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London calling : Britain, the BBC World Service, and the cold war
\"From its inception in 1932, overseas broadcasting by the BBC quickly became an essential adjunct to British diplomatic and foreign policy objectives. For this reason, the World Service was considered the primary means of engaging with attitudes and opinions behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. Although funded by government Grant-in-Aid, the Service's editorial independence was enshrined in the BBC's Charter, Licence and Agreement. London Calling explores the delicate balance of power that lay in the relations between Whitehall and the World Service during the Cold War.This book also assesses the nature and impact of the World Service's programmes on listeners living in the Eastern bloc countries. In doing so, it traces the evolution of overseas broadcasting from Britain alongside the political, diplomatic and fiscal challenges that the country faced right up to the Suez crisis and the 1956 Hungarian uprising. These were defining experiences for the United Kingdom's international broadcaster that, as a consequence, helped shape and define the BBC World Service as we know it today. London Calling is an important study for anyone interested in the media and foreign policy histories of Great Britain or the history of the Cold War more generally\"-- Provided by publisher.
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New Technologies and International Broadcasting: Reflections on Adaptations and Transformations
International broadcasters, like all media institutions, adjust to reflect the existence of new distribution technologies. Technological change is part of a new media landscape that has rendered older definitions and contexts of international broadcasting insufficient. The pace and extent of adjustment differs among the players. Adaptations range from the superficial to the highly integrative and, on the other hand, from the merely adaptive to the pervasively transformative. Can one compare, among institutions, how this process takes place and what factors influence the patterns of accomodation? Theories of organizational structure shed light on which factors lead international broadcasters to which path. This article considers U.S. international broadcasting as a model to tease out some of these factors, among them organizational complexity, political influence, and control and contradictions embedded in institutional purpose. In this scenario, technological adaptation can mask a critical need to address institutional transformation.
Journal Article
BBC world service : overseas broadcasting, 1932 -2018
This book is the first full-length history of the BBC World Service: from its interwar launch as short-wave radio broadcasts for the British Empire, to its twenty-first-century incarnation as the multi-media global platform of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The book provides insights into the BBC's working relationship with the Foreign Office, the early years of the Empire Service, and the role of the BBC during the Second World War. In following the voice of the BBC through the Cold War and the contraction of the British empire, the book argues that debates about the work and purposes of the World Service have always involved deliberations about the future of the UK and its place in the world. In current times, these debates have been shaped by the British government's commitment to leave the European Union and the centrifugal currents in British politics which in the longer term threaten the integrity of the United Kingdom. Through a detailed exploration of its past, the book poses questions about the World Service's possible future and argues that, for the BBC, the question is not only what it means to be a global broadcaster as we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, but what it means to be a national broadcaster in a divided kingdom.
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Information and the Transformation of Sociology: Interactivity and Social Media Monitoring
This paper explores some key ways in which the scale and form of information today challenges sociology’s methods and practice. Information has shaped sociology in two key ways. First, it has become an object of study, largely in the form of accounts of ‘the information society’. This paper argues that interactivity is a key element of such changes, albeit a notion has not been a major focus of information society theorists. The second way in which sociology is being transformed by the growth of information is that, with the growth of huge volumes of commercial transactional information, social information is no longer the preserve of sociologists. Moreover, new tools have emerged to challenge the research methods that lie at the heart of sociology. Linking the growth of interactivity with new forms of data and research tools, this paper discusses the case of the BBC World Service’s use of social media monitoring tools. The paper concludes by arguing that the vast amount of available information affords new possibilities for sociologists as well as for the organisations that collect it.
Journal Article
World Service
IF THIS WERE a story, it would start with an argument. It would start with Ben and me arguing about something vaguely prescient, something to give the thing that happened a kind of existential echo --a child we wanted to have, or couldn't have, or used to have.
Magazine Article
The Transculturality of Media Products
This chapter considers the leading products of transcultural communication. When considering the globalization of media products, media and communications specialists often examine films. Hollywood films are treated as the epitome of globally accessible, medial products. The general transcultural availability of Hollywood products is ensured by the leading global media corporations that form the basis of Hollywood. The genres of the most successful Hollywood films worldwide demonstrate that transcultural accessibility is furthered by the form of presentation. In 2001 the Indian film industry developed an ambitious marketing campaign at the Cannes film festival, promoting both Bollywood and art films. The globalization of political communication is generally associated with news reporting, given the existing “flows” of communication across different countries, and how emergent differences and inequalities are articulated. The BBC world service was founded in 1932 as the empire service with the aim of addressing all English‐speaking people in the British empire.
Book Chapter
Diasporas and Diplomacy
Diasporas and Diplomacy analyzes the exercise of British 'soft power' through the BBC's foreign language services, and the diplomatic role played by their diasporic broadcasters. The book offers the first historical and comparative analysis of the 'corporate cosmopolitanism' that has characterized the work of the BBC's international services since the inception of its Empire Service in 1932 - from radio to the Internet. A series of empirically-grounded case studies, within a shared analytical framework, interrogate transformations in international broadcasting relating to: colonialism and corporate cosmopolitanism diasporic and national identities public diplomacy and international relations broadcasters and audiences The book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology and anthropology, media and cultural studies, journalism, history, politics, international relations, as well as of research methods that cross the boundaries between the Social Sciences and Humanities. It will also appeal to broadcast journalists and practioners of strategic communication.
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Newly Mediated Media: Understanding the Changing Internet Landscape of the Media Industries
This chapter contains sections titled:
Promotion
Replication
Income
Alliances
Replacement
Conclusion
References
Book Chapter
Modelling Dynamic Systems
Causal loops diagrams are very effective for expanding the boundary of our thinking and for communicating important feedbacks. This chapter introduces the additional concepts and tools required to translate causal loops into algebraic models and simulators. Asset stock accumulation is a very important idea in system dynamics, every bit as fundamental as feedback and in fact complementary to it. The best way to appreciate the functioning of stocks and flows is through simulation. The chapter shows the asset stocks from a model of BBC World Service, created in a series of meetings with an experienced management team. Feedback loops are formed when stock and flow networks interact through causal links, in other words when the inflows and outflows of one asset stock depend, directly or indirectly, on the state or size of other asset stocks. The chapter presents an overview of the drug‐related crime model showing sectors, stocks and links.
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