Jean Seaton
Biographic Data
| ID | 264259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean Seaton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean |
| FAMILY NAME | Seaton |
| SIGNATURE | SEATON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Westminster |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Marquand and MacDonald
David Marquand's biography of Ramsay MacDonald, the first Labour prime minister, was pioneering, invaluably researched and beautifully written. It set out to explore the ‘myths’ about MacDonald's perceived ‘betrayal’ of the Labour Party and reaches intuitively back into the formations of Labour values and politics in one extraordinary leader. Yet, as well as being an enduring piece of work, it is also an historical document in itself, illustratin…
Introduction: Where Next for Public Service Broadcasting
Good quality information is a public utility: the rich and powerful will always have access to what they need to know, but poor people do not. Indeed, increasing inequalities in access to decent information underlie other more obvious inequalities. Bad information does not respect borders and yet democracy depends on informed citizens. The case for public intervention in what used to be called broadcasting, now including digital media—but which n…
Orwell revisited once again
Fact Checking and Information in the Age of Covid
The Covid‐19 pandemic has revealed and accelerated an information crisis as well as a health one. What we discover about Covid 19, how it spreads, to whom and why and how best to mitigate it—all depend on information. The essays in this special section, which this article introduces, explore the importance of information and the fundamental role of fact checkers in understanding how information flows, why mistakes are made, and how to counteract …
Broadcasting and the Blitz
Applying Student Development Theories Holistically
The new Architecture of Communications
The new architecture of communications has two symbiotic features: an overwhelming abundance of information and communications and the emergence of narrow, ‘silos’ of information and opinion that have developed partly in response to the copious complexity available, partly because of the enhanced tools developed to navigate the variety. The weak ‘bridging’ links to many opinions that the media used to produce can be replaced by ‘strong’ personali…
Chilcot Report: Introduction
Brexit and the Media
Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2012: The BBC and the 'Hidden Wiring' of the British Constitution: The Imposition of the Broadcasting Ban in 1988
The Defence and Security Review We Need
Why the BBC Matters: Memo to the New Parliament about a Unique British Institution
The new Parliament will be asked at some point to make critical decisions about the BBC's future at a time when it is facing full‐frontal assaults from competitors who view the BBC as a major barrier to their own advancement. Whether it be newspaper groups seeking to monetise their online activities, commercial children's channels, terrestrial competitors or the owners of music radio stations, media conglomerates rail against the BBC's size and p…
Broadcasting and the theory of public service
British broadcasting was started as a public service, and this proved as creative commercially as it was innovative culturally. Indeed, until recently every stage of its development, from the emergence of the BBC, through the introduction of commercial television, to the founding of Channel 4, depended on a set of linked and radical expansions. First, at each stage a novel source of finance was discovered. In turn the growth of broadcasting was f…
In the Name of the Child
Two Walks: Palestine and the Peak District. A Conversation between Raja Shehadeh and Marina Lewycka, September 2008
In the summer of 2008 novelist Marina Lewycka and author and human rights lawyer Raja Shehadeh went on two walks: the first in Palestine near Ramallah near the Beit Eil Jewish settlement, the second on Kinder Scout in the Peak District, the site of the mass trespass in 1932 to reclaim the right to walk on the hills. This account of the conversation they recorded on the second walk includes observations by Marina on writing about Palestine and Isr…
Journeys to Truth: The BBC as a pragmatic ethical engineer at home and abroad
Trustworthiness: Ancient and Modern
The BBC and Metabolising Britishness: Critical Patriotism
Feral Beasts: An Introduction to Tony Blair's Reuters Speech on the Media
One of Prime Minister Blair's last speeches was on his governments relationship to the media, and the at times damaging impact of the ‘sensation hungry media’ on every aspect of public life, many of whom were too frightened to take on the ‘feral beasts’. He argued that his government had to attempt to deal with the media power, that ‘spin’ is an attempt to handle that power, that the media attack private life and that in the end the media must ma…
Preserving Curious Institutions
