Short description:

International specialists explore magazines and newspapers from a sociocultural perspective allowing us to understand the relation between its audience and these much beloved friends from the late seventeenth to the twenty first century. A must-read for academic and interested readers who wish to explore new and relevant ways to analyse periodicals.

Long description:

Combining theoretical and empirical approaches, this volume offers a wide-ranging survey of periodical research today. It illustrates the shift from content-related investigations and archival recovery to multidisciplinary analyses which consider, for instance, how magazines, newspapers, and other serial print products shape our opinions and help us to form like-minded communities. International specialists explore periodicals as relational artefacts, highlighting editorial constellations, material conditions, translation, design, marketing, and the consumption of newspapers and magazines from the late seventeenth to the twenty-first century. A must-read for academic and interested readers who wish to explore new and relevant ways to analyze periodicals.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

Note on Contributors



Introduction: Periodical Studies as a Transepistemic Field

 Jutta Ernst and Oliver Scheiding

i: Seriality and Order

ii: Materiality

iii: Multimodality

iv: Translation

v: Infrastructure and Agency

vi: Community

vii: Location and Transfer