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Now available in five volumes, Asa Briggs' History of British Broadcasting in the UK provides an exhaustive chronicle of the BBC's activities, achievements, and personnel - from the early days of wireless broadcasting and the Corporation's foundation, through its establishement as a part of home life and role in the Second World War, to the end of its monopoly and attempts to reflect the needs of a changing society.

Competition, the lastest volume in Asa Briggs' monumental history, covers a period of 20 years, from the end of the BBC's monopoly in 1955 to the mid 1970s and the volumes it looks at the history of the BBC in an age of competition, so inevitably contains much fascinating material on the `independent' radio and television companies as well as the BBC. There are chapters on the reporting of the Suez Crisis, the Pilkington Committee, the governorship of Hugh Greene (the man Mary Whitehouse said was `responsible for the collapse which characterized the sixties and seventies'), Radio Piracy, the introduction of new technologies, and the BBC Jubilee. ... Read more

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This is the first part of a five-volume history of broadcasting in the UK.Together the volumes give an authoritative account of the rise of broadcasting in this country. Though naturally largely concerned with the BBC it does give a general history of broadcasting, not simply an institutional history of the BBC.

The Birth of Broadcasting covers early amateur experiments in wireless telephony in America and in England, the pioneer days at Writtle in Essex and elsewhere, and the coming of organized broadcasting and its rapid growth during the first four years of the BBC's existence as a private Company before it becamea public Corporation in January 1927. Briggs describes how and why the Company was formed, the scope of its activities and the reasons which led to its conversion from a business enterprise into a national institution.

The issues raised between 1923 and 1927 remain pertinent today. The hard bargaining between the Post Office, private wireless interests, and the emergent British Broadcsting Company is discussed in illuminating details, together with the remarkable opposition with which the Company had to contend in its early days. Many sections of the opposition, including a powerful section of the press, seemed able to conceive of broadcasting only as competing with their own interests, never as complementing or enlarging them.One of the main themes of this volume is that of the gradual forging of the instruments of public control, and particular attention is paid to the Crawford Report (1926) from which the Corporation arose.During this period all the characteristics of the Corporation first appeared - particularly its reputation for publc service and impartiality.

Briggs also examines the background of wireless as an invention and considers its impact on society.He has much to say about personalities and programmes as well as policies. ... Read more

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This guide to sources of information on broadcasting in the UK. It gives a chronology of all the important events in the history of broadcasting in the UK since 1896. Explains the legislative and constitutional framework of British broadcasting, provides a guide to reference and research materials, and includes a directory of archives, libraries and museums essential for research in broadcasting. ... Read more

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This is the second part of a projected four-volume history of broadcasting in the United Kingdom.

This volume covers the period from the beginning of 1927, when the BBC ceased to be a private company and became a public corporation, up to the outbreak of war in 1939.The acceptance of wireless as a part of the homely background of life and the acceptance of the BBC as the `natural' institution for controlling it distinguish this period from that covered in the earlier volume.From 1927 to 1939 the system of public control which had evolved from the early struggles was never seriously in jeopardy and the one big official inquiry, the Ullswater Report, favoured no major constitutional changes.The main theme of the second volume, therefore, may be called the extension and the enrichment of the activity of broadcasting.Different chapters deal with the programmes and programme-makers; the listeners and the ways in which their needs were (or were not) met as the system expanded; public attitudes to the BBC and the increasing complexity of its control and organization; the coming of television and the early experiments of Baird and others; and the retirement of Sir John Reith - not only the end of a regime but the end of an era. The volume ends with preparations for war. ... Read more

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UK Telecommunication Industry Business Opportunities Handbook ... Read more

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In a world where anyone can become a media producer, everyone should know something about media law – both to protect their own rights and to avoid violating the rights of others.  Digital Media Law is the first media law text to respond to digitalization and globalization--the two most significant agents of change in the 21st century. 

• The first book to explain how media law has evolved to meet the challenges posed by digital media, providing an introduction to all areas of digital media law and its overlap with traditional media law 
• Covers areas such as Internet publishing, file sharing, satellite radio and cellular phone broadcasts
• Features explanations of traditional communication law concepts, illustrated with modern cases related to digital media that students know and use
• Expanded treatments are given to particularly interesting issues, cases, law projects, treaties, and litigants, etc.
• Accompanying website with ancillaries and updates on legal topics related to digital media

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Proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop held September 8-9, 2001 in Manchester, UK. A wide range of subjects were covered, from media production to content processing and delivery, with a special focus on issues related to interactive video environments. Softcover. ... Read more

