Female representation, readership, and early tabloid properties

Chapman, Jane (2011) Female representation, readership, and early tabloid properties. Australian Journal of Communication, 38 (2). ISSN 0811-6202

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Abstract

This paper examines how Europe’s first pioneering popular daily manifested early tabloid properties. The focus is on female representation and readership in the origins of mass circulation, within a context of a new emphasis on marketing, distribution, spectacle and consumption. Quantitative content analysis is used for the launch year of 1863 and for1896 when the paper was riding high as a successful brand. Qualitative research reveals an overlap between literature and newspapers, provided by the serialised novel and by fictional writing techniques in crime coverage that reinforced dominant values by presenting spectacular examples of the transgression of social norms.

Keywords:history of tabloids, French press, newspapers, popular press, JC2010, tabloid properties, tabloidization, Carey, representation
Subjects:P Mass Communications and Documentation > P300 Media studies
V Historical and Philosophical studies > V145 Modern History 1900-1919
P Mass Communications and Documentation > P990 Mass Communications and Documentation not elsewhere classified
L Social studies > L321 Women's Studies
P Mass Communications and Documentation > P590 Journalism not elsewhere classified
V Historical and Philosophical studies > V320 Social History
V Historical and Philosophical studies > V390 History by Topic not elsewhere classified
V Historical and Philosophical studies > V144 Modern History 1800-1899
V Historical and Philosophical studies > V221 French History
P Mass Communications and Documentation > P900 Others in Mass Communications and Documentation
V Historical and Philosophical studies > V210 British History
P Mass Communications and Documentation > P305 Paper-based Media studies
P Mass Communications and Documentation > P500 Journalism
V Historical and Philosophical studies > V100 History by period
Divisions:College of Arts > School of English & Journalism > School of English & Journalism (Journalism)
ID Code:3499
Deposited On:22 Oct 2010 10:17

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