"This innovative study examines how an expanding mass media created a new type of politician within a system of transnational media politics in the Age of Empire. Betto van Waarden historicizes contemporary debates on media and politics, exploring how politicians harnessed mass communication to both help and hinder democratization"-- Provided by publisher.
How did politicians deal with mass communication in a rapidly changing society? And how did the performance of public politics both help and hinder democratization? In this innovative study, Betto van Waarden explores the emergence of a new type of politician within a system of transnational media politics between 1890 and the onset of the First World War. These politicians situated media management at the centre of their work, as print culture rapidly expanded to form the fabric of modern life for a growing urban public. Transnational media politics transcended and transformed national politics, as news consumers across borders sought symbolic leaders to make sense of international conflicts. Politicians and Mass Media in the Age of Empire historicizes contemporary debates on media and politics. While transnational media politics partly disappeared with the World Wars and decolonization, these 'publicity politicians' set standards that have defined media politics ever since.
This innovative study examines how an expanding mass media created a new type of politician within a system of transnational media politics in the Age of Empire. Betto van Waarden historicizes contemporary debates on media and politics, exploring how politicians harnessed mass communication to both help and hinder democratization.
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'This is an intelligent and timely comparative study. It demonstrates how publicise or perish became the mantra of statesmen in the age of the mass media, with success directly correlated to an ability to exploit the proliferating network of local, national and transnational communication systems.' Chandrika Kaul, University of St Andrews
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Examines how an expanding mass media created a new type of politician and system of transnational media politics between 1890 and WWI.
Introduction;
1. A hybrid system of media politics;
2. The politics of press consumption;
3. Traditional media management;
4. The will to personal publicity;
5. Journalists and the journalistic instinct;
6. Politicians as celebrity brands;
7. Politicians as communicative anchors;
8. Competition in the attention economy; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Betto van Waarden is an Assistant Professor of History at Maastricht University. His research focuses on the relationship between media and politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Van Waarden has published across academic disciplines and popular media, including articles in Le Monde Diplomatique, De Volkskrant, The Conversation and De Morgen. His scholarship earned him the Tom Reilly Award for Excellence in Journalism History Research.
