone's "Approaches to Media History. In: Angharad Valdivia (ed.), A Companion to Media Studies" and Asa Briggs and Peter Burke's "A Social History of the Media. From Gutenberg to the Internet." The paper compares the opinions of the two texts.

From the Paper:

"Paradoxically as it may be the conclusion gives a whole new meaning as everything becomes clearer. There is no media history ,but there are different types of history that amounted together might deserve the right to be looked upon in a broader way and thus we can state their belonging to something bigger than what they really are. Media is a concept formed out of smaller particles, each of them owning their own history.
"One of the very interesting facts that I found in Nerone's text is how media development brought with it a mixture of social classes and how that brought about criticism. Media was now seen as a means of multiplying mediocrity instead of knowledge. The author invites us though not to look at these ideas as being elitist as they may seem when reading such an affirmation, but merely as disappointing conclusions of scholars who expected something else from this phenomenon."

Sample of Sources Used:

  • Nerone, John (2006) Approaches to Media History. In: Angharad Valdivia (ed.), A Companion to Media Studies (pp.93-114). Malden Ma.: Blackwell.
  • Briggs, Asa and Burke, Peter (2005) A Social History of the Media. From Gutenberg to the Internet (pp. 1-87). Cambridge: Polity Press.

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