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The past three decades have seen the rapid and vibrant growth of video art in Britain, but there has been little detailed analysis or critical recognition of this work. This book attempts to redress this imbalance by bringing together a collection of essays that discuss various aspects of British video art within a range of frameworks-historical, theoretical, critical, and chronological. The essays deal with topics such as television interventions, video installation, feminist video work, video art criticism, and computer animation. ... Read more

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1812 edition published in London. ... Read more

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1849 edition published in London. ... Read more

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1897 edition by Butterworth & Co., London. ... Read more

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Exploring the contribution that television can make to a child's understanding of the world, this book argues fiercely against the attempts of psychologists to explain complex social issues in individualistic terms. The findings of a new research method developed especially for this study, in which groups of schoolchildren were given video equipment to facilitate their making original video productions, are presented. Taking the environment as their focus, the videos suggest that the children's views of both environmental issues and the mass media are complex and contradictory.

Customer Reviews (2)

Critical Theory perspectives on Environmental Politics/Comm
In an even-handed examination of how mass media forms the boundaries of environmental issues, David Guantlett, with skill and clarity maneuvers through potentially difficult and theory-ladden "critical theory," incorporating a Herman/Chomsky (Manufacturing Consent) edge, examining the way television affects the way audiences frame the incredibly complicated and inter-penetrating social issues of environmental problems. Guantlett is not so much interested in whether the mass media is culpable of intensionally ignoring or avoiding environmental issues. Instead he discovers through a creative study that children audiences have internalized environmental problems and their solutions in a one-dimensional "narrative": the problem has been created by individuals and is to be then solved by individuals. So what's the problem with that? It seems clear enough that if there are environmental problems, they are nothing more that an accumulation and combination of individual lifestyle choices and subsequent actions. Right? Not so fast. Within this "individualistic" problem/solution framework, how do we account for and address instances of polluting industries that fall within government and legal regulations? Moreover, how do we address the environmentally problematic social institutions, such as the wide-spread car-centered transportation rubrics through an "individual" problem/solution framework? Is there not an equally complicit socio-political aspect to environmental issues? And why is this aspect, the environmentally comprimising social institutions, missing withing environmental news coverage? Guantlett's subltle, yet powerful analysis shows that the important "absent narrative" within television coverage of environmental issues is nothing as diabolical, cliche, or as simple as a conspiracy thoery, but rather the normal outcome of the workings of modern industial capitalism, corporate owned media, and thus an increasingly narrow ideological framework of acceptable media content. Guantlett's work is on the money - so to speak.

A worthwhile sidenote: anyone who can incorporate Horkheimer, Adorno, Marx, and Beavis and Butthead into a single chapter about mass media and society is a five-star book for that reason alone - enjoy!

Guantlett's answer to why the Revolution won't be televised
In an even-handed examination of how mass media forms the boundaries of environmental issues, David Guantlett, with skill and clarity maneuvers through potentially difficult and theory-ladden "criticaltheory," incorporating a Herman/Chomsky (Manufacturing Consent) edge, examining the way television affects the way audiences frametheincredibly complicated and inter-penetrating social issues of environmentalproblems. Guantlett is not so much interested in whether the massmedia is culpable of intensionally ignoring or avoiding environmentalissues. Instead he discovers through a creative study that childrenaudiences have internalized environmental problems and their solutions in aone-dimensional "narrative": the problem has been created byindividuals and is to be then solved by individuals. So what's theproblem with that? It seems clear enough that if there are environmentalproblems, they are nothing more that an accumulation and combination ofindividual lifestyle choices and subsequent actions. Right? Not so fast.Within this "individualistic" problem/solution framework, how dowe account for and address instances of polluting industries that fallwithin government and legal regulations? Moreover, how do we address theenvironmentally problematic social institutions, such as the wide-spreadcar-centered transportation rubrics through an "individual"problem/solution framework?Is there not an equally complicitsocio-political aspect to environmental issues?And why is this aspect,the environmentally comprimising social institutions, missing withingenvironmental news coverage? Guantlett's subltle, yet powerfulanalysis shows that the important "absent narrative" withintelevision coverage of environmental issues is nothing as diabolical,cliche, or as simple as a conspiracy thoery, but rather the normal outcomeof the workings of modern industial capitalism, corporate owned media, andthus an increasingly narrow ideological framework of acceptable mediacontent. Guantlett's work is on the money - so to speak.

Aworthwhile sidenote: anyone who can incorporate Horkheimer, Adorno, Marx,and Beavis and Butthead into a single chapter about mass media and societyis a five-star book for that reason alone - enjoy! ... Read more