King, Andrew ORCID: 0000-0003-2348-4231 (2024) Nineteenth-Century Mediamorphosis: transformations in print culture. Culture, Literature, and the Arts Routledge Historical Resources.

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Abstract

Mediamorphosis – transformation in the organisation of the media – defines who we are, what we can communicate and to whom, what we can hear and from whom, and what we can do and feel. This essay breaks down the extreme nineteenth-century mediamorphosis into four impure elements, each with their own distinct but connected histories: Technology, Distribution, Access, and Regulation. What such a breakdown offers is not only a convenient way to tell a long, complex, and potentially confusing story but also a rich array of topics that students and academics with diverse interests and skills can research. While treated separately, these elements are really like the circles in an untidy and constantly mobile Venn diagram: they overlap now here, now there, now a great deal, now hardly at all. This essay points out some of these overlaps, but the attentive reader will find many more. Each element offers either exploration as a whole or focussed research on illustrative case studies: both are suggested below.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Commissioned by Routledge for special series: Culture, Literature, and the Arts Long Nineteenth Century.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	publishing history; mediamorphosis; culture industry
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics T Technology > T Technology (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS)
Last Modified:	12 Sep 2024 08:46
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/47847

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