| Module Identifier | HYM3130 | ||
| Module Title | POLITICAL POWER AND THE MEDIA IN BRITAIN | ||
| Academic Year | 2000/2001 | ||
| Co-ordinator | Professor Aled Jones | ||
| Semester | Semester 2 | ||
| Course delivery | Seminar | 16 Hours (8 x 2 hours) | |
| Assessment | Essay | 1 x 4,000 - 5,000 unassessed essay; 1 x 6,000 - 8,000 assessed essay | |
Brief description
This module concentrates on the period between 1850 and 1950, a century whose media was characterised above all by the popular press and, from the early 1920s, by radio broadcasting. It was also a period of great social change.