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Taylor & Francis, Nov 25, 2005 - Social Science - 448 pages

Easy to read, and highly topical, Messages writes a history of mass communication in Europe and its outreaches, as a search for the origins of media forms from print and stage, to photography, film and broadcasting.

Arguing that the development of the mass media has been an essential engine driving the western concept of an individual, Brian Winston examines how the right of free expression is under attack, and how the roots of media expression need to be recalled to make a case for the media’s importance for the protection of individual liberty.

Relating to the US constitution, and key laws in the UK which form the foundation of our society, this is a highly useful book for students of media, communication, history, and journalism.

About the author (2005)

Brian Winston, currently a Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Lincoln, worked in the 1960s on Granada TV's World in Action; then for the BBC and WNET (New York) where he won an Emmy for documentary script writing in 1985, as a columnist on Ink, The Soho (New York)Weekly News and The Listener, as a co-producer of a Canadian feature film and a governor of the BFI. He has taught at Universities on both sides of the Atlantic and at Britain's National Film School. Messages is his thirteenth book.

Bibliographic information

TitleMessages: Free Expression, Media and the West from Gutenberg to Google
AuthorBrian Winston
PublisherTaylor & Francis, 2005
ISBN0203015630, 9780203015636
Length448 pages
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Social Science / Media Studies
  
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