Links & Readings
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- For the history of the press and media in Scotland, see N. Blain and D. Hutchison (eds.) The Media in Scotland (2008); L. Connell ‘The Scottishness of the Scottish press, 1918-39’, in Media, Culture and Society, 25(2) 2003; and F. Douglas Scottish Newspapers, Language and Identity (2009).
- On Scottish politics and the media, especially around the 2014 referendum, see I. Macwhirter Democracy in the Dark: The Decline of the Scottish Press and How to Keep the Lights on, Saltire series no. 5 (2014); N. Blain and D. Hutchison (eds.) Scotland’s Referendum and the Media: National and International Perspectives (2016).
- On the media in the 21st century, see P. Schlesinger ‘Broadcasting Policy and the Scottish Question’, in T. Gardam and D. Levy (eds) ‘The Price of Plurality: choice, diversity and broadcasting institutions in the digital age (2008); and Schlesinger’s ‘From organizational crisis to multi-platform salvation? Creative destruction and the recomposition of news media’, in Journalism, 16(3) 2015; P. Schlesinger and A. Benchimol ‘Small nations, the press and digital challenge’, in Media, Culture and Society, 37(1), 2015. See also M. Dekavalla ‘Evaluating newspaper performance in the public sphere: press accounts of Westminster elections in Scotland and in England in the early post-devolution period’, in Journalism, 13(3) 2011.