Routledge Library Editions: Broadcasting
Images of the Enemy: Reporting the New Cold War
1st Edition
By Brian McNair
June 04, 2025
Images of the Enemy (1985) discusses and decodes British television news coverage of the superpower disarmament talks and east–west crises such as the Korean airline incident. Through extensive interviews with journalists in London and Moscow, it examines the structures, organisations and political...
Materials for Learning: How to Teach Adults at a Distance
1st Edition
By Janet Jenkins
June 04, 2025
Materials for Learning (1981) examines the ability of books and broadcasts to change lives. The combination of print, radio, television and group meetings – distance teaching – can transform education in developing countries. Effective distance teaching requires effective teaching materials, and up...
Media Use in the Information Age: Emerging Patterns of Adoption and Consumer Use
1st Edition
Edited
By Jerry L. Salvaggio, Jennings Bryant
June 04, 2025
Media Use in the Information Age (1989) analyses new technologies, their impact on mass communications, and their effects on the users of these new systems. It looks at technologies such as videotex, and their successes and failures around the world, and examines the early adoptions of technologies...
Satellite Technology in Education
1st Edition
Edited
By John K. Gilbert, Annette Temple, Craig Underwood
June 04, 2025
Satellite Technology in Education (1991) provides a coherent introduction to the potential of satellite technology in education. It begins with a brief technical history of some of the different systems, making distinctions between remote sensing, telecommunications and amateur radio satellites. It...
Teachers & Television
1st Edition
By Ernest Choat, Harry Griffin, Dorothy Hobart
June 04, 2025
Teachers & Television (1987) examines the use of television in education. With television being the most powerful medium of mass communication, with tremendous potential as an educational tool, to what extent are teachers considering educational television as a component of the curriculum? This...
Telecommunications in Developing Countries: The Challenge from Brazil
1st Edition
By Michael Hobday
June 04, 2025
Telecommunications in Developing Countries (1990) stresses the importance of modern, micro electronics-based telecommunications for developing economies in providing a basic communications infrastructure for economic and industrial development and the springboard for new information technology ...
Telecommunications: A Systems Approach
1st Edition
By G. Smol, M.P.R. Hamer, M.T. Hills
June 04, 2025
Telecommunications: A Systems Approach (1976) uses two extended case studies, of public telephone and television systems, in order to introduce the basic ideas of telecommunication systems. It describes the application of a number of techniques within the context of practical telecommunications ...
Television: A Critical Review
1st Edition
By Gerald Beadle
June 04, 2025
Television: A Critical Review (1963) is written by Sir Gerald Beadle, once Director of the BBC, and possessing of a long and wide experience of broadcasting as it expanded and grew. He was there at the birth of television, and details this and the subsequent developments over many years into a ...
Television and the Political Image: A Study of the Impact of Television on the 1959 General Election
1st Edition
By Joseph Trenaman, Denis McQuail
June 04, 2025
Was the 1959 UK General Election the first television election? Could television be used to create a Party ‘image’? Television and the Political Image (1961) provides answers to both these questions. It surveys two constituencies, interviewing the same cross-section of electors before and after the...
Television in the Making
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Rotha
June 04, 2025
Television in the Making (1956) looks at television in its infancy, with essays by the leaders of the medium at the time, people who were forging new paths as they imagined and actioned the possibilities of television....
The Lively Audience: A Study of Children Around the TV Set
1st Edition
By Patricia Palmer
June 04, 2025
The Lively Audience (1986) studies television from the children’s own point of view. Contrary to most prevailing opinion, it contends that television has much to teach children, and that their relationship with the medium is not one of passive dependency after all. Research shows that what children...
The Politics of Broadcasting
1st Edition
Edited
By Raymond Kuhn
June 04, 2025
The Politics of Broadcasting (1985) examines the state of broadcasting in a variety of Western democracies from a political viewpoint, written at a time when new telecommunications and information technology revolutionised television and radio. The book describes and analyses the problems faced by ...