Simon Huxtable
Biographic Data
| ID | 4135913 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Huxtable |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Huxtable |
| SIGNATURE | HUXTABLE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1370-8222 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Right to Communicate
The Right to Communicate (RtC) is the idea that individuals possess not only the freedom to ‘seek, receive and impart information’, as laid down in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), but also the right to communicate horizontally with their peers, using technologies new and old. The brainchild of Jean d’Arcy, a French broadcaster and official who argued in 1969 that Article 19 should be updated to reflect the new tech…
Brief Encounter
A Deceptive Stability
In an essay written in 2013, Soviet historian Stephen Bittner called the wartime and post-1945 Soviet Union a ‘negentropic society’. 1 Countering historians who emphasised the Soviet project's inevitable failure, Bittner argued that the Soviet Union defied the laws of thermodynamics in its capacity for reorganisation and regeneration, allowing it to survive in the face of multiple challenges. The essay was a rejoinder to those who would see harbi…
From Media Systems to Media Cultures
What Was Socialist Television and What Came Next
Remembering a problematic past
This article examines memories of the TV psychic Anatoly Kashpirovsky, whose TV ‘séances’ were broadcast on Soviet state television in the late-1980s. Based on the results of interviews from Russians and Ukrainians conducted in 2013–2014, a television serial based on the rise of TV mystics in the late-1980s and a web forum devoted to discussion of the serial, this article uses memories of Kashpirovsky in both vernacular and public contexts as a m…
Making News Soviet
This article challenges the assumption, frequently made in scholarship on Soviet media, that news was absent in the Soviet Union. Working across press, radio, and television, the article shows how after 1953 reform of Soviet news became a priority for journalists, editors and media professionals. The article focuses on discussions among journalists and officials about the future of journalism, arguing that journalists’ notions of professional exc…
Stephen Lovell, Russia in the Microphone Age
Envisioning Socialism
The challenge of flow
This article contributes to the growing literature on diverse television cultures globally and historically by examining selected aspects of television cultures in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Being part of a political, economic and cultural system that self-consciously set out to develop an alternative form of modern society, state socialist television offers a particularly apposite case study of alternative forms of modern television. State…
Divided Dreamworlds? The Cultural Cold War in East and West
Hoe heeft cultuur bijgedragen aan het wegvallen van ideologische grenzen tussen Oost en West? De auteurs analyseren onder meer het interieurontwerp in Oost- en West-Duitsland, de Russische visie op genetica, de Amerikaanse culturele diplomatie tijdens en na de Koude Oorlog en de rol van popmuziek. Deze vernieuwende studie legt enkele opvallende paradoxen bloot met betrekking tot de productie en de beleving van cultuur in Oost en West en biedt fas…
Communism on Tomorrow Street. Mass Housing and Everyday Life after Stalin
Steven E. Harris's book examines the impact of the Khrushchev-era housing programme on Soviet society. Over seven chapters, Harris examines the construction programme from myriad perspectives: of w
In search of the soviet reader
Après la chute de Hruščev et la mise en œuvre des réformes de Kosygin, les journaux soviétiques passèrent d’un système d’exploitation centralisé à un système d’économie de marché. Afin d’optimiser les ventes, les journalistes avaient besoin d’informations plus précises sur les lecteurs et firent appel aux services de sociologues. Cet article, qui s’appuie essentiellement sur le journal de la jeunesse Komsomol ́skaja pravda, examine les conséquenc…
Moscow Prime Time
Kristin Roth-Ey, Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire That Lost the Cultural Cold War. Ithaca, NY & London: Cornell University Press, 2011, xii + 315pp., £26.50 h/b. In 19
In search of the soviet reader
Après la chute de Hruščev et la mise en œuvre des réformes de Kosygin, les journaux soviétiques passèrent d’un système d’exploitation centralisé à un système d’économie de marché. Afin d’optimiser les ventes, les journalistes avaient besoin d’informations plus précises sur les lecteurs et firent appel aux services de sociologues. Cet article, qui s’appuie essentiellement sur le journal de la jeunesse Komsomol ́skaja pravda, examine les conséquenc…
Making News Soviet
This article challenges the assumption, frequently made in scholarship on Soviet media, that news was absent in the Soviet Union. Working across press, radio, and television, the article shows how after 1953 reform of Soviet news became a priority for journalists, editors and media professionals. The article focuses on discussions among journalists and officials about the future of journalism, arguing that journalists’ notions of professional exc…
The challenge of flow
