{"product_id":"when-news-was-new-isbn-9781405175524","title":"When News Was New","description":"\u003ci\u003eWhen News was New\u003c\/i\u003e investigates how news has re-invented itself at different historical moments--from medieval storytellers to 19th century telegraph news agencies to 21st century bloggers.  \u003cul type=\"disc\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eTracks the evolution of news through history\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the regular reconstruction of news, the salability of news, and whether objectivity matters\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides an innovative approach to the history of news; clear, succinct writing; and effective use of photographs, maps, and tables which have strong appeal to the student reader\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a new way of understanding news in our history and culture\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures and Tables viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: When News Was New x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Temporalization: How News Became New 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Cosmopolitanization: An Older Phenomenon Than We Think 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Globalization: When News Became Global 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Commodifi cation: How To Sell News 58\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Localization: Places in News 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Nationalization: News and the Nation-states 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Epilogue: Today Was Yesterday 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 146\u003c\/p\u003e  \"A well structured analysis of journalism and what actually entails news, this is both an educational and thought provoking exploration into the purity of news. (\u003ci\u003eM\/C Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, March 2010)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\"Terhi Rantanen's \u003ci\u003eWhen News Was New\u003c\/i\u003e is much more than a narrative of journalism history. This is an investigation into the very nature of journalism as it changes through the centuries.\" (\u003ci\u003ePolis Journalism and Society\u003c\/i\u003e, April 2009)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eTerhi Rantanen\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor and Director of the Master's Proframme in Global Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has published extensively on global news and is the author of six books and more than fifty chapters and articles published in the UK, the USA, Austria, Finland, Russia, Sweden and Taiwan.  What is news, and why sell it? What is one buying when one buys news? Is it the ‘objectivity’ of news that matters, or is it rather its newness, and the public’s appetite for the latest scoop? If so, how is news made new?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen News was New\u003c\/i\u003e investigates how news has re-invented itself at different historical moments--from medieval storytellers to 19th century telegraph news agencies to 21st century bloggers. Rantanen argues that the newness of news has been regularly reconstructed, and that news is mostly old stories made new. Reaching out from journalism and journalism studies, this book surveys the wider social implications of news.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom hawkers and ballad-mongers in the 1800s, to the current moment of blogging and pod-casting, where modern bloggers ‘sing’ their stories alongside other performers, \u003ci\u003eWhen News was New\u003c\/i\u003e book tracks the evolution of the news, concluding that the era of ‘pure’ news is over: the difference between news and new stories has again become blurred.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"This is a work of exemplary scholarship that cannot be missed by students of communication, and will become indispensable reading for journalists and media executives struggling to grasp the new digital world.\" \u003ci\u003eManuel Castells, Wallis Annenberg Chair of Communication Technology and Society, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"Terhi Rantanen’s thoughtful, eloquent and seminal study of the shifting historical understandings of news, unravels and challenges existing scholarly orthodoxy. When News Was New is a significant book which makes compelling and essential reading for everyone interested in journalism studies.\" \u003ci\u003eBob Franklin, Professor of Journalism Studies, Cardiff University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Terhi Rantanen has given us a brilliant archeology of the variable meanings of news.\" \u003ci\u003eSaskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of A Sociology of Globalization\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990483419365,"sku":"NP9781405175524","price":107.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405175524.jpg?v=1761788007","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/when-news-was-new-isbn-9781405175524","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}