Media, Information & Communication Industries

From 1942 to 1945, a small, influential group of media figures willingly volunteered their services to form the Writers' War Board (WWB), accepting...

The stolen snapshot is a staple of the modern tabloid press, as ubiquitous as it is notorious. The first in-depth history of British tabloid photoj...

The Broadcast Century and Beyond is a popular history of the most influential and innovative industry of the century. The story of broadcasting is ...

This selection of papers by major scholars introduces students to the history of the book in the West from late Antiquity to the publication of the...

This collection of published papers on the development of the publishing cycle from author to reader includes work by many of the leading authoriti...

Beginning with one of the crucial technological breakthroughs of Western history - the development of moveable type by Johann Gutenberg - The Histo...

Songs that sell the most copies become hits, but some of those hits transcend commercial value, touching a generation of listeners and altering the...

In this first English-language history of the origins and impact of the Japanese pop music industry, Hiromu Nagahara connects the rise of mass ente...