Impacts and Influences

James Curran, Anthony Smith, Pauline Wingate

• Introduction; 1: Media and public opinion; Introduction; 1: Socialism and imperialism: the ILP press and the Boer War; 2: A world fit to live in: the Daily Mail and the middle classes 1918–39; 3: Rearmament and the British public: policy and propaganda; 4: Crusaders without chains: power and the press barons 1896–1951; 5: The boomerang effect: the press and the battle for London 1981–6; 2: Media and social control; Introduction; 6: The newsreels, public order and the projection of Britain; 7: Broadcasting and national unity; 8: Performing media events; 3: Media and gender; Introduction; 9: Media influence on the socialization of teenage girls; 10: Restyling masculinity: the impact of Boys from the Blackstuff; 4: Media and culture; Introduction; 11: Broadcasting culture: innovation, accommodation and routinization in the early BBC; 12: Audience research and the BBC in the 1930s: a mass medium comes into being; 13: The making of the British record industry 1920–64; 14: Narrative strategies in television science; Telecommunications and the fading of the industrial age: information and the postindustrial economy