Magazines and Culture
Andrew Blake
, Thinking Historically about Magazines
• Narrative of changes would usually include some or most o
– Literacy
– Economic development
– Technology
– Distribution
– Writers and readers
– Culture
– Innovation and replacement, but also decline and failure
, to start off with … How about a nice cup of coffe
• I’m going to discuss, very quickly
• The concepts of the ‘public sphere’ and the ‘private sphere’
• The role of the coffee house (and coffee itself) in the magazine story
• The need for information, and how magazines have supplied it
• We won’t go through a detailed history of magazines today, but we’ll look briefly at magazines
17th/18th century public sphere, taking historical examples from the UK, and in particular Lond
will do some more work on magazines in the 20th and 21st centuries next week)
• The similarities and differences from magazines today
• Links to work we’ll be doing in the rest of the term
Andrew Blake
, Thinking Historically about Magazines
• Narrative of changes would usually include some or most o
– Literacy
– Economic development
– Technology
– Distribution
– Writers and readers
– Culture
– Innovation and replacement, but also decline and failure
, to start off with … How about a nice cup of coffe
• I’m going to discuss, very quickly
• The concepts of the ‘public sphere’ and the ‘private sphere’
• The role of the coffee house (and coffee itself) in the magazine story
• The need for information, and how magazines have supplied it
• We won’t go through a detailed history of magazines today, but we’ll look briefly at magazines
17th/18th century public sphere, taking historical examples from the UK, and in particular Lond
will do some more work on magazines in the 20th and 21st centuries next week)
• The similarities and differences from magazines today
• Links to work we’ll be doing in the rest of the term
