Global Tabloid: Culture and Technology

by Martin Conboy (Editor), Scott Eldridge II (Editor)

Overview

This edited collection brings together a range of contemporary expertise to discuss the development and impact of tabloid news around the world.

In thirteen chapters, Global Tabloid covers tabloid developments in Asia, Africa, the Americas, Australia, and both Eastern and Western Europe. It presents innovative research from eighteen expert contributors and editors who explore tabloidization as a phenomenon, and tabloids as a news form. With an awareness of historical dynamics where tabloids played a role in national news media systems, it brings the debates around tabloids as a cultural force up to date. The book addresses important questions about the contemporary nature of popular culture, the challenges it faces in the digital era, and its impact on a political world dominated by tabloid values. Going beyond national borders to consider global developments, the editors and contributors explore how the tabloids have permeated media culture more generally and how they are adapting to an increasingly digitalized media sphere.

This internationally focused critical study is a valuable resource for students and researchers in journalism, media, and cultural studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367336264
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/19/2021
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Martin Conboy is Emeritus Professor of Journalism History and the co-director of the Centre for the Study of Journalism and History at the University of Sheffield. He has produced ten books on the language and history of journalism. Specific to this project he wrote Tabloid Britain (2006) and with Professor Adrian Bingham Tabloid Century (2015). His 2002 book The Press and Popular Culture has recently been translated into Czech with a new introduction. He is on the editorial boards of Journalism Studies; Media History; Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism; and Memory Studies.

Scott A. Eldridge II, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen. His research addresses digital journalism and the changing journalistic field, focusing on antagonistic journalistic actors. He is the author of numerous studies on these changes, including Online Journalism from the Periphery: Interloper Media and the Journalistic Field (2018), and is co-editor with Bob Franklin of The Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies (2019) and The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies (2017). He is an associate editor for the journal Digital Journalism.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations vii

Acknowledgments ix

List of contributors x

1 Tabloid culture: Parameters and debates Martin Conboy 1

2 Digital impacts on the tabloid sphere: Blurring and diffusion of a popular form and its power Scott A. Eldrjdge II 16

3 Tabloidization in the Internet age Julia Lefkowitz 34

4 Is Facebook driving tabloidization? A cross-channel comparison of two German newspapers Melanie Magin Miriam Steiner Andrea Häuptli Birgit Stark Linards Udris 56

5 Tabloids in Zimbabwe: A moral-ethical research agenda Khulekani Ndlovu 75

6 Trivializing entertainment news in India: Elements of tabloidization in the news coverage of Bollywood celebrities Sreedevi Purayannur 93

7 Tabloid and populist sensitivities in Denmark Henrik Bødker 110

8 Recent shifts in the Australian tabloid landscape: Fissures and new formations Stephen Harrington 125

9 The post-communist "hybrid" tabloid: Between the serious and the "yellow" Lada Trifonova Price 137

10 From baby bumps to border walls: Celebrity gossip magazines and the post-truth politic Andrea McDonnell 153

11 Dispatches from la Crónica roja: Why sensationalism and crime still matter in the new Latin America media ecology Marcela F. Pizarro Jairo Lugo-Ocando 167

12 The rise and fall of tabloid journalism in post-Mao China: Ideology, the market, and the new media revolution Chengju Huang 183

13 Reclaiming and tabloidizing "truth" in Turkey Mine Gencel Bek 198

Index 213

Editorial Reviews

"This book brings together a rich array of perspectives on tabloid culture. With examples gathered from around the world, and perspectives ranging from the ethical to the political and technological, located within a variety of social settings and economic systems, this collection is set to become a standard reference point for students of this much-maligned yet perennially influential cultural form" - Herman Wasserman, University of Cape Town, Author of Tabloid Journalism in South Africa – True Story!

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