Abstract
![CDATA[This chapter is concerned with change of various kinds: in newspapers, the media sphere in general, and in wider culture and society. It engages in particular with the important and influential "tabloidization thesis" and its proposition that all media (including broadcast) have moved toward more direct, simplified, succinct, and spectacular modes of news and entertainment, and, not uncommonly, that this specific media phenomenon represents a more thoroughgoing tabloidization of society (Lumby, 1999; Sparks & Tulloch, 2000). The consequences for the theory and practice of journalism of such tabloidization are profound, implicating journalists in a process that would universally shape their labor and its product, and prescribing for newspapers a cultural blueprint that constrains their form, style, relations with readers, and cultural political role.]]
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Journalism and meaning-making : reading the newspaper |
| Editors | Verica Rupar |
| Place of Publication | U.S.A. |
| Publisher | Hampton Press |
| Pages | 121-138 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781572739383 |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
Keywords
- journalism
- tabloid newspapers