Curran, James P. and Seaton, Jean. 2024. Power without Responsibility: Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain. 9th Edition. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9781032112015 [Book]

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This book attacks the conventional history of the press as a story of progress; offers a critical defence and history of public service broadcasting; provides a myth-busting account of the internet; gives a subtle account of the impact of social media; and explores key debates about the role and politics of the media.

Power Without Responsibility has become a standard textbook on media and other courses, but it has also gone beyond an academic audience to reach a wider public. Hailed as a book that has ‘cracked the canon’ by the Times Higher Educational Supplement, it has been translated into five languages. In 2019, it was awarded the International Communication Association's Fellows Book Award. This ninth edition is based on a major overhaul of its content to take account of new developments (such as generative AI) and new scholarship in the field. It also contains a new chapter on the transformed opportunity for a reformed and buccaneering public service broadcasting in the face of automated misinformation and social division, locally, nationally and internationally.

This trailblazing text is essential reading for all students and scholars interested in British media and contemporary media and society.

Item Type:	Book
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003218845
Keywords:	media history, British media history, press, broadcasting, internet
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Media, Communications and Cultural Studies > Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre
Date:	6 September 2024
Item ID:	37937
Date Deposited:	04 Dec 2024 11:44
Last Modified:	04 Dec 2024 11:44
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/37937

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