Clarke, Nicola Ashley (2025) Newsgathering and the value of accuracy in multimedia English news sources, 1658-1685. PhD thesis, Birkbeck, University of London.
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Abstract
This thesis explores newsgathering and accuracy in English news sources between 1658 and 1685, through a multimedia lens. Much previous research on the development of seventeenth century news has focused on an individual medium, for example print or manuscript. It has therefore not explored the interaction across all forms of news, with regard to newsgathering, transmission and consumption, and the impact of that the different media had on the judgement of accuracy. A series of four case studies on news during the transition from the Protectorate to the Restoration, the 1665 Plague, the Great Fire and the Restoration Crises of the late 1670s and early 1680s explores the different nature of news across both political and civil crises. The research will ask, if the demand for and judgements about accuracy varied in different news environments and if different media played more important roles in different news events and at different times of the news cycle. This work will also show that multimedia usage crossed a wide social range and that all social classes made extensive use of oral newsgathering and transmission. It will also examine how personal, familial, business, political and confessional news networks drove newsgathering and affected judgements of accuracy. While it covers a period of considerable political, social, cultural and media change it also highlights the continuity of practices in newsgathering and news consumption, that can be overlooked in the new developments of the period.
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| Item Type: | Thesis |
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| Copyright Holders: | The copyright of this thesis rests with the author, who asserts his/her right to be known as such according to the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988. No dealing with the thesis contrary to the copyright or moral rights of the author is permitted. |
| Depositing User: | Acquisitions And Metadata |
| Date Deposited: | 19 May 2025 14:37 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Aug 2025 09:09 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/55614 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.18743/PUB.00055614 |
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