Global Tabloid: Culture and Technology

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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. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of illustrations Acknowledgments List of contributors 1. Tabloid culture: Parameters and debates 2. Digital impacts on the tabloid sphere: Blurring and diffusion of a popular form and its power 3. Tabloidization in the Internet age 4. Is Facebook driving tabloidization? A cross-channel comparison of two German newspapers 5. Tabloids in Zimbabwe: A moral-ethical research agenda 6. Trivializing entertainment news in India: Elements of tabloidization in the news coverage of Bollywood celebrities 7. Tabloid and populist sensitivities in Denmark 8. Recent shifts in the Australian tabloid landscape: Fissures and new formations 9. The post-communist “hybrid” tabloid: Between the serious and the “yellow” 10. From baby bumps to border walls: Celebrity gossip magazines and the post-truth politic 11. Dispatches from la Crónica roja: Why sensationalism and crime still matter in the new Latin America media ecology 12. The rise and fall of tabloid journalism in post-Mao China: Ideology, the market, and the new media revolution 13. Reclaiming and tabloidizing “truth” in Turkey Index