Media History Books

New and Published Books

1. Media and the Creation of Babe Ruth

   By Patrick Adam Trimble

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   Babe Ruth is among the most lasting of American icons. A baseball player who emerged from the sports pages of the Jazz Age, he has become one of the dominant symbols of traditional cultural values, nationalism, and masculine identity. His is a media persona that has changed drastically over the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. How Journalism Uses History

   Edited by Martin Conboy

   Series: Journalism Studies

   How Journalism Uses History examines the various ways in which journalism uses history and historical sources in order to better understand the relationships between journalists, historians and journalism scholars. It highlights the ambiguous overlap between the role of the historian and that of...

   Published May 2nd 2012 by Routledge
3. TV Cops

   The Contemporary American Television Police Drama

   By Jonathan Nichols-Pethick

   The police drama has been one of the longest running and most popular genres in American television. In TV Cops, Jonathan Nichols-Pethick argues that, perhaps more than any other genre, the police series in all its manifestations—from Hill Street Blues to Miami Vice to The Wire—embodies the full...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
4. Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces

   Locational Privacy, Control, and Urban Sociability

   By Adriana de Souza e Silva, Jordan Frith

   Mobile phones are no longer what they used to be. Not only can users connect to the Internet anywhere and anytime, they can also use their devices to map their precise geographic coordinates – and access location-specific information like restaurant reviews, historical information, and locations of...

   Published March 7th 2012 by Routledge
5. Transnational Television History

   A Comparative Approach

   Edited by Andreas Fickers, Catherine Johnson

   Although television has developed into a major agent of the transnational and global flow of information and entertainment, television historiography and scholarship largely remains a national endeavour, partly due to the fact that television has been understood as a tool for the creation of...

   Published January 31st 2012 by Routledge
6. Network Nations

   A Transnational History of British and American Broadcasting

   By Michele Hilmes

   In Network Nations, Michele Hilmes reveals and re-conceptualizes the roots of media globalization through a historical look at the productive transnational cultural relationship between British and American broadcasting. Though frequently painted as opposites--the British public service tradition...

   Published August 8th 2011 by Routledge
7. The Architecture of Information

   Architecture, Interaction Design and the Patterning of Digital Information

   By Martyn Dade-Robertson

   This book looks at relationships between the organization of physical objects in space and the organization of ideas. Historical, philosophical, psychological and architectural knowledge are united to develop an understanding of the relationship between information and its representation....

   Published May 24th 2011 by Routledge
8. Book Publishing

   Edited by John Feather

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Books are the cornerstone of our culture. They disseminate ideas, and preserve and transmit literature. Their contents underpin great religions, and have been responsible for wars and revolutions. They lie at the heart of education and scholarship. They have brought pleasure (and some pain) to...

   Published May 3rd 2011 by Routledge
9. The American Journalism History Reader

   Edited by Bonnie S. Brennen, Hanno Hardt

   The American Journalism History Reader presents important primary texts—news articles and essays about journalism from all stages of the history of the American press—alongside key works of journalism history and criticism. The volume aims to place journalism history in its theoretical context, to...

   Published October 18th 2010 by Routledge
10. The Biographical Encyclopedia of American Radio

    Edited by Christopher H. Sterling, Cary O'Dell

    The Biographical Encyclopedia of American Radio presents the very best biographies of the internationally acclaimed three-volume Encyclopedia of Radio in a single volume. It includes more than 200 biographical entries on the most important and influential American radio personalities, writers,...

    Published July 26th 2010 by Routledge