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The Message of Silverstone

'Why study the media?' Roger Silverstone asked in a book of that title published in 1999.

The Mes... more 'Why study the media?' Roger Silverstone asked in a book of that title published in 1999.

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The Message of Television (Silverstone 1981) was his first shot at an answer to that question. To read and compare the two books is to become aware both of the fundamental continuities in Silverstone's thinking about the media-why they were worth studying; why they mattered-and the extent of the changes in the world and the media in the three decades that separated them.

Few people nowadays return to the academic literature on television of 30 years ago. Time and television have both moved on. To re-read The Message of Television now is step back to what seems like a distant past. Television was then a very new medium of social communication; not much more than 20 years old in America and Britain, less than a decade old in most