Seminar: The bbc and public service journalism

Seminar/essay question:

Outline and evaluate the principles of public service broadcasting underpinning the creation and development of the BBC. Focusing on one or more historical examples, consider to what extent these values have been realised in the face of national crisis and/or commercial pressures.

KEY TEXTS:

Crisell, Andrew (1997) An introductory history of British broadcasting. Routledge.

Curran, James, and Seaton, Jean (2003) Power without responsibility: the press and broadcasting in Britain. 6^th edition. London: Routledge. (Part II: ‘Broadcasting history’, and see also Chapter 19: ‘Broadcasting and the theory of public service’)

Gorman, Lyn and McLean, David (2009) Media and society into the 21st Century: an historical introduction. WileyBlackwell. (Especially the introduction and the chapters on radio and TV).

Then try to look at one of these:

Briggs, Asa (1961) The history of broadcasting in the UK: Vol 1 The Birth of Broadcasting. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Briggs, Asa (1995) The BBC: the first fifty years. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Briggs, Asa and Burke, Peter (2002) A social history of the media. Cambridge: Polity.

BACKGROUND TEXTS:

Abercrombie, N. (1996) Television and society. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Barnett, S. and Curry, A. (1994) The battle for the BBC. Aurum Press.

Bazalgette, Peter et al (2001) Culture and communications: perspectives on broadcasting and the information society. Independent Television Commission.

Calhoun, C. (ed.) (1993) Habermas and the public sphere, Cambridge: MIT Press.

Curran, James (ed.) (1999) Media organisations in society. London: Hodder Arnold. (See section in Part 1: ‘Overview on the media as public sphere.)

Dahlgren, Peter (1995) Television and the public sphere. London: Sage.

Franklin, B. (ed.) (2001) British television policy: a reader. Routledge.

Franklin, B. (ed) (2005) Television policy: the MacTaggart lectures. Edinburgh University Press.

Graham, A. and Davis, G. (1997) Broadcasting, society and policy in the multimedia age. Luton: John Libbey.

Humphreys, P. (1996) Mass media and media policy in Western Europe. Manchester University Press.

Lichtenberg, J (ed) (2008) Democracy and the mass media. Cambridge University Press.

MacCabe, C and Stewart, O. (eds) (1986) The BBC and public service broadcasting. Manchester University Press.

McDonnell, James (1991) Public service broadcasting: a reader. London: Routledge.

Moe, H. and Syvertsen, T (2009) ‘Researching public service broadcasting’ in Wahl-Jorgensen, K. and Hanitzsch,T. The handbook of journalism studies. Routledge.

Negrine, Ralph. (1994) Politics and the mass media in Britain.2^nd edition. Routledge

Week 11

Thursday 24.3.11

Review and development tutorials with seminar group leaders. These will take place in the afternoon in the Journalism Office: arrange the exact time with your tutor.

Term 2 ends on Friday 1 April. Term 3 starts on Tuesday 3 May. The 2,500-word research essay on periodicals must be handed in immediately after the Easter break at the seminar on Thursday 5 May.