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Public opinion (journalism and communication) [ Social interaction / Communication ]
… the rise of journalism and communication can be found in Anthony J. La Vopa, ‘The Birth of Public Opinion’, The Wilson Quarterly (vol. 15, no. 1, Winter 1991), p. 46-55. This aspect was investigated by some important sociologists and scholars … conclusions in The Bias of Communication (1951), focused on the English publishing trade in the eighteenth century . Starting from the end of the seventeenth century, the evolution of the publishing trade, along with the rise of newspapers , coffeehouses and parliamentary organizations, participated in the construction of modern public opinion involving not only intellectuals, poets and writers, but also …
Books | Censorship | Newspapers | Periodicals | Public sphere
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Bookshops in London [ Cities / Trade ]
… centre in the City around St Paul’s Churchyard and Paternoster Row: ‘the ability of booksellers to remain within a particular neighbourhood, irrespective of changing needs for space, proved a valuable feature in the changing city’. 3 In … such as Wright’s Circulating Library Catalogue (c. 1755) or in larger volumes such as Rudoph Ackermann, Repository of Arts (1809-29). These visual sources enable us to see various idealised customers, their use of space and the … interpersonal dynamics which took place. Wright’s shop displayed the expensing folios at the top of the shelves while quartos were lying on the table for anyone to handle. 8 It has been argued that the shops of Longman and Rivington ‘offered …
Books | Commerce | Reading
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