Overview
Links together diverse theoretical and empirical approaches to Letters to the Editor
Compares media in international contexts
Examines change and continuity in media over different historical periods
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides an account of current work on letters to the editor from a range of different national, cultural, conceptual and methodological perspectives. Letters to the editor provide a window on the reflexive relationship between editorial and readership identities in historical and international contexts. They are a forum through which the personal and the political intersect, a space wherein the implications of contemporaneous events are worked out by citizens and public figures alike, and in which the meaning and significance of unfolding media narratives and events are interpreted and contested. They can also be used to understand the multiple and overlapping ways that particular issues recur over sometimes widely distinct periods. This collection brings together scholars who have helped open up letters to the editor as a resource for scholarship and whose work in this book continues to provide new insights into the relationship between journalism and its publics.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
John Steel is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK. He has produced more than 30 publications with leading international publishers and in major peer-reviewed journals on topics including media history, journalism and political communication.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Letters to the Editor
Book Subtitle: Comparative and Historical Perspectives
Editors: Allison Cavanagh, John Steel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26480-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26479-6Published: 19 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26482-6Published: 19 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-26480-2Published: 07 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 181
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Journalism, Media and Communication, Journalism