Full Description
This edited collection brings together a range of contemporary expertise to discuss the development and impact of tabloid news around the world.
In thirteen chapters, Global Tabloid covers tabloid developments in Asia, Africa, the Americas, Australia, and both Eastern and Western Europe. It presents innovative research from eighteen expert contributors and editors who explore tabloidization as a phenomenon, and tabloids as a news form. With an awareness of historical dynamics where tabloids played a role in national news media systems, it brings the debates around tabloids as a cultural force up to date. The book addresses important questions about the contemporary nature of popular culture, the challenges it faces in the digital era, and its impact on a political world dominated by tabloid values. Going beyond national borders to consider global developments, the editors and contributors explore how the tabloids have permeated media culture more generally and how they are adapting to an increasingly digitalized media sphere.
This internationally focused critical study is a valuable resource for students and researchers in journalism, media, and cultural studies.
Contents
Tabloid culture: Parameters and debates
Martin Conboy
Digital impacts on the tabloid sphere: Blurring and diffusion of a popular form and its power
Scott A. Eldridge II
'Tabloidization' in the Internet age
Julia Lefkowitz
Is Facebook driving tabloidization?: A cross-channel comparison of two German newspapers
Melanie Magin, Miriam Steiner, Andrea Häuptli, Birgit Stark and Linards Udris
Tabloids in Zimbabwe: A moral-ethical research agenda
Khulekani Ndlovu
Trivializing entertainment news in India: Elements of tabloidization in the news coverage of Bollywood celebrities
Sreedevi Purayannur
Tabloid and populist sensitivities in Denmark
Henrik Bødker
Recent shifts in the Australian tabloid landscape: Fissures and new formations
Stephen Harrington
The post-communist "hybrid" tabloid: Between the serious and the "yellow"
Lada Trifonova Price
From baby bumps to border walls: Celebrity gossip magazines and the post-truth politic
Andrea McDonnell
Dispatches from la Crónica Roja: Why sensationalism and crime still matter in the new Latin America media ecology
Marcela F. Pizarro and Jairo Lugo-Ocando
The rise and fall of tabloid journalism in post-Mao China: Ideology, the market, and the new media revolution
Chengju Huang
Reclaiming and tabloidizing "truth" in Turkey
Mine Gencel Bek
