Categories of knowledge and information flows: reasons for the decline of the British Labour and Industrial Correspondents' Group
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The British Labor and Industrial Correspondents' Group rose to prominence after the Second World War, reflecting the government's need to secure the cooperation of workers in the planned economy. Labor correspondents value exclusive information as much as other journalists. The perspective of the labor movement elite is more likely to be reported than that of the ordinary union member.
Publication Name: Media, Culture & Society
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0163-4437
Year: 1999
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Boys on top: gender and authorship on the BBC Wednesday Play, 1964-70
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The predominance of the male perspective in single plays is inevitable, because the majority of single plays that have been televised in Britain were written by men. Of the 176 plays televised on the BBC's Wednesday Play program between Oct, 1964, and Oct, 1970, only 16 were written or co-written by women, making up only 9.09% of the total.
Publication Name: Media, Culture & Society
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0163-4437
Year: 1999
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Dedicated followers of fashion? The influence of popular culture on children's social identities
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The impact of popular culture such as fashion on the lives of children is analyzed. Exposure to media influences children and the impact is seen on their clothes, self-styling and presentation of their identity, thus showing that fashion plays a key role in defining children's cultural identity.
Publication Name: Media, Culture & Society
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0163-4437
Year: 2006
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