This article contributes to the growing literature on diverse television cultures globally and historically by examining selected aspects of television cultures in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Being part of a political, economic and cultural system that self-consciously set out to develop an alternative form of modern society, state socialist television offers a particularly apposite case study of alternative forms of modern television. State…
Divided Dreamworlds? The Cultural Cold War in East and West
Hoe heeft cultuur bijgedragen aan het wegvallen van ideologische grenzen tussen Oost en West? De auteurs analyseren onder meer het interieurontwerp in Oost- en West-Duitsland, de Russische visie op genetica, de Amerikaanse culturele diplomatie tijdens en na de Koude Oorlog en de rol van popmuziek. Deze vernieuwende studie legt enkele opvallende paradoxen bloot met betrekking tot de productie en de beleving van cultuur in Oost en West en biedt fas…
Communism on Tomorrow Street. Mass Housing and Everyday Life after Stalin
Steven E. Harris's book examines the impact of the Khrushchev-era housing programme on Soviet society. Over seven chapters, Harris examines the construction programme from myriad perspectives: of w
Moscow Prime Time
Kristin Roth-Ey, Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire That Lost the Cultural Cold War. Ithaca, NY & London: Cornell University Press, 2011, xii + 315pp., £26.50 h/b. In 19
In search of the soviet reader
Après la chute de Hruščev et la mise en œuvre des réformes de Kosygin, les journaux soviétiques passèrent d’un système d’exploitation centralisé à un système d’économie de marché. Afin d’optimiser les ventes, les journalistes avaient besoin d’informations plus précises sur les lecteurs et firent appel aux services de sociologues. Cet article, qui s’appuie essentiellement sur le journal de la jeunesse Komsomol ́skaja pravda, examine les conséquenc…
Divided Dreamworlds? The Cultural Cold War in East and West
Hoe heeft cultuur bijgedragen aan het wegvallen van ideologische grenzen tussen Oost en West? De auteurs analyseren onder meer het interieurontwerp in Oost- en West-Duitsland, de Russische visie op genetica, de Amerikaanse culturele diplomatie tijdens en na de Koude Oorlog en de rol van popmuziek. Deze vernieuwende studie legt enkele opvallende paradoxen bloot met betrekking tot de productie en de beleving van cultuur in Oost en West en biedt fas…
Communism on Tomorrow Street. Mass Housing and Everyday Life after Stalin
Steven E. Harris's book examines the impact of the Khrushchev-era housing programme on Soviet society. Over seven chapters, Harris examines the construction programme from myriad perspectives: of w
Envisioning Socialism
The challenge of flow
This article contributes to the growing literature on diverse television cultures globally and historically by examining selected aspects of television cultures in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Being part of a political, economic and cultural system that self-consciously set out to develop an alternative form of modern society, state socialist television offers a particularly apposite case study of alternative forms of modern television. State…
Remembering a problematic past
This article examines memories of the TV psychic Anatoly Kashpirovsky, whose TV ‘séances’ were broadcast on Soviet state television in the late-1980s. Based on the results of interviews from Russians and Ukrainians conducted in 2013–2014, a television serial based on the rise of TV mystics in the late-1980s and a web forum devoted to discussion of the serial, this article uses memories of Kashpirovsky in both vernacular and public contexts as a m…
Making News Soviet
This article challenges the assumption, frequently made in scholarship on Soviet media, that news was absent in the Soviet Union. Working across press, radio, and television, the article shows how after 1953 reform of Soviet news became a priority for journalists, editors and media professionals. The article focuses on discussions among journalists and officials about the future of journalism, arguing that journalists’ notions of professional exc…
Stephen Lovell, Russia in the Microphone Age
From Media Systems to Media Cultures
What Was Socialist Television and What Came Next
A Deceptive Stability
In an essay written in 2013, Soviet historian Stephen Bittner called the wartime and post-1945 Soviet Union a ‘negentropic society’. 1 Countering historians who emphasised the Soviet project's inevitable failure, Bittner argued that the Soviet Union defied the laws of thermodynamics in its capacity for reorganisation and regeneration, allowing it to survive in the face of multiple challenges. The essay was a rejoinder to those who would see harbi…
The Right to Communicate
The Right to Communicate (RtC) is the idea that individuals possess not only the freedom to ‘seek, receive and impart information’, as laid down in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), but also the right to communicate horizontally with their peers, using technologies new and old. The brainchild of Jean d’Arcy, a French broadcaster and official who argued in 1969 that Article 19 should be updated to reflect the new tech…
Brief Encounter
Political science (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Media studies (7 works) · European history and politics (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (5 works) · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics (5 works)