Elemental Forms

Mussell, James

doi:10.1080/13688804.2014.880264

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“…In their digital form, scanned newspapers offer direct access to articles. 24 Maarten van den Bos and Hermione Giffard have described how this aspect of digital meditation might lead to the perceived 'digital equality' of all articles found through a keyword search. 25 Interfaces, such as Trove, suggest that the information contained in the source material is equally valuable.…”

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Looking for The Illustrated London News in Australian Digital Newspapers

Smits¹

2016

Media History

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This article will demonstrate that digital newspaper archives can be used to shed new light on the historical readership of nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines. The digital newspaper archive of Australia (Trove) was used to study the distribution and reception of the renowned Illustrated London News (ILN) in the Australian colonies between 1842 and 1872. As a result of this research, this article shows that around 17,000 copies of the magazine reached the Australian colonies by each mail in 1862. This corresponds to 8-11% of the total circulation of the ILN at that time so making it the most widely read British publication in the Australian colonies. By means of a case study into the colonial readership of the ILN, this article will argue that the magazine was an important building block in the formation of the imagined communities both of Britain and its dominions in the period between 1842 and 1872. KEYWORDS historical readership; digital newspaper archives; Illustrated London News; imagined communities; Trove To our colonies this Journal has an interest, which can be claimed by no other. The Australian or the Canadian settled in remote districts, (…), looks forward with more pleasure

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Section: Methods and Periodizationmentioning

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Looking for The Illustrated London News in Australian Digital Newspapers

Smits¹

2016

Media History

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Communicating the News in Early Modern Europe

Hyde,

Rospocher,

Raymond

et al. 2023

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This history of early modern news focuses on news itself rather than specific material forms. Centering on movement through different media, time, and place, it makes the case for a truly comparative, pan-European history of news. After the Introduction, the second section, News Moves, explores how we think about and research news culture and news communication, demonstrating movement is more important than static forms. The third, News Sings, focuses on news ballads, comparing actors, publics, music, and soundscapes of ballad singing in several European cities, highlighting the central role of immaterial elements, such as sound, music and voice. The fourth, News Counts, argues that seeing news the way a machine might read it—through its metadata—is one way of moving beyond form, allowing us to find surprising commonalities in news cultures which differ greatly in both time and place.

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“Amongst the Most Desirable Reading”: Advertising and the Fetters of the Newspaper Press in Britain, c. 1848–1914

Rosenberg¹

2019

Law hist. rev.

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What is the difference between advertising and news? This essay examines the rise of this dilemma and its precarious resolution in the formative era of modern advertising and press commercialization in Britain, c. 1848–1914, with particular attention to legal powers mobilized in the process. The essay traces a dialectical process, which began with the midcentury campaign to repeal taxes on the press, one of which was the advertisement duty. The campaign framed advertising as a communication of essential information. Its success gave full reign to advertising in the newspaper press, but also triggered a readjustment: Newspaper owners soon faced a threat to their effective control of the medium; their proprietary power to differentiate advertising from their self-proclaimed business - news - was put to the test. Owners' responses established a hierarchic distinction between news and advertising, along an informational metric: advertising was framed as an inferior kind of information, more biased than news. The hierarchy became embedded as a common sense to the point that the process of historical creation has been forgotten; yet, it asserted a difference between news and ads which had little to hang on in theory and practice, giving rise to challenges which still resonate today.

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Elemental Forms

Cited by 13 publications

References 21 publications

Looking for The Illustrated London News in Australian Digital Newspapers

Looking for The Illustrated London News in Australian Digital Newspapers

Communicating the News in Early Modern Europe

“Amongst the Most Desirable Reading”: Advertising and the Fetters of the Newspaper Press in Britain, c. 1848–1914

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