Reviewing the BBC ‘Impartiality’ review and the OFCOM report on the future of news the piece argues that impartiality remains a vital tool of maintaining standards of public service news, which in the end have to be objective. Sustaining journalism that reveals new knowledge is the problem and vital to the maintainance of democratic discussion
Little Citizens: Children, the Media and Politics 1
The sociology of the mass media
Do newspapers, broadcasting, and mass entertainment matter? Do they change society or merely reflect the changes created by others? This chapter will argue that the media do have an independent influence, but not in the sense that has often been assumed. The power of the press and broadcasting is not necessarily greatest when the political involvement in the media is most apparent
Power Without Responsibility: Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain
Part 1 Press History: 1 Whig press history as political mythology 2 The struggle for a free press 3 The ugly face of reform 4 The industrialisation of the press 5 the era of the press barons 6 The press under public regulation 7 The press in the age of globalisation Part 2 Broadcasting History: 8 Reith and the denial of politics 9 Broadcasting and the blitz 10 Social revolution? 11 The fall of the BBC 12 Class, taste and profit 13 How the audienc…
Public, Private and the Media
Power Without Responsibility: Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain
Power Without Responsibility is a classic introduction to the history, sociology, theory and politics of the media in Britain. It is an essential guide, both for students and teachers of media and communication studies, and for all those involved in the production and consumption of the media. The new edition has been substantially revised to bring it right up-to-date with developments in the media industry, new media technologies and changes in …
Power Without Responsibility: Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain
Power Without Responsibility is a classic introduction to the history, sociology, theory and politics of the media in Britain. It is an essential guide, both for students and teachers of media and communication studies, and for all those involved in the production and consumption of the media. The new edition has been substantially revised to bring it right up-to-date with developments in the media industry, new media technologies and changes in …
Brexit and the Media
Public, Private and the Media
The Silent Watchdog: The Press in Local Politics
Preserving Curious Institutions
Reviewing the BBC ‘Impartiality’ review and the OFCOM report on the future of news the piece argues that impartiality remains a vital tool of maintaining standards of public service news, which in the end have to be objective. Sustaining journalism that reveals new knowledge is the problem and vital to the maintainance of democratic discussion
Politics, parties and the media in Britain
Fact Checking and Information in the Age of Covid
The Covid‐19 pandemic has revealed and accelerated an information crisis as well as a health one. What we discover about Covid 19, how it spreads, to whom and why and how best to mitigate it—all depend on information. The essays in this special section, which this article introduces, explore the importance of information and the fundamental role of fact checkers in understanding how information flows, why mistakes are made, and how to counteract …
Why the BBC Matters: Memo to the New Parliament about a Unique British Institution
The new Parliament will be asked at some point to make critical decisions about the BBC's future at a time when it is facing full‐frontal assaults from competitors who view the BBC as a major barrier to their own advancement. Whether it be newspaper groups seeking to monetise their online activities, commercial children's channels, terrestrial competitors or the owners of music radio stations, media conglomerates rail against the BBC's size and p…
The BBC and Metabolising Britishness: Critical Patriotism
Little Citizens: Children, the Media and Politics 1
A Fresh Look at Freedom of Speech
The BBC and the Holocaust
Contemporaries and historians have often argued that the Allies did not do more to save Jews from extermination during the Second World War either because little was known about what was happening to them, or because the evidence was not believed. This article demonstrates that at least within the BBC detailed information about the Holocaust was received, believed and broadcast. It argues that despite problems of style and discrimination, the mos…
The Myth of Mass Culture
The Silent Watchdog: The Press in Local Politics
The Myth of Mass Culture
Politics and television
Texts reviewed: Jay Blumler, Michael Gurevitch and Julian Ives (1978) The Challenge of Election Broadcasting, Leeds University Press. Tom Burns (1977) The BBC: Public Institution and Private World, Macmillan Press. Grace Wyndham Goldie (1977) Facing the Nation: Television and Politics 1936–76, Bodley Head. Philip Schlesinger (1978) Putting ‘reality’ together: BBC News, Constable. Michael Tracey (1977) Producing Political Television, Routledge Dir…
