Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies, 8th edition

Watergate Web or online drama Th e internet has proved fertile ground for made-for-the-web drama, usually in serial form, each e ...

Wesley and MacLean’s model of communication, 1957 A B C D E F G H I JK L M N O P R S T U V XYZ W in 1992 by Tim Berners-Lee at t ...

Western significant others. See also topic guide under communication models. Western Hollywood’s most popularly successful trans ...

Westminster view A B C D E F G H I JK L M N O P R S T U V XYZ W was severely curtailed by news management on the part of the mil ...

Whistleblowing in mass communication. David M. White in an article entitled ‘Th e “Gatekeepers”: a case study in the selection o ...

Wireless telegraphy A B C D E F G H I JK L M N O P R S T U V XYZ W the Wikipedia is what thousands of contributors worldwide hav ...

Wireless Telegraphy Act (UK), 1904 Media companies expand in reach but also seek to economize on labour. In-house work, if its c ...

Yahoo! A B C D E F G H I JK L M N O P R S T U V XYZ W Y Yahoo! Or in its early days, ‘Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web’, rena ...

Yamousoukrou declaration much, too little; or quite simply the existence and persistence of advertisements distracting from news ...

Youth culture A B C D E F G H I JK L M N O P R S T U V XYZ W purchased Journal. The gap-toothed Kid in his yellow smock, whose g ...

YouTube diverse takes on political reality’. It provides ‘an opportunity for expression different from conventional mobilization ...

Zoopraxography A B C D E F G H I JK L M N O P R S T U V XYZ W politics & economics; media: power, effects, influence. Zoetro ...

A chronology of media events Th is Chronology is drawn from many sources, but our best thanks go to Patrick Robertson whose Th e ...

1619 – 1776 to secure the rights of authors and publishers by offering legal protection against ‘pirating’ of texts. A similar a ...

1780 – 1829 His example was emulated by Th e Times in 1808 when Henry Crabb Robinson was commissioned to cover the Peninsular Wa ...

1830s – 1848 Becher, a political economist. • (^) Th ough some 1500 patents had by 1900 been registered in the US for composing ...

1850 – 1877 developing radio commercially before his death in 1886. In the UK David Edward Hughes proved a signifi cant pioneer ...

1878 – 1888 peared; a mystery that remains unsolved. 1886 New York Herald Tribune installs the fi rst Linotype machine, the inve ...

1889 – 1900 the fi rst-ever fi lm on to a screen – Workers Leav- ing the Lumière Factory, 22 March, to members of the Société d’ ...

1901 – 1924 opened on Sunset Boulevard by David Horsley. 1912 Foundation, initially as the Herald, of the Daily Herald. 1913 Th ...