Politics, parties and the media in Britain
The BBC and the Holocaust
Contemporaries and historians have often argued that the Allies did not do more to save Jews from extermination during the Second World War either because little was known about what was happening to them, or because the evidence was not believed. This article demonstrates that at least within the BBC detailed information about the Holocaust was received, believed and broadcast. It argues that despite problems of style and discrimination, the mos…
In the Name of the Child: Health and Welfare 1880-1940 (Book)
Broadcasting in the Age of Market Ideology: Is It Possible to Underestimate the Public Taste
Politics and television: The case of yesterday's men
(1996). Politics and television: The case of yesterday's men. Contemporary British History: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 87-107
Misery and the media
Yesterday's men
During the 1970 general election campaign a Labour party poster describing the Conservatives as ‘Yesterday's Men’ was withdrawn after one day. As an addendum to the Yesterday's Men witness seminar published in Vol.10, No.3, the following chronology was prepared by Jean Seaton for the seminar
A Fresh Look at Freedom of Speech
Why Do We Think The Serbs Do It? The New ‘Ethnic’ Wars and the Media
Watching the World: Seeing, Feeling—Understanding
Books reviewed in this article: Luc Boltanski, Distant Suffering: Morality, Media and Politics Department for International Development, Viewing the World: A Study of British Television Coverage of Developing Countries
Power Without Responsibility: Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain
Power Without Responsibility is a classic introduction to the history, sociology, theory and politics of the media in Britain. It is an essential guide, both for students and teachers of media and communication studies, and for all those involved in the production and consumption of the media. The new edition has been substantially revised to bring it right up-to-date with developments in the media industry, new media technologies and changes in …
The sociology of the mass media
Do newspapers, broadcasting, and mass entertainment matter? Do they change society or merely reflect the changes created by others? This chapter will argue that the media do have an independent influence, but not in the sense that has often been assumed. The power of the press and broadcasting is not necessarily greatest when the political involvement in the media is most apparent
Power Without Responsibility: Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain
Part 1 Press History: 1 Whig press history as political mythology 2 The struggle for a free press 3 The ugly face of reform 4 The industrialisation of the press 5 the era of the press barons 6 The press under public regulation 7 The press in the age of globalisation Part 2 Broadcasting History: 8 Reith and the denial of politics 9 Broadcasting and the blitz 10 Social revolution? 11 The fall of the BBC 12 Class, taste and profit 13 How the audienc…
Public, Private and the Media
Little Citizens: Children, the Media and Politics 1
The BBC and Metabolising Britishness: Critical Patriotism
Feral Beasts: An Introduction to Tony Blair's Reuters Speech on the Media
One of Prime Minister Blair's last speeches was on his governments relationship to the media, and the at times damaging impact of the ‘sensation hungry media’ on every aspect of public life, many of whom were too frightened to take on the ‘feral beasts’. He argued that his government had to attempt to deal with the media power, that ‘spin’ is an attempt to handle that power, that the media attack private life and that in the end the media must ma…
Preserving Curious Institutions
Reviewing the BBC ‘Impartiality’ review and the OFCOM report on the future of news the piece argues that impartiality remains a vital tool of maintaining standards of public service news, which in the end have to be objective. Sustaining journalism that reveals new knowledge is the problem and vital to the maintainance of democratic discussion
Journeys to Truth: The BBC as a pragmatic ethical engineer at home and abroad
Trustworthiness: Ancient and Modern
Broadcasting and the theory of public service
British broadcasting was started as a public service, and this proved as creative commercially as it was innovative culturally. Indeed, until recently every stage of its development, from the emergence of the BBC, through the introduction of commercial television, to the founding of Channel 4, depended on a set of linked and radical expansions. First, at each stage a novel source of finance was discovered. In turn the growth of broadcasting was f…
In the Name of the Child
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